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and joined the company in 1963. When it re-formed as a modern dance company in 1966, he quickly achieved prominence as a dancer with his interpretation of the title role in Tetley’s Pierot Lunaire, and has since created many of the leading roles in Ballet Ramberts’ repertoire, most recently The Poet in Cruel Garden, Prospero in Tetley’s The Tempest, and roles in Celebration (Davies) and Praeludium (Tetley). He choreographed his first work, George Frederic in 1969 and the Rambert repertoire now includes fifteen of his works, notably Duet 'for these who die as cattle’, Weekend, Ancient Voices of Children, Black Angels, Wings and Cruel Garden in

collaboration with Lindsay Kemp. He has also created works for the Royal Ballet, Tanz Forum in Cologne, Bat-Sheva Dance Company, Munich Opera Ballet, the Gulbenkian Ballet Company, Australian Dance Theatre and was responsible for the choreography in Frank Dunlop’s production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoal at the Young Vic. In January 1978 BBC Television presented a film profile of Christopher Bruce, entitled “Voices of Children” and later in the year the BBC filmed him in the title role of Tetley’s Pierrot Lunaire. In 1974 he was chosen to receive the Evening Standard’s first Dance Award and in 1975 he was appointed Associate Director of Ballet Rambert.