companies, including the lyrical Five Rückert Songs (1978). Several of his ballets were staged abroad by companies in Australia, Czechoslovakia, Japan, Hong Kong and the USA. He also directed several musical and shows, including the nude revue Carte Blanche. He was awarded the CBE in 1984. He died in Glasgow on 2 December 1987. Press cuttings "Peter Darrell was a man of theatre above all else, and his ballets and his artistic judgements never ignored the fact that dancing is not a remote and introspective activity, but an art of the theatre. He was a man of wonderful humour, strong enthusiasms: his memorial is not only his company and his choreography, but the marked influence he had upon the way we think of ballet today" Clement Crisp, 'Financial Times' - December 1987. "Of all the leading British choreographers, Darrell is most like Ashton in being sensitive to the spirit of the time; not just following fashion, but feeling the way people move, think and behave, and reflecting it in his work" John Percival, 'The Times' - November 1969. See also Elaine McDonald Notes External links The Peter Darrell Trust Ballet choreographers Ballet in Scotland 1929 births 1987 deaths Commanders of the Order of the British Empire English choreographers Scottish Ballet Birmingham Royal Ballet dancers English male ballet dancers