{"id":55163,"date":"2022-09-27T07:29:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/?p=55163"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:28:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:28:49","slug":"steps-have-to-tell-the-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/steps-have-to-tell-the-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Steps have to tell the story"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenneth Tindall about the process of\u00a0<\/strong>creating and filming ballets<\/strong><\/h3>\n

By Deborah Weiss<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Kenneth Tindall, former principal dancer, Resident Choreographer and Director of Digital for Northern Ballet, is considered to be one of the most outstanding dance-creators of his generation. The recipient of many accolades, awards and in demand internationally as well as in the UK, when we speak, he is preparing a new full-length version of Carmen<\/em> which will premiere at the beginning of November with <\/strong><\/p>\n

Tulsa Ballet. But he wasn\u2019t always keen to choreograph and needed some persuasion.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kenneth Tindall, Joseph Taylor and Christelle Horna in rehearsal for Casanova. Photo Emily Nuttall\u00a0<\/strong>How did it all start?<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was still dancing at the time. Northern Ballet were moving into its new building with 7 studios. For the first time they had the space to do a choreographic lab. It was 2011 and I had done about 180 shows that year and I saw a two week gap at the end of the season where I could rest and recover. David Nixon, my director, asked me if I would like to try and create something for the lab. I said, \u2018No thank you, I\u2019d like to take a rest!\u2019 Less than 24 hours later he came back to me saying he thought I should definitely try and if I didn\u2019t, he would put me in everybody else\u2019s pieces. He would tell this story differently but my account is definitely the right one! So I found myself in a studio with 3 dancers, a piece of music I\u2019d chosen and 6 minutes to choreograph. I didn\u2019t know what I was doing. But it changed everything because my wife entered the piece for the International Choreographic Competition in Hanover where it won the Production Prize. That catapulted my choreographic career…<\/p>\n

Read the\u00a0 whole interview in our issue 105<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Print & Digital<\/h4>\n

Subscribe or buy this issue\u00a0 ABO-SHOP\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Kenneth Tindall about the process of\u00a0creating and filming ballets By Deborah Weiss Kenneth Tindall, former principal dancer, Resident Choreographer and Director of Digital for Northern Ballet, is considered to be one of the most outstanding dance-creators of his generation. The recipient of many accolades, awards and in demand internationally as well as in the UK, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":55165,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55163"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55169,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55163\/revisions\/55169"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danceforyou-magazine.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}