Tag: 08.17.01

Robert North, Scottish Ballet’s outgoing director, has attacked the company’s plans to change directions. “There are people here who think that classical ballet shouldn’t exist and they want to kill it. They keep appearing and they keep trying to kill it and Scottish Ballet keeps fighting back.” The Scotsman 08/17/01

A performance by San Francisco Ballet at London’s Covent Garden had to be stopped and the theatre cleared after a potato, being microwaved backstage by one of the dancers, exploded during the second intermission and filled the hall with smoke. London Evening Standard 08/17/01