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Posted on July 24, 2015
Lots of issues relating to the dance industry are discussed in this latest issue of Dancing Times. Laura Dodge reports on Dance UK’s industry-wide conference, The Future: new ideas, new inspirations, which was held at three separate London dance venues in April; Chris May, former administrative director of Richard Alston Dance Company, gives his views on the Department of Culture, Media and Sport in Talking Point; and Dominic Antonucci, ballet master of Birmingham Royal Ballet, discusses the pros and cons of dance competitions in light of the BBC’s recent Young Dancer Competition, on which Zoë Anderson also reports in Into Dance.
In addition, we travel the world to bring you reports and reviews from Bratislava, London, Milan, Munich, New York, Nice, Paris, St Petersburg, Stockholm, Taipei and Tokyo, and in obituaries we pay tribute to three great ladies of dance – the Russian prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, the dance teacher Jocelyn Mather, and the dance critic, historian and writer Kathrine Sorley Walker. Like our editor emeritus, the late Mary Clarke, to whom we paid tribute last month, Kathrine wrote for this magazine for more than 70 years, and her words of dance wisdom will be very much missed.
JONATHAN GRAY
June 2015 Volume 105 Issue 1258
Cover stories
14 / Swan Lake in a sea container. Jonathan Gray travelled to Tokyo with Birmingham Royal Ballet to find out what is involved when a ballet company goes on tour
27 / The future of dance. Laura Dodge reports from the first ever industry-wide conference for dance in the UK. Photographs by Elliott Franks
82 / BBC Young Dancer. Zoë Anderson attends the finals of the BBC’s new dance competition
Features
19 / A formidable dance challenge. Trader Faulkner remembers an encounter with the great Spanish dancer, Antonio
23 / A beacon for modern dance, but what of ballet? David Mead explores the ballet scene in Taiwan
31 / The winner takes it all? Dominic Antonucci considers the pros and cons of dance competitions
Regulars
06 / Dance Matters. Sadler’s Wells winter season
10 / Letters
12 / Talking Point. Chris May thinks the Department of Culture, Media and Sport needs breaking up
34 / Dance Scene. Reviews include Diana Vishneva, The Royal Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, and La Scala, Milan
55 / Letter from St Petersburg. Igor Stupnikov attends Dance Open
57 / Notes from New York. Jack Anderson sees works new and old
59 / Dance Media
61 / Dance People. Lisa-Maree Cullum, César Morales
62 / Obituaries. Jocelyn Mather, Maya Plisetskaya, Kathrine Sorley Walker
64 / Dance Health. Debbie Malina considers how acupuncture can help dancers
69 / Dance Education. Roger Tully, IDTC 2015
75 / Classified
76 / Where to Learn
85 / Calendar
Into Dance
79 / Dancer of the Month. Scottish Ballet’s Bethany Kingsley-Garner interviewed by Margaret Willis