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Contents
January 2007

Features
8
Letters to the Editor
11

Talking Point: This month Simone Clarke writes about her life as a mother and dancer

13

In Good Company. David Bintley interviewed by Gerald Dowler

19

The Dancers’ Development Fund. A practical guide for teachers by Penny Withers

23

The International Ballet Festival of Havana by Michael Crabb

27

Dancing the Danish way. An interview with Johan Kobborg by Zoë Anderson

31

Restoring Le Corsaire in Munich by Doug Fullington

35

The Making of a Dancer Part 4. This month Mary Goodhew looks at artistry

39

Looking after dancers’ health. Rachel Rist reports on the 16th International Association of Dance Medicine conference in Florida

41

New Releases: Leslie Satin on Gay Morris’ A Game for Dancers: Performing Modernism in the Postwar years, 1945-1960

45
Another Opening Another Show. Barbara Newman reviews Spamalot and Dirty Dancing
49

DanceScene International – Dutch National Ballet at Sadler’s Wells; Rambert Dance Company in Divine Influence, Verge and Lady into Fox; Scottish Dance Theatre in Touching Zulu; American Ballet Theatre at City Center; Northern Ballet Theatre in The Three Musketeers; Staatsballett Berlin a Jerome Robbins Evening; The Royal Ballet in Chroma, The Four Temperaments, and DGV Danse à grande vitesse; Darcey Bussell & Igor Zelensky at Sadler’s Wells; Walker Dance Park Music at the Linbury

69

Letter from St Petersburg by Igor Stupnikov

Into Dance!
101

Dance Styles: Hip Hop by Terry Monaghan

104

Alexander Whitley is our Dancer of the Month interviewed by Margaret Willis

106

Your Page


Regulars

6

Dance Matters 
This month: Theatre Museum, NBT competition, Wayne McGregor, BRB, RBS White Lodge

73

Miscellany
This month: Sir Peter Wright, Rambert Dance Company, Alessandra Ferri

75

Teachers & Training
This month: NSCD, Day of Dance at Tring, Yorkshire Scholarship Centre, ISTD

83

Classified

84
Where to Learn
86
Calendar
97
Book & DVD Service
Competition
WIN tickets for NBT premiere A Sleeping Beauty Tale at the Leeds Grand Theatre

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