Walter Gore

Walter Gore (8 October 1910 – 16 April 1979) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer.

Early life

Walter Gore was born in Waterside, Scotland in 1910 into a theatrical family. From 1924, he studied acting at the Italia Conti Academy, and dance with Léonide Massine and with Marie Rambert.

Career

Gore was a dancer with Ballet Rambert from 1930 to 1935. He returned as a choreographer in 1938 with his first ballet Final Waltz.

In 1944, whilst on leave from Army duty in France, Gore created a ballet based on Benjamin Britten's Simple Symphony also entitled Simple Symphony for the Ballet Rambert. The work was largely created on Sally Gilmour and Margaret Scott.

He remained at Ballet Rambert until 1950 and then worked occasionally with the Ballets des Champs-Elysées and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. He founded his own company, The Walter Gore Ballet, in 1953.

He led the Frankfurt Ballet from 1957 to 1959, then became the founder and director of the London Ballet from 1961 to 1963. At that time he also became director of the recently founded Gulbenkian Ballet, Lisbon. He was also the founder and artistic director of the Australian Theatre Ballet, Melbourne.

Gore (1814 cricketer)

Gore (first name and dates unknown) was an English first-class cricketer associated with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) who was active in the 1810s. He is recorded in one match in 1814, totalling 0 runs with a highest score of 0 not out.

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Gore (triangular shape)

A gore refers to a triangular piece of cloth or piece of land. Etymologically it is derived from geirr, meaning spear.

In the course of time the word came to be used for a piece of cloth used making cloths, an area of land typically to be found at a road junction. and a method to depict the surface of the globe in two dimensions.

In fabric working

A gore is a term used in dressmaking and Hatmaking to refer to triangular or rhomboid pieces of fabric which are combined to create a fuller three dimensional effect.

In map making

A gore is also a term in mapmaking: the curved surface that lies between two close lines of longitude on a globe and may be flattened to a plane surface with little distortion. The term has been extended to apply to

Land between roads

Gores on freeways in the United States and Canada are frequently marked with stripes or chevrons at both entrance and exit ramps. These help drivers entering the freeway to estimate how much time they have to match the speed of through traffic, and warn drivers improperly exiting the freeway right down the middle of a gore that they are about to run out of road. Gores at exit ramps occasionally feature impact attenuators, especially when there is something solid at the other end of the gore.

Gore (surname)

Gore is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Walter

Walter may refer to:

See also

Walter (bishop of Rochester)

Walter was a medieval Bishop of Rochester.

Life

Walter was the brother of Theobald of Bec, who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1139 to 1161. Theobald selected Walter to be Archdeacon of Canterbury soon after Theobald's election, and it was Theobald who secured Walter's election to Rochester.

Walter was elected on 27 January 1148 and consecrated on 14 March 1148. He died on 26 July 1182.

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Walter (1982 film)

Walter is a British television drama first broadcast on the launch night of Channel 4 on 2 November 1982. Based on a 1978 novel of the same name by David Cook, it was the first ever Film on Four.

Plot

The film was directed by Stephen Frears and stars Ian McKellen as Walter, a man with a learning disability. The story focuses initially on his youth in which his parents attempt, with little success, to have him adapt into the conditions of a "normal" life. Walter's father dies, followed soon after by his mother. The social services bureaucracy then place him in a psychiatric institution. Walter is molested by another patient, witnesses the murder of a patient by another patient having a breakdown, and remains in the institution for the rest of the film.

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