David Bintley
Crew
Biography
Sir David Bintley trained at The Royal Ballet School and joined Sadder’s Wells Royal Ballet in 1976. In 1978, he created his first professional work for the company, The Outsider. As a dancer, his roles include Widow Simone and Alain in La Fille mal gardée, Bottom in The Dream and the title role in Petrushka, for which he was awarded the 1984 Laurence Olivier Award for Dance. Other accolades include a Manchester Evening News Award for Dance, a coveted South Bank Award and a Barclays TMA Award for the staging of a Balanchine mixed programme.
Known For
A Christmas classic revisited in dance form at the Finnish National Opera: Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. It's the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a grumpy, miserly old man who, on Christmas Eve, is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. A magical tale popular with all ages, adapted into a ballet by an all-British artistic team including composer Sally Beamish and choreographer David Bintley.
A Christmas Carol
Nutcracker Sweeties is Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington’s big band take on the Tchaikovsky classic—The Nutcracker as you've never seen or heard it before! It portrays Broadway and America in the 1940s: full of humor, irony, commentary, swing, and blues. The cast, dressed in an array of glamorous Jasper Conran costumes, includes pom-pom girls, drum majorettes, sailors, GIs and Candy Kane. David Bintley’s choreography is a catwalk of jazz styles. With its eye-catching clothes and flashing neon sets, Nutcracker Sweeties is imaginative, funny and visually irresistible.
Nutcracker Sweeties
A ballet about endangered species by David Bintley, orchestrated by Penguin Cafe Orchestra.
'Still Life' at the Penguin Cafe
A woman encounters her memories, explored through dance. Featuring Marguerite Porter, former Principal Ballerina at the Royal Ballet.
Comrade Lady
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'Still Life' at the Penguin Café
Cinderella by Birmingham Royal Ballet.
Cinderella
September 2015 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of King Louis XIV of France and this documentary looks at how Louis XIV not only had a personal passion and talent for dance, but supported and promoted key innovations, like the invention of dance notation and the founding of the world's first ballet school, that would lay the foundations for classical ballet to develop.