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Posted on August 23, 2012
If, like me, you are completely fed up with the terrible weather we have been enduring in the UK this summer, at least you can curl up somewhere warm and dry and pass the time by reading this month’s Dancing Times! As ever, we endeavour to bring to your attention the very best in dance, and in this issue Graham Watts goes to see Viacheslav Samodurov’s new full-length ballet in Ekaterinburg, Jeannette Andersen celebrates Gauthier Dance’s fifth birthday in Stuttgart, New York-based Meryl Cates discovers the treasures that can be found in The George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters Archive of video recordings, and Barbara Newman draws some conclusions from the recent epic London season by Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
In Dance Education we embark on reporting the end-of-year shows by our leading vocational dance schools, and in Dance Scene we review performances in the UK and abroad. Finally, we would like to salute three departing directors of UK ballet companies who step down this summer – Dame Monica Mason, Wayne Eagling and Ashley Page – all of whom, in their own distinct and very different ways, have made huge contributions to the recent success of British ballet.
JONATHAN GRAY
August 2012 Volume 102 Issue 1224
Features
15 From Ekaterinburg with love. Graham Watts sees Viacheslav Samodurov’s new full-length ballet, Amore Buffo, in Ekaterinburg
19 Expect the unexpected. Jeannette Andersen meets Eric Gauthier, the director of Stuttgart’s Gauthier Dance
29 Preserving a legacy. Meryl Cates finds out about the
work of The George Balanchine Foundation Interpreters Archive
32 Tanztheater Wuppertal in London. Barbara Newman reviews the recent World Cities 2012 season
35 Bowing out. Gerald Dowler concludes his appreciation of Dame Monica Mason’s directorship of The Royal Ballet
Regulars
6 Dance Matters. Dance Umbrella, Ballet CD box-set competition, Tommy Franzén
10 Letters
12 Talking Point. Daniel Pratt wonders if his generation is the first to forget the important and poetic elements of classical dance
23 Variety Lights. Barbara Newman on Kiss Me, Kate
at the Chichester Festival Theatre
25 Dance Health. Debbie Malina investigates types of pain,
and how to differentiate between them
39 Dance Scene. Reviews this month include : Tilted Productions, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Dance GB, and New York City Ballet
53 Letter from St Petersburg. Igor Stupnikov at the
White Nights Festival
54 Dance Media. New books and DVDs
57 Dance People. Pavlova 2012 Festival
58 Obituaries. Leo Kersley, Joan White, John Percival, Charles Hedges
61 Dance Education. Ballet Central, Laine Theatre Arts
65 Classifieds
66 Where to Learn
68 Calendar
Into Dance
77 Dancers of the month. Margaret Willis talks to some of the dancers teaming up on Dance GB
80 Another step to explore. Zoë Anderson talks to Marc Brew and Dame Evelyn Glennie about their collaboration on Fusional Fragments
82 Your Page