Dynamo, Michael Somes A Life in The Royal Ballet Woodcock Sarah
Michael Somes is the unsung hero of The Royal Ballet - the dynamo driving performances as dancer and partner to Margot Fonteyn and as overseer of performances in the company's greatest years.From…
Specifikacia Dynamo, Michael Somes A Life in The Royal Ballet Woodcock Sarah
Michael Somes is the unsung hero of The Royal Ballet - the dynamo driving performances as dancer and partner to Margot Fonteyn and as overseer of performances in the company's greatest years.From humble beginnings, he challenged the prevailing prejudice against male dancers to become a star and a maker of stars, serving The Royal Ballet longer and contributing more to its development than anyone except its founder, Ninette de Valois. The Royal Ballet was his life.Somes was born in 1917when ballet belonged to the exotic foreigner and even a British ballerina seemed impossible let alone an Englishman becoming a ballet dancer. In 1934, three years after the establishment of the Vic-Wells (now Royal) Ballet he was the first scholarship boy at their school. Only three years later ballets were being created for him, but four years of wartime service, culminating in serious
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