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          Antony McDonald    |09 How to design The Nutcracker (interview & visuals)

          John Macfarlane    |10 Designs on Cinderella (interview)    |09 How to design The Nutcracker (interview & visuals)

          Wayne McGregor    |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012    |01 Ancient and modern (McGregor & Akram Khan)    |01 Duo:Logue    |01 Digit01    |97 Millenarium

          Amanda McKerrow   |98 Two tales of one city (interview)

          Kenneth MacMillan   |12 Las Hermanas    |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets     |10 The Judas Tree    |10 Gang-rape in ballet: Thiago Soares on The Judas Tree     |09 Different Drummer: Biographer Jann Parry interview    |09 Psychoanalysing MacMillan’s ballets    |09 Georgina Parkinson obituary    |09 Sublime or ridiculous? Revising MacMillan’s Isadora    |08 Maryon Lane obituary    |06 The Designers (Royal Opera House)    |o4 Anastasia revised    |04 Cope/Rojo Mayerling    |02 Kobborg/Cojocaru Mayerling    |98 Manon: Shock that turned to respect    |98 The man who said too much (Wayne Eagling interview)    |96 Keeping the dream alive (Lady MacMillan interview)    |96 MacMillan’s designer Nicholas Georgiadis interview

          Lady Deborah MacMillan   |09 Sublime or ridiculous? Revising MacMillan’s Isadora   |o4 Anastasia revised    |02  A bunch of amateurs’: Lady MacMillan accuses the Board (interview)   |02 RB Board 'given ultimatum' over Stretton    |96 Keeping the dream alive (interview)

          Donald MacLeary   |98 Moving reunion between Seymour and MacLeary

     Natalia Makarova    |09 Baryshnikov on his ballerinas    |03 Bringing Beauty back to life (interview)   |99 The thistledown queen (interview)

          Russell Maliphant    |10 Afterlight    |09 In the Spirit of Diaghilev, SWT    |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (Maliphant/Cherkaoui/de Frutos interview)    |09 Eonnagata    |03 Sylvie and the Boyz (Guillem, Ballet Boyz, Maliphant interviews)    |03 Broken Fall    |01 The Schubert of modern dance    |01 Critical Mass, George Piper Dances    |98 Shift/Critical Mass

          Manon   |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets   |05  Guillem RB     |01 Kirov ROH    |98 Shock that turned to respect  

          Colette Marchand     |15 Obituary

     Mariinsky Ballet    |16 Van Manen/Robbins/McGregor, Cardiff    |09 Dancer or circus pony? (Somova & Shklyarov)     |08 Yuri Fateev: keeper of the Kirov flame (interview)    |06 Shostakovich ballets at Mariinsky (Gergiev & Lopatkina interviews)    |06 Shostakovich ballets, ROH    |05 Forsythe, ROH    |01 Heroes of our culture (Hochhausers interview)   |01 Le Corsaire, ROH    |01 The Sleeping Beauty, ROH    |01 Balanchine, ROH    |01 Manon, ROH    |00 Sleeping Beauty/ Romeo & Juliet, ROH    |00 Aurora's new dawn: reconstruction of 1890 Sleeping Beauty    |98 Darcey conquers Russia (Bussell at the Kirov)      |97 The grand illusionist (Altynai Asylmuratova)    |96 Why I despair of the Kirov (Altynai Asylmuratova interview)

          Maguy Marin    |03 Cinderella

          Alicia Markova    |04 Obituary    |00 The girl who defied gravity    |95 The nightingale dances again    |92 The child who cast a spell on Diaghilev

          Peter Martins   |00 The battle for Balanchine (interview)

          Ekaterina Maximova    |09 Obituary    |08 Side by side (Vasiliev & Maximova interview)

          Mayerling   |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets     |04 Cope/Rojo Mayerling    |02 Kobborg/Cojocaru Mayerling     

          Men in ballet    |14 Where have all those retired male stars gone to?     |12 Men in ballet (TV programme)    |05 Jock Soto: The superman of dance)    |03 Global guide to male ballet styles    |00 Wanted: men with sex appeal (Matthew Bourne interview)    |02 Top five male nude bottoms

          Mikhail Messerer   |10 How to restore Swan Lake (interview)     |07 The Messerer Dynasty

          Agnes de Mille    |98 Everything is going his way (NT Oklahoma!)    |97 A choreographer with attitude (biography review)    |92 De Mille’s Martha Graham biography

          Arthur Miller    |10 All My Sons

          Mime    |11 Les Antliaclastes     |11 A guide to puppetry    |07 Philippe Genty/Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes    |04 Alwin Nikolais, Edinburgh    |02 Clown jewels    |01 Absolute clowns (Derevo interview)

     Arthur Mitchell    |18 Obituary

          Igor Moiseyev    |07 Obituary

          Patrick Moore    |12 RIP xylophonist Sir Patrick Moore    |98 Waltzes? I just love 'em (interview)

          Norman Morrice   |08 Obituary

          Mark Morris    |10 L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato    |07 Mozart Dances    |02 America’s last dance     |99 I want to teach the world to dance (interview)     |99 Gloria/The Argument/Rhymes with Silver, Sadler's Wells

          Jonathan Moulds   |12 Benedetti's Stradivarius patron (interview)

          Irek Mukhamedov   |04 Mayerling    |01 Mukhamedov Gala SWT    |01 ‘I was kicked like a nothing‘ (interview)    |00 Dancing worlds apart    |99 Ballet’s dream team (Mukhamedov & Asylmuratova)    |98 Strength and subtlety    |95 ‘He is the best English man' (Sansom)  |95 Lesley's last partner (Lesley Collier on Mukhamedov)

          Music and dance   |06 Shostakovich ballets at Mariinsky   |06 Stravinsky’s ballets    |05 Shostakovich’s Bolt staged at Bolshoi    |03  Trisha Brown choreographs Winterreise   |02 Why are ballet conductors so bad? (Vasko Vassiliev interview)    |01 The Bird Sings With  its Fingers    |01 Mark Baldwin & Julian Anderson interview   |01  Bintley & John McCabe’s Arthur, BRB    |95 Kirov conductor Viktor Fedotov

          Musicals    |10 Shoes    |10 Composer Richard Thomas interview    |08 Javier de Frutos & Richard Thomas’s Cattle Call    |07 Michael Kidd obituary    |04 Singin’ in the Rain (Adam Cooper)    |99 Astaire & Rogers’ first film Flying Down to Rio    |99 Chita Rivera interview    |98 Hugh Jackman (Oklahoma!) interview    |98 Susan Stroman (Oklahoma!) interview    |97 Agnes de Mille biography reviewed

          Ivan Nagy    |14 Obituary

          Nadia Nerina    |08 Obituary

          Netherlands Dance Theatre    |07 Glen Tetley obituary    |00 Dancing down the generations    |98 Van Manen, Edinburgh

          New York City Ballet    |05 Jock Soto: dance’s superman    |02 Stars of New York City Ballet, SWT    |02 Fears for America’s dance scene   |01 NYCB, Edinburgh Festival    |01 Here are the six o’clock views    |00 The battle for Balanchine (Peter Martins interview)    |98 Two tales of one city (NYCB v ABT)

          Basil Newby    |97 Blackpool: Mecca for contemporary dance?

          Lloyd Newson    |05  Just For Show    |03 Further adventures of an inspired outsider (interview)    |99 How to make a bigger splash (interview)    |99 The Happiest Day of My Life      |95 Enter Achilles

          Vaslav Nijinsky   |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (3 choreographers interview)    |06 Stravinsky’s ballets   |03 Kirov Rite of Spring    |00 ‘Reconstruction’ of Rite of Spring

          Alwin Nikolais    |04 Alwin Nikolais company, Edinburgh

          Rudolf Nureyev    |09 Evdokimova obituary    |08 Hightower obituary    |00 The French are simply the best   |00 Revival of Marguerite and Armand (Guillem interview)    |91 Nureyev interview on Fonteyn's death: ‘She gave me backbone’

          The Nutcracker    |09 How to design The Nutcracker    |03 Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker!    |01 Wright/BRB    |00 In the realm of the Nutcracker king (Wright interview)    |00 What’s left of the original Nutcracker    |96 Kingdom of Sweets in every flavour

          Eugene O’Neill    |12 Desire Under the Elms    |11 Long Day’s Journey Into Night

          Henri Oguike    |13 V4: Four Seasons    |09 Programme note on Oguike’s career    |07 Top of the tree (Oguike & De Frutos)     |05 School failure turned dance sensation (interview)    |05 Tippett, Bury St Edmunds    |05 HODC, Swindon

          Jonathan Ollivier     |15 Obituary

     Ondine    |12 The composer and the water-nymph: Henze’s ballet    |05 Ondine (Rojo, RB)

          Natalia Osipova    |16 Not much to dance here     |13 Osipova to join the Royal Ballet    |11 Ashton's Romeo and Juliet (Schaufuss Ballet)    |11 Lovers, off and on (interview Osipova & Ivan Vasiliev)    |11 Giselle 3D (with Sarafanov)   |08 Dancing Kobborg’s Bolshoi Sylphide (interview)    |08 Ratmansky/Bolshoi The Flames of Paris

          Annette Page     |17 Obituary

          Ashley Page    |12 Scottish Ballet, Ochoa/Meckler’s A Streetcar Named Desire    |10 Snubbed chief bites back    |10 Scottish Ballet, Geometry + Grace

          Paris Opera Ballet    |10 Frederick Wiseman’s film La Danse    |08 Hightower obituary    |07 Vyroubova obituary    |04 Royal Ballet/Paris Opera Ballet entente gala   |00 The French are simply the best (Brigitte Lefèvre interview)

          Georgina Parkinson    |09 Obituary

          Robert Parker     |11 Parker to head school    |01 La Fille mal gardée     |01 Dance names to watch  

          Murray Perahia    |12 Barbican recital    |11 Barbican recital

          Roland Petit    |11 Obituary    |07 Vyroubova obituary    |98 Not Giselle but Carmen (Jeanmaire interview)

          Phoenix Dance Theatre    |08 José Limón revival    |08 Javier de Frutos & Richard Thomas’s Cattle Call    |07 Top of the tree (Phoenix at Venice Biennale)    |05 Sadler’s Wells    |95 The right moves at the right time

          Photography in dance    |11 Ballet photographer extraordinaire (Colin Jones interview & gallery)    |03 Viewfinder: Johan Persson

          Maya Plisetskaya    |15 Obituary     |14 Pillow-talk with the KGB (Plisetskaya/Shchedrin interview)    |10 ‘The composer’s life is a marathon’ (Rodion Shchedrin interview)    |07 Dynasty: the Bolshoi's first family    |01  I, Maya Plisetskaya review

          Giannandrea Poesio    |17 Obituary

          Sergei Polunin     |16 Not much to dance here    |15 Floored again (Giselle with Zakharova)     |13 Marguerite and Armand (with Rojo)     |10  A new prince inherits his kingdom

          Angelin Preljocaj    |02 Helikopter/ Rite of Spring    |00 Modern lovers in a bleak world (interview Romeo and Juliet)

          André Prokovsky    |09 Obituary

          Ron Protas    |96 The man who inherited a legend (interview)




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