Ross Stretton, the Glossary
Ross Stretton (6 June 1952 – 16 June 2005) was an Australian ballet dancer and artistic director.[1]
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38 relations: American Ballet Theatre, Anthony Dowell, Artistic director, Australian Ballet School, Australian Chamber Orchestra, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Canberra, Canberra Theatre Centre, Carmen (ballet), Christopher Wheeldon, Cinderella (Prokofiev), Dame, David McAllister (dancer), Don Quixote (ballet), Fred Astaire, Harold Holt, Janet Karin, Joffrey Ballet, John Cranko, Maina Gielgud, Mats Ek, Melanoma, Melbourne, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Monica Mason, Northern Ballet, Onegin (Cranko), Robert Helpmann, Royal Opera House, Rudolf Nureyev, Seven Network, Stephen Page, Swan Lake, The Australian Ballet, The Daily Telegraph, The Royal Ballet, The Sleeping Beauty (ballet), Twyla Tharp.
- Administrators of The Royal Ballet
- Australian Ballet School alumni
- Australian male ballet dancers
- Dance managers
- Deaths from melanoma in Australia
- Northern Ballet Theatre
- Tap dancers
American Ballet Theatre
American Ballet Theatre (ABT) is a classical ballet company based in New York City.
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Anthony Dowell
Sir Anthony James Dowell (born 16 February 1943) is a retired British ballet dancer and a former artistic director of the Royal Ballet. Ross Stretton and Anthony Dowell are administrators of The Royal Ballet.
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Artistic director
An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction.
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Australian Ballet School
The Australian Ballet School is the premier ballet training facility in Australia, located in Melbourne.
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Australian Chamber Orchestra
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) is an Australian orchestra focused on chamber music based in Sydney.
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Bangarra Dance Theatre
Bangarra Dance Theatre is an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance company focused on contemporary dance.
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Canberra
Canberra is the capital city of Australia.
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Canberra Theatre Centre
Canberra Theatre Centre (CTC), also known as the Canberra Theatre, is the Australian Capital Territory’s central performing arts venue and Australia's first performing arts centre, the first Australian Government initiated performing arts centre to be completed.
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Carmen (ballet)
Several ballets have been created based on the 1845 novella by Prosper Mérimée, some of which use music from the 1875 opera of the same name by Georges Bizet.
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Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Peter Wheeldon (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.
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Cinderella (Prokofiev)
Cinderella (Золушка, tr. Zolushka; Cendrillon) Op.
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Dame
Dame is an honorific title and the feminine form of address for the honour of damehood in many Christian chivalric orders, as well as the British honours system and those of several other Commonwealth realms, such as Australia and New Zealand, with the masculine form of address being Sir.
David McAllister (dancer)
David Graeme McAllister (born 25 November 1963) is the former artistic director and principal dancer of The Australian Ballet. Ross Stretton and David McAllister (dancer) are Australian male ballet dancers.
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Don Quixote (ballet)
Don Quixote is a ballet in three acts, based on episodes taken from the famous novel Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes.
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire (born Frederick Austerlitz, May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987) was an American dancer, actor, singer, musician, choreographer, and presenter.
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Harold Holt
Harold Edward Holt (5 August 190817 December 1967) was an Australian politician and lawyer who served as the 17th prime minister of Australia from 1966 until his disappearance and presumed death in 1967.
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Janet Karin
Janet Karin OAM was born in Perth, Australia in 1938.
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Joffrey Ballet
The Joffrey Ballet is an American dance company and training institution in Chicago, Illinois.
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John Cranko
John Cyril Cranko (15 August 1927 – 26 June 1973) was a South African ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet.
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Maina Gielgud
Maina Gielgud (born 14 January 1945) is a British former ballet dancer and a veteran ballet administrator.
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Mats Ek
Mats Ek (born 18 April 1945) is a Swedish dance and ballet choreographer, dancer and stage director.
Melanoma
Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer; it develops from the melanin-producing cells known as melanocytes.
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Melbourne
Melbourne (Boonwurrung/Narrm or Naarm) is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in Australia, after Sydney.
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Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Nikolayevich Baryshnikov (p; Mihails Barišņikovs; born January 27, 1948) is a Latvian and American dancer, choreographer, and actor.
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Monica Mason
Dame Monica Margaret Mason (born 6 September 1941) is a former ballet dancer, teacher, and director of The Royal Ballet. Ross Stretton and Monica Mason are administrators of The Royal Ballet.
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Northern Ballet
Northern Ballet, formerly Northern Ballet Theatre, is a dance company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a strong repertoire in theatrical dance productions where the emphasis is on story telling as well as classical ballet. Ross Stretton and Northern Ballet are Northern Ballet Theatre.
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Onegin (Cranko)
Onegin is a ballet created by John Cranko for the Stuttgart Ballet that premiered on 13 April 1965 at Staatstheater Stuttgart.
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Robert Helpmann
Sir Robert Murray Helpmann CBE (Helpman, 9 April 1909 – 28 September 1986) was an Australian ballet dancer, actor, director, and choreographer. Ross Stretton and Robert Helpmann are Australian male ballet dancers.
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Royal Opera House
The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a historic opera house and major performing arts venue in Covent Garden, central London.
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Rudolf Nureyev
Rudolf Khametovich Nureyev (17 March 19386 January 1993) was a Soviet-born ballet dancer and choreographer.
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Seven Network
The Seven Network (commonly known as Channel Seven or simply Seven) is a major Australian commercial free-to-air television network.
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Stephen Page
Stephen George Page is an Australian choreographer, film director and former dancer.
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Swan Lake
Swan Lake (p), Op. 20, is a ballet composed by Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76.
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The Australian Ballet
The Australian Ballet (TAB) is the largest classical ballet company in Australia.
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The Daily Telegraph
The Daily Telegraph, known online and elsewhere as The Telegraph, is a British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally.
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The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England.
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The Sleeping Beauty (ballet)
The Sleeping Beauty (Spyashchaya krasavitsa) is a ballet in a prologue and three acts to music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, his Opus 66, completed in 1889.
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Twyla Tharp
Twyla Tharp (born July 1, 1941) is an American dancer, choreographer, and author who lives and works in New York City.
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See also
Administrators of The Royal Ballet
- Anthony Dowell
- Anthony Russell-Roberts
- Frederick Ashton
- Gailene Stock
- Jeanetta Laurence
- John Field (dancer)
- John Hart (dancer)
- Kenneth MacMillan
- Monica Mason
- Ninette de Valois
- Norman Morrice
- Ross Stretton
Australian Ballet School alumni
- Ako Kondo
- Amber Scott
- Ann Burbrook
- Barry Moreland
- Beverly Jane Fry
- Danielle Rowe
- Ella Havelka
- Emilie de Ravin
- Garry Stewart
- Gideon Obarzanek
- Goh Soo Khim
- Graeme Murphy
- Hannah O'Neill
- Hugh Sheridan
- Ian Spink
- Jodie-Anne White
- John Meehan (dancer)
- Kip Gamblin
- Lana Jones
- Leigh Warren
- Madeleine Eastoe
- Marilyn Rowe
- Meryl Tankard
- Roma Egan
- Ross Stretton
- Stephen Baynes
- Steven Heathcote
- Tracy Li
Australian male ballet dancers
- Alan Alder
- Alexander Campbell (dancer)
- Andrew Crawford (dancer)
- Antony Hamilton
- Charles Lisner
- Damian Smith (dancer)
- Daniel Gaudiello
- David McAllister (dancer)
- Edouard Borovansky
- Garry Stewart
- Garth Welch
- Gideon Obarzanek
- Gordon Hamilton (dancer)
- Graeme Murphy
- Guillermo Keys-Arenas
- Harry Haythorne
- Ian Spink
- John Meehan (dancer)
- Josef Brown
- Kelvin Coe
- Kevin Jackson (dancer)
- Kip Gamblin
- Li Cunxin
- Paul Hammond (ballet dancer)
- Robert Helpmann
- Ross Stretton
- Stanton Welch
- Stephen Baynes
- Steven Heathcote
- Steven McRae
- Valentin Zeglovsky
- Vassilie Trunoff
- Wang Xuejun (dancer)
Dance managers
- Joel Benjamin (singer)
- Lilian Baylis
- Ross Stretton
Deaths from melanoma in Australia
- Andrew Durant (musician)
- Andrew Plain
- Bruce Yardley
- Clare Oliver
- Clive Hughes (Western Australian politician)
- Cory Taylor
- Darrell Tryon
- David Baxter (sprinter)
- Jim Stynes
- Kathleen Best
- Kevin Peek
- Peter Cook (Australian politician)
- Ron Walker (businessman)
- Ross Stretton
- Stuart Wenham
- Tony Barry
Northern Ballet Theatre
- Christopher Gable
- David Nixon (choreographer)
- Gavin Sutherland (conductor)
- Gillian Lynne
- Jeremy Fry
- Northern Ballet
- Ross Stretton
- Simon Towneley
- Vanessa Hooper
Tap dancers
- Adam Garcia
- Bayani Casimiro
- Charles Castle
- Gabrielle Miller (Australian actress)
- Harland Dixon
- Hilarius Gilges
- Jean-Pierre Cassel
- Joey Hollingsworth
- Larry Smith (musician)
- Lionel Blair
- Mandy Sayer
- Nadia Gamal
- Ralf Mackenbach
- Ross Stretton
- Roxane Butterfly
- Roy Castle
- Roy Julen
- Steiner Brothers (tap-dancing trio)
- Steven McRae
- Tamangoh Herbin VanCayseele Stanislas