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Contents
February 2007

Features
8
Letters to the Editor
11

Talking Point: This month William Trevitt writes about the importance of new choreography

13

Intelligence in motion. Leanne Benjamin interviewed by Gerald Dowler

19

MOVE IT Dance London 2007. A preview to this year’s exhibition

22

American Ballet Theatre returns to London by Robert Greskovic

25

The National Ballet School of Cuba. Part VIII of our schools series by Margaret Willis

28

Home and dry. Betsy Gregory reveals her plans for Dance Umbrella

31

Romantic ballerina and reclusive Duke: Marie
Taglioni’s letter to the Duke of Portland by Anne Bloomfield

35

The Making of a Dancer Part 5. This month Mary Goodhew looks at musicality

39

New Releases: Helena Hammond on Kathrine Sorley Walker’s new biography Cyril Beaumont Dance Writer and Publisher

41
Another Opening Another Show. Barbara Newman reviews Porgy and Bess and The Sound of Music
47

DanceScene International – Christmas in London 2006: St Petersburg Ballet Theatre in The Nutcracker, English National Ballet in The Nutcracker and Giselle, The Royal Ballet in The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker, The Snowman, New Adventures in Swan Lake; Autumn with The Royal Danish Ballet; Tavaziva Dance; Pina Bausch in New York; The Paris Opéra Ballet in Coppélia and Giselle; Monaco Dance Forum 2006; The Royal Ballet on the BBC

71

Letter from St Petersburg by Igor Stupnikov

75
Obituary – Chandralekha Prabhudas Patel, Fernand Nault, Ruthanna Boris
Into Dance!
101

Dance Styles: Tap Dancing by Paddy Hurlings

104

Misty Copeland is our Dancer of the Month interviewed by Jack Anderson

106

Your Page


Regulars

6

Dance Matters 
This month: ENB plans, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company competition, Flamenco Festival at the Wells

73

Miscellany
This month: Svetlana Beriosova, New Year Honours, A Lydia Lopokova Portrait

79

Teachers & Training
This month: ENBS students, Paul Watson Bursary Fund, National Youth Ballet

83

Classified

84
Where to Learn
86
Calendar
97
Book & DVD Service
Competition
WIN tickets for Shobana Jeyasingh at London’s QEH and MOVE IT 2007

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