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  • 2010-09-23T23:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h
  • 2h (2 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
A two part programme celebrating the genius of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan in the year in which he would have turned 80, with three of his works performed by the Royal Ballet.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2010-09-23T23:00:00Z

1x01 Concerto and Elite Syncopations

Series Premiere

1x01 Concerto and Elite Syncopations

  • 2010-09-23T23:00:00Z1h

Concerto is an early work danced to the music of Shostakovich and is followed by Elite Syncopations, in which brightly-coloured dancers burst into life to the music of ragtime.

2010-09-23T23:00:00Z

1x02 The Judas Tree

1x02 The Judas Tree

  • 2010-09-23T23:00:00Z1h

The Royal Ballet perform the Judas Tree, the Laurence Olivier Award-winning ballet which was MacMillan's last work before his untimely death of a heart attack at the age of 62. Set on a building site in Canary Wharf it is a highly charged ballet of brutal betrayal and tense sexual violence.

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