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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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★ Antony McDonald |09 How to design The Nutcracker (interview & visuals)
★ Elaine McDonald |18 Obituary
★ John Macfarlane |10 Designs on Cinderella (interview) |09 How to design The Nutcracker (interview & visuals)
★ Wayne McGregor |16 Obsidian Tear |15 Woolf Works |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 |06 The RB's new resident choreographer (interview) |03 Qualia |01 Ancient and modern (McGregor & Akram Khan) |01 Duo:Logue |01 Digit01 |99 Sulphur 16 |97 Millenarium |95 Cyborg
★ Amanda McKerrow |98 New York's two ballet stories (interview)
★ Donald MacLeary |98 Moving reunion between Seymour and MacLeary
★ Deborah MacMillan |09 Sublime or ridiculous? Revising MacMillan’s Isadora |o4 Anastasia revised |02 ‘A bunch of amateurs’: Lady MacMillan accuses the Board (interview) |02 RB Board 'given ultimatum' over Stretton |96 Keeping the dream alive (interview)
★| Kenneth MacMillan |20 Anne Heaton obituary |17 25 years after his death |15 Choreographing to words: Song of the Eaarth |12 Las Hermanas |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets |10 The Judas Tree |10 Gang-rape in ballet: Thiago Soares on The Judas Tree |09 Different Drummer: Biographer Jann Parry interview |09 Psychoanalysing MacMillan’s ballets |09 Georgina Parkinson obituary |09 Sublime or ridiculous? Revising MacMillan’s Isadora |08 Maryon Lane obituary |06 The Designers (Royal Opera House) |o4 Anastasia revised |04 Mayerling (Cope/Rojo) |02 Mayerling (Kobborg/Cojocaru) |98 Manon's new respectability
★ Natalia Makarova |09 Baryshnikov on his ballerinas |03 Bringing Beauty back to life (interview) |99 The thistledown queen (interview)
★ Russell Maliphant |10 Afterlight |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (Maliphant, Cherkaoui, de Frutos interviews) |09 In the Spirit of Diaghilev, SWT |09 Eonnagata |03 Sylvie and the Boyz (Guillem, Ballet Boyz, Maliphant interviews) |03 Broken Fall |03 One, Two, Choice |01 The Schubert of modern dance |01 Critical Mass, George Piper Dances |98 Shift/Critical Mass |95 Paradigm
★ Stella Mann |13 Obituary
★ Manon |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets |05 Guillem, Cope, RB |01 Kirov (Zakharova, Ayupova), ROH |98 Shock that turned to respect for the ballet of Manon
★ Colette Marchand |15 Obituary
★ Mariinsky Ballet |16 Van Manen/Robbins/McGregor, Cardiff |09 Dancer or circus pony? (Somova and Shklyarov interviews) |08 Yuri Fateev: keeper of the Kirov flame (interview) |06 Shostakovich ballets at Mariinsky (Gergiev and Lopatkina interviews) |06 Shostakovich ballets, Coliseum |05 Forsythe, ROH |01 Heroes of our culture (Hochhausers interview) |01 Le Corsaire, ROH |01 The Sleeping Beauty, ROH |01 Balanchine, ROH |01 Manon, ROH |oo Premiere of restored Sleeping Beauty, ROH |00 La Bayadere (Lopatkina), ROH |00 Jewels (Lopatkina), Fokine (Asylmuratova), ROH |00 Sleeping Beauty/ Romeo & Juliet, ROH |00 The Kirov reconstruction of 1890 Sleeping Beauty |98 Darcey conquers Russia (Bussell at the Kirov) |97 Symphony in C, Giselle |97 Fokine's two Dying Swans |96 Why I despair of the Kirov (Asylmuratova interview)
★ Maguy Marin |03 Cinderella
★ Alicia Markova |04 Obituary |00 The girl who defied gravity (interview) |95 Markova reconstructs Balanchine's Le Rossignol |92 The child who cast a spell on Diaghilev (Markova and de Valois interviews)
★ Peter Martins |00 The battle for Balanchine (interview)
★ Leonid Massine |95 Le Tricorne, BRB
★ Matt Mattox |13 Obituary
★ Ekaterina Maximova |09 Obituary |08 Side by side (Vasiliev and Maximova interview)
★ Mayerling |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets |04 Cope/Rojo Mayerling |02 Kobborg/Cojocaru Mayerling
★ Men in ballet |14 Where are the male ballet greats now? |12 The male dancer: Sky Arts |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet |05 Jock Soto: The superman of dance) |03 Global guide to male ballet styles |00 Wanted: men with sex appeal (Gailene Stock, Matthew Bourne interviews) |00 The real Billy Elliots (Robert Parker, Philip Mosley interviews)
★ Mikhail Messerer |10 How to restore Swan Lake (interview) |07 The Messerer Dynasty: the Bolshoi's first family
★ Agnes de Mille |98 National Theatre stages Oklahoma!: Hugh Jackman interview |97 Carol Easton's de Mille biography |92 De Mille’s Martha Graham biography
★ Arthur Miller |10 All My Sons
★ Mime |15 The pleasures of mime theatre |11 Les Antliaclastes |11 A guide to puppetry |07 Philippe Genty/Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes |04 Alwin Nikolais, Edinburgh |02 Clown jewels |01 Absolute clowns (Derevo interview)
★ Arthur Mitchell |18 Obituary
★ Igor Moiseyev |07 Obituary
★ Patrick Moore |12 RIP xylophonist Sir Patrick Moore |98 Waltzes? I just love 'em (interview)
★ Norman Morrice |08 Obituary
★ Mark Morris |10 L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato |07 Mozart Dances |02 America’s last dance |00 Four Saints in Three Acts, Dido & Aeneas |99 I want to teach the world to dance (Morris interview) |99 Gloria, The Argument, Rhymes with Silver, Sadler's Wells |95 One Charming Night, Polka etc, Edinburgh
★ Johaar Mosaval |23 Obituary
★ Jonathan Moulds |12 Nicola Benedetti's Stradivarius patron (interview)
★ Mary-Ellen Moylan |21 Obituary
★ Irek Mukhamedov |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet |04 Mayerling |01 Mukhamedov Gala SWT |01 ‘I was kicked like a nothing‘ (interview) |99 Ballet’s dream team: Mukhamedov & Asylmuratova interviews |98 Strength and subtlety (interview) |95 ‘He is the best English man' (on Bruce Sansom) |95 Lesley's last partner (Lesley Collier on Mukhamedov) |93 After MacMillan: interview
★ Music and dance |06 Shostakovich ballets at Mariinsky |06 Stravinsky’s ballets |05 Shostakovich’s Bolt staged at Bolshoi |03 Trisha Brown choreographs Winterreise |02 Why are ballet conductors so bad? (Vasko Vassiliev interview) |01 The Bird Sings With its Fingers |01 Mark Baldwin & Julian Anderson interview |01 Bintley & John McCabe’s Arthur, BRB |95 Kirov conductor Viktor Fedotov
★ Musicals |10 Shoes |10 Composer Richard Thomas interview |08 Javier de Frutos & Richard Thomas’s Cattle Call |07 Michael Kidd obituary |06 Mamma Mia! test for Russia |04 Singin’ in the Rain (Adam Cooper) |99 Astaire & Rogers’ first film Flying Down to Rio |99 Chita Rivera interview |98 Hugh Jackman (Oklahoma!) interview |98 Susan Stroman (Oklahoma!) interview |97 Agnes de Mille biography reviewed
★ Ivan Nagy |14 Obituary
★ Nadia Nerina |08 Obituary
★ Netherlands Dance Theatre |07 Glen Tetley obituary |00 NDT's three generations |98 Van Manen, Edinburgh
★ New York City Ballet |05 Jock Soto: dance’s superman |02 Stars of New York City Ballet, SWT |02 Fears for America’s dance scene |01 NYCB, Edinburgh Festival |01 Here are the six o’clock views |00 The battle for Balanchine (Peter Martins interview) |98 New York's two great ballet companies (NYCB and ABT)
★ Basil Newby |97 Blackpool: Mecca for contemporary dance? (interview) |97 Funny Girls, Blackpool
★ Lloyd Newson |05 Just For Show |03 Further adventures of an inspired outsider (interview) |99 Interview on production of Happiest Day |99 The Happiest Day of My Life |95 Enter Achilles
★ Vaslav Nijinsky |20 Nijinsky and Spectre de la Rose |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (3 choreographers interview) |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet |06 Stravinsky’s ballets |03 Kirov Rite of Spring |00 ‘Reconstruction’ of Rite of Spring |99 Turning Point: The Rite of Spring, 1913
★ Alwin Nikolais |04 Alwin Nikolais company, Edinburgh
★ Northern Ballet |16 Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre, Jonathan Watkins' 1984 |99 Didy Veldman's Carmen
★ Marianela Nuñez |99 StarLife (Nuñez and Wishinski interview)
★ Rudolf Nureyev |15 Richard Curson Smith's film, Rudolf Nureyev - Dance to Freedom |09 Eva Evdokimova obituary |08 Rosella Hightower obituary |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet |00 Paris Opera Ballet since Nureyev (Brigitte Lefèvre interview) |00 Revival of Marguerite and Armand (Guillem interview) |95 Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet, ENB |91 Nureyev interview on Fonteyn's death: 'She gave me backbone'
★ The Nutcracker |09 How to design The Nutcracker |03 Matthew Bourne’s Nutcracker! |01 Wright/BRB |00 In the realm of the Nutcracker king (Wright interview) |00 What’s left of the original Nutcracker (unedited discussion) |96 Which Nutcracker is best? Children choose
★ Eugene O’Neill |12 Desire Under the Elms |11 Long Day’s Journey Into Night
★ Annabelle Lopez Ochoa |15 A Streetcar Named Desire, Scottish Ballet
★ Henri Oguike |13 V4: Four Seasons |09 Programme note on Oguike’s career |07 Top of the tree (Oguike & De Frutos) |05 School failure turned dance sensation (interview) |05 Tippett, Bury St Edmunds |05 Second Signal, Messiah, Swindon
★ Jonathan Ollivier |15 Obituary
★ Ondine |12 The composer and the water-nymph: Henze’s ballet |05 Ondine (Rojo) |oo Ondine (Wildor) |99 Ondine (Durante)
★ Onegin |01 Onegin (Rojo, Cooper, Cojocaru)
★ Natalia Osipova |16 Osipova and Polunin, SWT |13 Osipova to join the Royal Ballet |11 Ashton's Romeo and Juliet (Schaufuss Ballet) |11 Lovers, off and on (interview Osipova & Ivan Vasiliev) |11 Giselle 3D (with Sarafanov) |08 Dancing Kobborg’s Bolshoi Sylphide (interview) |08 Ratmansky/Bolshoi The Flames of Paris
★ Annette Page |17 Obituary
★ Ashley Page |12 Ochoa/Meckler’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Scottish Ballet |10 Snubbed chief bites back (interview) |10 Scottish Ballet, Geometry + Grace
★ Paris Opera Ballet |16 Ratmansky/ Balanchine/ Robbins/ Peck |10 Frederick Wiseman’s film La Danse |08 Rosella Hightower obituary |07 Nina Vyroubova obituary |04 Royal Ballet/Paris Opera Ballet entente gala |00 The French are simply the best (Brigitte Lefèvre interview) |99 Forsythe/ Preljocaj (Guérin)
★ Robert Parker |11 Parker to head school |01 La Fille mal gardée |01 Dance names to watch
★ Georgina Parkinson |09 Obituary
★ Steve Paxton |95 Dance Umbrella
★ Diana Payne-Myers |20 Obituary
★ Murray Perahia |12 Barbican recital |11 Barbican recital |91 On Horowitz, Mozart and virtuosity (interview)
★ John Percival |12 Obituary
★ Roland Petit |11 Obituary |07 Nina Vyroubova obituary |98 Not Giselle but Carmen (Zizi Jeanmaire interview)
★ Phoenix Dance Theatre |08 José Limón revival |08 Javier de Frutos & Richard Thomas’s Cattle Call |07 Top of the tree (Phoenix at Venice Biennale) |05 Sadler’s Wells |95 Donaldson/ Orphy Robinson collaboration/ Taylor |95 The right moves at the right time
★ Photography in dance |11 Ballet photographer extraordinaire (Colin Jones interview & gallery) |03 Viewfinder: Johan Persson
★ Arthur Pita |15 Facada (Osipova & Vasiliev) |03 Bugger - a Fairy Tale, BoomShe SheBoom
★ Crystal Pite |16 Betroffenheit |15 A Picture of You Falling |14 Polaris
★ Maya Plisetskaya |15 Obituary |14 Pillow-talk with the KGB (Plisetskaya/Shchedrin interview) |10 ‘The composer’s life is a marathon’ (Rodion Shchedrin interview) |07 The Messerer Dynasty: the Bolshoi's first family |01 I, Maya Plisetskaya review
★ Giannandrea Poesio |17 Obituary
★ Sergei Polunin |16 Polunin and Osipova duet programme |15 Floored again (Giselle with Zakharova) |13 Marguerite and Armand (with Rojo) |10 A new prince inherits his kingdom
★ Angelin Preljocaj |02 Helikopter/ Rite of Spring |00 Modern lovers in a bleak world (interview Romeo and Juliet) |oo Romeo and Juliet (review) |99 Le Parc, Paris Opera Ballet |95 Les Noces
★ André Prokovsky |09 Obituary
★ Ron Protas |96 The man who inherited a legend (interview)
