Jacqueline du Pré Building, St Hilda's College, Oxford OX4 1DY
The TORCH Dance Scholarship Oxford programme are hosting a lecture on "John Cranko". The speaker will be Dr Julia Burhle (University of Oxford). John Cranko (1927 – 1973) was a South African born ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet. His most famous "literary"ballets include Romeo and Juliet (1962), with music by Prokofiev; Onegin (1965), an adaptation of the verse novel by Alexander Pushkin, with music by Tchaikovsky; The Taming of the Shrew (1969).
