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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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★ ABBA |06 Mamma Mia! tests Russia
★ Carlos Acosta |10 My summer reading |09 With the RB in Cuba (TV) |09 Spartacus |08 Creation of Brandstrup’s Rushes (interview) |05 Swan Lake |05 Gloria |04 Tocororo |04 Mayerling |04 How Cuba became a hothouse of ballet |03 The breakdancer who became a prince (interview) |03 Global guide to male ballet styles |01 Houston Ballet |99 RB debuts: My Brother My Sisters, Giselle |98 Cometh the hour, cometh the man (interview)
★ Anton Adassinski |01 Absolute clowns (Derevo interview)
★ Pedro Aguilar |09 Obituary
★ Alicia Alonso |19 Obituary |19 Appreciation: the deathless Alicia |13 Fernando Alonso obituary |08 Alberto Alonso obituary |07 The Messerer Dynasty |05 Alicia Alonso and the Cuban ballet (Sadler’s Wells) |04 How Cuba became a hothouse of ballet (interview)
★ Richard Alston |98 From Eton to the avant-garde (interview)
★ Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater |02 Judith Jamison interview
★ Scott Ambler |18 Obituary |18 'A prince among men', Matthew Bourne's tribute
★ American Ballet Theatre |09 Georgina Parkinson obituary |07 ABT at SWT |98 New York's two great ballet companies (NYCB and ABT)
★ Amici |15 35 Amici Drive
★ Nina Ananiashvili |06 Bright star of Georgia sparks a revolution (report from Tbilisi) |04 ‘I haven’t danced my best ballet yet’ (interview) |99 Raymonda (Bolshoi)
★ Julian Anderson |01 Collaborating with Mark Baldwin (interview) |01 The Bird Sings With its Fingers
★ Gerald Arpino |08 Obituary
★ Arts politics |16 Brexit and dance |12 Welcome Bazalgette, new Arts Council chief |12 Arts philanthopist Jonathan Moulds |12 Arts philanthropist Donatella Flick |11 Dance’s Question Time: the great debate |10 Arts: must-have or nice-to-have? Radio 4 Call You & Yours on arts |05 Sadler’s Wells policy |04 MPs and dance |01 Dance buildings galore |98 Why put Britain’s best on the breadline?
★ David Ashmole |09 Obituary
★ Frederick Ashton |13 The long legs of Marguerite and Armand |12 The ballet of Ondine |11 Launch of Frederick Ashton Foundation |11 Ashton heir Tony Dyson interview |11 Ashton's Romeo and Juliet (Schaufuss Ballet) |10 After a dance-maker dies: choreographers’ legacy |10 The creation of Scènes de Ballet |05 What is Ashton style? |05 Ondine |04 Guillem dances Ashton in Paris |04 A Wedding Bouquet |00 Marguerite and Armand lives again (Guillem and Le Riche interview) |00 The neglected genius of British ballet (Tudor and Ashton) |99 The heirs and problematic afterlife of Ashton's ballets (Anthony Russell-Roberts interview) |95 Tales of Beatrix Potter
★ Fred Astaire |99 Turning Point: Flying Down To Rio, 1933
★ Altynai Asylmuratova |00 Dancing worlds apart (Bhuller interview) |00 Kirov Sleeping Beauty/ Romeo |99 Dancing partners: Asylmuratova & Mukhamedov interviews |97 The grand illusionist (interview) |97 Don Quixote |97 Romeo and Juliet |97 The Fountain of Bakhchisarai |96 Why I despair of the Kirov (interview)
★ Australian Ballet |19 Dame Margaret Scott obituary
★ Jean Babilée |14 Obituary
★ George Balanchine |06 Don Quixote, Farrell Ballet |06 A passionate love-letter reopened (Suzanne Farrell interview) |06 Stravinsky and choreography |01 Kirov Ballet, ROH |00 The battle for Balanchine (NYCB + Martins interviews) |95 Markova reconstructs Le Rossignol
★ Mark Baldwin |16 The Creation |09 Ballet meets science: Baldwin and Darwin (interview) |06 Stravinsky and choreography |05 Constant Speed, Rambert |04 New Rambert director interview |01 Collaboration with composer Julian Anderson |01 The Bird Sings With its Fingers |01 Roundup of 2001 |99 Julius Tomb |97 Tuireadh
★ Ballerinas |15 The best ballerinas at the moment are hairy and male |09 Baryshnikov on his ballerinas |04 The two graces (Cojocaru & Rojo) |04 Inspiring ballerina duos |01 The six o’clock views
★ The Ballet Boyz (Michael Nunn & William Trevitt) |16 Rabbit, Fiction |09 Two TV films: RB in Cuba/ Rite of Spring |03 Sylvie and the Boyz (interviews with Guillem, Maliphant, Boyz) |03 Maliphant's Broken Fall |02 Maliphant's Torsion & Critical Mass |01 And then there were two (interview) |01 George Piper Dances debut prog |99 What's so special about K Ballet?
★ Ballet schooling |12 Opinion: What ballet school is for |11 Robert Parker to head school |00 Wanted: men with sex appeal (Matthew Bourne, Gailene Stock interviews)
★ Ballet shoes |03 Arch rivals: old v new tech in pointe shoes
★ Ballets Russes |17 Foreword to Michael Meylac's Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes |06 Stravinsky and the choreographers |97 John Drummond on Diaghilev (interview) |95 Markova reconstructs Le Rossignol
★ Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |15 The best ballerinas at the moment are hairy and male |13 Forty years of Trocking: Tory Dobrin (interview) |11 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, UK tour |10 Becoming a Trock (photo interview)
★ Clive Barnes |08 Obituary
★ Irina Baronova |08 Obituary
★ Mikhail Baryshnikov |10 Compilation Q&A: Part 1 |Compilation Q&A: Part 2 |04 ‘I hate authority’ (interview) |04 Solos with Piano (& Michael Clark), Barbican |02 White Oak Dance: Childs, Rainer, Hawkins |02 Baryshnikov gets radical (interview) |99 White Oak Dance: Bando, Brown, Guerin, Morris |96 The reinvention of Baryshnikov (interview) |93 Not so much a hero, just a man dancing (interview)
★ Yuri Bashmet |07 In love with the sound of death (interview) |94 How Yuri fought out of Bash-Street (interview)
★ Pina Bausch |12 Viktor |11 Dancing Dreams (documentary on staging Kontakthof) |11 Wim Wenders’ Pina 3D |10 Meeting Pina Bausch (interview) |10 After a dance-maker dies: choreographers’ legacy |10 Kontakthof |09 Obituary |05 Dancing through the fireproof carnations |05 Nelken |02 A place where life happens (interview) |99 Viktor |95 Nelken, Edinburgh
★ La Bayadère |15 Jeyasingh's Bayadère - The Ninth Life |11 Mariinsky (Lopatkina), ROH |00 Kirov/Mariinsky (Lopatkina), ROH
★ Maurice Béjart |07 Obituary |93 Monsieur Béjart is finally ready for his close-up (interview)
★ Joan Benesh |14 Obituary
★ Leanne Benjamin |13 Retirement interview |11 Manon |10 Brandstrup's Invitus/Invitam |04 Mayerling |99 With K Ballet (interviews) |98 Starlife |97 The Judas Tree
★ Alan Bennett |12 People, National Theatre |09 The Habit of Art, National Theatre
★ Natalia Bessmertnova |08 Obituary
★ Darshan Singh Bhuller |01 The naked truth (interview) |00 Dancing worlds apart: creating for Mukhamedov & Asylmuratova (interview)
★ Luigi Bianchi |92 On finding Mendelssohn's original violin concerto (interview)
★ David Bintley |09 Ballet meets science: Bintley and Einstein (interview) |06 Stravinsky and choreography |05 A ray of sunshine over Birmingham (interview) |02 Tombeaux |01 Arthur |00 Into exile on a high note (interview) |99 Edward II |99 Shakespeare Suite |98 How de Valois changed my life |97 Tombeaux, Nutcracker Sweeties
★ Birmingham Royal Ballet |16 Shakespeare bill (Bintley/ Lang/ Limon) |05 A ray of sunshine over Birmingham |01 The Nutcracker |01 Bintley's Arthur |00 Into exile on a high note (Hippodrome closure) |00 In the realm of the Nutcracker king (Wright interview) |99 StarLife: Andrew Murphy & Joseph Cipolla |99 Bintley's Edward II |99 Bintley's Shakespeare Suite |97 Balanchine's Serenade, Orpheus, 4Ts |95 Tudor/ Massine/ Balanchine
★ Bolshoi Ballet |16 The Taming of the Shrew, The Flames of Paris, Le Corsaire |15 Read and Franchetti's film, Bolshoi Babylon |13 Bolshoi dismisses Nikolai Tsiskaridze |13 Opinion: Crime and moral evasion |13 Sergei Filin: I’ll be back |13 Bolshoi chief attacked with acid |10 Marina Semyonova obituary |09 Ekaterina Maximova obituary |08 Side by side (Vasiliev/Maximova interview) |08 Olga Lepeshinskaya obituary |08 Grigorovich returns, Ratmansky leaves |08 Alexei Ratmansky explains his resignation (interview) |08 Natalia Bessmertnova obituary |08 Kobborg stages La Sylphide |07 Wheeldon creates Hamlet ballet |06 Bright star of Georgia sparks a revolution (Ananiashvili interview) |05 Ratmansky stages Shostakovich’s Bolt |04 Pierre Lacotte on recreating The Pharaoh’s Daughter (interview) |01 Heroes of our culture (Hochhausers interview) |95 Grigorovich leaves Bolshoi
★ Rafael Bonachela |05 From Rambert to Kylie Minogue
★ Teneisha Bonner |19 Obituary
★ Laurie Booth |03 Ice/Dreams/Fire
★ Matthew Bourne |18 'A prince among men', Matthew Bourne's tribute to Scott Ambler |15 Jonathan Ollivier obituary |14 Lord of the Flies |12 The Sleeping Beauty |12 Play Without Words |12 Early Adventures |12 Filming Swan Lake 3D (interview) |05 Bourne & Lez Brotherston interview on Highland Fling revival |05 Highland Fling |04 Swan Lake |03 Play Without Words |03 Nutcracker! |02 The battle over Swan Lake (Bourne interview) |00 Wanted: men with sex appeal (Matthew Bourne, Gailene Stock interviews) |97 Highland Fling |96 Swan Lake West End premiere |96 A new Swan Lake that will ruffle feathers (interview) |95 Birth of a new Swan Lake (photo feature)
★ Val Bourne |95 The Dance Umbrella story
★ Auguste Bournonville |08 Kobborg Bolshoi La Sylphide |05 Royal Danish Ballet SWT
★ Kim Brandstrup |15 Transfigured Night, Rambert |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 |10 Invitus/Invitam (Benjamin/Watson) |09 Goldberg (Rojo) |08 Creation of Rushes (interviews with Brandstrup & Acosta) |01 Elegy, Saints and Shadows |96 Crime Fictions
★ Bryony Brind |15 Obituary
★ Benjamin Britten |12 The Prince of the Pagodas, Royal Ballet |12 Billy Budd, ENO |11 The Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne
★ Lez Brotherston |05 Bourne & Lez Brotherston interview on Highland Fling revival
★ Buster Brown |02 Obituary |92 Fancy feet: Buster Brown interview
★ Trisha Brown |17 Obituary |07 Set & Reset, Present Tense, Canto/Pianto, Edinburgh |05 Glacial Decoy, how long..., Astral Convertible, Sadler’s Wells |03 The singer's dance of death: Winterreise (interviews with Brown & Simon Keenlyside)
★ Christopher Bruce |01 Rambert 75th anniversary interview |01 Rooster |99 Inspired by Chaucer (interview) |98 Lorca's poetry in motion (interview) |98 Cruel Garden |97 Moonshine
★ Mark Bruce |97 Working with P J Harvey (interview) |97 Dance Hall at Louse Point
★ Jonathan Burrows |09 Stop Quartet |08 Burrows & Matteo Fargion interview |08 Perfect partnerships |03 Dance’s vanishing man (interview) |03 Both Sitting Duet |97 Stop Quartet, Quintet |96 One step beyond |96 Blue/Yellow (Guillem's Evidentia)
★ Darcey Bussell |01 The six o’clock views |98 Darcey conquers Russia (La Bayadère) |97 Dancemaster and the woman he adores (Glen Tetley interview) |96 Princess on a pedestal (interview) |95 Giselle debut
★ Rosemary Butcher |16 The choreographer who changed my eyes |97 Fractured Narratives, Fragmented Landscapes |95 An intrepid explorer (interview)
