During the Second World War, she wrote the scenario for a ballet, The Quest, which was choreographed by Frederick Ashton for Sadler's Wells and set to music by William Walton, with costumes and sets by John Piper.
'Metamorphosis Titan 2012' is a groundbreaking multi-arts project - involving contemporary artists Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger in a unique collaboration with The Royal Ballet.
MacDonald has started work on The Grand Coda, a memorial to Dame Ninette de Valois, founder of The Royal Ballet and The Royal Ballet School.
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As a dancer, he eventually became a Principal Dancer with The Royal Ballet, later retiring from the stage and working as Deputy Artistic Director and Resident Choreographer at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and Artistic Director of English National Ballet 1993-2001.
She studied at the Kirov from 1991 to 1997, during which time she also participated in summer programs at the Joffrey Ballet and The Royal Ballet.
Other major productions included Marcia Haydee's 'The Sleeping Beauty' (marking WAB's debut at The Burswood Theatre and boasting a cast of over 80), 'Gala' (with guest Principal Artists from The Royal Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet and The Australian Ballet) and John Cranko's 'The Taming of the Shrew'.
YAGP also presented a number of dancers’ last appearance in New York, including Paris Opera Ballet’s Etoile dancer Manuel Legris, Bolshoi Ballet’s Nikolai Tsiskaridze and The Royal Ballet’s Darcey Bussell.
Gayle retired from the Yorkshire Ballet Seminars in 2005, handing over the directorship to Marguerite Porter, a former senior principal ballerina and guest artist with the Royal Ballet.
Dancing Away (Methuen, October 1998) is a diary of The Royal Ballet's first year ‘on the road’, as the Royal Opera House underwent its extensive and controversial redevelopment.
Among the treasures to be anticipated, “The Great Pretender” includes for the first time ever Freddie and Rod Stewart singing their demo for “Take Another Piece of My Heart”, an unreleased song from 1984, a snippet of the unreleased Michael Jackson / Freddie Mercury collaboration “There Must Be More To Life Than This”, and Freddie with the Royal Ballet 1979 – never seen in full before.
He has worked with Ballet Rambert, the Royal Ballet, Arts Educational Schools and the mime artists Adam Darius and Nathaniel.
The monument is to be installed at White Lodge in Richmond Park, London, England, a historic royal retreat that is now home to The Royal Ballet School.
In 1960, she married Martin Carr, at that time Technical Director of the Royal Ballet - subsequently a theatre consultant - and retired from the stage in 1965 after the births of her sons, the composer Paul Carr and the conductor and chorus master Gavin Carr.