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It is no exaggeration to say that Kenneth MacMillan, through his choreography and through his choice of subject matter, pushed back the frontiers of ballet. Other choreographers before him explored human relationships but none ventured so bravely and so widely into complex and often tragic situations, with some characters called from literature, some from his own imagination and some from real life.
Born in Dunfermline on December 11th 1929, MacMillan grew up in Great Yarmouth where he took lessons from Phyllis Adams. After a mere nine months study he applied for a scholarship to the Sadler's Wells (now Royal Ballet School) and was accepted. After only a further year of study he became a further member of the Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet, for which he made his first experimental workshop ballets. Their success and their promise led de Valois to commission the Stravinsky ballet, Danses Concertantes (1955).
Thereafter, MacMillan danced with the Covent Garden company (he was a fine classical dancer), returned to the Wells and gradually abandoned dancing for his true vocation - choreography. In The Burrow, based on Kafka's story, he discovered the dramatic gifts of a young Canadian dancer, Lynn Seymour, who was to become his muse. In The Invitation (1960), he gave her a role of such intensity that it established her as one of the great actress-ballerinas of our time.
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