"A tense, searing ballet"

Clement Crisp on Mayerling

Laura Cappelle

For copyright reasons, this 1978 article by the British dance critic Clement Crisp – a review of the world premiere of Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling – is only available in French translation.

The original version is reprinted in Six Decades of Dance, a book of Clement Crisp's collected reviews, published by the International Dance Writing Foundation. An obituary of Clement Crisp as well as his archived reviews can be accessed on the Financial Times’ website.
 

Mayerling
choreography Kenneth MacMillan
22.10 au 12.11.2022 Opéra national de Paris
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