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Posted on April 28, 2020
Editorial and contents February 2020
We explore various aspects of modern dance in this latest issue of Dancing Times. Not only do we hear from Sharon Watson, choreographer and artistic director of Phoenix Dance Theatre, who is about to unveil a new production for the company in Leeds, but we also publish a tribute from Anna Kisselgoff to that great modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan, whose work will be honoured at the Barbican Theatre in London this month on a programme from Viviana Durante Company. In advance of its forthcoming season at Sadler’s Wells, we also discover what Lin Hwai-min, choreographer and director of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, plans to do now he has decided to retire from the company.
Also highlighted are the celebrations held by three of the UK’s leading ballet companies – English National Ballet, Northern Ballet and Scottish Ballet – as each reach significant anniversaries.
Finally, we remember a dear friend to the magazine in Obituaries, the extraordinary dance photographer Anthony Crickmay, whose work featured regularly in these pages from the early 1960s onwards, and was himself a voracious reader of Dancing Times.
JONATHAN GRAY
15 – Phoenix rising. Sanjoy Roy meets Sharon Watson, director of Phoenix Dance Theatre
19 – Modern dance rebel. Anna Kisselgoff salutes Isadora Duncan
23 – MOVE IT 2020. The UK’s biggest dance event
39 – Celebrating 60 years of Chinese ballet. By Graham Watts
26 – Making waves. Nicola Rayner catches up with choreographer Sean Cheesman
31 – The right time. David Mead talks to Cloud Gate Dance Theatre’s Lin Hwai-min and Cheng Tsung-lung
35 – Teaching through our legacies to save our heritage. By Anya Grinsted
43 – Cold War dances. Part Two of Gerald Dowler’s look at Soviet Ballet between 1961 and 1990
70 – Strictly on stage. By Marianka Swain
74 – With honour. Marianka Swain interviews Jacky Logan
76 – Tips on technique. By James Whitehead
77 – Technique clinic. By Phil Meacham
78 – Simon’s Guide to Swing. By Simon Selmon
79 – Stepping Out. By Marianka Swain
80 – Memories from the dance floor
82 – Somewhere in time. By Jack Reavely
6 – News. The RAD’s 100 events
10 – Letters
13 – Talking Point. By Graham Watts
47 – Dance Scene. Reviews this month include Scottish Ballet, New Adventures, Ballet Theatre UK, The Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, Ballet am Rhein
61 – FRANCE/dance. Laura Cappelle on Jean-Christophe Maillot’s version of Coppélia
64 – Letter from St Petersburg. By Igor Stupnikov
67 – Notes from New York. Jack Anderson sees new works by Pam Tanowitz and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
85 – Dancer of the Month. Margaret Willis meets Ellen Yilma of Richard Alston Dance Company
89 – People. New Year Honours, Dancing for a Dream Gala
90 – Obituaries. Anthony Crickmay, Harold King
93 – Media. Jonathan Gray on some new dance publications
95 – Products
97 – Education. Dance School of the Year
100 – Health. Debbie Malina finds out how the arts can be beneficial to the health of the nation
103 – Classifieds
104 – Calendar. Our guide to what’s on in the UK and abroad
110 – Listings. Where to learn to dance
114 – Last Dance. We look back to February 1980