#Anthony Dowell

[catullus101]

Top to bottom, left to right: Lynn Seymour, Michael Coleman, Jerome Robbins, David Wall, Monica Mason, Laura Connor, Rudolf Nureyev, Ann Jenner, Anthony Dowell and Antoinette Sibley. 

Dances at a Gathering, Royal Opera House, 1970.

[starleska]

The Beatles Forever (1977) in the interest of documenting as much of Paul Williams' work as possible, the oft-maligned The Beatles Forever 1977 TV special is a fascinating watch! this is a tv special in which a variety of musical stars cover The Beatles' music 🔥 thanks so much to @willywonks-blog for uploading some of Paul's song renditions from it here, to @baycitystygian for bringing it to my attention, and of course to @denton115 over on YouTube for uploading the whole special 😉

[countesspetofi]

Rudolf Nureyev in Ken Russell’s VALENTINO (1977); dance scenes.

With Anthony Dowell as Vaslav Nijinsky, Mildred Shay as a Maxim’s customer, Carol Kane as Jean Acker, Christine Carlson as Beatrice Dominguez, and Michelle Phillips as Natacha Rambova.

NB: Kane and Carlson are not credited as Acker and Dominguez, but it’s clear from the context that that’s who they’re supposed to be.

[grandhotelabyss]

Advice/hard truths for writers?

The best piece of practical advice I know is a classic from Hemingway (qtd. here):

The most important thing I’ve learned about writing is never write too much at a time… Never pump yourself dry. Leave a little for the next day. The main thing is to know when to stop. Don’t wait till you’ve written yourself out. When you’re still going good and you come to an interesting place and you know what’s going to happen next, that’s the time to stop. Then leave it alone and don’t think about it; let your subconscious mind do the work.

Also, especially if you're young, you should read more than you write. If you're serious about writing, you'll want to write more than you read when you get old; you need, then, to lay the important books as your foundation early. I like this passage from Samuel R. Delany's "Some Advice for the Intermediate and Advanced Creative Writing Student" (collected in both Shorter Views and About Writing):

You need to read Balzac, Stendhal, Flaubert, and Zola; you need to read Austen, Thackeray, the Brontes, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy; you need to read Hawthorne, Melville, James, Woolf, Joyce, and Faulkner; you need to read Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev, Goncherov, Gogol, Bely, Khlebnikov, and Flaubert; you need to read Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Edward Dahlberg, John Steinbeck, Jean Rhys, Glenway Wescott, John O'Hara, James Gould Cozzens, Angus Wilson, Patrick White, Alexander Trocchi, Iris Murdoch, Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh, Anthony Powell, Vladimir Nabokov; you need to read Nella Larsen, Knut Hamsun, Edwin Demby, Saul Bellow, Lawrence Durrell, John Updike, John Barth, Philip Roth, Coleman Dowell, William Gaddis, William Gass, Marguerite Young, Thomas Pynchon, Paul West, Bertha Harris, Melvin Dixon, Daryll Pinckney, Darryl Ponicsan, and John Keene, Jr.; you need to read Thomas M. Disch, Joanna Russ, Richard Powers, Carroll Maso, Edmund White, Jayne Ann Phillips, Robert Gluck, and Julian Barnes—you need to read them and a whole lot more; you need to read them not so that you will know what they have written about, but so that you can begin to absorb some of the more ambitious models for what the novel can be.

Note: I haven't read every single writer on that list; there are even three I've literally never heard of; I can think of others I'd recommend in place of some he's cited; but still, his general point—that you need to read the major and minor classics—is correct.

The best piece of general advice I know, and not only about writing, comes from Dr. Johnson, The Rambler #63:

The traveller that resolutely follows a rough and winding path, will sooner reach the end of his journey, than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hours of day-light in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.

I've known too many young writers over the years who sabotaged themselves by overthinking and therefore never finishing or sharing their projects; this stems, I assume, from a lack of self-trust or, more grandly, trust in the universe (the Muses, God, etc.). But what professors always tell Ph.D. students about dissertations is also true of novels, stories, poems, plays, comic books, screenplays, etc: There are only two kinds of dissertations—finished and unfinished. Relatedly, this is the age of online—an age when 20th-century institutions are collapsing, and 21st-century ones have not yet been invented. Unless you have serious connections in New York or Iowa, publish your work yourself and don't bother with the gatekeepers.

Other than the above, I find most writing advice useless because over-generalized or else stemming from arbitrary culture-specific or field-specific biases, e.g., Orwell's extremely English and extremely journalistic strictures, not necessarily germane to the non-English or non-journalistic writer. "Don't use adverbs," they always say. Why the hell shouldn't I? It's absurd. "Show, don't tell," they insist. Fine for the aforementioned Orwell and Hemingway, but irrelevant to Edith Wharton and Thomas Mann. Freytag's Pyramid? Spare me. Every new book is a leap in the dark. Your project may be singular; you may need to make your own map as your traverse the unexplored territory.

Hard truths? There's one. I know it's a hard truth because I hesitate even to type it. It will insult our faith in egalitarianism and the rewards of earnest labor. And yet, I suspect the hard truth is this: ineffables like inspiration and genius count for a lot. If they didn't, if application were all it took, then everybody would write works of genius all day long. But even the greatest geniuses usually only got the gift of one or two all-time great work. This doesn't have to be a counsel of despair, though: you can always try to place yourself wherever you think lightning is likeliest to strike. That's what I do, anyway. Good luck!

[milksockets]

'swan lake - natalia makarova + anthony dowell' in max waldman on dance: photographs (1988)

[dance-world]

Harris Bell - The Royal Ballet - photo by Kosmas Pavlos

Scottish dancer Harris Bell is a First Artist of The Royal Ballet. He joined The Royal Ballet’s Aud Jebsen Young Dancers Programme from the start of the 2018/19 Season and was promoted to Artist in 2019 and First Artist in 2023.

Growing up in Dollar, Scotland, he started ballet at the age of seven and went on to train at Elmhurst Ballet School and The Royal Ballet School, graduating through the school. Awards included Most Promising Boy 2013 at Elmhurst Ballet School and third place in the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance 2016 while at The Royal Ballet School. 

Roles in the School’s annual matinees included Didy Veldman’s See Blue Through, Frederick Ashton's The Two Pigeons, Robert Binet's Self and Soul pas de deux, Liam Scarlett's Third Movement and Aurora's Wedding in Anthony Dowell's adaptation of The Sleeping Beauty. 

He represented The Royal Ballet School at the Gala Des Ecoles 2017 performing the 2nd Movement from Kenneth MacMillan's Concerto at the Palais Garnier, Paris. He performed with the Company as a student in Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Winter's Tale, Kenneth MacMillan's Manon, Frederick Ashton's Sylvia and Liam Scarlett's Swan Lake. 

His repertory with the Company includes Spanish dance (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker), Matvei (A Month in the Country) and roles in Like Water for Chocolate). He created a role in Untitled, 2023.

[gorbigorbi]

Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell in "Manon", 1974, The Royal Ballet

Photographer Jennie Walton

[fonteyn]

SIR KENNETH MACMILLAN’S MANON THROUGH THE YEARS

The Royal Ballet (1982) Jennifer Penney as Manon and Anthony Dowell as Des Grieux

The Australian Ballet (1995) Justine Summers as Manon and Steven Heathcote as Des Grieux

The Royal Ballet (2008) Tamara Rojo as Manon and Carlos Acosta as Des Grieux

The Royal Ballet (2014) Marianela Nuñez as Manon and Federico Bonelli as Des Grieux

Paris Opera (2015) Aurélie Dupont as Manon and Roberto Bolle as Des Grieux

The Royal Ballet (2018) Sarah Lamb as Manon and Vadim Muntagirov as Des Grieux

[enchanted-keys]

Every day is a good day to drag Anthony Dowell's production of Swan Lake.

[slaygentford]

Oh my god guys it’s okay I was watching the bolshoi prod and not the Anthony dowell one. I didn’t eternal sunshine a jester I just wasn’t watching the dowell production bc I was drunk on power (marquee tv purchase)

[cowsaresushi-coral]

7 and 18 for the ask thingie? :o

7. Favourite works of all time excluding your own?

I can't think of any drawn art piece at this point of time, so I will state some things that are still deemed as art!

-Restored film of San Francisco’s Market Street version of a film shot on April 14, 1906 - I LOVE this video. It's just very comfortable to me. Love the restoration and film work.

-Rudolf Nureyev and Anthony Dowell in Valentino (1977) dir. Ken Russell & the Jonas Brothers - Wonderful choreography, and just *mwah* chef's kiss.

-Roxona - Stunt City - Stunt work, so damn good, but also comically excessive. (I...am still in the process of watching Buster Keaton, so theoretically, he could be on this list, but I'm uh...stuck in brain waiting mode.)

These are films, and got a bit of an old-timey feel to them. Just the vibe I like. Apologizes if you wanted an art piece, I do not have a favorite, nor can I think of any at this point of time :X.

18. Do you have any larger projects you’d like to pursue? Like comics, shortfilm, a series etc?

Yes! Many! I have several large projects in the works, and honestly, I'm waiting until this semester is over, so I can go and focus on them. Here be a glimpse: (ordered from smallest project to largest project)

-Super Paper Mario - Animatic (this one is embarrasingly old) -Submas Polar Express - Animatic -Mind & Body - Abstract Short Film - Original -Entertainment's Plight - Short Film (Name Pending) - Original -Talk to Us, Harry - Game (Visual Novel/Adventure) - Original

And Spirit's World, my webcomic, which is currently on hiatus for episode 3.

I'd like to go back to making short films for myself. I miss making them ;v;. I'm just too busy atm, so hopefully this coming summer, I'll find the time.

Thank you for asking!!

[danzadance]

Anthony Dowell coaches Melissa Hamilton and Reece Clarke in Ashton's Awa... https://youtu.be/njZM4YxEE5M?si=HVsIxxT0WF7CjMgm

[pwposting]

Shared by @willywonks-blog , we have a wide variety of celebrities doing a Beatles celebration event called "The Beatles Forever."

It features Anthony Newley, Diahann Carroll, Ray Charles, Paul Williams, Mel Tillis, Bernadette Peters, Anthony Dowell, and Tony Randall.

[titanfan8]

Back in April the NFL Draft was held over three days.

2023 is the Titans first draft of the Ran Carthon era.

Below is the 2023 Draft class written by Ronan Briscoe....

Peter Skoronski first round pick, a tackle/guard out of Northwestern, arrives in Nashville from Park Ridge, Illinois. He's the grandson of Bob Skoronski, a tackle on Vince Lombardi's Packers teams that won five NFL championships and each of the first two Super Bowls. He started every game of his college career, and was a First-Team All-American in 2022. He was widely viewed as one of the top two tackles in the class, though he may wind up finding a career as a guard.

Will Levis second round pick, QB out of Madison, Connecticut (as well as Newton, Massachusetts and Middletown, Connecticut) who finished his career at Kentucky after appearing in 14 games across two seasons for Penn State. He totaled 5,232 passing yards, 43 touchdowns and 23 interceptions during his time in Lexington. During this time, he helped spark a nice period for Kentucky football and head coach Mark Stoops.

Tyjae Spears third round pick, a running back out of Tulane by way of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was one of the most dangerous players in the entire country with a football in his hands last season. In four years with Tulane, Spears totaled 2,940 rushing yards and 31 touchdowns. 1,581 of those yards and 19 of those touchdowns came in 2022. He won the American Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year award as well. He arrives in the NFL with some well-documented potential issues with his knee, but don't worry too much about him.

Josh Whyle was the Titans' pick in the fifth round. He's a native of Cincinnati who stayed home for college and helped guide the Bearcats to the College Football Playoff in 2021. He's the kind of tight end who uses his size in blocking while also being dangerous as a pass catcher. Whyle totaled 88 catches for 1,062 yards and 15 touchdowns during his four seasons at Cincinnati.

Jaelyn Duncan sixth round pick an offensive tackle from Maryland. The New Carrollton, Maryland native spent five years as a Terrapin, and the only one of those he wasn't the starting left tackle was his redshirt year. He's a big, and very athletic tackle who should fit right into the roster Ran Carthon wants to build.

Colton Dowell seventh round pick wide receiver at Tennessee-Martin. Dowell didn't just have an incredibly successful career, picking up four consecutive All-OVC honors. He didn't just rack up 177 catches for 2,796 yards and 19 touchdowns in 47 college games. He left the Skyhawks as their all time statistical leader in receiving yards.

Below are the undrafted free agents who were signed after the draft.

DT Shakel Brown (Troy)

Brown (6-4, 299) played in 13 games as key backup on Troy's top-rated defense in 2022 … Started five games in his career … Recorded 32 tackles, six tackles for loss and four sacks.

WR Jacob Copeland (Maryland)

Copeland (6-0, 202) appeared in 12 games in 2022 … Led the team by averaging 14.5 yards per reception ... Caught 26 passes for 376 yards, and hauled in a pair of touchdowns.

WR Tre'Shaun Harrison (Oregon State)

Harrison (6-1, 191) led Oregon State with 52 receptions for 604 yards … Scored four touchdowns … Ended his OSU career with 90 catches for 1,147 yards and eight touchdowns.

S Matt Jackson (Eastern Kentucky)

Jackson (6-2, 215) started 10 games in 2022 and led the team with 87 tackles ... Also registered 7.5 tackles for loss, 2.0 sacks, two fumble recoveries, and one forced fumble ... From Nashville, played at Hillsboro High.

CB Steven Jones (Appalachian State)

Jones (5-10, 185) tied for the Sun Belt lead in the regular season with 15 passes defended in 2022 … Also totaled 45 tackles, 4.5 tackles for loss and one sack on the season.

S Tyreque Jones (Boise State)

Jones (6-2, 205) started all 12 games in 2022. … Registered 34 tackles, including 4.5 for-loss, three pass breakups and an interception… Converted to nickelback in 2022.

CB Anthony Kendall (Baldwin Wallace)

Kendall (5-10, 180) averaged 5.4 tackles per game, three interceptions, four tackles for loss and 12 pass breakups at Division III Baldwin Wallace in 2022.

RB Charles McClelland (Cincinnati)

McClelland (5-11, 200) appeared in 13 games and started the final 12 in 2022 … Led the Bearcats in rushing and all-purpose yards… Tallied 849 rushing yards and seven touchdowns on 146 attempts…Added 14 receptions for 116 yards… Rushed for more than 100 yards three different times.

DE TK McClendon (Eastern Kentucky)

McClendon (6-5, 300) started all 12 games in 2022 and led Eastern Kentucky with 11.5 tackles for loss and 6.0 sacks ... added 58 tackles, two pass breakups, one forced fumble, and one fumble recovery.

OLB Caleb Murphy (Ferris State)

Murphy (6-4, 245) tallied 40 sacks and 60.5 tackles for a loss in his two seasons at Ferris State, including 25.5 in 2022 when he helped lead the Bulldogs to their second consecutive D-II national title.

T John Ojukwu (Boise State)

Ojukwu (6-6, 315) was selected All-Mountain West First Team in 2022 after being the only Bronco to start all 14 games on offense. … Was also All-Mountain West first team in 2021 after starting all 12 games at left tackle.

LB Otis Reese (Mississippi)

Reese (6-3, 225) started 11 games for the Rebels in 2022 ... Finished second on the team with 84 total tackles, with 8 coming for a loss ... Added 3 sacks ... Came up with 1 fumble recovery and hauled in 1 interception on the season.

OLB Thomas Rush (Minnesota)

Rush (6-3, 250) started all 13 games in 2022 and made 34 tackles (20 solo) … Had 2.5 tackles for loss and 1.5 sacks while also breaking up two passes and forced one fumble.

K Trey Wolff (Texas Tech)

Wolff (6-4, 210) finished his career by connecting on 42-of-52 career field goal attempts and 107-of-110 PATs … Totaled 233 points overall over 45 career games as a Red Raider … Ended his career ranked fifth all-time in program history for successful field goals (42) and PATs (107) … one of eight kickers in program history to nail 40 or more field goals in a career.