Lynn Seymour

Directorship and subsequent career From 1978 to 1980, Seymour was artistic director of the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich, where she invited a young William Forsythe to join her. Her time in Munich was marred by injuries and administrative issues. In 1980, Richard Austin published an authorised biography and, four years later, Seymour herself wrote an autobiography, Lynn, with Paul Gardner.

Seymour acted in the children's television series The Little Vampire between 1986 and 1987. She also appeared as an actress in the 1987 Herbert Ross film Dancers with Mikhail Baryshnikov and in Wittgenstein by Derek Jarman (1993), playing the part of Ballets Russes's Lydia Lopokova. and again the title role of MacMillan's Anastasia that earned her a rapturous ovation in New York.

In 2006–07, Seymour worked in Athens as artistic director of the Greek National Ballet with Irek Mukhamedov as chief répétiteur and Truman Finney as a guest teacher. Named in honour of her, the Lynn Seymour Award for Expressive Dance is annually made at the Royal Ballet School.

Personal life Seymour married three times and had three children: twin boys Adrian and by Polish dancer Eike Walcz whom she did not marry, and a son by her second husband. one day shy of her 84th birthday.