Alastair macaulay biography of donald
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Here are but a few of the famous and notable MacAulays.
Alastair Macaulay, ledare dance critic of the New York Times
Alex McAulay – American novelist
Alexander MacAulay – an unknown hero
Alexander MacAuley (footballer), Scottish footballer
Alexander McAulay (1863–1931), first professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Tasmania
Alexander McCall Smith – Author, South Africa
Alphonso McAuley, American, actor
Alyn Daniel McCauley – Canadian retired professional ice hockey player
Alyson Macaulay Court, Canadian, actor
Andrew McAuley, (1968–2007), Australian, adventurer
Angus Macaulay (1759-1827) – Schoolmaster, physician and political figure in Prince Edward Island
Archie Macaulay (1915–1993), Scottish football player and manager
Aulay MacAulay of Ardincaple (died 1617), Scottish laird, clan ledare, shire Commissioner, and knight
Aulay Macaulay, (died 1788), English inventor of a struktur of shorthand
Bob McAuley – Scottish-Ca
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Criticism & History of the Performing Arts
with Alastair Macaulay
Alastair Macaulay, former Chief Dance Critic of the New York Times and Chief Theatre Critic of the Financial Times, is now freelance critic and historian of the performing arts. In this collection of writings, he allows his interest in all the arts to roam, both within current events and his own fascination with history. He covers theatre, dance of all kinds, dance history, and music.
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Photo: Suzanne Farrell in 1977 as Dulcinea in “Don Quixote.” Credit: New York City Ballet
Giselle: Questions and Answers
with Alastair Macaulay, Doug Fullington, Maina Gielgud, Jane Pritchard, Alexei Ratmansky, and Marian Smith.
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The Royal Ballet, Forty Years On
Ballet is an art of inbuilt nostalgia. We can’t forget those who gave us our first revelations of its potential; but the degree to which they haunt the performances we see today keeps changing. Four Royal Ballet performances at Covent Garden in June 1-14 were Memory Lane for me, but not only that. Almost all the repertory – Mikhail Fokine’s “The Firebird,” George Balanchine’s “Symphony in C,” Kenneth MacMillan’s “Romeo and Juliet”, Frederick Ashton’s “A Month in the Country”, and a programme celebrating the centenary of Margot Fonteyn’s birth – took me back to the 1974-1979 years in which I discovered ballet and became a critic. For the past twelve years, however, I’ve been working in New York, with only brief return visits to London. To what degree is the Royal Ballet of 2019 the same as the one that introduced me to ballet?
To my happy astonishment, I observed many of the company’s younger performers – some new to me, none familiar - with