posted October 08, 2001 01:00            

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Michael Nunn (left), 34, entered the Royal Ballet School at 17. He went on to dance leading roles at the Royal Ballet and while there co-produced, with Billy Trevitt, `Ballet Boyz', a video-diary documenting the company's darkest hour in 1997. The pair resigned to join Japan's K Ballet and have now formed a new company, George Piper Dances.

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posted October 09, 2001 01:31            

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Ready for their close-up

BY DEBRA CRAINE

Millions watched their antics as TV's Ballet Boyz. Now they want to be taken seriously with their own troupe

For 12 years Michael Nunn and William Trevitt danced at Covent Garden. Stalwart members of the Royal Ballet, they distinguished themselves in a number of leading roles and enjoyed the admiration of several thousand fans. Then, in 1999, along came Ballet Boyz, their Channel 4 documentary, and suddenly two million people were introduced to Nunn and Trevitt, the naughty boys of the Royal Ballet. Their video diaries, which they shot themselves, portrayed the duo as lads about Covent Garden, two young men who couldn’t resist clowning for the camera in their jock straps, daring the audience to accept their crude humour, lippy attitudes and lager lout posturing.

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posted October 12, 2001 03:46            

More about those "Ballet Boys" by Luke Jennings for the Evening Standard

George Piper Dances Company: Mixed Programme
Michael Nunn, William Trevitt, Lucy Dodd, Justine Doswell, Matthew Hart
Nunn/Trevitt
by Luke Jennings

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When Billy Trevitt and Michael Nunn step on to the stage of the Roundhouse on Monday night, they are going to be nervous. This has nothing to do with stage fright; the pair have racked up more than a dozen years of ballet performance each. The nerves are to do with the fact that this time Trevitt and Nunn are running the show, and have created a fledgling ballet company of their own. Its name, based on the middle names of its founders, is George Piper Dances. The venture is a brave one, but if it falls flat on its pancaked face, as is possible, there will be those who reckon that Trevitt and Nunn had it coming.

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posted October 14, 2001 01:38            

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When male dancers leave the Royal Ballet, they traditionally make their last appearance in a female role, smuggled on at the back in pointe shoes and tutu. They go because of age, or injury, or because they have been fired. There is the stench of death about them. With their rictus grins and glue-on eyelashes big as wreaths, they may be thinking Darcey Bussell, but always end up looking more like Gloria Swanson.

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