The Royal Ballet: Macmillan Celebrated

The Royal Ballet celebrates the breadth of Principal Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan’s one-act ballets.

Danses Concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first major work. An early sign of the incredible artistic output that would follow, the work’s critical success spurred MacMillan to abandon performing in favour of choreography.

It is followed by Different Drummer, MacMillan’s complex and haunting balletic interpretation of Woyzeck, Georg Büchner’s play about a soldier’s descent into madness. The mixed programme concludes with Requiem, his 1976 work for Stuttgart Ballet, created in memory of its late artistic director, MacMillan’s friend and former Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer John Cranko.

Running time 195 minutes (including two intervals)

Choreography: Kenneth Macmillan

Danses Concertantes:
Music: Igor Stravinsky | Designer: Nicholas Georgiadis | Lighting Designer: John B. Read | Cast TBC

Different Drummer:
Music: Anton Webern / Arnold Schoenberg | Set Designs: Kenneth Macmillan | Costume designs: Yolanda Sonnabend in association with Peter Farley | Lighting design: John B. Read | Cast TBC

Requiem:
Music: Gabriel Fauré | Designs: Yolanda Sonnabend in association with Peter Farley | Lighting design: John B. Read | Cast TBC
Conductor: Koen Kessels
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House