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Posted on October 25, 2018
With the start of a new volume of Dancing Times – our 109th – we have taken the opportunity to rearrange the placement of some of our regular features. So, for example, you will now find that Laura Cappelle’s FRANCE/dance, Igor Stupnikov’s Letter from St Petersburg and Jack Anderson’s Notes from New York come after Dance Scene instead of before. Don’t worry, each of our regular columns and sections are still here, but they might be in a different place – check the Contents page to see where. This issue looks to the future as well as the past, with articles exploring the new Disney film The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, a new event in the ballroom calendar, Battle of the Ballroom, which is making its debut at the Ipswich Dance Festival, and a tribute to the choreographer Paul Taylor, who sadly died at the end of August. We also bid farewell this month to Kim Thompson, our subscriptions and office manager, who is leaving the company after 17 years of service to take up a new position with a property services company. Subscriptions will now be managed by Warners Group Publications, who can be contacted by email at subscriptions@warnersgroup.co.uk or by telephone on 01778 392039. We offer Kim our very best wishes for the future, and with the knowledge she will be greatly missed by all at Dancing Times.
JONATHAN GRAY
Dancing Times, October 2018 Volume 109 Issue 1298
Cover Stories
16 – Disney’s Nutcracker. Mindy Aloff introduces The Nutcracker and the Four Realms
20 – Paul Taylor. Jonathan Gray pays tribute to the great choreographer
48 – Dance in Edinburgh. Reviewed by Kathy Elgin and David Mead
72 – Preparing for battle. Nicola Rayner learns about Battle of the Ballroom
Features
23 – Rhythm and colour. Jann Parry highlights three almost forgotten dancers
26 – Latin America in the UK. Fátima Nollén concludes a roundtable discussion with a group of five Latin-American dancers
30 – New kids on the block. Nicola Rayner hears from Strictly Come Dancing’s Luba Mushtuk and Johannes Radebe
34 – Caudillo reformador. Paul Arrowsmith investigates Norman Morrice
39 – Thirty years of cherishing students. Laura Dodge visits Performers College
42 – Completing a circle. Jonathan Gray talks to former Royal Ballet soloist
Anita Young about her career as dancer and teacher
Dance Today
76 – Strong dancers, strong bones. By Lee Knights
78 – Tips on technique. By James Whitehead
79 – Technique clinic. By Phil Meacham
80 – Simon’s Guide to Swing. By Simon Selmon
81 – Stepping Out. By Marianka Swain
82 – Notes from the Dance Floor. By Alison Gallagher-Hughes
84 – Somewhere in time. By Jack Reavely
Regulars
6 – News. New Linbury season, Para Dance UK National Championships, World Ballet Day
12 – Letters
15 – Talking Point. By Melissa Hamilton
47 – Dance Scene. St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, Natalia Osipova, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo
63 – FRANCE/dance. By Laura Cappelle
65 – Letter from St Petersburg. By Igor Stupnikov
67 – Notes from New York. By Jack Anderson
69 – Variety Lights. By Barbara Newman
87 – Dancer of the Month. Margaret Willis meets The Royal Ballet’s Gina Storm-Jensen
91 – People. Rudolf Nureyev
92 – Obituaries. Michael Boulton, Lindsay Kemp, Diana Vere
95 – Dancing Times, Volume 108
97 – Media
99 – Products
100 – A growth mindset to teaching Dance. By Rachel Rist
103 – Education. RAD Genée Competition
107 – NIDMS continues to grow. By Debbie Malina
111 – Classifieds
112 – Calendar. Our guide to what’s on
118 – Listings
122 – Last Dance. We look back to October 1978