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- Lynn Seymour CBE (born Berta Lynn Springbett; 8 March 1939 – 7 March 2023) was a Canadian-born ballerina, mostly associated with the Royal Ballet in London. She was a muse of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, creating lead roles in Romeo and Juliet, The Invitation, Concerto, Anastasia and Mayerling, among others.
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Lynn Seymour CBE (born Berta Lynn Springbett; 8 March 1939 – 7 March 2023) was a Canadian-born ballerina, mostly associated with the Royal Ballet in London. She was a muse of choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, creating lead roles in Romeo and Juliet, The Invitation, Concerto, Anastasia and Mayerling, among others.
The Royal Ballet is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Lynn Seymour on 7 March on the eve of her 84th birthday. Seymour was born in Wainwright, Alberta, and studied ballet in Vancouver, and at London’s Sadler’s Wells Ballet School.
Mar 15, 2023 · Lynn Seymour’s death last Wednesday undammed an outpouring of truly wrenching sadness from those whom this extraordinary ballerina injected with her poison - as the choreographer Frederick Ashton memorably said about his enslavement to Anna Pavlova.
Mar 15, 2023 · The most radically original dancer in British ballet history and a star on both sides of the Atlantic, Ms. Seymour inspired international choreographers of successive generations. Canadian...
Mar 9, 2023 · Lynn Seymour was one of our most celebrated dramatic ballerinas. Born in Alberta, Canada, in 1939, Seymour studied under Nicholas Svetlanov before being awarded a scholarship at the age of 15 to attend Sadler’s Wells (later The Royal) Ballet School in London.
Mar 10, 2023 · The Royal Ballet founder Ninette de Valois rated Lynn Seymour the greatest dramatic dancer in half a century, and she inspired the creation of masterpieces that changed audience...
Lynn Seymour, Canadian prima ballerina known for her performances with the Royal Ballet, London, from the late 1950s through the ’70s. She enjoyed one of the greatest successes of her career in the principal role in Frederick Ashton’s A Month in the Country (1976).
