Issue #37
January
2001

On the cover:
Vladimir Malakhov in Uwe Scholz’ s Notations I - IV for the Stuttgart Ballet.

Photo: Gundel Kilian

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
Letters
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
The Big Rendezvous: VLADIMIR MALAKHOV
EMMA MANNING interviews the Russian dancer chosen by Dance Europe readers as Dancer of the Year 2000

DAVID HINTON
MELANIE NIX meets up with the dance film director

MORAG McLAREN
DONALD HUTERA takes the Scottish singer on a Dance Date to see Shakti improvising with Evelyn Glennie

FEATURES
The Prospect Behind Me
ALEX MARTIN reflects on his dancing days at Covent Garden 50 years ago

Warming Up and Psyching Down
VIKI WESTALL talks to Joanna Berman, Gael Lambiotte, Katherine Griffiths, Luc Jacobs, Mark Pace, Saranne Curtin and Thibaut Cherradi about performance rituals

After Petipa
SLAVOMIR GEPNER assesses the development of contemporary dance in Russian cities

PERFORMANCES
Dutch Abundance
DON MORRIS reports on an extraordinarily busy dance month in the Netherlands

Royal and Rambert
EMMA MANNING on an arranged marriage, a fishnet cabaret and Ek without a god

Galili in Lisbon
MICHELLE MAN applauds Ballet Gulbenkian’ s diverse dancers

Ballet or Crowd Control?
DONALD HUTERA on Pascal Touzeau’ s Final Lecture and other Lyon offferings

Stromgren’ s Casse-Noisette
EMMA MANNING digests an oddball Nutcracker

Stations and Dancing Dinner
ALISON KENT catches Philip Taylor’ s Munich Ballet Theatre at a premiere feast

Leipzig’s euro-scene
KATJA WERNER at this year’ s Farewell and Awakening in East Germany

India Song
KATJA WERNER on Wanda Golonka’ s final work in Munich

BRIEF AND NOT SO BRIEF REVIEWS
The European Ballet

Hungarian National Ballet

Angika Dance Company

Bivouac Dance Company

Kompany Malakhi

Sasha Waltz

Mannheim Ballet

Daghdha Dance Company

The Best Dance Solo