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Posted on July 27, 2017
Summer is in full swing, but with little in the way of traditional ballet on view in the UK this month, we investigate instead a range of other dance styles. Not only does Martin Cutler report on the 2017 Blackpool Dance Festival in the Dance Today section of the magazine, but Iris Fanger takes a look at contemporary styles in tap dancing as performed by Dorrance Dance, the US-based ensemble headed by Michelle Dorrance that comes to the UK for the first time this month. Arlene Phillips talks to Nicola Rayner about her new one-woman show, and Marianka Swain finds out how dancers and choreographers are becoming more involved in the movement direction of plays and films.
In the last issue of Dancing Times Zoë Anderson interviewed Royal Ballet principal Zenaida Yanowsky on the eve of her retirement from the company; in Dance Scene this month I report in full on her final performances in London. This appears alongside reviews on the Mark Morris Dance Group in Liverpool, Cathy Marston’s new production of Les Liaisons dangereuses for the Royal Danish Ballet and Northern Ballet’s The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.
Features
21 – Movers and shakers. Marianka Swain meets leading practitioners in the field of movement direction
25 – Staying afloat. Gerald Dowler finds out how dance is funded
33 – The memoirs of Nadia Nerina. Nadia Nerina dances Giselle with the Kirov Ballet
37 – Feel the purple. Laura Dodge visits SLP College in Leeds
Dance Today
82 – Tips on technique. By James Whitehead
83 – Technique clinic. By Phil Meacham
84 – Simon’s Guide to Swing. By Simon Selmon
85 – Stepping Out. By Marianka Swain
86 – Notes from the dance floor. Vikki Jane Vile reviews Karen and Kevin Dance
88 – Somewhere in time. By Jack Reavely
Regulars
6 – News. Dance Umbrella 2017
12 – Letters
15 – Talking Point. By Stephanie Jordan
40 – Variety Lights. Barbara Newman sees On the Town and Working
42 – FRANCE/dance. By Laura Cappelle
44 – Letter from St Petersburg. Igor Stupnikov meets Andrian Fadeyev, director of the Yakobson Ballet Theatre
47 – Notes from New York. Jack Anderson sees Alexei Ratmansky’s Whipped Cream
49 – Media. New books and DVDs
51 – Dance Scene. Reviews include Ballet Theatre UK, Scottish Ballet, Richard Alston Dance Company, Hong Kong Ballet, Royal Danish Ballet
91 – People. English National Ballet’s Emerging Dancer, Queen’s Birthday Honours
92 – Dancer of the Month. Margaret Willis meets Scottish Ballet’s Victor Zarallo
96 – Obituaries. David Dean, Lois Strike, Sergei Vikharev
99 – Products
103 – Education. School of Ballet Theatre UK, Dance Forward, National Youth Ballet
106 – Health. Debbie Malina discovers how reflexology can be beneficial to dancers
109 – Classified
110 – Calendar. Our guide to what’s on stage in the UK and abroad, including future programmes for a number of US-based companies and venues
118 – Listings. Where to learn to dance in the UK
122 – Last Dance. We look back to July 1977