But obviously you do not want carbon copies; you do not want somebody to have so absorbed a video that they copy somebody else right down to the eyebrow lift. So Kenneth really needed an independent view.". 1974 was also the year in which MacMillan married Deborah Williams, an artist who is Australian and together the couple had a daughter, Charlotte. His father had been very Scottish, very austere and Lady MacMillan says, "Kenneth just sat on his feelings. It was appalling.”. Exclusive Monty Python content for just £5.99! He was married to Deborah Williams. Bien qu'il était un danseur de talent, MacMillan est plus connu pour sa chorégraphie pour ses rôles, et surtout pour la collaboration avec le Royal Ballet et Deutsche Oper, Berlin. Kenneth MacMillan est né à Dunfermline, en Écosse, mais a grandi à Great Yarmouth, où il a étudié avec Phyllis Adams. A shadow of sadness passes across her face, followed by a quick laugh. He’d throw them away when the ballet was finished, thank God.”, In their last years together, after he had his first massive heart attack, she knew they were living on borrowed time. He died of a heart attack, backstage, during the first night of the Royal Ballet's revival of "Mayerling" in the Royal Opera House on 29 October 1992. Things that weren’t being looked at in that way are now being forensically re-examined.”, In that specific case, and in general, she refutes the very idea of misogyny. Macmillan may have been a celebrated artist, but he still thought of himself as an outsider, and an insecure one at that. Plus tard, il a gagné une bourse d'études à l'école de Wells Sadler, où il a étudié pendant un an 1946, rejoindre Wells Ballet Theatre du Sadler. Kenneth MacMillan Keeper of the flame The rebellious daughter of a middle-class Australian family, she studied art and appeared in a drag act before coming to … He was awarded the 1996 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Choreography for "Carousel" in the Royal National Theatre production at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Even though she was married to the choreographer Sir Kenneth MacMillan for nearly 20 years, and even though he has been dead for nearly a decade, she has started to get invited to functions where the organisers have been expecting Lady Dorothy Macmillan, widow of the late Sir Harold. Kenneth MacMillan has long been ranked as one of Britain's finest choreographers, and though his oeuvre (over 50 ballets) encompasses a range of styles, it is full-length narrative works such as Manon and Romeo And Juliet that have become most famous. You can unsubscribe at any time. "He was very tough with himself, terrifically clear about what he wanted. “He’d make these terrible garments, which he expected me to wear and which I never would. Interview exclusive de Koffi Kwahulé par Virginie Soubrier. Yet it was precisely that sensitivity she fell in love with. She'd never knife you in the back, but if she did have to put the knife in she'd do it properly.". I miss him.” She knows he’d have enjoyed the festival of his work and the acclaim surrounding the 25th anniversary of his death. In the documentary we hear a snatch of an interview in which Kenneth explains that while discovering ballet gave him one half of his identity, meeting Deborah gave him the other. Retrouvez les véritables titres des pièces de Plaute. The severance, which lasted three years, was dreadful to her, yet in retrospect she perceives it to have been spiritually toughening. After 1977, when MacMillan gave up directing the Royal (while remaining its principal choreographer) life became less stressful. By Judith Mackrell. When he got depressed about his work she always said the things he needed to hear". He faced constant battles with the board, who distrusted this working-class boy who was now running ballet’s flagship company, and with critics, who gave his ground-breaking work a rough ride. Former Principal of The Royal Ballet, Darcey Bussell and wife of Kenneth MacMillan, Deborah MacMillan on the choreographer's ballet masterpiece, Manon. This, Mason acknowledges, "adds up to a huge amount of work for Deborah", but it is work she has taken on knowingly. She was very beautiful, very charming, very intelligent, and though she was a rebel, she was very good at navigating the social world." The announcement of his death was made on stage at the end of the ballet. Not only were many of MacMillan's friends in the audience hearing the news cold, but his daughter hadn't been contacted. Deborah had seen the film version of Romeo And Juliet but otherwise knew nothing of his work. Also Frederick Ashton had died, and the difference in people’s treatment of Kenneth was palpable. Favorite Oscars Déjà Vu Best Picture Movie? He is known for his work on Romeo and Juliet (1966), The Julie Andrews Show (1959) and The Turning Point (1977). “But you can’t wallow, when you’ve got a tiny egomaniac rushing around. Even though every step in a work can be notated and preserved, its style remains vulnerable to distortion. And that helped him a lot. After his death I discovered that he used to sneak off to the disgusting canteen at work and eat toad in the hole and spotted dick." Kenneth MacMillan was born on December 11, 1929 in Dunfermline, Scotland. There was nothing tricky about him at all, and he loved me. “I worried a lot. I do not think it was a conscious decision; it just happened. Géographie physique, histoire, économie, Repères. Kenneth always started with the pas de deux: he used to say that they were the jewels and that everything else had to support them. He is known for his work on Romeo and Juliet (1966), The Julie Andrews Show (1959) and The Turning Point (1977). Suivent une série d'œuvres à succès: solitaire (1956) le Burrow (1958) Le Baiser de la fée et l'invitation (1960) Le festival du printemps (1962) La Création du monde (1964) Le Chant de la Terre (1965) Et sa première longueur du soir: Roméo et Juliette (1965). ", She grins. " “He could fight his corner, was incredibly tough regarding his work, but he’d retreat if something had bad reviews.” Even Manon, now danced by 26 companies around the world and hailed as a masterpiece, was initially given a mixed reception. Lady MacMillan started to paint seriously again. Some people have told her since that this was the most amazing theatrical moment they had ever witnessed, and their crassness still appals her. Her father was a doctor who had worked in New Guinea after the Japanese had retreated, and Deborah was three and her brother six when he eventually came home.