John Cranko resident choreographer for Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet's 1950–51 season. For the company's Festival of Britain season in 1951 Cranko choreographed the comic ballet "Pineapple Poll", to the music of Arthur Sullivan (newly out of copyright) arranged by the conductor Charles Mackerras. Another collaboration with Mackerras followed in 1954 with "The Lady and the Fool", to music by Verdi. In January 1954 Sadler's Wells Ballet announced that Cranko was collaborating with Benjamin Britten to create a ballet. Cranko devised a draft scenario for a work he originally called "The Green Serpent", fusing elements drawn from "King Lear", "Beauty and the Beast"
Sarasota Ballet mal Gardee", "Valses nobles et sentimentales" and "Jazz Calendar"; Dame Ninette de Valois' "Checkmate" and "The Rake's Progress"; John Cranko's "Pineapple Poll"; Christopher Wheeldon's "There Where She Loves" and "The American"; Michel Fokine's "Les Sylphides" and "Petrushka" and Rudolf Nureyev's "Raymonda Act III". Sarasota Ballet The Sarasota Ballet is an American ballet company based in Sarasota, Florida. It was founded in 1990 by former principal ballerina and choreographer Jean Allenby-Weidner and is now acclaimed for its performances of Sir Frederick Ashton's ballets under its director Iain Webb. In 1987, Jean Weidner founded The Sarasota Ballet as a presenting organization, establishing