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Houston Ballet's 'Mayerling,' a true-crime murder-suicide ballet starring Connor Walsh, is a triumph
The first time I saw Connor Walsh dance, he was a teenager graduating from the Houston Ballet Academy, flying across the stage with mile-high jetes and a smile that radiated pure joy. Twenty years ...
Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling is a ballet of doomed obsession. The hero is a prince, but this historical drama couldn’t be further from fairytale: it follows Rudolf, heir to the Austro-Hungarian ...
Houston Ballet Principal Skylar Campbell shown here in John Neumeier's A Midsummer Night's Dream will take on the Prince Rudolf role in Mayerling. Credit: Photo by Lawrence Elizabeth Knox (2023), ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Touch is a requirement of a dancer’s job. Now when choreography involves simulated sex or violence, some companies are bringing in intimacy directors. Ryoichi Hirano and ...
Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan's dark tale of dangerous obsession, returns to the Royal Opera House to open The Royal Ballet's 2022/23 season. Based on the true story of the murder-suicide scandal that ...
The year is 1889 and, in the woods outside Vienna, the Empire must hide a terrible secret. At the royal Mayerling hunting lodge, Crown Prince Rudolf is found shot dead alongside his teenage mistress.
Along with George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan was one of the three great choreographers of the 20th century and it’s right that The Royal Ballet perform his work. He created ...
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