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
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★ Istvan Rabovsky |20 Obituary |09 Nora Kovach obituary
★ Yvonne Rainer |02 White Oak Dance Project |01 Yvonne Rainer interview: Baryshnikov and White Oak
★ Marie Rambert |01 75th anniversary of Rambert Dance |99 Preservation of ballet heritage |96 Tribute bill: Bruce, Tudor, Cohan
★ Rambert Dance Company |03 Bonachela, Van Manen, de Frutos |01 75th anniversary |99 Inspired by Chaucer: Christopher Bruce interview |99 Preservation of ballet heritage |96 Tribute bill: Quicksilver, Dark Elegies, Stabat Mater
★ Alexei Ratmansky |08 Grigorovich returns, Ratmansky leaves |08 Alexei Ratmansky explains his resignation |08 Kobborg stages La Sylphide |07 Wheeldon creates Hamlet ballet |06 The Bright Stream |05 Ratmansky stages Shostakovich’s Bolt |04 Recreating The Pharaoh’s Daughter
★ Reconstructing ballet |15 Will the real Swan Lake please stand up? |12 Ballet archaeology (Pierre Lacotte Q&A) |10 How to restore Swan Lake (Mikhail Messerer interview) |07 The issue of authenticity (Dance Now) |05 Ratmansky stages Shostakovich’s Bolt 05 |04 Recreating The Pharaoh’s Daughter |00 Peter Wright on authenticity in The Nutcracker |00 Aurora's new dawn (Kirov restoration of Sleeping Beauty) |00 Kirov Sleeping Beauty (review) |00 ‘Reconstruction’ of Rite of Spring
★ Red Arrows |09 Aerial acrobats
★ Dana Reitz |95 Dance Umbrella
★ Derek Rencher |15 Obituary
★ Gillian Revie |97 StarLife
★ Chita Rivera |99 Chita returns to Chicago
★ Riverdance |95 Riverdance wars |95 Riverdance, Apollo
★ LaVaughn Robinson |08 Obituary
★ Tamara Rojo |16 Her last Swan Lake? |16 Rojo's female choreographers |13 Marguerite and Armand (with Polunin) |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets |12 Song of the Earth, ROH |11 Dancing to 12,000 people in the O2 |11 Marguerite and Armand (with Polunin) |10 My summer reading |09 Tamara Rojo's diary (interview) |07 On dancing Swan Lake (interview) |04 The two graces (Cojocaru & Rojo) |04 Mayerling (with Cope) |01 Onegin (Rojo, Cooper, Cojocaru) |00 The Royal Ballet's new swan: Rojo interview |99 Deane's Swan Lake in-the-round |98 StarLife (interview)
★ Romeo and Juliet |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets |oo Preljocaj's Romeo and Juliet
★ Mstislav Rostropovich |91 On Kogan's betrayal and his debt to Prokofiev: Rostropovich interview
★ The Royal Ballet |16 Losing the plot (Frankenstein, Strapless etc) |06 The Designers (Royal Opera House) |02 Royal Ballet injury crisis |02 ‘A bunch of amateurs’: Lady MacMillan accuses the Board (interview) |02 Widow’s ultimatum: Ross Stretton quits RB |00 The Royal Ballet's duty of care (Lynn Seymour interview) |97 Royal Ballet at Hammersmith Apollo
★ Patricia Ruanne |22 Obituary
★ Maclovia Ruiz |06 Obituary
★ Russia |14 Russian avant-garde theatre, V&A
★ Sadler's Wells Theatre |98 Reopening night, Rambert
★ Vyacheslav Samodurov |10 Stepping up into choreography (interview)
★ Galina Samsova |21 Obituary
★ Bruce Sansom |95 ‘He is the best English man,' says Mukhamedov
★ Liam Scarlett |21 Obituary |13 Serpent, BalletBoyz |12 Scarlett becomes RB "artist in residence" |10 Asphodel Meadows, RB |04 Monochromatic, Royal Ballet School
★ Peter Schaufuss |92 On his ENB dismissal and Pamela Harlech: interview
★ Scènes de Ballet |10 Scottish Ballet programme essay
★ Margaret Scott |20 Obituary
★ Scottish Ballet |15 Ochoa's A Streetcar named Desire |15 De Frutos's Elsa Canasta |12 Ochoa's https://theartsdesk.com/dance/streetcar-named-desire-scottish-ballet-sadlers-wellsA Streetcar Named Desire
★ Marina Semyonova |10 Obituary
★ Lynn Seymour |23 Obituary |04 The two graces (interview) |00 The Royal Ballet's duty of care (interview) |98 Moving reunion between Seymour and MacLeary |93 The Cleopatra ballerina who stays out in the cold (interview)
★ Vladimir Shklyarov |09 Interview (with Somova)
★ Dmitri Shostakovich |05 The Bolt premieres at last
★ Alla Sizova |15 Obituary
★ Wayne Sleep |03 Becoming Ugly Sisters (interview Sleep & Anthony Dowell) |98 That duet with Princess Diana (interview)
★ The Sleeping Beauty |00 Kirov restoration of Sleeping Beauty |96 Bjørnson/Dowell Sleeping Beauty
★ Faryl Smith |08 Britain's Got Talent child star
★ Thiago Soares |10 Gang-rape in ballet: The Judas Tree (interview)
★ Alina Somova |09 Interview (with Shklyarov)
★ Yolande Sonnabend |15 Obituary |06 The designers (Farmer, Sonnabend, Georgiadis)
★ Kathrine Sorley Walker |15 Obituary
★ Jock Soto |05 Jock Soto: The superman of dance
★ Gailene Stock |00 Wanted: men with sex appeal (interview)
★ Igor Stravinsky |06 Stravinsky and the choreographers (Bintley, Baldwin, de Frutos, Clark interviews)
★ Ross Stretton |02 ‘A bunch of amateurs’: Lady MacMillan accuses the Board (interview) |02 Widow’s ultimatum: Ross Stretton quits RB |01 One step at a time (interview) |00 'The Royal Ballet needs revitalizing' (interview)
★ Swan Lake |15 Will the real Swan Lake please stand up? |11 Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake in 3D |08 Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China |07 Tamara Rojo on Swan Lake |05 Kirov (Lopatkina), ROH |99 Derek Deane's Swan Lake in-the-round, ENB
★ Maria Tallchief |13 Obituary
★ Tap dance |08 LaVaughn Robinson obituary |02 Shuffling off the bad times (Steve & Jimmy Clark interview) |02 Buster Brown obituary |92 Fancy feet: Buster Brown interview
★ Paul Taylor |18 Obituary |oo Paul Taylor Dance Company, SWT |00 Who is the greatest? Cunningham and Taylor in London
★ Glen Tetley |07 Obituary |00 Embrace Tiger, Pierrot Lunaire, Rambert |97 How Darcey Bussell inspired Glen Tetley (interview)
★ Twyla Tharp |01 In the Upper Room, Birmingham Royal Ballet |98 Prepare for short Tharp shocks (interview) |97 Sweet Fields, 88, Heroes, Edinburgh |96 Mr Worldly Wise and the wow factor (interview) |95 Mr Worldly Wise, Royal Ballet
★ Nini Theilade |18 Obituary
★ David Toole |20 Obituary |96 Candoco
★ Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean |95 T&D swirl into the sunset
★ Nikolai Tsiskaridze |07 Wheeldon's Hamlet ballet for Bolshoi
★ Antony Tudor |05 Dark Elegies, The Judgment of Paris, Rambert |00 The neglected genius of British ballet |00 Shadowplay, RB |96 Dark Elegies, Rambert |95 Pillar of Fire, BRBß
★ Viengsay Valdes |05 Ballet Nacional de Cuba gala |05 Giselle |04 Don Quixote, Havana Ballet Festival
★ Ninette de Valois |98 How de Valois changed my life (David Bintley) |96 Fifty years of world ballet: de Valois interview |92 On Diaghilev (de Valois, Markova interviews) |91 Ninette de Valois on Isadora Duncan's impact on her
★ Hans Van Manen |11 Dutch National Ballet, SWT |04 Scottish Ballet |98 DNB/NDT Van Manen programme
★ Ivan Vasiliev |15 Swan Lake (ENB, with Cojocaru) |11 Lovers, off and on (interview Osipova & Vasiliev) |07 The boy who can fly
★ Vladimir Vasiliev |08 Side by side (interview Vasiliev & Maximova) |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet
★ David Vaughan |17 Obituary
★ Violette Verdy |16 Obituary
★ Nina Vyroubova |07 Obituary
★ David Wall |13 Obituary
★ Jonathan Watkins |15 1984, Northern Ballet |10 As One, RB
★ Edward Watson |15 An unlikely prince |13 Mayerling |05 My Brother, My Sisters
★ Christopher Wheeldon |13 Electric Counterpoint |10 Wheeldon leaves his own company (interview) |09 Continuum, Morphoses |07 Conflicts at Bolshoi over Hamlet ballet |06 Creating DGV at RB (interview) |06 Polyphonia |05 Jock Soto, superman of dance |03 Britain's Balanchine? (interview)
★ Wendy Whelan |05 Jock Soto, superman of dance |00 Edinburgh Festival mini interview |98 New York's two ballet stories (interview)
★ Sarah Wildor |05 Glamorous liaison |02 Dancing in a minefield (interview) |oo Ondine |99 And they lived happily ever after (Cooper & Wildor interview) |95 StarLife (interview) |95 Manon debut
★ Raven Wilkinson |19 Obituary
★ Peter Wright |16 His autobiography reviewed |06 80th birthday interview |00 The Nutcracker king (interview) |00 Peter Wright discusses authenticity in The Nutcracker
★ Leonid Yakobson |15 Janice Ross biography reviewed
★ Eva Yerbabuena |02 The stamp of greatness (interview)
★ Svetlana Zakharova |16 Floored again (Giselle) |04 Magnificent night in the harem |97 The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Coliseum
★ Igor Zelensky |04 Magnificent night in the harem |98 Darcey conquers Russia (La Bayadère) |97 Big feet, big chin, huge talent (interview) |97 Swan Lake (with Lopatkina), Coliseum
★ George Zoritch |09 Obituary