Ronald Hynd (born 22 April 1931) is an English choreographer, and in his youth was a ballet dancer.
In the
Royal Ballet in the late 1940s he began to dance with
Annette Page, whom he later married. Page died on 4 December 2017. They have a daughter, Louise.
[Dean Speer & Francis Timlin, ]
A Very Merry Couple Ronald Hynd and Annette Page talk about dancing, PNB and Merry Widow
' from ''Ballet-Dance magazine'' dated April 2005 online at ballet-dance.com, accessed 28 April 2012
Ballets Hynd has choreographed include ''
The Merry Widow'' in 1975, and the ballet ''
Charlotte Brontë'' for the Royal Ballet Touring Company in 1974.
["Death and Entrances", The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell (eds), Oxford University Press, p. 126. .] He recreated the nineteenth-century ballet ''
Papillon''
Dance: Houston Ballet's Papillon, by Anna Kisselgoff, ''The New York Times'', April 10, 1981. in 1979
Houston Ballet to Present the RONALD HYND's The Merry Widow 9/19-29, September 4, 2013. and created ''
The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' ballet in 1988,
both for the
Houston Ballet. His version of ''
The Nutcracker'', produced by the
London Festival Ballet in 1976, added a love story to the traditional tale by giving the heroine an older sister who falls in love with Dr. Drosselmeyer's nephew against her parents' wishes.
Jack Anderson, "DANCE VIEW: The Return of the Nutcracker, an Eternal Balletic Verity", ''The New York Times'', November 20, 1986. He also choreographed for companies such as
American Ballet Theatre,
Ballet West, and
Tulsa Theatre Ballet.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Press Release, December 14, 2009.
Notes
External links
Josef Weinberger: The Creation of The Merry Widow BalletRonald Hynd's oral history interview
in the Rambert Archive
1931 births
Living people
Ballet choreographers
English choreographers
*Ronald Hynd
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