ISMENE BROWN          

dance critic, arts journalist, historian


30 years of ballet and dance writing

'What to some is splendid entertainment, to others is merely tedium and fidgets'

MERCE CUNNINGHAM

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     ABBA     |06 Mamma Mia! Moscow-style

     Carlos Acosta    |16 Tuckett's Elizabeth     |14 Acosta's Don Quixote, RB          |10 My summer reading    |09 With the RB in Cuba (TV)   |09 Spartacus on DVD    |08 Creation of Brandstrup’s Rushes (Acosta interview)    |05 Swan Lake (with Rojo)   |05 Gloria     |04 Tocororo          |04 Mayerling (with Benjamin)    |04 How Cuba became a hothouse of ballet    |03 Carlos Acosta interview: the breakdancer who became a prince    |03 Global guide to male ballet styles    |02 Swan Lake (with Rojo)     |01 Houston Ballet     |99 My Brother My Sisters, Giselle debuts, RB     |98 Acosta interview: Cometh the hour, cometh the man

     Anton Adassinski          |01 Anton Adassinski interview: Derevo, absolute Russian clowns

     Pedro Aguilar      |09 Obituary

     Maria Alexandrova     |08 Ratmansky's Flames of Paris      |07 Wheeldon creates Hamlet ballet at Bolshoi          |06 Ratmansky's The Bright Stream     |04 Lacotte's The Pharaoh’s Daughter

     Alicia Alonso    |19 Alicia Alonso 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 programme note)     |04 Alicia Alonso interview in Havana: Cuba, a ballet hothouse

     Richard Alston    |98 Richard Alston interview: From Eton to the avant-garde

     Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater    |02 Judith Jamison interview  

      Scott Ambler    |18 Obituary     |18 'A prince among men', Matthew Bourne's tribute     |14 Lord of the Flies

     American Ballet Theatre    |09 Georgina Parkinson obituary    |07 ABT at SWT    |98 New York's two ballet stories: ABT and New York City Ballet: Amanda McKerrow interview

     Amici     |15 35 Amici Drive

     Nina Ananiashvili   |24 Nina Ananiashvili filmed interview: 'Interviews with Ballet Legends' (YouTube)          |24 Read Nina Ananiashvili YouTube interview transcript         |15 Ballerinas with virtuosity     |06 Bolshoi's Georgian star sparks a Tbilisi revolution (report and interview)    |04 ‘I haven’t danced my best ballet yet’ (Ananiashvili interview)     |99 Raymonda, Bolshoi

     Julian Anderson    |01 Collaboration with choreographer Mark Baldwin (joint interview)    |01 The Bird Sings With its Fingers

     Gerald Arpino    |08 Obituary

     Arts politics    |16 Critics and dancers' appearance     |16 An anti-women conspiracy in dance?          |16 Royal Ballet and Sadler's Wells on how Brexit affects dance      |15 Critics are not writing for dancers      |15 Dance needs a Simon Cowell      |15 State of British dance training (Newson, Khan, Rojo)     |15 Dance and money     |14 Arts Council England     |12 Welcome Bazalgette, new Arts Council chief   |12 Arts patron Jonathan Moulds      |12 Arts patron Donatella Flick     |11 Dance’s Question Time: the great debate   |05 Sadler’s Wells policy    |04 MPs and dance   |01 2001: a year of loss and change       |01 Dance buildings before art?    |98 Why put Britain's best young choreographers on the breadline? (Maliphant, de Frutos)      |95 Year in review: buildings boom but what's inside?

     Vladimir Ashkenazy    |92 A Night to Remember: Sviatoslav Richter

     David Ashmole    |09 Obituary

     Frederick Ashton   |23 Lynn Seymour: Ashton's and MacMillan's muse     |19 Julia Farron obituary          |16 Dream/ A Month in the Country, BRB     |16 Rhapsody (Hayward, Osipova)     |15 Two Pigeons     |14 Royal Ballet programme note: Symphonic Variations     |14 Scènes de Ballet/ Symphonic Variations/ A Month in the Country, RB     |13 Sylvie Guillem on resurrecting Marguerite and Armand      |13 Romeo and Juliet (Osipova/ Vasiliev)     |12 Creating Ondine with Henze    |12 The Dream, RB     |11 Launch of Frederick Ashton Foundation    |11 Ashton heir Tony Dyson interview    |11 Alexander Grant obituary     |11 Romeo and Juliet, Schaufuss Ballet    |10 After a dance-maker dies: choreographers’ legacy    |10 Scottish Ballet programme note: Scènes de Ballet      |08 Nadia Nerina obituary     |05 What is Ashton style?  |05 Ondine (Rojo)     |04 Guillem dances Ashton in Paris    |04 A Wedding Bouquet     |03 Scènes de Ballet, RB      |01 La Fille mal gardée (Yoshida/ Mukhamedov) |01 The Dream (Kobborg/ Benjamin)     |00 Marguerite and Armand lives again (Guillem and Le Riche interview)   |00 The neglected genius of British ballet (Tudor and Ashton)   |00 Dante Sonata, BRB     |00 Symphonic Variations/ Monotones II/ La Valse/ Lilac Garden/ Requiem     |99 The heirs and problematic afterlife of Ashton's ballets: Anthony Russell-Roberts interview     |95 Tales of Beatrix Potter     |92 Hans-Werner Henze on seeing Scènes de Ballet

     Fred Astaire   |09 Flying Down to Rio on DVD     |99 Turning Point: Flying Down To Rio, 1933

     Altynai Asylmuratova   |00 Darshan Singh Bhuller creates a ballet for Mukhamedov & Asylmuratova   |00 Kirov Sleeping Beauty/ Romeo    |99 Dancing partners (Asylmuratova & Mukhamedov interview)    |97 The grand illusionist (Asylmuratova interview)    |97 Don Quixote     |97 Romeo and Juliet     |97 The Fountain of Bakhchisarai          |96 Why I despair of the Kirov (Asylmuratova interview)     |95 Sleeping Beauty/Swan Lake, Kirov ROH     |95 Best of year

     Eileen Atkins          |23 Herzog's 4,000 Miles      |92 A Night to Remember: Barry Humphries

     Australian Ballet     |19 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   |06 Melisssa Hayden obituary     |04 Prodigal Son/ Agon/ Symphony in C, RB     |02 Stars of  New York City Ballet, SWT     |02 Four Temperaments, Dance Theatre of Harlem     |01 Kirov Ballet in Balanchine, ROH    |00 The battle for Balanchine (NYCB + Martins interviews)    |00 Agon/ Dances at a Gathering/ Symphony in C, NYCB Edinburgh     |00 Tchaikovsky pas de deux/ Serenade, 4Ts/ Symphony in 3 movements/ Concerto Barocco/ Duo Concertant, NYCB Edinburgh     |95 Alicia Markova reconstructs Le Rossignol

     Mark Baldwin    |16 The Creation, Garsington Opera          |15 Dark Arteries     |09 Mark Baldwin interview: how Darwin inspires choreography     |06 Stravinsky and choreography     |05 Constant Speed, Rambert     |04 New Rambert director interview    |01 Roundup of 2001    |01 Collaboration with composer Julian Anderson (joint interview)    |01 The Bird Sings With Its Fingers/ The State     |00 Danses Concertantes, RB    |99 Julius Tomb     |97 Tuireadh

     Ballerinas     |15 The best ballerinas at the moment are hairy and male     |10 Mikhail Baryshnikov on his ballerinas     |05 Five great Russian ballerinas      |04 The two graces (Cojocaru & Rojo, Seymour interviews)   |04 Inspiring ballerina pairs      |03 Pointe shoes battle for ballerinas' feet     |01 The six o’clock position in ballet     |00 What Kirov and Royal ballerinas eat   |98 American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet ballerinas explain the differences     |97 Evelyn Hart interview: not just a difficult dame      

     The Ballet Boyz (Michael Nunn & William Trevitt)    |25 Greatest dance artwork of the century so far?     |16 Lindberg's Rabbit, de Frutos's Fiction     |14 Young Men     |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 (Guillem, Ballet Boyz)    |02 Torsion/ Critical Mass/ Steptext   |01 Nunn and Trevitt quit K Ballet (interview)    |00 George Piper Dances debut: Maliphant, Forsythe  |99 From Royal Ballet to K Ballet (Kumakawa, Nunn, Benjamin interviews)

     Ballet shoes    |03 Pointe shoes battle for ballerinas' feet

     Ballets Russes    |17 Foreword to Michael Meylac's Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes     |09 George Zoritch obituary     |06 Stravinsky and the choreographers (Dance Now)   |02 Diaghilev mementos sold at Sotheby’s   |97 John Drummond on Diaghilev (interview)    |96 Nicolas Georgiadis views Diaghilev exhibition, talks about costuming     |95 Alicia Markova reconstructs Le Rossignol     |92 Alicia Markova & Ninette de Valois interviews: Dancing with Diaghilev

     Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo   |23 Interviews with Ballet Legends (YouTube): Tory Dobrin, chief of 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 Swan Lake/ 'Balanchine'/ Dying Swan/ Raymonda's Wedding     |10 In make-up with Sveltlana Lofatkina (photo interview)

     Clive Barnes     |08 Obituary

     Irina Baronova    |08 Obituary

     Mikhail Baryshnikov    |10 The Arts Desk compilation interview: Part 1   |10 The Arts Desk compilation interview: Part 2    |04 ‘I hate authority’: Baryshnikov interview     |04 Solos with Piano (& Michael Clark), Barbican    |02 White Oak Dance Project (Childs, Rainer, Hawkins)    |01 Working with Baryshnikov: Yvonne Rainer interview     |01 White Oak Dance Project (Rainer, Paxton, Childs, Brown)     |99 White Oak Dance Project (Bando, Brown, Guerin, Morris)     |96 Modern reinvention: Baryshnikov interview   |93 Not so much a hero, just a man dancing: Baryshnikov interview

     Yuri Bashmet    |07 In love with the sound of death: violist Yuri Bashmet interview   |94 How Yuri fought out of Bash-Street: Bashmet interview          |93 A Night to Remember: Oleg Kagan     

     Pina Bausch    |12 Viktor    |11 Dancing Dreams (documentary on Kontakthof)  |11 Wim Wenders’ Pina 3D          |10 After a dance-maker dies: choreographers’ legacy    |10 Kontakthof    |10 When I met Pina Bausch (2001 interview in full)    |09 Obituary    |05 Backstage in Sadler's Wells props department    |05 Nelken    |02 A place where life happens: Pina Bausch interview    |99 Viktor          |95 Nelken, Edinburgh

     La Bayadère    |15 Shobana Jeyasingh's Bayadère - The Ninth Life     |11 Mariinsky (Lopatkina), ROH     |00 Kirov/Mariinsky (Lopatkina), ROH     |00 POB Nureyev's La Bayadère (Dupont), Salford     |98 Darcey conquers Russia (Bussell's Bayadère in St Petersburg)

     Maurice Béjart    |07 Obituary      |93 Maurice Béjart interview: Monsieur Béjart is finally ready for his close-up

     Joan Benesh    |14 Obituary

     Leanne Benjamin    |13 Retirement interview    |11 Manon (with McRae)    |10 Brandstrup's Invitus/Invitam (with Watson)    |04 Mayerling (with Acosta)    |99 From Royal Ballet to K Ballet (joint interview)     |98 Starlife (Leanne Benjamin interview)     |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 Darshan Singh Bhuller interview on his new pole-dancing creation, Recall     |01 Recall, Hexagon          |00 Bhuller interview: creating a ballet for Irek Mukhamedov & Altynai Asylmuratova     |00 Planted Seeds

     Luigi Bianchi          |92 Violinist who uncovered Mendelssohn's original violin concerto: Luigi Bianchi interview

     David Bintley          |16 Shakespeare Suite |14 Carmina Burana   |09 Ballet meets science: Bintley and Einstein (interview)    |06 Stravinsky and choreography     |05 A ray of sunshine over Birmingham (Bintley interview)    |02 Tombeaux    |01 Arthur    |00 Into exile on a high note (Bintley interview)   |99 Edward II          |99 Shakespeare Suite     |98 Ninette de Valois changed my life (Bintley interview)     |97 Tombeaux/ Nutcracker Sweeties

     Birmingham Royal Ballet   |16 Peter Wright's autobiography     |16 Shakespeare bill Bintley/ Lang/ Limon     |15 Enigma Variations/ Theme and Variations     |14 Carmina Burana      |05 David Bintley interview: A ray of sunshine over Birmingham   |01 The Nutcracker   |01 Bintley's Arthur    |00 2000: Year in view          |00 David Bintley interview: Handling the Hippodrome closure   |00 Peter Wright interview: The Nutcracker king   |00 Ashton's Dante Sonata     |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     |16 Don Quixote, Swan Lake (Smirnova)     |16 Mark Franchetti on making his Bolshoi film     |15 Nick Read & Mark Franchetti's film, Bolshoi Babylon      |14 Russian ballet art politics     |13 La Bayadère (Smirnova), ROH     |13 Bolshoi dismisses Nikolai Tsiskaridze    |13 Opinion: Crime and moral evasion    |13 Burned Sergei Filin declares: I’ll be back    |13 Bolshoi chief Sergei Filin attacked with acid   |10 Marina Semyonova obituary    |09 Ekaterina Maximova obituary    |08 Side by side: Vladimir Vasiliev & Ekaterina 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 Christopher Wheeldon creates Hamlet ballet   |05 Ratmansky stages Shostakovich’s Bolt     |04 Bolshoi split over recreating The Pharaoh’s Daughter (Lacotte interview)   |04 ‘I haven’t danced my best ballet yet’: Nina Ananiashvili interview      |01 Heroes of our culture: Victor and Lilian Hochhauser interview     |99 Raymonda, Bolshoi |95 Grigorovich leaves Bolshoi

     Rafael Bonachela         |05 Rambert's young choreographer summoned by Kylie Minogue          |03 21, Rambert

     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 (Tirado)    |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)   |00 Swan Lake, Dominion (Cooper)     |97 Highland Fling     |96 Swan Lake West End premiere     |96 A new Swan Lake that will ruffle feathers (Bourne interview)     |95 Birth of a new Swan Lake (photo feature)     |95 Highland Fling

     Val Bourne    |03 Dance Umbrella 25th anniversary gala      |95 Val Bourne interview: The Dance Umbrella story

     Auguste Bournonville    |08 Kobborg stages Bolshoi La Sylphide    |05 Bournonville at Royal Danish Ballet

     Kim Brandstrup    |15 Transfigured Night, Rambert          |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, Royal Ballet    |10 Invitus/Invitam (Benjamin, Watson)    |10 Rushes, Royal Ballet     |09 Goldberg (Rojo)     |08 Creation of Brandstrup’s Rushes (Acosta interview)    |03 Afsked (Yanowsky, Elmore)     |01 Elegy/ Orfeo/ Saints and Shadows     |96 Crime Fictions     |95 Best of year: Saints and Shadows

     Brazil     |10 Thiago Soares interview: from circus school to the Royal Ballet      |10 Only When I Dance (Brazilian ballet boy film documentary)

     Bryony Brind     |15 Obituary

     Benjamin Britten    |12 The Prince of the Pagodas (MacMillan)     |11 The Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne

     Mel Brooks          |91 A Night to Remember: Lee J Cobb's Death of a Salesman       

     Lez Brotherston   |05 Brotherston & Matthew Bourne interview on Highland Fling revival

     Buster Brown    |02 Obituary    |92 Master hoofer Buster Brown interview: back in style

     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 dances: Winterreise (interviews with Trisha Brown & Simon Keenlyside)     |03 Brown dances in Dance Umbrella 25th anniversary gala

     Christopher Bruce   |01 Rambert 75th anniversary interview    |01 Rooster   |00 Sergeant Early's Dream     |99 Inspired by Chaucer (interview)      |98 Bruce interview: Lorca's poetry and Cruel Garden      |98 Cruel Garden          |97 Moonshine     |96 Bruce's Rambert tribute: Quicksilver, Tudor's Dark Elegies, Cohan's Stabat Mater

     Mark Bruce     |16 The Odyssey      |14 Dracula     |97 Mark Bruce interview: working with P J Harvey     |97 Dance Hall at Louse Point

     Jonathan Burrows    |08 Burrows & Matteo Fargion interview    |08 Three dance-music partnerships   |08 Stop Quartet (with Henry Montes)    |03 Burrows interview: Dance’s vanishing man      |03 Both Sitting Duet (with Fargion)       |97 Stop Quartet, Quintet       |96 Burrows interview: One step beyond     |96 Blue/Yellow (Guillem's Evidentia)

     Darcey Bussell   |01 The six o’clock position in ballet   |00 Ashton's Monotones II, RB |00 Wheeldon's There Where She Loves     |oo Classic FM magazine interview      |98 Darcey conquers Russia (Bayadère in St Petersburg, Bussell interview)    |97 Dancemaster and the woman he adores (Glen Tetley interview)    |96 Darcey Bussell interview: Princess on a pedestal     |95 Giselle debut

     Rosemary Butcher      |16 Choreographer who changed my eyes     |97 Fractured Narratives, Fragmented Landscapes     |95 Rosemary Butcher interview: After the Last Sky, video work

     Candoco           |01 De Frutos/ Elkins          |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 New Cuban star in Havana

     Nigel Charnock    |12 Tribute to a charismatic maverick   |12 Obituary     |99 5ive, Ricochet

     Janine Charrat     |17 Obituary

     Yvette Chauviré     |16 Obituary

     Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui    |19 Medusa (Osipova)     |16 Qutb (Osipova)     |15 Milonga     |11 Cherkaoui & Nitin Sawhney interview: manga comics make a dance    |11 TeZukA    |11 Apocrifu    |09 Faun, SWT    |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (interview)    |05 zero degrees (with Akram Khan)

     Shura Cherkassky      |92 A Night to Remember: Vladimir Horowitz       

     Dance for children     |14 Ambler/Bourne Lord of the Flies          |09 Ballet Boyz TV film: Rite of Spring     |01 McGregor/ Montalvo-Hervieu, Woking Dance Umbrella

     Lucinda Childs    |11 Dance, Barbican    |02 White Oak Dance Project: Childs/ Rainer/ Hawkins    |01 Baryshnikov and the Judson Church radicals

     Cinderella     |03 Maguy Marin's Cinderella, SWT     |03 Ashton's Ugly Sisters (Anthony Dowell & Wayne Sleep interviewed)     |95 Lindsay Kemp's Cinderella, SWT

     Circus   |15 Cirque Eloize     |14 Virtuosity in dance          |05 Circus Oz     |97 Is it circus, is it dance?     |91 Gerry Cottle recalls Circus Roncalli

     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 Steve and Jimmy Clark interview: Shuffling off the bad times

     Mary Clarke    |15 Obituary

     Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan      |02 Moon Water

     Robert Cohan    |21 Obituary     |05 Forest, Phoenix Dance     |96 Stabat Mater, Rambert

     Alina Cojocaru   |14 Moscow over Milton Keynes is a misstep     |13 RB 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: interview   |05 Swan Lake    |04 The two graces (Cojocaru & Rojo, Seymour interviews)   |04 Inspiring ballerina pairs    |04 Cojocaru & Kobborg at the Havana Ballet Festival    |03 Pointe shoes battle for Cojocaru's feet    |02 Arts shooting stars 2002     |02 Royal Ballet stars injury crisis    |02 Tudor's The Leaves are Fading     |02 Mayerling debut    |02 New star Cojocaru first interview    |01 Onegin (as Olga)     |01 Onegin (as Tatiana)     |01 The great leap forward: dance names to watch    |01 Giselle debut

     Lesley Collier    |95 Lesley's brilliant career: retirement interview

     Adam Cooper    |23 Adam Cooper filmed interview: 'Interviews with Ballet Legends' (YouTube)     |12 Adam is the dancing king (interview)   |05 Glamorous liaison (Cooper & Wildor interview)    |04 Singin’ in the Rain    |02 On Your Toes    |02 Dancing in a minefield (Cooper & Wildor interview)    |01 Onegin (with Rojo & Cojocaru)     |00 Bourne's Swan Lake, Dominion      |99 Cooper & Wildor interview: Invitation to real life love    |97 Adam Cooper interview: he quits Royal Ballet for AMP      |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: Covent Garden's former chief fixer interviewed

     Michael Corder     |10 Cinderella, ENB     |03 Melody on the Move, ENB

     Joaquin Cortés   |96 Joaquin Cortés interview: new moves in flamenco

     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     |22 Clement Crisp obituary & interview      |17 Giannandrea Poesio obituary          |15 Critics are not writing for dancers     |15 Kathrine Sorley-Walker obituary     |15 Mary Clarke obituary     |13 Only the artists can save the critics     |12 John Percival obituary     |08 Clive Barnes obituary     |01 Clement Crisp interview (Ballet.co Forum)

     Cuba    |19 Alicia Alonso obituary     |13 Fernando Alonso obituary      |09 Pedro Aguilar obituary     |08 Alberto Alonso obituary    |07 The Messerer dynasty       |05 Ballet Nacional de Cuba Gala (Swan Lake, Don Q etc)     |05 Giselle (Valdes, Carreño), BNC     |04 Alicia Alonso interview: Havana, home of ballet marvels     |01 The great leap forward: Yosvani Ramos, a name to watch |00 Rumbadelica     |98 New RB recruit Carlos Acosta interview

     Merce Cunningham   |25 Greatest dance artwork of the century so far?          |19 Global Merce centenary wake     |10 After a dance-maker dies: choreographers’ legacy    |10 The late Merce Cunningham explained how he worked     |09 RIP Merce Cunningham: the most alive dances ever made    |05 Event, Barbican   |04 Cunningham interview: chancing it (Split Sides)    |04 Split Sides, Barbican     |02 Cunningham interview: High priest of pure movement    |01 Cunningham plays Satie and Cage games, Edinburgh     |01 Ground Level Overlay, Rambert |00 Biped, Barbican     |00 Beach Birds, Rambert     |00 Two greats in London: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor     |97 Ocean, Belfast    |97 Dance master who broke all the rules (interview)     |95 Best of year     |92 A Night to Remember: Mrs Barrett

     John Curry    |95 Book review: Black Ice, John Curry biography

     Sinead, Sorcha & Niamh Cusack     |90 Three sisters play Chekhov's three sisters (joint interview)



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