biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1940–98)
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| biography:
| Dancer and choreographer, born in London, UK. He studied at the Royal Ballet School, and was soon dancing solo roles as a principal and partner to Lynn Seymour. He retired as a dancer in 1967, having created roles in Kenneth MacMillan's Images of Love (1964) and Frederick Ashton's The Two Pigeons (1961). He became founder and artistic director of the Central School of Ballet in London in 1982 and artistic director of the Manchester-based Northern Ballet Theatre in 1986. In 1987 he choreographed A Simple Man, based on the life of the artist L S Lowry, for television. |
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