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Danses concertantes, commissioned by Ninette de Valois in 1955, was MacMillan’s first major
work. An early sign of the incredible artistic output that would follow, the work’s critical success
spurred MacMillan to abandon performing in favour of choreography. It is followed by Different
Drummer, MacMillan’s complex and haunting balletic interpretation of Woyzeck, Georg
Büchner's play about a soldier’s descent into madness. The mixed programme concludes with
Requiem, his 1976 work for Stuttgart Ballet, created in memory of its late artistic director,
MacMillan’s friend and former Royal Ballet dancer and choreographer John Cranko.
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