Anastasia
With Lynn Seymour
Kenneth MacMillan was now the central choreographer in my life. Kenneth had asked me to appear in Romeo and Juliet as Tybalt , it did not happen. Instead I became Paris, but I did get a fantastic review in New York for those performances.
As a choreographer, Kenneth was one of those count people. Every second of each of his many ballets was counted.
I found that it was impossible to work without the counts, you had to learn them, as a reference point .
It drove me crazy, but I had to comply.
When we started working on Anastasia, I asked Lynne Seymour if she counted. Oh yes. So I had to submit, and count. It destroyed so many compositions for me . I could not just listen to the music for years after I had performed in the ballets, without automatically counting. Can you imagine counting from the beginning of the Rite of Spring, to the finish?"
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