Kenneth MacMillan

...made her an enormously popular performer. Although she's enchanted ballet fans since the age of 19, when she starred in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's The Prince of the Pagodas, she has also reached audiences who wouldn't normally see classical...

In this article: Darcey Bussell, Royal Ballet School, Sydney, and London

But, at this level, being easy on the eye is not enough. Last month, he was an empty suit as the lead in Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling. And here, as Oedipus, his earthbound performance is made to look crushingly mortal. Watson, by cruel...

In this article: Edward Watson, Wayne McGregor, Glen Tetley, Mayerling, and George Balanchine

...as Jann Parry describes in a revealing and hefty new biography (Different Drummer: the Life of Kenneth MacMillan, Faber and Faber) MacMillan makes the story into one of tragic self-destruction, a man driven by demons not all of his own...

In this article: Suicide, Mayerling, London, Hamlet, Teseo, Maria di Rohan, and Alcina

Great choreographers divide into two schools: sufferers and travellers. The sufferers are those like Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan, who transmute their pathologies, insecurities and repressed longings into art. Travellers are...

In this article: Christopher Wheeldon, Leanne Benjamin, Igor Stravinsky, Edward Watson, Sergei Diaghilev, Sadler's Wells, London, and Swan Lake

Kenneth MacMillan's Mayerling isn't a conventional choice for a first-time ballet. It traces the decline of Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, from his marriage to his death in a suicide pact with his teenaged...

In this article: Mara Galeazzi, Mayerling, Royal Opera House, London, Suicide, and Mary Vetsera

A scene from Mayerling by the Royal Ballet. Photograph: Tristram Kenton The choreographer Kenneth MacMillan would have been 80 this year had he not died backstage during a performance of Mayerling in 1992. Created in 1978, the ballet was...

In this article: Mayerling, Edward Watson, Mary Vetsera, Mara Galeazzi, Suicide, and Simulacrum

...it's a knock-out, whatever you call it. The week's other big-season opener showed dance at another extreme. Mayerling was Kenneth MacMillan's last big ballet, his darkest, and - structurally, at least - his finest. There is less of the...

In this article: Dance Theatre, Taiwan, London, Edward Watson, Mary Vetsera, Suicide, and Mayerling

...ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON SMOKING: Some the most eloquently violent moves in classical ballet SEX, drugs, guns and costumes. Kenneth MacMillan s brutal, elegant masterpiece about the depraved Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary has...

In this article: London, Opera House, Mary Vetsera, and Princess Stephanie

Mayerling at the Royal Opera House, review The scale of Kenneth MacMillan's ambition is matched by the way in which every aspect of Mayerling works towards its overall effect. Rating: * * * * * Published: 4:09PM BST 08 Oct 2009 The...

In this article: Mayerling, Rudolf, Edward Watson, Baroness Mary Vetsera, Royal Opera House, Suicide, and Nicholas Georgiadis

Jann Parry's Different Drummer, her life of Kenneth MacMillan, resembles a dance with some of the steps missing, finds Judith Flanders The index says it all: 'MacMillan, Kenneth: agoraphobia… alienation… anxiety attacks… depressions… fear...

In this article: Agoraphobia, Waste, Mayerling, Romeo and Juliet, First World War, Cancer, Anxiety, and Ninette de Valois