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Article: Morning becomes Apollo; Birmingham Royal Ballet's Triple Bill, The Immortals, includes both Balanchine's Apollo, a milestone of 20th-century classical ballet, and newly-commissioned Krishna, which introduces BRB's dancers to the ancient tradition of kathak. Choreographer Nahid Siddiqui and principal dancer Robert Parker, who dances Apollo, talk to Richard Edmonds.(Features)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
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- September 24, 2003
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Byline: Richard Edmonds
Robert Parker is quite difficult to miss if you are walking down Hurst Street at the moment.
A 20ft-high poster of Birmingham Royal Ballet's top seed in the title role of George Balanchine's Apollo -the ancient Greek epitome of male beauty -adorns the facade of the Birmingham Hippodrome, where the show forms part of the Triple Bill, The Immortals, which opens tonight.
When I spoke to him, Parker hadn't been ...