• Donald McLennan Director Millennium Performing Arts •

 

Nationality: British



Training
SCOTLAND
1954-1956 Peggy O’Neill’s Irish Dancing School
1957-1962 Margaret Morris School of Celtic Ballet
- Margaret Morris was the first proponet of the Isadora Duncan
technique in Great Britain



ENGLAND
1963-1964 Rambert School of Ballet
Teachers: Dame Marie Rambert, Errol Addison (former members
of the Diagelev Company
1965-1967 Andrew Hardie School of Dance
Ballet, Jazz,Contemporary, Tap
1968 Matt Mattox Jazz
1978-1981 The Royal Ballet School
Teachers Training Course, Graduated 1981. Awarded the Ninette de Valois Prize for top graduate.

Professional Performing Experience
From 1956 Competed and won many trophies and medals for Irish Dancing
Appeared in the Andy Stewart Show, Glasgow
1966-1967 BBC Operas: Eugene Onegin, Count of Monte Cristo, Rigoletto
1968-1969 Sadlers Wells Opera Ballet: director Peter Darrell
Created the role of White Boy in Ephemeron
1970 The musical Mame, Ginger Rogers, Drury Lane
1971 The musical Promises Promises, choreography Michael Bennett



Television
1970 Royal Command Performance, London Palladium
The Cilla Black Show
The Carol Burnett Show
The Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyck Special



Films
1971 Fiddler on the Roof, Topal
The Devils, Vanessa Redgrave and Oliver Reed
Heaven’s Gate, director Michael Cimino



Europe
1971 Sporting Club, Monte Carlo
Le Croix Rouge, by invitation of Princess Grace of Monaco
1972 The Roland and Zizi Jeanmaire Company, Paris
The Grande Eugene Spectacle, Paris, Rome
1978 Maurice Chevalier Memorial TV Spectacle
Royal Opera House, Terry Gilbert



Teaching and Administration
1981 Student teacher, White Lodge and Royal Ballet School
1981-1997 Assistant to the Director and Artistic Coordinator, London Studio Centre
1981-1997 Senior adjudicator, International Federation of Music, Dance and Speech.
1992 Arts Council of Great Britain. Engaged Donald McLennan to create a program of beginners’ ballet lessons targeted towards young ethnic minority students.



Guest Teacher
State School of Ballet, Athens, Greece; Norway; France; Scotland; Denmark; Switzerland; Singapore; Spain and Germany, Finland.

1984-1988 Board of Directors, Phoenix Dance Company

1997 onwards Founder and Director Millennium Dance 2000

2005 Founder and Director Mitchell Maas McLennan Artist Management.

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