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In Memoriam 2024: artists who died this year… Singers, Dancers, Actors, Writers, Directors
In memoriam 2024: a personal list remembering some of the artists who died in 2024.
Maggie Smith
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Francesca Hayward answers the Gramilano Questionnaire… Dancers’ Edition
Q&A When did you start dancing? When I was 3 years old. My grandparents didn’t know how to keep me occupied so they bought a video of The Nutcracker on a whim and that was it, I was happy all day long. Why did you start dancing? I can’t give a definite reason, I just…
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Introducing… Brandon Lawrence, Birmingham Royal Ballet
Q&A When did you start dancing? I started dancing at 8 years old and then I joined the Royal Ballet School full time at 14 Why did you start dancing? I’m not sure why… I was probably influenced through films and TV. Which dancer inspired you most as a child? As a child Carlos Acosta…
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Maggie Smith portrait added to the National Portrait Gallery collection
The National Portrait Gallery, London, has unveiled its most recent commissioned portrait, a painting of Dame Maggie Smith by James Lloyd. The large (six feet by three) oil painting shows the actress in jacket and trousers sitting in a bare studio on a draped chair which is placed on an intriguing trompe-l’oeil platform. The sittings began in 2011 and…
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Dustin Hoffman to make directorial début with film about retired opera singers
Dustin Hoffman will make his directorial debut with a film about retired opera singers. The Hollywood Reporter said yesterday that Hoffman is scheduled to begin shooting “Quartet” in London later this week. The film, based on Ronald Harwood’s tender play, is funded by the BBC, and will star Billy Connolly, Tom Courtenay, two-time Academy Award winner Maggie…
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