Quick links
Useful resources
Sign up to our newsletter
Be the first to hear about news, special offers and more...
Posted on July 24, 2015
The training of young dancers is a theme that threads throughout this issue of Dancing Times, which is highlighted by Laura Dodge’s celebration of the UK’s youth ballet companies, and also by David Mead’s report on Elmhurst School for Dance, which this year marks the tenth anniversary of its move to Birmingham.
In addition, Ginny Brown reveals her belief in a strong future for dance in education; our Dancer of the Month, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Luke Schaufuss, talks about the training he received in Denmark; and we commence our annual round-up of end-of-year performances by vocational schools in Dance Education. We hear from American Ballet Theatre’s Marcelo Gomes, who will be appearing this month in Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man at Sadler’s Wells, and also from Peter Schaufuss, whose award-winning production of La Sylphide returns to London in August for the first time in many years. You will also find news of some exciting changes in Dancing Times on page 7. Finally, as we go to press, the death has been announced of John Auld, the dancer and director best known for his wonderful staging of Fokine’s Petrushka for Birmingham Royal Ballet – we shall pay tribute next month.
JONATHAN GRAY
July 2015 Volume 105 Issue 1259
Cover stories
15 / Never stop growing. Marcelo Gomes, the princely star of American Ballet Theatre, is joining New Adventures for the sex and violence of Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man. He speaks to Zoë Anderson about challenges, choreography and change
19 / Dancing through the holidays. Laura Dodge finds out about three companies celebrating the talent of UK youth ballet dancers
23 / The Sylphide of Oz. Jonathan Gray talks to Peter Schaufuss and Li Cunxin about Queensland Ballet’s La Sylphide
27 / Celebrating our common ground. The ISTD’s Ginny Brown believes there is a strong future for dance in education
Features
31 / Take a walk on the wild side. Jeannette Andersen gets back to nature
35 / Music to dance to. Margaret Willis talks to conductor Richard Bonynge about his love of ballet music
39 / Flying high. David Mead spends a day at Elmhurst School for Dance
Regulars
06 / Dance Matters. Birmingham Royal Ballet
10 / Letters
12 / Talking Point. Laura Dodge wonders if choreographers need editors
42 / Dance Scene. Reviews include Rambert, Ballet Black, The Place and Stuttgart Ballet
59 / Variety Lights. Barbara Newman on The Pirates of Penzance and Beyond Bollywood
61 / Letter from St Petersburg. Igor Stupnikov salutes Diana Vishneva
63 / Notes from New York. Jack Anderson sees new productions of La Sylphide and The Sleeping Beauty
65 / Dance Media
67 / Obituaries. Maggie Black, Dudley Williams
69 / Dance People. Sergei Polunin
71 / Dance Health. Debbie Malina investigates Stretchworks
77 / Dance Education. Yorkshire Ballet Scholars, Ballet Central
83 / Classified
84 / Where to Learn
92 / Calendar
Into Dance
87 / Dancer of the Month. Luke Schaufuss interviewed by Margaret Willis
90 / U.Dance. By Zoë Anderson