Peter Wright has been a dancer, choreographer, teacher, producer and
director in the theatre as well as in television for over 70 years. In
Wrights & Wrongs, Peter offers his often surprising views of today's
dance world, lessons learned – and yet to learn – from a
lifetime's experience of ballet, commercial theatre and television.
Peter started his career in wartime, with the Kurt Jooss company. He
has worked with such greats as Pina Bausch, Margot Fonteyn, Rudolf
Nureyev, Marcia Haydée, Richard Cragun, Monica mason, Karen Kain,
Miyako Yoshida and Carlos Acosta - as well as today's generation of
starts including Alina Cajocaru, Marianela Nunez, Natalia Osipova and
Lauren Cuthbertson. While now regarded as part of the British ballet
establishment, for many years Peter developed his career outside
London, particularly in Germany with John Cranko's Stuttgart Ballet.
That distance gives him a unique and unrivalled view on ballet
companies. His close association with choreographers Frederick Ashton,
Ninette de Valois, founder of the Royal Ballet, Kenneth MacMillan and
David Bintley gives Peter an authoritative perspective on British
ballet. Wrights and Wrongs includes black-and-white photographs from
Wright's career, and as Exeunt magazine comments: 'Anyone with an
interest in British ballet will find plenty to occupy them in Wright's
book… the many dramas and delights of his life in dance spring forth
from the page with brio.'
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My Life in Dance
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781783197194
Publisert
2018
Utgave
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Utgiver
Vendor
Oberon Books
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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