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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★ The Quay Twins |01 Avant-garde sound on film: Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, Quay Twins, Rodney Wilson interviews
★ Istvan Rabovsky |20 Obituary |09 Nora Kovach obituary
★ Yvonne Rainer |02 White Oak Dance Project |01 Yvonne Rainer interview: Baryshnikov and White Oak
★ Marie Rambert |01 Rambert at 75: Christopher Bruce interview |96 Marie Rambert tribute programme: Bruce's Quicksilver/ Tudor's Dark Elegies/ Cohan's Stabat Mater
★ Rambert Dance Company |16 Guerin/ Jeyasingh/ Galili |03 Bonachela/ Van Manen/ de Frutos |01 Rambert at 75: Christopher Bruce interview |01 Cunningham's Ground Level Overlay |00 Cunningham/ Tetley/ Bruce |00 De Frutos/ Ek/ Bruce |99 Christopher Bruce interview: The Canterbury Tales |99 Last dance: Preservation of British ballet heritage |96 Marie Rambert tribute programme: Bruce/ Tudor/ Cohan
★ Alexei Ratmansky |16 The Flames of Paris, Bolshoi |08 Grigorovich returns, Ratmansky leaves |08 Alexei Ratmansky interview: why I resigned the Bolshoi directorship |08 Johan Kobborg stages Bolshoi La Sylphide |07 Wheeldon creates Bolshoi Hamlet |06 The Bright Stream |05 Ratmansky stages Shostakovich’s Bolt |04 Bolshoi and Lacotte exhume The Pharaoh’s Daughter
★ Reconstructing ballet |23 Ballet's Indiana Jones, Pierre Lacotte |17 Sergei Vikharev, Russia's pioneer ballet restorer |15 Farewell to Dowell's Swan Lake |12 Master reconstructor Pierre Lacotte interviewed |10 Mikhail Messerer interview: How to restore Swan Lake |07 Can ballet be authentic? (Dance Now) |05 Alexei Ratmansky stages Shostakovich’s Bolt |04 Pierre Lacotte recreates The Pharaoh’s Daughter |00 Peter Wright on authenticity in The Nutcracker |00 How the Kirov refound Sleeping Beauty |00 Kirov Sleeping Beauty (review) |03 Hodson & Archer Rite of Spring, Kirov |00 Hodson & Archer Jeux, Royal Ballet |97 Fokine's two Dying Swans, Kirov |95 Alicia Markova reconstructs Le Rossignol
★ Red Arrows |09 Aerial acrobats
★ Beryl Reid |92 A Night to Remember: Frances de la Tour
★ Dana Reitz |95 Private Collection, Dance Umbrella
★ Derek Rencher |15 Obituary
★ Gillian Revie |97 StarLife
★ The Rite of Spring |11 Pina Bausch (Wim Wenders’ Pina 3D) |06 Stravinsky's ballets |03 Hodson & Archer Rite of Spring, Kirov |oo Paul Taylor's The Rehearsal |00 Kenneth MacMillan, ENB |99 Turning Point: The Rite of Spring, 1913
★ Chita Rivera |99 Chita returns to Chicago
★ Riverdance |95 Riverdance wars |95 Riverdance, Apollo
★ LaVaughn Robinson |08 Obituary
★ Tamara Rojo |16 Her last Swan Lake? |16 Female choreographers, Ochoa's Broken Wings |16 New Holmes/Rojo Le Corsaire, ENB |15 Ballerina virtuosity |15 Deane's Swan Lake |13 RB farewell: Marguerite and Armand (with Polunin) |13 Le Jeune homme et la mort (with LeRiche), ENB |12 20th anniversary video survey of MacMillan’s ballets |12 Song of the Earth |11 On dancing Juliet to 12,000 people in the O2 |11 Marguerite and Armand (with Polunin) |10 My summer reading |09 Tamara Rojo's diary (interview) |09 Brandstrup's Goldberg |09 Romeo and Juliet, Manon on DVD |07 Rojo interview: how I dance Swan Lake |05 Ondine |04 The two graces (Rojo & Cojocaru, Seymour interviews) |04 Stellar ballerina duels |04 Mayerling (with Cope) |02 Queen of the Swan Queens |01 Onegin (Rojo, Cooper, Cojocaru) |01 The great leap forward: dance names to watch |00 The Royal Ballet's new swan: Rojo interview |00 Ondine debut, RB |00 Les Sylphides/ Etudes, ENB |00 The Rite of Spring, ENB |99 Deane's Swan Lake in-the-round |98 StarLife (Tamara Rojo interview)
★ Mstislav Rostropovich |91 Rostropovich interview: on Kogan's betrayal and his debt to Prokofoiev
★ Romeo and Juliet |14 RB MacMillan (Cojocaru/ Vogel) |14 Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo |12 RB MacMillan (Nunez/ Soares) |12 Video survey of MacMillan’s ballets |11 Ashton's Romeo and Juliet (Osipova/ Vasiliev), Schaufuss Ballet |11 MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet in the O2 Arena |09 MacMillan’s ballet on DVD |01 Rennie Harris's Rome & Jewels |oo Angelin Preljocaj's Romeo and Juliet |00 Romeo and Juliet in ballet and opera, a survey |97 Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet (Asylmuratova), Kirov |95 Rudolf Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet, ENB
★ Patricia Routledge |92 A Night to Remember: Ralph Richardson
★ The Royal Ballet |23 Tribute to Lynn Seymour |23 Lynn Seymour obituary |21 Liam Scarlett obituary |16 Peter Wright's autobiography |16 Royal Ballet and Sadler's Wells on how Brexit affects dance |16 Losing the plot (Frankenstein, Strapless etc) |16 Edward Watson interview: the Royal's unlikely prince (Dance magazine) |15 Romeo and Juliet (Hayward, Naghdi/Ball) |15 Afternoon of a Faun/ Song of the Earth |12 Young star Sergei Polunin quits |08 Stretton's posthumous tape accuses 'colonialists' |08 Norman Morrice obituary |06 The Designers (Royal Opera House) |02 Double whammy ended Stretton (commentary) |02 Royal Ballet injuries mount |02 ‘A bunch of amateurs’: Lady MacMillan accuses the Board (interview) |00 2000: Year in view |00 Symphonic Variations/ Monotones II/ La Valse/ Lilac Garden/ Requiem |00 Lynn Seymour interview: The Royal Ballet's duty of care to its art |97 Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, Hammersmith Apollo |93 Irek Mukhamedov interview: where to after MacMillan's death |93 Lynn Seymour interview: The Cleopatra ballerina who stays out in the cold
★ Patricia Ruanne |22 Obituary
★ Maclovia Ruiz |06 Obituary
★ Russia |15 Tchaikovsky competition report (Classical Music) |15 Tchaikovsky piano competition report (International Piano) |14 Russian avant-garde theatre, V&A |11 Barry Douglas interview: Irish pianism conquers Russia |10 Rodion Shchedrin interview: My reputation in Russia is excellent, but hard work in the West |08 Valery Gergiev interview: rehabilitating 'Soviet' music in Edinburgh |06 Valery Gergiev & Uliana Lopatkina interviews: Shostakovich festival |94 Yuri Bashmet interview: viola star rises through Soviet complexities
★ Sadler's Wells Theatre |16 Royal Ballet and Sadler's Wells on how Brexit affects dance |05 Sadler’s Wells must be braver |98 SWT reopening night, Rambert
★ Vyacheslav Samodurov |10 Samodurov interview: dancer steps up to choreography
★ Galina Samsova |21 Obituary
★ Bruce Sansom |01 Bruce Sansom interview: after the Royal Ballet |99 Viviana Durante quits the Royal |95 ‘Bruce is the best English man,' says Irek Mukhamedov
★ Liam Scarlett |21 Obituary |16 Frankenstein, RB |15 'Lest We Forget', ENB |14 Scarlett interview: the creation of No Man's Land, ENB |14 The Age of Anxiety, RB |13 Serpent, Ballet Boyz |12 Scarlett becomes RB artist in residence |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, RB |10 Asphodel Meadows, RB |04 Monochromatic, Royal Ballet School
★ Peter Schaufuss |13 Ashton's Romeo and Juliet (Osipova, Vasiliev), Schaufuss Ballet |13 Midnight Express, Schaufuss Ballet |92 Peter Schaufuss interview: On his ENB dismissal by Pamela Harlech
★ Scènes de Ballet |10 The ballet born in the bath: Scottish Ballet programme note |92 Hans-Werner Henze on Ashton's Scènes de Ballet
★ Elisabeth Schwarzkopf |92 A Night to Remember: Lula Mysz-Gmeiner
★ Margaret Scott |19 Obituary
★ Scottish Ballet |21 Galina Samsova obituary |18 Elaine McDonald obituary |15 Ochoa's A Streetcar named Desire |15 De Frutos's Elsa Canasta |12 Ochoa's A Streetcar Named Desire
★ Marina Semyonova |10 Obituary
★ Lynn Seymour |23 In memoriam Lynn Seymour: Ashton's and MacMillan's muse |23 Obituary |04 The two graces: Seymour coaches Rojo & Cojocaru |00 Lynn Seymour interview: The Royal Ballet's duty of care to its art |98 Donald MacLeary interview: Dancing with Lynn is like coming home |93 Lynn Seymour interview: The Cleopatra ballerina who stays out in the cold
★ Shakespeare |16 Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew, Bolshoi |16 Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale, RB |16 Lucy Guerin's Tomorrow, Rambert |16 De Keersmaeker's Golden Hours (As you like it) |16 Limón's The Moor's Pavane, Jessica Lang's Wink, BRB |14 Mats Ek's Juliet and Romeo |12 Ashton's The Dream, RB |11 Ashton's Romeo and Juliet |08 Javier de Frutos revives Limón at Phoenix |07 Christopher Wheeldon creates Hamlet ballet at Bolshoi |01 Rennie Harris's Rome & Jewels |oo Angelin Preljocaj's Romeo and Juliet |00 Romeo and Juliet in ballet and opera, a survey |99 David Bintley's Shakespeare Suite |97 Lavrovsky's Romeo and Juliet |95 Rudolf Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet
★ Artie Shaw |92 A Night to Remember: Jascha Heifetz
★ Rodion Shchedrin |14 Shchedrin and Plisetskaya interviewed: Pillow-talk with the KGB |10 Rodion Shchedrin interview: My reputation in Russia is excellent, but hard work in the West
★ Vladimir Shklyarov |09 Mariiinsky's new young stars (Somova, Shklyarov interviews)
★ Dmitri Shostakovich |06 Gergiev & Lopatkina interviews: Kirov Shostakovich festival |06 Ratmansky's The Bright Stream |05 Shostakovich’s Bolt premieres at last
★ Nina Simone |92 A Night to Remember: Maria Callas
★ Alla Sizova |15 Obituary
★ Matz Skoog |23 Matz Skoog filmed interview: 'Interviews with Ballet Legends' (YouTube) |02 Tutus at dawn at ENB: Derek Deane attacks successor's plans
★ Wayne Sleep |03 Sleep & Anthony Dowell interview: Becoming Ugly Sisters |98 Wayne Sleep interview: That duet with Princess Diana
★ The Sleeping Beauty |12 Bourne's The Sleeping Beauty |00 How (with Mona's help) the Kirov refound Sleeping Beauty) |00 Kirov 'original' Sleeping Beauty (review) |96 Bjørnson/Dowell Sleeping Beauty |92 Peter Hall's Night to Remember: puppet theatre Sleeping Beauty
★ Olga Smirnova |13 La Bayadère, Bolshoi ROH
★ Faryl Smith |08 Britain's Got Talent child star
★ Thiago Soares |12 Romeo and Juliet (with Nuñez) |12 Las Hermanas |10 Thiago Soares interview: from Rio circus school to MacMillan's The Judas Tree |05 Manon (Lescaut debut) |04 Onegin, RB
★ Elisabeth Söderström |92 A Night to Remember: Jussi Björling
★ Alina Somova |09 Mariiinsky's new young stars: Alina Somova, Vladimir Shklyarov interviews
★ Yolande Sonnabend |15 Obituary |06 The designers (Farmer, Sonnabend, Georgiadis)
★ Kathrine Sorley Walker |15 Obituary
★ Jock Soto |05 Jock Soto: New York City Ballet's retiring superman
★ Isaac Stern |91 A Night to Remember: Lili Pons
★ Juliet Stevenson |92 A Night to Remember: Ian Richardson
★ Gailene Stock |00 British ballet needs more men with sex appeal
★ Karl-Heinz Stockhausen |01 Karl-Heinz Stockhausen's sound and the Quay Twins' film: Stockhausen interview
★ Stomp |95 Stomp |95 Luke Cresswell interview
★ Igor Stravinsky |10 Scottish Ballet programme note: Ashton's Scènes de Ballet |06 Stravinsky's magnetic appeal to choreographers
★ Ross Stretton |08 Stretton's posthumous tape accuses 'colonialists' |02 Double whammy ended Stretton (commentary) |02 ‘A bunch of amateurs’: Lady MacMillan accuses the Board |02 Widow’s ultimatum: Ross Stretton quits RB |02 Baynes/ Tudor/ Ashton, RB |01 Ross Stretton season launch interview: One step at a time |00 Stretton interview: The Royal Ballet needs revitalizing
★ Elaine Stritch |92 A Night to Remember: Rex Harrison
★ Swan Lake |16 Bolshoi (Smirnova), ROH |16 Rojo's final Swan Lake?, ENB |15 Farewell to Dowell's Swan Lake |15 ENB Deane (Vasiliev, Cojocaru) |11 Bourne's Swan Lake in 3D |11 Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo |08 Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China |07 Tamara Rojo on Swan Lake (interview) |05 Kirov (Lopatkina), ROH |02 Swan Queens (Rojo, Cojocaru, Bussell, Tapper, Kolesnikova) |99 ENB/Deane in-the-round, Royal Albert Hall
★ Symphonic Variations |14 Royal Ballet programme note: Waiting in the music
★ Maria Tallchief |13 Obituary
★ Pam Tanowitz |25 Greatest of the century so far? Four Quartets |16 An anti-women conspiracy in dance?
★ Tap dance |08 LaVaughn Robinson Obituary |02 Steve and Jimmy Clark interview: Shuffling off the bad times |02 Buster Brown obituary |92 Master hoofer Buster Brown interview: back in style
★ Paul Taylor |18 Obituary |00 Cascade/ Rite of Spring (The Rehearsal)/ Piazzolla Caldera, SWT |00 Who is the greatest? Cunningham and Taylor in London
★ Bryn Terfel |92 A Night to Remember: Geraint Evans
★ Glen Tetley |07 Obituary |00 Pierrot Lunaire, Rambert |00 Embrace Tiger/ Pierrot Lunaire, Rambert |00 Voluntaries, ENB |00 Sphinx, ENB |97 Glen Tetley interview: How Darcey Bussell inspired a ballet
★ Twyla Tharp |01 In the Upper Room, BRB |98 Twyla Tharp interview: Tharp! back in London |97 Sweet Fields/ 88/ Heroes, Edinburgh |96 Tharp interview: Mr Worldly Wise and Teddy Kumakawa's wow factor |95 Mr Worldly Wise, Royal Ballet
★ Nini Theilade |18 Obituary
★ Michael Tilson Thomas |92 A Night to Remember: D'Oyly Carte's Iolanthe
★ David Toole |20 Obituary |96 Candoco
★ Jayne Torvill & Christopher Dean |06 Skating and dancing fall out of love |96 From skates to shoes: Dean's ballet for ENB (Dean interview) |95 T&D swirl into the sunset
★ The Trocks |23 Tory Dobrin of 'The Trocks' filmed interview; 'Interviews with Ballet Legends' (YouTube) |15 Fokine/ 'Balanchine'/ 'Cunningham' |13 Male ballerinas Trocking for 40 years: Tory Dobrin interview |11 Swan Lake/ 'Balanchine'/ Raymonda's Wedding |10 In make-up with Sveltlana Lofatkina
★ Nikolai Tsiskaridze |13 Bolshoi dismisses Nikolai Tsiskaridze |07 Wheeldon's Hamlet ballet for Bolshoi
★ Barry Tuckwell |92 A Night to Remember: Laurence Olivier's Richard III
★ Antony Tudor |05 Dark Elegies/ The Judgment of Paris, Rambert |04 Antony Tudor, the third man |02 The Leaves are Fading, RB |00 The neglected genius of British ballet |00 Lilac Garden, RB |00 Shadowplay, RB |97 The Leaves are Fading, Royal Winnipeg Ballet |96 Dark Elegies, Rambert |95 Pillar of Fire, BRB
★ Liv Ullmann |92 A Night to Remember: de Sica's Umberto D
★ Viengsay Valdes |05 Ballet Nacional de Cuba gala |05 Giselle (with Carreño) |04 Don Quixote, Havana Ballet Festival
★ Ninette de Valois [see Ninette de Valois]
★ Hans Van Manen |11 Dutch National Ballet, SWT |04 Twilight/ Two pieces for HET, Scottish Ballet |98 DNB/ NDT, Edinburgh
★ Wim Vandekeybus |15 What the Body Does Not Remember
★ Ivan Vasiliev |15 ENB Swan Lake (with Cojocaru) |11 Romeo and Juliet (with Osipova), Schaufuss Ballet |11 Lovers, off and on (interview Osipova & Vasiliev) |07 Ivan Vasiliev interview: The boy who flew into the Bolshoi
★ Vladimir Vasiliev |08 Side by side (interview Vasiliev & Maximova) |07 Five Russian men who changed ballet
★ David Vaughan |17 Obituary
★ Didy Veldman |15 3 Dancers, Rambert |00 Didy Veldman interview: choreographing sin |00 Carmen, NBT at SWT |99 Carmen, Northern Ballet Theatre |97 Greymatter/ Bruce's Moonshine, Rambert
★ Violette Verdy |16 Obituary
★ Sergei Vikharev |17 Sergei Vikharev, restorer of The Sleeping Beauty and Coppelia
★ Diana Vishneva |01 The Sleeping Beauty, Kirov ROH |01 Balanchine, Kirov ROH |01 Jewels, Kirov ROH |00 The Kirov reconstruction of 1890 Sleeping Beauty (Vishneva interview) |00 'Оriginal' Sleeping Beauty, Kirov ROH
★ Nina Vyroubova |07 Obituary
★ David Wall |13 Obituary
★ Jonathan Watkins |15 1984, Northern Ballet |10 As One, Royal Ballet
★ Edward Watson |16 Ed Watson interview: an unlikely prince (Dance magazine) |13 Mayerling (with Galeazzi) |05 My Brother, My Sisters |01 The great leap forward: dance names to watch
★ Charlie Watts |92 A Night to Remember: Miles Davis
★ Elisabeth Welch |92 A Night to Remember: John Gielgud
★ Christopher Wheeldon |16 The Winter's Tale, RB |15 Cinderella, DNB |15 An American in Paris |12 Metamorphosis: Titian 2012, RB |10 Wheeldon abandons his own company |10 Electric Counterpoint, RB |09 Continuum/ Rhapsody Fantasie, Morphoses |07 Wheeldon creates Hamlet ballet at Bolshoi |06 Wheeldon interview: Creating DGV at RB |06 Polyphonia, RB |05 Jock Soto: New York's superman and Wheeldon's muse |03 Christopher Wheeldon interview: Britain's Balanchine? |01 Polyphonia, NYCB Edinburgh |00 There Where She Loves, RB
★ Wendy Whelan |05 My superman, Jock Soto (Whelan interview) |00 NYCB star Wendy Whelan enjoys Edinburgh |98 Whelan interview: American Ballet Theater and New York City Ballet are so different
★ Willard White |92 A Night to Remember: Mirella Freni and Alfredo Kraus
★ Sarah Wildor |23 Sarah Wildor filmed interview: 'Interviews with Ballet Legends' (YouTube) |05 Wildor & Cooper interview: Glamorous liaison |02 Wildor & Cooper interviewed on Wildor's departure from RB |01 Three Giselles |00 Three Manons |oo Ondine |99 In love onstage and off: Cooper & Wildor interview |95 StarLife (Wildor interview) |95 Manon debut (with Solymosi)
★ Raven Wilkinson |19 Obituary
★ Peter Wright |16 Book review: Wrights and wrongs, Peter Wright's autobiography |06 Peter Wright 80th birthday interview |01 In memoriam Dame Ninette de Valois |00 Wright interview: The Nutcracker king |00 Peter Wright discusses authenticity in The Nutcracker
★ Leonid Yakobson |15 Janice Ross biography reviewed |06 Kirov dances Shostakovich ballets, Coliseum
★ Eva Yerbabuena |02 Eva Yerbabuena interview: into flamenco's depths
★ Svetlana Zakharova |04 Zelensky and Friends |04 Lacotte's The Pharaoh’s Daughter |01 Le Corsaire, Kirov ROH |00 Starlife (Svetlana Zakharova interview) |97 The Fountain of Bakhchisarai, Coliseum
★ Igor Zelensky |13 Zelensky cuts Schaufuss's Midnight Express |04 Zelensky and Friends (with Bussell, Kowrowski, Lopatkina, Zakharova) |01 Jewels (with Lopatkina), Kirov ROH |98 Darcey conquers Russia (La Bayadère) |97 Igor Zelensky interview: Big feet, big chin, huge talent |97 Swan Lake (with Lopatkina), Kirov Coliseum
★ George Zoritch |09 Obituary
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