Memoir Of Princess Diana’s Secret Dance Teacher Developed As Feature Doc At Sphere Media & Two Rivers
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: The memoir of a choreographer teacher who secretly taught Princess Diana to dance to be turned into a 90-minute feature documentary.
Canadian producer-distributor Sphere Media has secured rights to Anne Allan’s ‘Dancing with Diana: A Memoir‘ and will co-produce it with Alan Clements’ Glasgow-based Two Rivers Media.
Sphere Abacus, the sales arm of Sphere, will shop the doc internationally. Scottish-Canadian dancer and London City Ballet mistress Allan was the late Princess Diana’s dance teacher, and co-choreographed her ‘Uptown Girl’ routine at London’s Royal Opera House, which she surprised Prince Charles with in 1985.
Allan’s memoir, which recounts the performance, was released last year. The doc will chronicle the nine years from 1981 during which Allen secretly trained Diana as a dancer.
Read more on deadline.com
