Dance & ballet news

• Cats and Phantom choreographer Gillian Lynne – a career in pictures

  02-07-2018 18:24
  The dancer and choreographer, who has died aged 92, had a celebrated career in theatre, television and film. Revisit some of her hits, from Yentl to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Continue reading...
  
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• Homepage - School of Music, Theatre and Dance - News at OU

  02-07-2018 15:53 via oakland.edu
  Homepage - School of Music, Theatre and Dance  News at OUOakland University's School of Music, Theatre and Dance (MTD) is a leading center of performing arts education in southeast Michigan, offering outstanding ...
  
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• Gillian Lynne: the trailblazer who made British musicals move

  02-07-2018 15:46
  The choreographer brought her classical training, dramatic eye and vitality to bear on hits such as Cats, Phantom of the Opera and Chitty Chitty Bang BangGillian Lynne, who has died aged 92, did more than anyone to change the status and quality of British musical theatre choreography. It is good that she lived long enough to see the New London theatre – the original home of Cats, of which she was a vital creative part – renamed in her honour. It was a fitting tribute. Before Lynne, d
  
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• Dame Gillian Lynne obituary

  02-07-2018 14:13
  Choreographer and dancer who breathed new life into musical theatre with the hit shows Cats and The Phantom of the OperaSince the 1970s, British musical theatre has boasted a professionalism and audacity once thought exclusive to Broadway. Much of the credit, entrepreneurial and creative, has gone to Cameron Mackintosh and Andrew Lloyd Webber, but an equally vital force was the choreographer, director and dancer Gillian Lynne, who has died aged 92. She pioneered a striking fusion of ballet, jazz
  
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• Dancing City review – dance double acts take ping-pong to the plaza

  02-07-2018 13:18
  Greenwich and Docklands international festival, Canary Wharf
  From Joe Garbett’s playful table-tennis mashup to Gandini Juggling’s deadpan duet, dance acts thrived in the open air
  Open-air festivals are subject to one huge influence entirely beyond their control: the weather. Fortunately, the sun shone on Dancing City, the annual dance-based afternoon of the Greenwich and Docklands international festival, bringing crowds out from the shopping malls of Canary Wharf and into contact wit
  
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• Cats choreographer Gillian Lynne dies aged 92

  02-07-2018 11:10
  Tributes paid to the former dancer and choreographer whose West End hits included The Phantom of the OperaGillian Lynne, the leading British choreographer who created the slinky moves of Macavity, Grizabella and other feline stars of the West End hit Cats, has died aged 92. Lynne had a long-running collaboration with the composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and choreographed The Phantom of the Opera and Aspects of Love. The composer paid tribute to her on Twitter, saying: “Farewell dearest Gillie,
  
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