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He had been planning a ragtime ballet even before George Roy Hill’s use of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” as the title-track for his film The Sting revived popular interest in Joplin’s music. We were amuseq. "Elite Syncopations" is a 1902 ragtime piano composition by American composer Scott Joplin, originally published in 1903 by John Stark & Son. Elite Syncopations had its premiered just seven months after Manon – and is MacMillan at his most playful.

If Elite Syncopations (created in 1974) is nearly as old as Scottish Ballet, the opening ballet was the newest – Dextera by Sophie Laplane, a former company dancer. John Percival examines the creation and success of the ballet. He had been planning a ragtime ballet even before George Roy Hill’s use of Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” as the title-track for his film The Sting revived popular interest in Joplin’s music.Two other ballets of the period were also choreographed to Joplin rags. Even Queen Victoria would have giggled at Tuesday night's premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's ragtime ballet, “Elite Syncopations” for the Royal Ballet at … Elite Syncopations had its premiered just seven months after Manon – and is MacMillan at his most playful. Kenneth MacMillan was not having a great time during most of the 1970s. Elite Syncopations programme notes 1 April 2009. Spurling studied design at the Slade School of Fine Art and besides his work for ballet and opera he is also known for having designed costumes for Queen’s Freddie Mercury.He had previously worked with MacMillan in Seven Deadly Sins. The Costumes. Australian designer Ian Spurling‘s costumes for Elite Syncopations play a prominent role in the ballet. Elite Syncopations is a one-act ballet created in 1974 by Kenneth MacMillan for The Royal Ballet.