Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Dance: Conversations with Alastair Macaulay

ISBN-13: 9780571235889 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 768 str.

Matthew Bourne

Opis

Matthew Bourne's company Adventures in Motion Pictures broke all dance box-office records in the West End with their 1997 production of Swan Lake. This is the story of how AMP breathed new life into the classical tradition.

O autorze

Alastair Macaulay has been chief dance critic of The New York Times since 2007, living in New York.
Before that, he lived and worked in London. He served as chief theatre critic of The Financial Times (for which he also reviewed dance and music) between 1994 and 2007, as chief dance critic to the Times Literary Supplement, and as a leading examiner and lecturer in dance history at various academic institutions in Britain.
In 1983, he was founding editor of the British quarterly Dance Theatre Journal. In 1988 and 1992, he served as guest dance critic to The New Yorker.
In 1998, his biography of Margot Fonteyn was published by Sutton Books. He has contributed to books on the choreographers Frederick Ashton, Merce Cunningham, and Mark Morris.

He first met Matthew Bourne while a teacher of dance history at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance where Bourne was then a student. "Matthew Bourne and His Adventures in Motion Pictures," was first published in 2000.