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Even the best-known ballets can baffle newcomers so what can choreographers do to avoid audiences getting lost? From Matthew Bourne’s fairytales to staging Margaret Atwood and Peaky Blinders, we find out
An Untitled Love, by the choreographer Kyle Abraham, sets young love and drunken dancing to a glorious, pulsating soundtrack
He changed how dance was filmed, saying: ‘You can choreograph with an eyebrow as excitingly as you can with a grand jeté across the stage’
Credits include John and Can We Talk About This?
Diana Payne-Myers Credit: family Diana Payne-Myers, the dancer and actress, who has died aged 92, had a 70-year stage career of phenomenal variety, beginning in the postwar music hall boom, continuing through the heyday of West End revue, and rising to an unlikely burst of stardom in her seventies and eighties in cutting-edge contemporary dance. Her ballet skit supported Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis on their British tours, she danced with Sadler’s Wells Opera Ballet, and she spent her 91st birthday on Broadway appearing in Stephen Daldry’s production of An Inspector Calls, a...