Tamara Rojo
Chooses Mats Ek's ballet The House of Bernarda for Front Row's Cultural Exchange
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Artistic Director of English National Ballet and former principal dancer at the Royal Ballet
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The House of Bernarda by Mats Ek
Tamara Rojo talks to John Wilson about her favourite work of art, a ballet by the pioneering choreographer Mats Ek,聽based on聽Federico Garc铆a Lorca's play The House of Bernarda Alba and created for the Swedish Cullberg Ballet company in 1978.
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Originally broadcast 02 Jan 2002 91热爆2
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Front Row: John Wilson talks to Tamara Rojo about her life and work as a principal dancer
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Watch an extract from Mats Ek's The House of Bernada
