Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
In this footage, Rudolph Nureyev and Antoinette Sibley dance part of a pas de deux from Sir Frederick Ashton’s 1968 'Jazz Calendar’.
What’s particularly interesting about this film is that Sibley talks about her experience of dancing the role with Nureyev - “the sexiest thing I’ve ever done on stage”.
New York Critic Alastair Macaulay has commented "This is Friday’s Child (“loving and giving”) from Frederick Ashton’s “Jazz Calendar” (1968); Sibley and Nureyev were its original cast. Sibley later danced it with Anthony Dowell (“Antoinette and Anthony were love,” said a devotee, “but Antoinette and Rudi were SEX.”) Around 1985, Sibley danced this duet in an Ashton programme at Covent Garden with Fernando Bujones."
Enjoy!
In this footage, Rudolph Nureyev and Antoinette Sibley dance part of a pas de deux from Sir Frederick Ashton’s 1968 'Jazz Calendar’.
What’s particularly interesting about this film is that Sibley talks about her experience of dancing the role with Nureyev - “the sexiest thing I’ve ever done on stage”.
New York Critic Alastair Macaulay has commented "This is Friday’s Child (“loving and giving”) from Frederick Ashton’s “Jazz Calendar” (1968); Sibley and Nureyev were its original cast. Sibley later danced it with Anthony Dowell (“Antoinette and Anthony were love,” said a devotee, “but Antoinette and Rudi were SEX.”) Around 1985, Sibley danced this duet in an Ashton programme at Covent Garden with Fernando Bujones."
Enjoy!
