The other shoe. (News).After three months as acting artistic director of London's Royal Ballet Royal Ballet, the principal British ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. It is noted for lavish dramatic productions, a superbly disciplined corps de ballet, and brilliant performances from its principals. , Monica Mason Monica Mason O.B.E. is a ballet dancer and has been the Director of the British national ballet company, the Royal Ballet, since 2002. Early life Mason was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1941. was appointed to the post permanently in December. Mason's contract runs through mid-2007, the year of her mandatory retirement. A former Royal principal dancer, she was named assistant director to Anthony Dowell in 1991 and has long been associated with the Sir Frederick Ashton Noun 1. Sir Frederick Ashton - British choreographer (1906-1988) Ashton and Sir Kenneth MacMillan repertoires. Mason succeeds Ross Stretton, who resigned in September. In New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , the Martha Graham Dance Company named Terese Capucilli and Christine Dakin as artistic co-directors. Janet Eilber was named to the new post of artistic director of Martha Graham Resources. All three have been dancers in the company. |
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