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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★ Margaret Dale |10 Obituary
★ Dance on screen |22 Bob Lockyer obituary |16 Mark Franchetti on making his Bolshoi film |15 Nick Read & Mark Franchetti's film, Bolshoi Babylon/ Richard Curson-Smith's Rudolf Nureyev - Dance to Freedom |12 Filming Bourne's Swan Lake 3D (Bourne and others interviewed) |11 Dancing Dreams (documentary on Bausch's Kontakthof) |11 Wim Wenders’ Pina 3D/ Maryinsky Giselle 3D |10 Only When I Dance (Brazilian ballet boy documentary and interviews) |10 Frederick Wiseman’s portrait of Paris Opera Ballet, La Danse |10 Margaret Dale obituary |09 Ballet Boyz TV films: RB in Cuba/ Rite of Spring |09 Dance and ballet DVD review |96 Sylvie Guillem's Evidentia |95 Rosemary Butcher's After the Last Sky, RCA |93 Building a ballet video library
★ Dance training |15 Dance needs a Simon Cowell |15 State of British dance training (Newson, Khan, Rojo) |13 David Howard obituary |13 Stella Mann obituary |12 Opinion: What ballet school is for |11 BRB star Robert Parker to head ballet school |01 The six o’clock position in ballet |01 Siobhan Davies interview: the RAD lends a hand |00 Wanted: men with sex appeal (Matthew Bourne, Gailene Stock interviews) |95 Call for boys to join ballet class (Junior Dancer)
★ Dance Umbrella |03 25th anniversary gala |03 Evolution of Dance Umbrella |95 Dance's fairy godmother (Val Bourne interview)
★ Henry Danton |22 Obituary
★ Rudi van Dantzig |12 Obituary
★ Siobhan Davies |02 Plants and Ghosts |02 Siobhan Davies interview: Creating in an airfield |01 Davies interview: the RAD lends a hand (RAD Dance Gazette) |00 2000: Year in view |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 |95 The Art of Touch
★ Christopher Dean |96 From skates to shoes: Christopher Dean on his ballet for ENB |95 Torvill and Dean farewell
★ Derek Deane |11 Agony and Ecstasy, A Year with the English National Ballet, BBC Four |02 Tutus at dawn at ENB: Deane attacks Skoog's new plans |00 Deane leaves ENB: 'I'm fed up of playing safe' |00 'It's part of my job to entertain' (interview) |99 Swan Lake in-the-round |95 Deane's brisk new broom renewed at ENB
★ Lucas Debargue |15 The self-taught pianist |15 First interview with the Tchaikovsky competition sensation |15 Tchaikovsky competition report (Classical Music) |15 Tchaikovsky piano competition report (International Piano)
★ Javier de Frutos |16 Fiction, Ballet Boyz |15 Elsa Canasta, Scottish Ballet |15 Wendy Whelan & Edward Watson |15 London Road |11 De Frutos interview: No death threats, please |09 Eternal Damnation to Sancho and Sanchez, SWT |09 De Frutos creates tribute to Diaghilev (interview) |08 De Frutos revives José Limon at Phoenix |08 Cattle Call, Phoenix |07 De Frutos at Venice Biennale (interview) |06 Stravinsky and choreography (de Frutos's Noces and Rite of Spring) |03 Elsa Canasta, Rambert |02 Art's best male nude bottoms |01 I Hastened Through My Death Scene to Catch Your Last Act, Candoco |00 De Frutos interview: choreographing sin |00 The Celebrated Soubrette, Rambert |00 Montana's Winter |98 Grass, The Place |97 Grass, Dance Umbrella
★ Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker |16 Golden Hours (As you like it) |99 Drumming |97 Fase
★ Agnes de Mille |98 National Theatre stages Oklahoma!: Hugh Jackman interview |97 Book review: Carol Easton's de Mille biography |92 Book review: De Mille’s Martha Graham biography
★ Judi Dench |92 A Night to Remember: Michael Williams
★ Denmark |03 Kobborg's Out of Denmark: Lander/ Flindt/ Bournonville/ Brandstrup |99 Johan Kobborg interview: New prince of Denmark
★ Derevo |13 Harlekin |03 Islands in the Stream |01 Anton Adassinski interview |98 The Red Zone
★ Design |15 Yolande Sonnabend obituary |12 Lighting designer Michael Hulls (interview) |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, Royal Ballet |10 John Macfarlane and Peter Farmer interviews on designing Cinderella and Nutcracker |09 How to design The Nutcracker (Macfarlane, Scarfe, McDonald interviews) |06 Sleeping Beauty and the art of ballet design (Farmer, Sonnabend, Georgiadis interviews) |06 Royal Ballet Designers (Royal Opera House) |02 The creation of Akram Khan's Kaash (Anish Kapoor interview)
★ Ninette de Valois |01 In memoriam Dame Ninette de Valois |01 Siobhan Davies interview: the RAD and de Valois lend a hand |98 David Bintley interview: de Valois changed my life |96 Dame Ninette de Valois interview: Fifty years since British ballet conquered the world |92 De Valois interview: My dancing life with Diaghilev |91 Ninette de Valois: Isadora Duncan's impact on me
★ Serge Diaghilev |10 Staging the V&A Diaghilev exhibition (Jane Pritchard interview) |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (Maliphant, Cherkaoui, de Frutos interviewed) |06 Stravinsky’s ballets (Dance Now) |02 Diaghilev mementos sold at Sotheby’s |97 John Drummond interview: gathering the last Diaghilev voices |95 Alicia Markova recreates Le Rossignol |95 Les Noces/ Spectre, Ballet Preljocaj SWT |92 Alicia Markova interview: The child who cast a spell on Diaghilev |92 Ninette de Valois interview: My life with Diaghilev
★ Giuseppe di Stefano |92 A Night to Remember: Laurence Olivier
★ Tory Dobrin [also Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo] |23 Tory Dobrin of 'The Trocks' filmed interview: 'Interviews with Ballet Legends' (YouTube) |13 Male ballerinas Trocking for 40 years: Tory Dobrin interview
★ Barry Douglas |11 Barry Douglas interview: Irish pianism conquers Russia
★ Anthony Dowell |15 Last bow for Dowell's Swan Lake |03 Anthony Dowell & Wayne Sleep interview: Becoming Ugly Sisters |01 Roundup of 2001 |01 Dowell’s final programme |01 Assessing Dowell's 15-year directorship (with Guillem, Kobborg, Zelensky interviews) |01 Dowell tribute gala |01 The Dream/ Song of the Earth |01 In memoriam Dame Ninette de Valois
★ Nicholas Dromgoole |23 Obituary
★ John Drummond |97 John Drummond interview: gathering the last Diaghilev voices |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 Viviana Durante interview: I don't like being fixed |00 Three Manons (Durante, Guillem, Wildor) |99 Durante quits the Royal |99 Ondine |97 Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Hammersmith Apollo |96 Anastasia |93 A Night to Remember: Natalia Makarova
★ 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 Lloyd Newson interview: the cost of being different |99 The Happiest Day of My Life |99 Newson interview: making a big splash |95 Enter Achilles |95 Best of year: Enter Achilles
★ Wayne Eagling |11 Lifar's Suite en Blanc / Resolution/ Men Y Men |98 Eagling interview: the man who said too much
★ Thomas Edur |01 Thomas Edur & Agnes Oaks, a class pair at ENB |00 Kingdom of the Shades/ Sphinx, ENB
★ Boris Eifman |12 Eifman interview: prepared to face the critics |03 Red Giselle
★ Mats Ek |14 Juliet and Romeo |13 Carmen, RB |01 Cullberg Ballet/Ek, Barbican |00 She was black, Rambert |99 Mats Ek interview: the dark side of the fairy-tale |99 Giselle, Edinburgh |99 Cullberg Ballet/Ek, Edinburgh
★ Mark Elder |92 A Night to Remember: Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos
★ Edward Elgar |15 News on Michael Kennedy’s search for Elgar secret |11 Was Elgar’s enigma a lovechild?
★ Violetta Elvin |21 Obituary
★ English National Ballet |23 Interviews with Ballet Legends (YouTube): Matz Skoog, ex director of English National Ballet |16 'She Said': Ochoa's Broken Wings |16 Holmes/Rojo Le Corsaire |15 'Lest We Forget': No Man's Land/ Second Breath/ Dust |15 Forsythe/ Kylian/ Neumeier |14 ENB programme note: 'Lest We Forget' (interviews Scarlett, Maliphant, Williamson, Khan) |14 Ivan Nagy obituary |12 Tamara Rojo appointed ENB director |11 Lifar/ Eagling/ Ngoc |11 Agony and Ecstasy, A Year with the English National Ballet, BBC Four |10 Corder's Cinderella, Klimentova/Muntagirov |02 Matz Skoog interview: beyond tights and tutus |00 2000: Year in view |00 Derek Deane quits ENB: interview |00 It's part of my job to entertain: Deane interview |00 Kingdom of the Shades/ Sphinx/ Rite of Spring |00 Les Sylphides/ Voluntaries/ Etudes |95 Deane's brisk new broom renewed at ENB |92 What Pamela did to Peter: Peter Schaufuss interview
★ Eva Evdokimova |09 Obituary
★ Peter Farmer |17 Obituary |10 Farmer interview on designing Nutcracker |08 Designing the Kobborg/Bolshoi La Sylphide |06 The great ballet designers (Farmer, Sonnabend, Georgiadis)
★ Suzanne Farrell |06 Balanchine’s Don Quixote |06 Suzanne Farrell interview: Balanchine's love-letter reopened |01 The six o’clock views
★ Julia Farron |19 Obituary
★ Viktor Fedotov |02 ROH concertmaster Vasko Vassilev interview |95 Kirov ballet conductor Viktor Fedotov (interview)
★ Sergei Filin |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 [See Blog for the Bolshoi acid affair] |06 Ratmansky's The Bright Stream
★ Tamara Tchinarova Finch |17 Obituary
★ Flamenco |13 Israel Galvan & Farruquito, SWT |10 Flamenco: the lyrics |06 Maclovia Ruiz obituary |04 Antonio Gades obituary |02 The stamp of greatness: Eva Yerbabuena interview |01 Five flamenco songs |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 The war over Riverdance |95 Riverdance, Apollo
★ Donatella Flick |12 Arts philanthropist Donatella Flick on her conducting competition
★ Flemming Flindt |09 Obituary
★ Margot Fonteyn |12 Ashton and Henze's water-nymph |05 Ondine (Rojo) |00 Revival of Marguerite and Armand (Guillem interview) |99 Teenage StarLives (Nuñez and Melissa Wishinski interview) |91 The day of her death: Nureyev, Markova, de Valois pay tribute
★ William Forsythe |09 William Forsythe over time (interview compendium) |05 Kirov perform Forsythe |03 Forsythe interview: If I ever complain, slap me |03 Kammer/Kammer |02 Forsythe quits Frankfurt |01 Forsythe interview: The body artist |01 Eidos: Telos |01 Artifact |01 Herman Schmerman, NYCB Edinburgh |00 DeaDDogsDon'tDance... |98 Higher, wider, deeper, faster (Royal Ballet dancers on Forsythe)
★ Frederic Franklin |13 Obituary
★ Celia Franca |07 Obituary
★ Antonio Gades |04 Obituary |03 Fuenteovejuna |97 Antonio Gades interview: flamenco's false steps |97 Carmen
★ Mara Galeazzi |13 Mayerling (with Watson) |10 The Judas Tree |10 Thiago Soares interview on The Judas Tree with Galeazzi |10 Winter Dreams |04 Mayerling (with Mukhamedov) |01 Onegin (with Tewsley)
★ Israel Galvan |15 Lo Real, Edinburgh Festival |14 Torobaka (with Akram Khan)
★ Gender and choreography |16 Opinion: The 'anti-woman' conspiracy in dance |16 ENB She Said |13 Male ballerinas and Trocking: Tory Dobrin interview |10 Gang rape in ballet: Thiago Soares on MacMillan's The Judas Tree
★ Jean Genet |02 The Maids, Barbican
★ George Piper Dances [see Ballet Boyz]
★ Nicholas Georgiadis |06 The great ballet designers (Georgiadis, Sonnabend, Farmer interviews) |96 Georgiadis views Diaghilev exhibition, talks about costuming MacMillan
★ Valery Gergiev |08 Valery Gergiev interview: rehabilitating 'Soviet' music in Edinburgh |06 Gergiev & Lopatkina interviews: Kirov Shostakovich festival
★ Angela Gheorghiu |96 Angela Gheorghiu interview: I'm marrying my tenor
★ Giselle |16 Watching ballet in cinema |16 Nunez/Muntagirov, Bonelli, RB |15 Zakharova/Polunin, Bolshoi Giselle film |02 Stiefel/Benjamin, Corella/Rojo, RB |01 Cojocaru debut, RB |01 Wildor, Rojo, Cojocaru/Kobborg debut, RB |99 Mats Ek's Giselle |99 Guillem, RB & Lunkina, Bolshoi |97 Evelyn Hart, Royal Winnipeg Ballet
★ Evelyn Glennie |98 The pioneering percussionist: Evelyn Glennie interview |92 A Night to Remember: Zakir Hussain
★ Matthias Goerne |97 Music that changed me (Matthias Goerne interview)
★ Martha Graham |18 Paul Taylor obituary |10 After a dance-maker dies: choreographers’ legacies |03 Martha Graham Dance Company, Sadler's Wells |03 Bertram Ross obituary |00 Two legends in London: Merce Cunningham and Paul Taylor |99 Martha Graham Dance Company, Barbican |97 Book review: Agnes de Mille biography |96 The man who inherited Martha's legend: Ron Protas interview |96 Martha Graham Dance Company, Edinburgh |92 Book reviews: Graham's autobiography, Agnes de Mille's Graham biography
★ Alexander Grant |11 Obituary
★ Yuri Grigorovich |25 Obituary |08 Grigorovich returns to Bolshoi, Ratmansky leaves |08 Natalia Bessmertnova obituary |95 Grigorovich leaves Bolshoi
★ Ivor Guest |18 Obituary
★ Sylvie Guillem |25 Greatest dance artwork of the century so far? |15 Life in Progress, Coliseum |15 Life in Progress, Sadler's Wells |14 Sylvie Guillem interview: 'A lot of people hate me. Bon' |14 Sacred Monsters (with Akram Khan) |13 Guillem interview: New love for Marguerite and Armand |11 Guillem interview: A passion for Japan |11 6,000 Miles Away |09 Sylvie Guillem interview compilation: Ballerina in evolution |09 LePage/ Maliphant Eonnagata |05 Manon (with Cope) |05 A Month in the Country |04 The Prodigal Son (with Acosta) |04 Marguerite and Armand (with LeRiche), Paris |03 Sylvie Guillem, Ballet Boyz, Maliphant interviews: creating Broken Fall |03 Maliphant's Broken Fall |02 Sylvie's wake-up call (interview) |01 The six o’clock position in ballet |01 Romeo and Juliet (with LeRiche) |00 Béjart's Bolero |00 Sylvie Guillem, Nicolas LeRiche interviews: reviving Marguerite and Armand |00 Three Manons (Durante, Guillem, Wildor) |00 Tudor's Lilac Garden |99 Guillem interview: 10 years at the Royal Ballet |99 Giselle, RB (with Hilaire) |96 Manon designer Georgiadis on dressing Guillem |96 Evidentia (dance film) |95 Sylvie Guillem interview: temperament tempered with shyness |95 Manon (with Cope)
★ Peter Hall |92 A Night to Remember: puppet theatre Sleeping Beauty
★ Christopher Hampson |01 Double Concerto, ENB
★ Rennie Harris |03 Students of the Asphalt Jungle |01 Rome & Jewels
★ Evelyn Hart |97 Evelyn Hart interview: not just a difficult dame |97 Other Dances, The Leaves are Fading, Giselle, Royal Winnipeg Ballet
★ Matthew Hart |96 AIDS ballet for the RB (Hart interview) |95 StarLife (Hart interview) |95 Matthew Hart interview (Opera House) |95 Cinderella, London City Ballet |95 Peter and the Wolf, RB
★ Melissa Hayden |06 Obituary
★ Francesca Hayward |16 The Invitation, RB |16 Rhapsody, RB |15 Romeo and Juliet, RB
★ Anne Heaton |20 Obituary
★ John Hegley |99 Hegley interview: Funny poems and funny dancing
★ Robert Helpmann |14 Miracle in the Gorbals
★ Hans-Werner Henze |12 The ballet of Ondine |92 A Night to Remember: Ashton's Scènes de Ballet
★ Rosella Hightower |08 Obituary
★ Victor & Lilian Hochhauser |10 Iron Curtain impresarios (compilation interview) Part 1 |10 Iron Curtain impresarios Part 2 |01 Heroes of our culture
★ Stanley Holden |07 Obituary
★ Amy Hollingsworth |01 Ground Level Overlay, Rambert |01 The great leap forward: dance names to watch
★ David Howard |13 Obituary
★ Justin Howse |13 Obituary
★ Michael Hulls |12 Elite lighting designer Hulls interviewed |11 Khan's DESH |10 Maliphant's Afterlight |09 LePage/ Maliphant Eonnagata (with Guillem) |08 Burrows' Stop Quartet |03 Maliphant's Broken Fall
★ Ann Hutchinson Guest |22 Obituary
★ Ice-skating |06 Skating and dancing fall out of love |05 Sleeping Beauty on Ice |95 Torvill & Dean Farewell Tour |95 John Curry biography, Black Ice
★ Mona Inglesby |13 Radio 4 documentary: Black-Out Ballet (listen on iPlayer) |12 The forgotten woman of British ballet |12 Black-out Ballet Radio 4 programme transcript |07 Is authenticity in ballet truly authentic? (Dance Now) |06 Obituary |00 Mona Inglesby interview: the keeper of old scores |00 How (with Mona's help) the Kirov refound the original Sleeping Beauty
★ International Ballet |22 Henry Danton obituary |13 Radio 4 documentary: Black-Out Ballet (listen on iPlayer) |12 The forgotten woman of British ballet |12 Black-out Ballet Radio 4 programme transcript |07 Maurice Béjart obituary |06 Mona Inglesby obituary |93 Monsieur Béjart is finally ready for his close-up (Béjart interview)
★ Irish dance |96 Lording it over the dance (Flatley interview)
★ Hugh Jackman |98 Everything is going his way (Oklahoma! interview)
★ Jeremy James |01 Memorial concert, The Last Fish Finger |00 My Big Pants |00 Obituary |98 Jeremy James, The Place
★ Judith Jamison |02 Ailey company returns to UK (interview)
★ Japan |11 How manga comics became a dance (Cherkaoui & Sawhney interviews) |11 TeZukA |11 Sylvie Guillem's passion for Japan: interview |11 6,000 Miles Away (Guillem) |09 Guillem/ LePage Eonnagata |01 Kabuki: Nakamura Ganjiro III and Chikamatsuza
★ Zizi Jeanmaire |20 'She was Paris': Jeanmaire interview in full |20 Obituary |15 Colette Marchand obituary |98 Zizi Jeanmaire interview: Not Giselle but Carmen
★ Shobana Jeyasingh |15 Bayadère - The Ninth Life |05 Flicker |02 Hinterland |00 Palimpsest/ Surface Tension |99 Memory and Other Props/ Fine Frenzy |96 Shobana Jeyasingh interview: From Bharathanatyam to contemporary dance
★ Joffrey Ballet |08 Gerald Arpino obituary
★ Colin Jones |21 Obituary |11 Colin Jones interview: Ballet dancer turned photographer extraordinaire
★ Gwyneth Jones |91 A Night to Remember: Rudolf Steiner School's The Magic Flute
★ Jonzi D |01 Aeroplane Man
★ Rosie Kay |15 5 Soldiers
★ Simon Keenlyside |03 The singer dances: Trisha Brown's Winterreise (interviews with Brown & Keenlyside)
★ Lindsay Kemp |18 Obituary |98 Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry and Cruel Garden |98 Bruce/Kemp Cruel Garden |95 Cinderella, SWT
★ Felicity Kendal |24 di Filippo's Filumena |92 A Night to Remember: Paul Scofield
★ Akram Khan |16 Kaash |16 Until the Lions |15 Dust, ENB |15 State of British dance training (Khan, Newson, Rojo views) |14 Sacred Monsters (with Sylvie Guillem) |14 Khan interview: the creation of Dust, ENB |13 iTMOi |10 DESH |09 Solos/ Gnosis |05 zero degrees (with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui) |02 The creation of Kaash (Akram Khan, Anish Kapoor, Nitin Sawhney interviews) |02 Kaash |02 Loose in Flight, Related Rocks |01 New and ancient: Akram Khan & Wayne McGregor interviewed |01 Classical kathak solos |01 The great leap forward: dance names to watch |00 Fix
★ Michael Kidd |07 Obituary
★ Harold King |20 Obituary |95 Hart's Cinderella, London City Ballet
★ Ben Kingsley |92 A Night to Remember: Ian Holm
★ Kirov Ballet [See Mariinsky Ballet]
★ Evgeny Kissin |12 Beethoven/ Haydn/ Liszt, Barbican
★ Daria Klimentova |11 Corder's Cinderella, ENB (with Muntagirov) |11 Agony and Ecstasy, A Year with the English National Ballet, BBC Four |01 Hampson's Double Concerto, ENB |00 Tetley's Voluntaries, ENB |00 Tetley's Sphinx, ENB
★ Johan Kobborg |14 What happens to male stars after they retire |13 Last RB Mayerling (with Cojocaru) |08 Kobborg's Bolshoi staging of La Sylphide |08 Johan Kobborg interview: ‘I’d jump at the chance to run the Royal Ballet‘ |05 Swan Lake (with Cojocaru) |04 Mayerling |04 Agon |04 Cojocaru/Kobborg at the Havana Ballet Festival (interviews) |03 Out of Denmark: Lander/ Flindt/ Bournonville/ Brandstrup |02 Mayerling |02 Tudor's The Leaves are Fading, RB |01 Giselle (with Rojo, Cojocaru) |01 Onegin |99 Johan Kobborg interview: New prince of Denmark |97 La Sylphide, Scottish Ballet
★ Nora Kovach |20 Istvan Rabovsky obituary |09 Nora Kovach obituary
★ Alfredo Kraus |92 Alfredo Kraus interview: the war of the four tenors |92 Willard White's A Night to Remember
★ Tetsuya Kumakawa |01 K Ballet breakaway (Nunn & Trevitt interview) |99 Teddy Kumakawa interview: no more Royal Ballet, here comes K Ballet |97 Kumakawa interview: from wow to hero (Opera House) |96 Kumakawa interview: Mr Worldly Wise and the wow factor |95 Tharp's Mr Worldly Wise, RB
★ Ninel Kurgapkina |09 Obituary
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