Ronald Hynd

Ronald Hynd (born 22 April 1931) is an English choreographer, and in his youth was a ballet dancer.

In the Royal Ballet in the late 1940s he began to dance with Annette Page, whom he later married. Page died on 4 December 2017.^[1] They have a daughter, Louise.^[2]

Ballets Hynd has choreographed include The Merry Widow in 1975,^[3] and the ballet Charlotte Brontë for the Royal Ballet Touring Company in 1974.^[4] He recreated the nineteenth-century ballet Papillon^[5] in 1979^[6] and created The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ballet in 1988,^[6] both for the Houston Ballet. His version of The Nutcracker, produced by the London Festival Ballet in 1976, added a love story to the traditional tale by giving the heroine an older sister who falls in love with Dr. Drosselmeyer's nephew against her parents' wishes.^[7] He also choreographed for companies such as American Ballet Theatre, Ballet West, and Tulsa Theatre Ballet.^[8]

Notes

^ "Annette PAGE Obituary (2017) - London Bridge, City of London - The Times". www.legacy.com.
^ Dean Speer & Francis Timlin, A Very Merry Couple Ronald Hynd and Annette Page talk about dancing, PNB and Merry Widow from Ballet-Dance magazine dated April 2005 online at ballet-dance.com, accessed 28 April 2012
^ "Hynd, Ronald (22 Apr. 1931)", The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell (eds), Oxford University Press. Published online January 2010 ISBN 978-0-19-172765-8.
^ "Death and Entrances", The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, Debra Craine and Judith Mackrell (eds), Oxford University Press, p. 126. ISBN 9780199563449.
^ Kisselgoff, Anna (10 April 1981). "Dance: Houston Ballet's Papillon". The New York Times.
^ ^a ^b "Houston Ballet to Present the RONALD HYND's The Merry Widow 9/19-29". 4 September 2013.
^ Anderson, Jack (20 November 1986). "DANCE VIEW: The Return of the Nutcracker, an Eternal Balletic Verity". The New York Times.
^ [1], Pacific Northwest Ballet Press Release, 14 December 2009.