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Posted on November 2, 2016
Welcome to the start of a new volume of Dancing Times – our 107th – which is the first to come to you from our office in Battersea Square. Everything at our former premises in Clerkenwell Green was packed and moved across London shortly after we sent the last issue to the printers at the end of August, which also happened to be during one of the hottest weeks of the summer. The staff are all now happily settled south of the River Thames, and I would like to say thank you to all the readers who sent us cards and good wishes – it was very much appreciated by everyone here. There is a distinct Russian feel to this issue of the magazine. Margaret Willis and Igor Stupnikov interview some up-and-coming dancers from both the Bolshoi and Mikhailovsky Ballets, and Margaret also managed to talk to Vladimir Urin, the formidable director of the Bolshoi Theatre, whilst he was in London in August during the Bolshoi Ballet’s season at Covent Garden. In addition, we take a look at Burn The Floor, the ballroom and Latin show that comes to the West End this month, and introduce the 2016 Dance Today Teacher of the Year competition.
JONATHAN GRAY
Dancing Times, October 2016 Volume 107 Issue 1274
Contents
Cover Stories
18 – Perfectly poised. Rambert at 90, by Paul Arrowsmith
24 – Playing with fire. Nicola Rayner investigates the history and redevelopment of Burn The Floor
35 – Lights, camera, action! Marianka Swain examines the rise of dance on screen
40 – From page to stage. Gerald Dowler discovers how two very different ballets by Kenneth MacMillan, Anastasia and Sea of Troubles, are being revived
Features
29 – Mr “Big”. Vladimir Urin, general director of the Bolshoi Theatre, interviewed by Margaret Willis
Dance Today
74 – Dance Today Teacher of the Year. Zoë Anderson introduces a competition for teachers of social dancing
77 – Strictly speaking. Marianka Swain assesses the couples in the new season of Strictly Come Dancing
80 – Tips on technique by James Whitehead
81 – Technique clinic by Phil Meacham
82 – Simon’s Guide to Swing by Simon Selmon
83 – Stepping Out by Marianka Swain
84 – Notes from the dance floor. Vikki Jane Vile reviews Keep Dancing, plus Harry Ferris on musicality
86 – Somewhere in time by Jack Reavely
Regulars
6 – News. Win tickets to see The Last Tango, Northern Ballet announces three premieres
12 – Letters
17 – Talking Point by Gerald Dowler
44 – Letter from St Petersburg. Igor Stupnikov meets the Mikhailovsky Ballet’s Anastasia Soboleva and Viktor Lebedev
47 – Notes from New York. Jack Anderson enjoys Sarasota Ballet in a season of works by Frederick Ashton at the Joyce Theater
49 – Media
51 – Dance Scene. Reviews this month include the Edinburgh International and Fringe Festivals, Shanghai Ballet, Dane Hurst and Company at Dulwich Picture Gallery, American Ballet Theatre at the Paris Opéra and Stuttgart Ballet
89 – People. Diana Vishneva, Kenneth Tharp
90 – Dancers of the Month. Margaret Willis talks to the Bolshoi Ballet’s Margarita Shrainer and Ana Turazashvili
95 – Dancing Times Volume 106, October 2015 to September 2016
97 – Products
99 – Education. Hammond School, Northern Ballet School, Elmhurst School for Dance
105 – Health. Debbie Malina looks at how Body Stress Release can be of use to the dance community
109 – Classified
111 – Calendar. Our guide to what’s on in the UK and internationally
118 – Listings. Where to learn to dance
122 – Last Dance. We look back to October 1976