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Before there was a Royal Winnipeg Ballet, there was the Winnipeg Ballet. Or the Winnipeg
Ballet Club, now reborn as a support group for the Company. It was formed in 1939 by
Gweneth Lloyd and Betty Hey, sponsored a Command Performance for the visiting British Royalty
in 1940 (who didn't attend) and were finally recognized as "Royal" in 1953 by Queen Elizabeth. "working hard on those November nights was David Adams ... leaning against the barre, and expression of bored seriousness on his face, is Adams, the very image of crewcut pre-teen nonchalance. He was small but Gweneth used that to advatange, re-choreographic a role in the English pub sequence of Triple Alliance to accommodate him (a bookmaker was transfored into a jockey). He was game for anything they could throw at him."
-Max Wyman, |
Ballet Russe Tour: 1941
RAD Examination results: 1946
Queen of Hearts
Production 1
Canada tour: 1945 |