ISMENE BROWN
dance and arts journalism
An archive of 25 years of British dance
"What to some is splendid entertainment, to others is merely tedium and fidgets"
MERCE CUNNINGHAM
C – F
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★ Candoco |96 Parkinson/ Claid/ Bhuller/ Falk
★ Caracalla Dance Theatre |93 Dancing through Beirut's war
★ Joel Carreño |05 Ballet Nacional de Cuba gala |05 Giselle |04 Havana Ballet Festival
★ Nigel Charnock |12 Tribute |12 Obituary
★ Janine Charrat |17 Obituary
★ Yvette Chauviré |16 Obituary
★ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui |11 How manga comics became a dance (interview) |11 TeZukA |11 Apocrifu |10 Shoes |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (3 choreographers interviewed) |05 zero degrees (with Akram Khan)
★ Lucinda Childs |11 Dance, Barbican |11 Highlights of 2011 |02 White Oak Dance Project: Childs/ Rainer/ Hawkins |01 Baryshnikov gets radical (interview) |01 PASTForward: the Judson Church radicals
★ Circus |05 Circus Oz |97 Is it circus, is it dance?
★ Michael Clark |06 Bad boy with good friends (interview) |06 Stravinsky and choreography |04 Back in love with ballet (interview) |04 Baryshnikov Solos with Piano, Barbican |03 Oh My Goddess |01 Before & After: The Fall |98 Return from a dance with danger (interview)
★ The Clark Brothers |02 Shuffling off the bad times (Steve & Jimmy Clark interview)
★ Mary Clarke |15 Obituary
★ Robert Cohan |21 Obituary |05 Forest, Phoenix Dance |96 Stabat Mater, Rambert
★ Alina Cojocaru |14 A miss for Swan Lake |13 ROH final Mayerling |13 Cojocaru interview on her departure from RB: 'I'll always be grateful, even for the lies' |13 Ten questions for Alina Cojocaru |12 The Dream |09 Back on stage after injury |05 Swan Lake |04 The two graces (Cojocaru & Rojo) |04 Classic ballerina duos |04 Cojocaru/Kobborg at the Havana Ballet Festival |03 Arch rivals: pointe shoes |02 Who’s taking off in 2002 |02 Royal Ballet stars injury crisis |02 First Mayerling |02 Swanderful (interview) |01 New stars of dance |01 Giselle
★ Lesley Collier |95 Lesley's brilliant career: retirement interview
★ Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu |01 Un Nioc de Paradis, Woking Dance Umbrella
★ Adam Cooper |09 Adam is the dancing king (interview) |05 Glamorous liaison (Cooper & Wildor interview) |04 Singin’ in the Rain |02 Dancing in a minefield (Cooper & Wildor interview) |02 On Your Toes |01 Onegin (Rojo, Cooper, Cojocaru) |99 And they lived happily ever after (Cooper & Wildor interview) |97 On quitting the Royal Ballet for AMP (interview) |96 Bourne's Swan Lake West End premiere |96 Preparing Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
★ Keith Cooper |98 From the Crush Bar to the wine bar
★ Joaquin Cortés |96 A mover and a shaker (interview)
★ Richard Cragun |12 Obituary
★ Anthony Crickmay |20 Obituary
★ Clement Crisp |22 Obituary (Telegraph) |22 Obituary interview (The Arts Desk) |01 Interview (Ballet.Co Forum)
★ Critics |15 Critics are not writing for dancers
★ Merce Cunningham |19 Global centenary wake |10 After a dance-maker dies: choreographers’ legacy |10 The late Merce Cunningham |09 In memoriam |05 Event, Barbican |04 The music of chance (interview) |02 High priest of pure movement (interview) |00 Biped, Barbican |00 Who is the greatest? Cunningham and Taylor in London |97 Ocean, Belfast |97 Dance master who broke all the rules (interview)
★ Cuban ballet |19 Alicia Alonso obituary |13 Fernando Alonso obituary |08 Alberto Alonso obituary |07 The Messerer dynasty |05 BNC Gala (Swan Lake, Don Q etc) |05 Giselle (Valdes, Carreño), BNC |04 How Cuba became a hothouse of ballet (Alonso interview at Havana Ballet Festival) |98 Cometh the hour, cometh the man (Acosta interview)
★ John Curry |95 John Curry biography
★ Sinead, Sorcha and Niamh Cusack |90 Performing Chekhov's sisters
★ Margaret Dale |10 Obituary
★ Dance training |15 State of British dance training
★ Dance Umbrella |03 25th anniversary gala |03 Twenty-five years of Dance Umbrella 03 |95 Dance's fairy godmother (Val Bourne interview)
★ Henry Danton |22 Obituary
★ Rudi van Dantzig |12 Obituary
★ Siobhan Davies |02 Plants and Ghosts, Upper Heyford airfield |02 Prepare for take-off (interview) |99 ‘I probably can’t win’ (working in the RB) |99 Wild Air |97 The Art of Touch, Bank |95 Wild Translations, The Glass Blew In
★ Christopher Dean |96 Dean's first ballet is for ENB (interview) |95 T&D swirl into the sunset
★ Derek Deane |02 Tutus at dawn at ENB |00 Deane quits ENB (interview) |00 It's part of my job to entertain (interview) |99 Swan Lake in-the-round |95 Curiouser and curiouser (interview)
★ Derevo |13 Harlekin |03 Islands in the Stream |01 Absolute clowns (interview Anton Adassinski) |98 The Red Zone
★ Design |15 Yolande Sonnabend obituary |12 Lighting designer Michael Hulls (interview) |10 John Macfarlane and Peter Farmer on designing Cinderella (interview) |09 How to design The Nutcracker (Macfarlane, Scarfe, McDonald, with visuals) |06 The great ballet designers (Farmer, Sonnabend, Georgiadis)
★ Serge Diaghilev |10 Staging the V&A Diaghilev exhibition (Jane Pritchard interview) |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (3 choreographers interviewed) |06 Stravinsky’s ballets (Dance Now) |02 Diaghilev sale at Sotheby’s |97 Drummond on Diaghilev |95 Markova recreates Le Rossignol |92 Markova: The child who cast a spell on Diaghilev
★ Anthony Dowell |15 Swan Lake production’s final bow |03 Becoming Ugly Sisters (Dowell & Wayne Sleep interviewed) |01 A mixed blessing at the ballet |01 Dowell’s last programme |01 Dowell tribute gala |01 Roundup of 2001
★ Nicholas Dromgoole |23 Obituary
★ John Drummond |97 Drummond on Diaghilev (interview) |97 Drummond's radio series on dance crisis
★ Isadora Duncan |09 Sublime or ridiculous? MacMillan’s Isadora |99 Turning Point: Isadora Duncan's London debut, 1900 |91 Ninette de Valois on Isadora's impact
★ Viviana Durante |00 Farewell for now, Viviana (interview) |99 Durante walks out |99 Ondine |96 Anastasia
★ Dutch National Ballet |12 Rudi Van Dantzig obituary |98 Van Manen programme |98 DNB chief Wayne Eagling (interview)
★ DV8 Physical Theatre |12 Nigel Charnock obituary |07 Tanya Liedtke obituary |05 Just For Show |03 An inspired outsider (Newson interview) |99 The Happiest Day of My Life |99 How to make a big splash (Newson interview) |95 Enter Achilles
★ Wayne Eagling |98 The man who said too much (interview)
★ Earnings in arts |11 How arts compares in earnings
★ Thomas Edur & Agnes Oaks |01 Treading water beautifully (includes interview)
★ Boris Eifman |12 Prepared to face the critics (interview)
★ Mats Ek |13 Carmen, RB |99 Dark side of the fairy-tale (interview) |99 Ek's Giselle, Edinburgh |99 Cullberg Ballet, Ek programme, Edinburgh
★ Edward Elgar |15 Michael Kennedy’s search for Elgar secret |11 Was Elgar’s enigma a lovechild named Pearl?
★ Violetta Elvin |21 Obituary
★ English National Ballet |12 Rojo appointed ENB director |02 Beyond tights and tutus (Matz Skoog interview) |01 Treading water beautifully |00 Derek Deane quits ENB: interview |00 It's part of my job to entertain (Deane interview) |95 Curiouser and curiouser |92 What Pamela did to Peter (Schaufuss interview)
★ Eva Evdokimova |09 Obituary
★ Peter Farmer |17 Obituary |10 Designs on The Nutcracker |08 Bolshoi La Sylphide designs |06 The kiss of life for a dying art? |06 The great ballet designers (Farmer, Sonnabend, Georgiadis)
★ Suzanne Farrell |06 Balanchine’s Don Quixote |06 A passionate love-letter reopened (Farrell interview) |01 The six o’clock views
★ Julia Farron |19 Obituary
★ Viktor Fedotov |95 Kirov ballet conductor interview
★ Sergei Filin |13 Bolshoi dismisses Nikolai Tsiskaridze |13 Opinion: Crime and moral evasion |13 Sergei Filin: I’ll be back |13 Bolshoi chief attacked with acid [See Blog for the Bolshoi acid affair in detail]
★ Film and dance |15 Nick Read and Mark Franchetti's Bolshoi Babylon, Richard Curson Smith's Rudolf Nureyev - Dance to Freedom |11 Dancing Dreams (the staging of Pina Bausch's Kontakthof) |12 The making of Swan Lake 3D (Matthew Bourne & other interviews) |11 Wim Wenders’ Pina 3D/ Mariinsky Giselle 3D |10 Only When I Dance (feature and interviews) |10 Frederick Wiseman’s portrait of Paris Opera Ballet, La Danse |93 Ballet on video
★ Tamara Tchinarova Finch |17 Obituary
★ Flamenco |13 Israel Galvan & Farruquito, SWT |10 Flamenco: the lyrics |06 Maclovia Ruiz obituary |02 The stamp of greatness: Eva Yerbabuena interview |98 Lorca's poetry and dance |98 Little prince of flamenco: Isaac and Nino de los Reyes interview |98 Campanas Flamencas |97 Flamenco's false steps: Antonio Gades interview |97 Paco Pena's Arte y Pasion |96 A mover and a shaker: Joaquin Cortes interview
★ Michael Flatley |96 Lording it over the dance (interview) |95 Riverdance wars |95 Riverdance, Apollo
★ Donatella Flick |12 Patron of the Flick conducting competition
★ Flemming Flindt |09 Obituary
★ Margot Fonteyn |00 Revival of Marguerite and Armand (Guillem interview) |91 The day of her death: Nureyev, Markova, de Valois interviewed
★ William Forsythe |05 Kirov perform Forsythe |03 If I ever complain, slap me (interview) |03 Kammer/Kammer |02 Forsythe quits Frankfurt |01 The body artist (interview) |01 Eidos: Telos |01 Artifact |98 Higher, wider, deeper, faster (Royal Ballet dancers on Forsythe) |97 William Forsythe over time (interview compendium)
★ Frederic Franklin |13 Obituary
★ Celia Franca |07 Obituary
★ Javier de Frutos |16 Fiction, Ballet Boyz |11 No death threats, please (interview) |09 In the Spirit of Diaghilev, SWT |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (interview) |08 On his staging of José Limón for Phoenix (interview) |08 Cattle Call, Phoenix |07 Top of the tree (De Frutos at Venice Biennale) |06 Stravinsky and choreography |03 Elsa Canasta, Rambert |02 Top five male nude bottoms |01 I Hastened Through My Death Scene to Catch Your Last Act, Candoco |98 Grass
