dirac Posted November 5, 2023 Share Posted November 5, 2023 A BBC News item on the revival of London City Ballet. Quote The original group shut down in 1996 after 18 years of operations under its director and founder Harold King. It had been the resident ballet company at the Sadler's Wells. Related. Quote King toured his popular pocket productions to small-scale regional venues but money was a constant problem and in 1996 Arts Council England withdrew its support. King saw the decision as more ideological than financial. By the end of the 1990s his company was no more. Link to comment
dirac Posted November 5, 2023 Author Share Posted November 5, 2023 The image of Maria Tallchief appears on the U.S. quarter coin. Quote She is one of two dozen women of a range of ethnicities who were selected to be a part of a program by the U.S. Mint called American Women Quarters Program. Some of the others are Eleanor Roosevelt, Celia Cruz and Maya Angelou. The program began in 2022 and ends in 2025. Link to comment
dirac Posted November 12, 2023 Author Share Posted November 12, 2023 Christopher Marney talks about bringing back London City Ballet. Quote I’m keen to know what his starting point was. “The first thing I did was to acquire the rights, which was relatively easy”, he says. “There were no assets. I wanted to make sure that I wasn’t disturbing the legacy. I was put in touch with Heather Knight [former administrative director to Harold King], who is truly amazing. She has been really instrumental in this process. She said, ‘You’ve got to do it because Harold was never precious, he would have loved to see it have a life’. She put me in touch with all the board members, who are all still alive and they agreed it would be wonderful – as long as I was up for taking it on a new journey, I should do it. That gave me the confidence to go and speak to Alistair Spalding at Sadler’s Wells.” Link to comment
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