Las Hermanas (ballet)
''Las Hermanas'' is a one-act ballet created by Kenneth MacMillan in 1963 for the Stuttgart Ballet. The music is Frank Martin (composer), Frank Martin's Harpsichord Concerto (1952). The piece is loosely based on ''The House of Bernarda Alba'' by Federico García Lorca. The first performance was in 1963 at the Staatstheater Stuttgart performed by the Stuttgart Ballet. The principal characters were danced by Marcia Haydee, Ray Barra and Birgit Keil. Original cast Württembergisches Staatstheater Stuttgart, 13 July 1963: * Marcia Haydée * Birgit Keil * Ray Barra * Ruth Papendick Notes External links "Las Hermanas (1971)"
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Kenneth MacMillan
Sir Kenneth MacMillan (11 December 192929 October 1992) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer who was artistic director of the Royal Ballet in London between 1970 and 1977, and its principal choreographer from 1977 until his death. Earlier he had served as director of ballet for the Deutsche Oper in Berlin. He was also associate director of the American Ballet Theatre from 1984 to 1989, and artistic associate of the Houston Ballet from 1989 to 1992. From a family with no background of ballet or music, MacMillan was determined from an early age to become a dancer. The director of Sadler's Wells Ballet, Ninette de Valois, accepted him as a student and then a member of her company. In the late 1940s, MacMillan built a successful career as a dancer, but, plagued by stage fright, he abandoned it while still in his twenties. After this he worked entirely as a choreographer; he created ten full-length ballets and more than fifty one-act pieces. In addition to his work for ...
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