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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Kenneth MacMillan
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(1929–92, kt 1983) Britain's leading choreographer of the generation after Frederick *Ashton, with an extraordinary range from the romanticism of *Romeo and Juliet (1965 or *Manon (1974) to the inner landscape of Winter Dreams (1991) and the sexual violence of *Mayerling (1978) or The Judas Tree (1992). He discovered in all of them new extensions of classical movement to express intense emotion or psychological unease. He formed a strong creative partnership with Lynn Seymour, whom he first cast in The Burrow in 1958; she went with him to the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, where he was director of ballet from 1966 to 1969.
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In 1965 he created one of his most powerful works, (Song of the Earth to Mahler's music) at Stuttgart, where John *Cranko was director of the company. From 1970 to 1977 MacMillan was director of the Royal Ballet.
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