Sylvia |
Born in Leicestershire, Christopher
Newton trained locally and won the Leverhulme Scholarship to The Royal
Ballet School. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1954 and danced a variety
of roles including the Rose Adagio Cavalier and the King in The Sleeping
Beauty, the Fencing Master in The Rake’s Progress, the pas de trios
in Ballet Imperial, Jason in Sylvia and the Concentration Commandant
in Valley of Shadows. From 1970-1973 he taught dance notation and repertory
at the International University in San Diego. He retuned to The Royal
Ballet in 1973 and was appointed Notator and later Répétiteur,
Ballet Master and, in 1988, Artistic CoordinatorNewton has mounted ballets for many other companies and has staged his own production of Swan Lake, Act III for the Pennsylvania Ballet. He retired from The Royal Ballet in 2001 and now works internationally as a freelance teacher, mainly staging the Ashton repertory. |
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