Lynn Seymour

**Lynn Seymour** CBE (an haife ta **Berta Lynn Springbett** ; 8 Maris 1939 - 7 Maris 2023) ' yar wasan kwaikwayo ce 'yar ƙasar Kanada, wacce galibi take da alaƙa da Royal Ballet a Landan. Ta kasance mai shirya waƙoƙi Kenneth MacMillan, tana ƙirƙirar manyan ayyuka a cikin *Romeo da Juliet*, *The Invitation*, *Concerto*, *Anastasia* da *Mayerling*, da sauransu. Ta fara taka rawa a cikin waƙoƙin rawa da dama na Frederick Ashton, ciki har da *The Two Pigeons*, *Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan* da *A Month in the Country* . Ta kuma yi baƙunci tare da kamfanonin rawa daban-daban a tsawon rayuwarta.

## Farkon aikina
An haifi Seymour a Wainwright, Alberta, a matsayin Berta Lynn Springbett, kuma ya yi karatun rawa a Vancouver, British Columbia. 

A shekarar 1953, Frederick Ashton ya yi mata gwaji kuma ya ba ta tallafin karatu a Makarantar Ballet ta Sadler's Wells da ke Landan. [1] Ta shiga Covent Garden Opera Ballet a shekarar 1956 kuma ta koma Touring Royal Ballet a shekarar 1957. Shekara guda bayan haka, ta shiga babban kamfanin Royal Ballet, ta zama babbar mai rawa a shekarar 1959

Matsayinta na farko da ta ƙirƙira shi ne Adolescent a cikin nazarin Kenneth MacMillan na littafin Anne Frank mai *suna The Burrow* (1958), wanda ya jawo hankalinta.  An haɓaka dabarun waƙarta, salonta na musamman, da kuma ƙarfin wasan kwaikwayo mai ƙarfi ta hanyar nau'ikan rawar da MacMillan ya fara yi mata akai-akai  ciki har da *The Girl* in *The Invitation* (1960) da *The Fiancée* a cikin *Le baiser de la fée* (1960).  Ga Frederick Ashton, ta samo asali ne daga rawar da Young Girl ta taka a cikin *The Two Pigeons* (1961). 

## Shahararru a duniya da kuma rawar rawa
Matsayin taken a cikin fim ɗin MacMillan *Romeo and Juliet*, wanda aka ƙirƙira don Seymour a 1965 (kodayake Margot Fonteyn ta yi rawa a farkon fim ɗin  ) ya tabbatar da ita a matsayin babbar jarumar rawa ta zamaninta.    Bayyanar da ta yi wa jarumar Shakespeare ta nuna rashin biyayya da sha'awa ta hanyar nuna bajintarta ta hanyar son da ta nuna wa shirin Franco Zeffirelli na Old Vic na 1960 tare da Judi Dench ya yi tasiri a kanta. 

Seymour ta kasance jarumar wasan kwaikwayo ta farko a Berlin Opera Ballet (1966–1969) a ƙarƙashin jagorancin MacMillan, inda ta yi rawa a wasan kwaikwayo na farko na *Concerto* ɗinsa, wanda motsi na biyu ya samo asali ne daga ƙarfin maganadisu na maganadisu,  kuma ya ƙirƙiri rawar da Anna Anderson ta taka a cikin sigar wasan kwaikwayo ɗaya ta *Anastasia* (1967). 

Seymour ta yi baƙunci tare da kamfanoni daban-daban, ciki har da London Festival Ballet, London Contemporary Dance Theatre, National Ballet of Canada, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre, da American Ballet Theatre . Ta yi aiki tare da masu tsara waƙoƙi daban-daban, daga John Cranko, Antony Tudor da Jerome Robbins zuwa Glen Tetley, Lar Lubovitch da Roland Petit, kuma sau da yawa abokinta Rudolf Nureyev yana tare da ita  ( *La Sylphide*, *Raymonda*, *Apollo* da sauransu). Tare da Nureyev, ta inganta dabarunta na gargajiya ta hanyar halartar ajin malamin Denmark Stanley Williams a Makarantar Ballet ta Amurka .  

Daga 1971 zuwa 1978, ta koma Royal Ballet a matsayin baƙo mai fasaha tare da sabbin haruffan MacMillan masu duhu kamar rawar da take takawa a cikin sigar wasan kwaikwayo uku ta *Anastasia* (1971) da Mary Vetsera a cikin *Mayerling* (1978). Ashton ta ƙirƙiri mata wani fim mai suna *Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan* (1976) da kuma rawar da Natalia Petrovna ta taka a cikin *A Month in the Country* (1976, tare da Anthony Dowell a matsayin Beliaev). 

## Manazarta