Sphere Media, a Canadian TV and movie producer, has secured the rights to Dancing With Diana: A Memoir by Scottish/Canadian dancer Anne Allan, who was Princess Diana‘s prime secret dance instructor and co-choreographed a legendary Uptown Woman routine at Covent Backyard for her. Glasgow-based Two Rivers Media and Sphere have struck their first co-production deal to make a 90-minute characteristic documentary primarily based on the memoir, printed final 12 months, they mentioned on Wednesday.
Sphere Abacus will distribute the documentary globally.
“The documentary will chronicle the nine-year interval from early 1981 when Allan served as Princess Diana’s personal — and prime secret — dance instructor,” in line with an outline of the undertaking. “Over a whole bunch of weekly one-hour classes at a personal dance studio, instructor and pupil solid a detailed friendship as Diana negotiated stratospheric fame, the enjoyment of motherhood, her crumbling marriage and her battle with bulimia. In her function as confidante in addition to instructor, Allan gained a singular perception into the princess’s life, challenges, passions and achievements.”
Mentioned Allan: “I’m thrilled that Sphere Media and Two Rivers Media have chosen to carry to display screen Dancing with Diana. As a Glaswegian who lives in Canada, it is a very particular partnership for me, that I’m so trying ahead to seeing realized!”
She added: “Throughout my time with the Princess, I used to be so lucky to witness not solely Diana’s profound love of dance, however a way more private facet of her. I hope that viewers of the documentary will admire this contemporary look in addition to uncover a deeper understanding of simply how extraordinary she was.”
The producers promise that the documentary will embody never-before-seen archival materials, together with images, private items and notes from the princess. It’ll additionally characteristic “new interviews with royal insiders, celebrities, Hollywood A-listers and several other of Diana’s closest pals.”
Seen via the lens of Allan’s recollections, the viewers will probably be guided via “Diana’s transformation from shy newlywed to international famous person — a girl with the talent and confidence to bop in entrance of the world to Billy Joel’s Uptown Woman at London’s Royal Opera Home, partnered by Wayne Sleep, and take to the ground with John Travolta at The White Home,” the businesses mentioned.
