Mme. Hermine Posted October 12, 2014 Share Posted October 12, 2014 http://www.rad.org.uk/news/joan-benesh Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 May she rest in peace, and a deep bow of gratitude to her for her work. Link to comment
Richka Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Joan Benesh was not only my teacher of notation at the London Institute of Choreology but a dear friend as well. After my graduation from the Institute, as the first American, she visited me several times in NYC and later at my home in Tucson, Arizona where I was able to show her around Southwest USA. We kept in touch through the years. I felt so honored to be invited to escort Joan to her Benefit performance of the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, London. It was through her and her husband Rudolph who invented the system of notation that is now used by dance companies all over the world and that opened many doors for me as a dancer, choreologist and a choreographer. I am eternally grateful to them and to the remarkable system of notation they invented. I know Joan ... how strongly you believed in the hereafter. Rest in peace. Richard. Link to comment
sandik Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Richka, thank you so much for sharing your perspective. Link to comment
diane Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Thanks from me, too, Richard, for your story. She sounds like a remarkable woman. -d- Link to comment
Gina Ness Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Thank you, Richka, for sharing your remarkable connection... May she rest in peace. Link to comment
leonid17 Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Earlier in June this year I was more than pleased to attend an event at Ivy House home of the London Jewish Cultural Centre where a most interesting recreation of a solo from Kenneth MacMillan's ballet "Le Baiser de la Fee" was revived using the original Benesh notation with the wonderful Donald McCleary, the originator of the original "Boy" coaching a young very talented young Royal Ballet School dancer James Hay recreating the solo that we had earlier seen in a film of the original production. See: http://jelterps.blogspot.co.uk/2014/06/sir-kenneth-macmillan-source-wikipedia.html Personally I was less happy with the recreation of the original. See http://www.kennethmacmillan.com/ballets/all-works/1977-1992/le-baiser-de-la-fee.html PS. I did not see the opening night of the production in 1960 but in 1961 I saw Svetlana Beriosova as The Fairy( and fell in love with her performances) and Donald MacLeary as the Young Boy. Link to comment
sandik Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Happy for the link to the video clip -- I don't know as much of MacM's work as I do Ashton's... Link to comment
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