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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     La La La Human Steps     |11 La La La Human Steps, SWT

     Pierre Lacotte    |23 Ballet's Indiana Jones, Pierre Lacotte |23 Obituary     |12 Master reconstructor Pierre Lacotte and Petipa's Pharaoh's Daughter    |04 Recreating The Pharaoh’s Daughter for Bolshoi (interview)  

     Sarah Lamb    |09 Royal Ballet cover girl (interview)

     Maryon Lane    |08 Obituary

     Jessica Lang     |16 Wink, Birmingham Royal Ballet

     Sophie Laplane     |16 Choreographer to watch (in German)     |16 An anti-women conspiracy in dance?

     La Sylphide    |08 Johan Kobborg’s Bolshoi staging      |05 Bourne's Highland Fling, SWT     |97 Bourne's Highland Fling, Kobborg Scottish Ballet debut

     Christopher Lee      |91 A Night to Remember: Walter Huston

     Brigitte Lefèvre     |00 Lefèvre interview: Paris Opera Ballet flourishes after Nureyev

     Elisabeth Leonskaja     |18 Mozart/ Webern, Wigmore Hall          |09 Chopin, Wigmore Hall

     Olga Lepeshinskaya    |08 Obituary

     Nicolas LeRiche     |13 Le Jeune homme et la mort, ENB     |04 Marguerite and Armand in Paris (with Guillem)     |00 Sylvie Guillem, Nicolas LeRiche interviews: reviving Marguerite and Armand

     Tanja Liedtke    |07 Obituary

     Serge Lifar     |11 Suite en Blanc, ENB

     José Limón    |16 The Moor's Pavane, BRB      |08 Javier de Frutos revives Limon at Phoenix

     Bob Lockyer     |22 Obituary

     Uliana Lopatkina    |11 La Bayadère, Mariinsky ROH    |11  In the Night, Mariinsky ROH     |06 Gergiev & Lopatkina interviews: Kirov Shostakovich festival    |05 Uliana Lopatkina interview: The soul of Russia    |04 Kingdom of the Shades (with Zelensky)    |01 Jewels (with Zelensky), Kirov at ROH          |97 Lopatkina interview: the Kirov's baby ballerina     |97 Swan Lake (with Zelensky), Coliseum     |97 Fokine's two Dying Swans, Coliseum

     Moura Lympany     |93 Moura Lympany interview: forgotten titan is back

     Gillian Lynne   |18 Obituary

     Antony McDonald    |09 How to design The Nutcracker (McDonald interview)

     Elaine McDonald          |18 Obituary

     John Macfarlane    |10  Designing Bintley's Cinderella (interview)      |09 How to design The Nutcracker (interview)

     Wayne McGregor    |16 Infra (Mariinsky Ballet)     |16 Obsidian Tear      |15 Raven Girl     |15 Woolf Works           |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, Royal Ballet     |06 The RB's new resident choreographer (interview)          |03 Qualia, RB          |03 Xenathra     |01 Ancient and modern (McGregor & Akram Khan interviews)    |01 Duo:Logue, Random and RB    |01 Digit01    |99 Sulphur 16      |97 The Millenarium/ Medusa          |95 Cyborg, Dance Umbrella

     Ian McKellen    |21 Hamlet     |92 A Night to Remember: Josef Locke at the Grand Theatre, Bolton

     Amanda McKerrow   |98 McKerrow interview: American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet are so different

     Donald MacLeary   |98 Donald MacLeary interview: Reunited with Lynn Seymour after 30 years

     Deborah MacMillan   |09 Isadora Duncan and MacMillan’s Isadora   |o4 Anastasia    |02  A bunch of amateurs’: Lady MacMillan accuses the Board (interview)      |02 MacMillan's widow gave RB Board 'ultimatum' over Stretton    |96 MacMillan's widow revises Anastasia (interview)        

     Kenneth MacMillan   |20 Anne Heaton obituary     |17  25 years after MacMillan's death he still provokes     |15 Choreographing to words: Song of the Earth           |14 Manon     |12 Las Hermanas    |12 MacMillan’s ballets 25 years on     |10 The Judas Tree    |10 Performing The Judas Tree: Thiago Soares interview      |09 Different Drummer: MacMillan's 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 art of ballet designers (Farmer, Sonnabend, Georgiadis)     |06 Design at the Royal Ballet (Royal Opera House)    |05 Gloria/ My Brother My Sisters          |o4 Anastasia revised    |04 Mayerling (Cope/Rojo)     |02 Mayerling (Kobborg/Cojocaru)     |01 Song of the Earth (Acosta/ Rojo/ Cope)     |98 How shocker Manon became a classic      |98 Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry in motion (Las Hermanas)

     Patrick Macnee     |93 A Night to Remember: Paul Scofield

     Natalia Makarova    |09 Baryshnikov on his ballerinas    |03 Makarova interview: Re-awakening Beauty for the Royal Ballet     |99 Makarova interview: The thistledown queen     |93 Viviana Durante's Night to Remember

     John Malkovich     |92 A Night to Remember: Laurie Metcalf

     Catherine Malfitano     |93 A Night to Remember: Carla Fracci

     Russell Maliphant    |25 Greatest dance artwork of the century so far?     |16 Silent Echo (Osipova & Polunin)     |15 Broken Fall, Conceal/Reveal     |15 Second Breath, ENB     |14 Maliphant interview: the creation of Second Breath, ENB      |12 Men in Motion (AfterLight)          |10 Afterlight    |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (Maliphant, Cherkaoui, de Frutos interviews)    |09 In Spirit of Diaghilev, SWT    |09 Eonnagata    |03 Sylvie and the Boyz (Guillem, Maliphant, Nunn & Trevitt interviews)    |03 Broken Fall    |03 One/ Two/ Choice          |01 Two/ Sheer (with Fouras)     |01 Critical Mass, George Piper Dances    |98 Shift/ Critical Mass          |95 Paradigm

     Stella Mann     |13 Obituary

     Manon   |12 Video survey of MacMillan's ballets     |09 Manon on DVD     |05 Guillem, Cope, RB     |01 Kirov (Zakharova, Ayupova), ROH    |00 Three Manons (Durante, Guillem, Wildor)     |98 How shocker Manon became a classic  

     Colette Marchand     |15 Obituary

     Mariinsky Ballet    |16 Van Manen/Robbins/McGregor, Cardiff    |14 Russian ballet art politics     |10 The Little Humpbacked Horse: Rodion Shchedrin interview     |09 Dancer or circus pony? (Somova and Shklyarov interviews)     |08 Yuri Fateev: new Kirov ballet chief (interview)    |06 Valery Gergiev brings Shostakovich ballets (Gergiev and Lopatkina interviews)     |06 Shostakovich ballets Boyarsky/ Belsky/ Yakobson, Coliseum     |05 Forsythe (Pavlenko, Kondaurova), ROH       |01 Heroes of our culture (Hochhausers interview)   |01 Le Corsaire (Ruzimatov/ Zakharova), ROH     |01 The Sleeping Beauty (Vishneva), ROH   |01 Balanchine (Zelensky), ROH    |01 Jewels (Lopatkina/ Zelensky)/ Manon (Zakharova), ROH     |00 The Kirov reconstruction of 1890 Sleeping Beauty   |oo Premiere of restored Sleeping Beauty (Vishneva), ROH     |00 La Bayadere (Lopatkina/ Zelensky), ROH     |00 Jewels (Lopatkina), Fokine (Asylmuratova), ROH          |00 Sleeping Beauty/ Romeo and Juliet (Asylmuratova), ROH     |98 Darcey conquers Russia (Bayadère in St Petersburg, Bussell interview)      |97 Altynai Asylmuratova, the Kirov's grand illusionist (interview)    |97 Don Quixote (Asylmuratova/ Zelensky)     |97 Romeo and Juliet (Asylmuratova)     |97 The Fountain of  Bakhchisarai (Asylmuratova/ Zakharova)     |97 Symphony in C, Giselle (Makhalina/Ruzimatov, Zakharova)          |97 Fokine's two Dying Swans (Makhalina, Lopatkina)

     Maguy Marin    |03 Cinderella

     Alicia Markova    |04 Obituary    |00 Alicia Markova interview: the girl who defied gravity    |95 Markova reconstructs Balanchine's Le Rossignol    |92 Markova and Ninette de Valois interviewed about Diaghilev          |92 A Night to Remember: Serge Diaghilev's The Sleeping Princess

     Cathy Marston     |16 Jane Eyre, Northern Ballet

     Peter Martins   |00 The battle for Balanchine: Peter Martins interview

     Leonid Massine     |95 Le Tricorne, BRB

     Matt Mattox     |13 Obituary

     Ekaterina Maximova    |09 Obituary    |08 Side by side (Vasiliev and Maximova interview)

     Mayerling  |13 Kobborg/Cojocaru last Mayerling, RB     |13 Watson/Galeazzi Mayerling     |04 Cope/Rojo Mayerling    |04 Acosta/Benjamin Mayerling     |02 Kobborg/Cojocaru Mayerling     

     George Melly     |91 A Night to Remember: Buñuel's L'Age d'or

     Men in ballet    |16 McGregor's Obsidian Tear     |16 Edward Watson interview: an unlikely prince (Dance magazine)     |15 Rosie Kay's 5 Soldiers, BalletBoyz' The Talent          |14 Where are the male ballet greats now?     |12 Men in Motion      |12 Royal Ballet star Sergei Polunin quits     |12 The male dancer: Sky Arts   |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet      |05 Jock Soto: New York's ballet superman (interview)    |03 Global guide to male ballet styles   |00 Wanted: men with sex appeal (Gailene Stock, Matthew Bourne interviews)   |00 New Nutcracker princes, RB |00 The real Billy Elliots (Robert Parker, Philip Mosley interview     |95 Call for boys to join ballet (Junior Dancer)

     Mikhail Messerer   |10 How to restore Swan Lake (Mikhail Messerer interview)     |07 The Messerer Dynasty: the Bolshoi's first family

     Julia Migenes     |91 A Night to Remember: Vanessa Redgrave

     Arthur Miller    |10 All My Sons (Suchet/Wanamaker)

     Jonathan Miller     |92 A Night to Remember: A Matter of Life and Death

     Mime theatre    |14 Aurélien Bory/ Gandini Juggling       |13 Harlekin, Derevo   |11 Les Antliaclastes/ a guide to puppet styles       |07 Philippe Genty/ Buchinger’s Boot Marionettes    |04 Alwin Nikolais, Edinburgh     |03 Islands in the Stream, Derevo       |02 Josef Nadj/ Avner Eisenberg/ Diquis Tiquis    |01 Un Nioc de Paradis, Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu     |00 Le Jardin Io Io Ito Ito, Compagnie Montalvo-Hervieu     |01 Russian clowns: Derevo interview      |98 The Red Zone, Derevo     |92 Peter Hall's Night to Remember: puppet theatre Sleeping Beauty

     Arthur Mitchell    |18 Obituary

     Igor Moiseyev    |07 Obituary

     Patrick Moore    |12 RIP xylophonist (and astronomer) Sir Patrick Moore    |98 Patrick Moore interview: 'Waltzes? I just love 'em'

     Norman Morrice   |08 Obituary

     Mark Morris    |10 L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Coliseum    |07 Mozart Dances, Barbican    |03 Morris performs in Dance Umbrella 25th anniversary gala     |02 America’s choreographers thin out (Morris, Boal, Stroman interviews)    |01 V/ I don't want to love/ Peccadilloes/ Grand Duo     |00 Four Saints in Three Acts, Dido & Aeneas      |99 Mark Morris interview: I want to teach the world to dance     |99 Gloria/ The Argument/ Rhymes with Silver, Sadler's Wells     |95 One Charming Night/ Polka, Edinburgh     |95 The Hard Nut, Edinburgh     |95 Neue Liebeslieder Waltzer/ Three Preludes/ Going Away Party/ Grand Duo, touring

     Johaar Mosaval     |23 Obituary

     Jonathan Moulds   |12 Arts patronage: Nicola Benedetti's Stradivarius lender interviewed

     Mary-Ellen Moylan     |21 Obituary

     Irek Mukhamedov        |14 What happens to male stars after they retire     |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet     |04 Final Mayerling (with Galeazzi)    |01 Mukhamedov Gala (with Asylmuratova, Rojo, Klimentova, Cooper), SWT    |01 Irek Mukhamedov interview: I was kicked like a nothing     |01 La Fille mal gardée (with Yoshida)     |00 Darshan Singh Bhuller creating a ballet for Mukhamedov & Asylmuratova     |99 Mars and Venus: Mukhamedov & Altynai Asylmuratova interviews    |98 Mukhamedov interview: Strength and subtlety    |95 ‘He is the best English man' (Mukhamedov on Bruce Sansom)  |95 Lesley Collier on her great last partnership     |93 Irek Mukhamedov interview: where to after MacMillan's death

     Musicals    |13 Matt Mattox obituary     |10 Composer Richard Thomas interview    |08 Javier de Frutos & Richard Thomas’s Cattle Call    |07 Michael Kidd obituary    |06 Mamma Mia! Moscow-style (Bjørn Ulvaeus interview)     |04 Adam Cooper's Singin’ in the Rain    |01 The great leap forward: Daniel Crossley, a name to watch     |99 Astaire & Rogers’ first film Flying Down to Rio    |99 Chita Rivera interview    |98 Hugh Jackman (Oklahoma!) interview    |98 Susan Stroman (Oklahoma!) interview    |97 Book review: Agnes de Mille biography

     Music    |16 Baldwin/Haydn The Creation, Garsington Opera     |15 The late Michael Kennedy’s search for Elgar's secret   |14 Ashton/Franck Symphonic Variations: Waiting in the music     |13 Henri Oguike, OAE     |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, Royal Ballet     |12 Conducting competition patron Donatella Flick     |11 Was Elgar’s enigma a lovechild?          |10 Morris/Handel L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato    |10 Scottish Ballet programme note: Ashton/Stravinsky Scènes de Ballet      |10 Rodion Shchedrin interview: My reputation in Russia is excellent, but hard work in the West     |07 Morris/Mozart Mozart Dances    |06 Valery Gergiev brings Shostakovich ballets (Gergiev and Lopatkina interviews)     |06 Shostakovich ballets, Kirov     |06 Stravinsky's ballets, a guide    |05 Shostakovich’s Bolt at the Bolshoi    |05 Henri Oguike, Britten Sinfonia           |03 Dances with Schubert's Winterreise (interviews with Trisha Brown & Simon Keenlyside)          |02 ROH concertmaster Vasko Vassilev interview on ballet scores   |01 Avant-garde sound on film: Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Quay Twins, Rodney Wilson interviews     |01 Composer Julian Anderson with choreographer Mark Baldwin    |01 David Bintley/John McCabe Arthur, BRB   |00 Morris/Thomson Four Saints in Three Acts, Morris/Purcell Dido & Aeneas          |95 Kirov conductor Viktor Fedotov interview

     Anne-Sophie Mutter      |91 A Night to Remember: David Oistrakh

     Ivan Nagy    |14 Obituary

     Nadia Nerina    |08 Obituary

     Netherlands Dance Theatre    |07 Glen Tetley obituary    |00 NDT's three generations    |98 Van Manen, NDT/ DNB Edinburgh

     New York City Ballet    |05 Jock Soto interview: New York's retiring ballet superman    |02 Stars of NYCB, SWT    |02 America’s choreographers thin out (Peter Boal, Mark Morris interviews)   |01 Wheeldon/ Forsythe, NYCB Edinburgh Festival    |01 The six o’clock position in ballet    |00 The battle for Balanchine: Peter Martins, Barbara Horgan interviews    |00 Agon/ Dances at a Gathering/ Symphony in C, NYCB Edinburgh     |00 Fearful Symmetries/ Tchaikovsky pas de deux/ Serenade, 4Ts/  Symphony in 3 movements/ Concerto Barocco/ Duo Concertant, NYCB Edinburgh     |98 New York's two ballet stories, New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre: Whelan and McKerrow interviews

     Basil Newby    |97 Mecca for contemporary dance?: King of Pink Basil Newby interview     |97 Funny Girls, Blackpool

     Lloyd Newson  [see also DV8]  |15 State of British dance training (Newson, Khan, Rojo)     |05 Just For Show    |03 Lloyd Newson interview: the cost of being different    |99 Newson interview: making a big splash   |99 The Happiest Day of My Life      |95 Enter Achilles

     Vaslav Nijinsky   |20 Nijinsky and Le Spectre de la rose     |09 Tribute to Diaghilev (Maliphant, Cherkaoui, de Frutos interviews)    |09 Cherkaoui's Faun, Spirit of Diaghilev, SWT     |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet     |06 Stravinsky’s ballets   |03 Hodson & Archer's Rite of Spring, Kirov    |00 Hodson & Archer's Jeux, Royal Ballet      |99 Turning Point: The Rite of Spring, 1913

     Alwin Nikolais    |04 Alwin Nikolais Company, Edinburgh

     Northern Ballet          |16 Cathy Marston's Jane Eyre     |15 Jonathan Watkins' 1984     |00 2000: Year in view          |99 Didy Veldman's Carmen

     Marianela Nuñez          |16 Giselle (with Muntagirov)          |14 Manon (with Bonelli)     |12 Romeo and Juliet (with Soares)     |01 Onegin (Olga)     |99 Teenage StarLives (Nuñez and Melissa Wishinski interview)

     Rudolf Nureyev    |15 Richard Curson Smith's film, Rudolf Nureyev – Dance to Freedom          |14 What happens to male stars after they retire     |13  The new story of Marguerite and Armand (Sylvie Guillem interview)     |09 Eva Evdokimova obituary    |08 Rosella Hightower obituary    |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet     |07 Nina Vyroubova obituary     |00 Brigitte Lefèvre interview: Paris Opera Ballet flourishes after Nureyev     |00 Sylvie Guillem & Nicolas LeRiche revive Marguerite and Armand    |95 Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet, ENB     |91 Rudolf Nureyev interview on the day Fonteyn died: She gave me backbone

     The Nutcracker    |10 Peter Farmer interview on designing Nutcracker    |09 How to design The Nutcracker (John Macfarlane, Gerald Scarfe, Antony McDonald interviews)   |03 Bourne's Nutcracker!    |01 Wright/Macfarlane, BRB   |00 New princes shine in Royal Nutcracker      |00 Peter Wright interview: The Nutcracker king     |00 What’s left of the original Nutcracker (unedited discussion with Wright)     |99 Bintley's Nutcracker Sweeties, BRB    |96 Which Nutcracker is best? Children assess four productions     |95 Mark Morris's The Hard Nut

     Annabelle Lopez Ochoa     |16 Broken Wings, ENB      |16 An anti-women conspiracy in dance?     |15 A Streetcar Named Desire, Scottish Ballet          |12 A Streetcar Named Desire, Scottish Ballet (premiere)

     Henri Oguike    |13 V4: Four Seasons, OAE    |09 Programme note on Henri Oguike’s career    |07 Oguike fêted at Jacob's Pillow (interview)     |05 Oguike interview: Welsh school failure turned dance sensation    |05 Tippett Concerto/ Tiger Dancing/ Front Line, Britten Sinfonia     |05 Second Signal/ White Space/ Shot Flow/ Messiah     |00 A Moment of Give     

     Igor Oistrakh     |93 A Night to Remember: Yehudi Menuhin

     Jonathan Ollivier     |15 Obituary

     Ondine    |12 Ashton and Henze's water-nymph ballet    |05 Ondine (Rojo)     |00 Ondine (Wildor)     |00 Ondine (Rojo debut)

     Onegin     |01 Onegin (Cooper/Rojo)          |01 Onegin (Kobborg/Cojocaru, Tewsley/ Galeazzi, Coppen/Tapper)

     Eugene O’Neill    |18 Long Day's Journey Into Night (Irons/ Manville, Eyre) |12 Desire Under the Elms (Holmes, Lyric Hammersmith)    |11 Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Suchet/ Metcalf, Page)

     Natalia Osipova     |16 Osipova & Polunin      |16 Wheeldon's Strapless          |16 Rhapsody (Hayward, Osipova)     |15 Osipova & Vasiliev (Pita)          |13 Bolshoi star Osipova joins the Royal Ballet    |11 Ashton's Romeo and Juliet (with Vasiliev), Schaufuss Ballet    |11 Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev interview: Lovers, off and on    |08 Osipova interview (Moscow): Dancing Kobborg’s Bolshoi Sylphide    |08 Ratmansky/Bolshoi The Flames of Paris, Moscow

     Seiji Ozawa     |91 A Night to Remember: Herbert von Karajan'a Der Rosenkavalier        

     Annette Page     |17 Obituary

     Ashley Page    |12 Page's last commission: A Streetcar Named Desire, Scottish Ballet    |10 Ashley Page interview: Snubbed chief bites back    |10 The ballet that began in the bath: Ashton's Scènes de Ballet      |10 Ashton/ Page/ Caniparoli, Scottish Ballet     |09 Balanchine/ Forsythe/ Pastor, Scottish Ballet

     Michael Palin          |92 A Night to Remember: OUDS's Fuente Ovejuna

     Paris Opera Ballet    |16 Ratmansky/ Balanchine/ Robbins/ Peck     |10 Frederick Wiseman’s documentary, La Danse    |08 Rosella Hightower obituary    |07 Nina Vyroubova obituary     |04 Royal Ballet/Paris Opera Ballet entente gala   |00 POB director Brigitte Lefèvre interview     |00 POB Nureyev's La Bayadère (Dupont), Salford     |99 Guérin in Forsythe and Preljocaj's Le Parc, Paris

     Robert Parker     |11 BRB star Robert Parker to head ballet school    |01 La Fille mal gardée, BRB     |01 The great leap forward: dance names to watch  

     Georgina Parkinson    |09 Obituary

     Partnerships     |13 Kobborg/Cojocaru last Mayerling, RB     |05 Jock Soto: New York City Ballet's supreme partner     |04 Zelensky and Friends (with Bussell, Kowrowski, Lopatkina, Zakharova)      |01 Thomas Edur & Agnes Oaks at ENB     |00 New princes shine in Royal Nutcracker     |00 Sylvie Guillem & Nicolas LeRiche revive Marguerite and Armand     |98 Donald MacLeary interview: Dancing with Lynn is like coming home     |91 Rudolf Nureyev interview on the day Fonteyn died: Margot gave me backbone     

     Luciano Pavarotti          |92 A Night to Remember: The Great Caruso

     Steve Paxton          |95 Dance Umbrella

     Diana Payne-Myers     |20 Obituary

     Murray Perahia     |12 Beethoven/ Schumann/ Schubert/ Chopin, Barbican    |11 Bach/ Beethoven/  Brahms/ Schumann/ Chopin, Barbican      |91 Murray Perahia interview: on Horowitz, Mozart and virtuosity

     Itzhak Perlman     |91 A Night to Remember: Jascha Heifetz       

     John Percival     |12 Obituary

     Roland Petit    |20 Zizi Jeanmaire obituary     |15 Colette Marchand obituary     |13 Le Jeune homme et la mort (LeRiche), ENB     |13 Le Jeune homme et la mort (Putrov), ENB      |11 Roland Petit obituary    |07 Nina Vyroubova obituary   |98 Zizi Jeanmaire interview: Not Giselle but Carmen

     Phoenix Dance Theatre    |08 De Frutos revives José Limon at Phoenix     |08 Javier de Frutos and Richard Thomas's Cattle Call   |07 Top of the world (Phoenix at Venice Biennale)    |05 Cohan/ Veldman/ Bhuller, Sadler’s Wells    |95 Donaldson/  Robinson/ Taylor, SWT     |95 Phoenix that rose from Leeds (Margaret Morris interview)

     Photography in dance     |20 Anthony Crickmay obituary          |11 Colin Jones interview: Ballet dancer turned photographer extraordinaire   |03 Johan Persson, dancer behind the camera

     Piano     |18 Elisabeth Leonskaja Mozart/ Webern, Wigmore Hall     |15 The self-taught pianist     |15 First interview with Lucas Debargue, Tchaikovsky competition sensation     |15 Tchaikovsky competition report (Classical Music) |15 Tchaikovsky piano competition report (International Piano) |12 Murray Perahia Beethoven/ Schumann/ Schubert/ Chopin, Barbican    |11 Perahia Bach/ Beethoven/  Brahms/ Schumann/ Chopin, Barbican          |11 Barry Douglas interview: Irish pianism conquers Russia     |11 Lang Lang Bach/ Schubert/ Chopin, RFH     |09 Elisabeth Leonskaja Chopin, Wigmore Hall     |93 Moura Lympany interview: forgotten titan is back     |92 Vladimir Ashkenazy on Sviatoslav Richter's courage     |92 Shura Cherkassky on the inspiration of Horowitz |91 Murray Perahia interview: on Horowitz, Mozart and virtuosity

     Arthur Pita     |16 Run, Mary, Run (Osipova & Polunin)     |16 Cristaux (Ballet Black)     |15 Facada (Natalia Osipova & Ivan Vasiliev)      |15 Wendy Whelan & Edward Watson     |14 Best of the dance year: Little Match Girl     |03 Bugger, a Fairy Tale/ BoomShe SheBoom

     Crystal Pite     |16 Betroffenheit (with Jonathon Young)     |16 An anti-women conspiracy in dance?          |15 A Picture of You Falling      |14 Polaris

     Donald Pleasence        |92 A Night to Remember: John Gielgud's Hamlet

     Maya Plisetskaya    |15 Obituary     |14 Maya Plisetskaya and Rodion Shchedrin interview: Pillow-talk with the KGB     |10 Rodion Shchedrin interview: The Soviets treated composers well    |07 The Messerer Dynasty: the Bolshoi's first family    |01 Book review: I, Maya Plisetskaya

     Rosalind Plowright     |92 A Night to Remember: Aida with Pavarotti

     Giannandrea Poesio    |17 Obituary

     Sergei Polunin     |16 Polunin and Osipova duet programme    |15 Bolshoi Giselle on film (with Zakharova)    |13 RB farewell: Marguerite and Armand (with Rojo)     |13 Coppelia, Stanislavsky Ballet |13 Polunin cuts Schaufuss's Midnight Express      |12 Men in Motion     |12 The role Polunin quit over: The Dream     |12 Royal Ballet star Sergei Polunin quits     |11 Giselle, RB     |10 Polunin, 20, promoted to top rank |10 Cinderella debut, RB

     Angelin Preljocaj    |02 Helikopter/ Rite of Spring    |00 Angelin Preljocaj interview: Romeo and Juliet, modern lovers in a bleak world     |oo Romeo and Juliet, SWT     |99 Le Parc (Guérin/ Hilaire), Paris Opera Ballet     |95 Les Noces/ Spectre, SWT

     André Prokovsky    |09 Obituary

     Ron Protas    |96 Ron Protas interview: controversial man who inherited Martha Graham's legend



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