Issue #34
October
2000

On the cover:
Mannheim Ballett in Joker’ s Waltz with which the company opens its new season on 4 October 2000.

Photo: Hans Jörg Michel

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

DANCER OF THE YEAR 2000
Nominate a dancer in our first readers’ poll

ON THE COVER
The Big Rendezvous
with the Paris Opéra étoile turned director and choreographer MARIE-CLAUDE PIETRAGALLA

ENB: THE BEST, THE WORST AND THE UNFORGETTABLE
Fifty years of dancers’ memories

OLYMPIC ARTS FESTIVAL
MICHAEL MONTGOMERY reports on premieres by Sydney Dance Company and Lloyd Newson’s DV8

FEATURES
Being Vegetarian
JOSEF BROWN on food for thought

Teaching in St. Petersburg
ELIZABETH LEA finds dedicated students of all ages

Crisis and Reconstruction
MAGGIE FOYER reports from Knysna on the abrupt closing of South Africa’s national theatre

INTERVIEWS
SUSANNAH YORK
DONALD HUTERA takes the star of stage and screen on a Dance Date

ELVIS COSTELLO
EMMA MANNING asks the singer about his first ballet commission

SABURO TESHIGAWARA
DONALD HUTERA meets the unique Japanese cult hero

REVIEWS
Edinburgh 2000
DON MORRIS encounters Diaghilevian fervour at Scotland’s International Festival

ReMembering the Body
JENNINE WILLETT encounters new takes on Nijinsky’s ballets and gets sucked in by Merce

Irek & Friends
EMMA MANNING weighs up the latest programme fielded by Irek Mukhamedov’s company

Tanz in Berlin
KATJA WERNER questions the craze for artistic pilferage but is soothed by Boris Charmatz’s work

York, Giselle and Bournonville
WILLIAM ANTHONY on the Royal Danish Ballet’s first programme of the season

BRIEF REVIEWS
Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival

C.O.K.E.

Joaquim Sabate/Dance Company Rubato

Dance Company Nomade~s

Tanz Ensemble Cathy Sharp

Dance Theatre of Harlem