Issue #38
February
2001

On the cover:
Charlotte Talbot as Lucille in Massimo Moricone’ s Jekyll and Hyde for Northern Ballet Theatre.

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
The Big Rendezvous: WAYNE EAGLING
DON MORRIS gets some sparky answers from the Canadian director in Amsterdam

SARAH WILDOR
Dancer Profile: DEBORAH WEISS meets the gentle-natured Royal Ballet principal

IAN ROSMARIN
Dance Date: DONALD HUTERA takes an accountant to Sadler’s Wells

Jekyll & Hyde
Preview Premiere MASSIMO MORICONE on his new ballet for Northern Ballet Theatre

FEATURES
Tragédie moderne, last act?
KATJA WERNER on the rise and fall of the Berlin Ballett

Ballet - “Cultural Cancer”?
SUSAN CROW analyses a debate on Germaine Greer’s scathing comment

The Keefer Case
SHEILA ORYSIEK examines a mother’s dispute with San Francisco Ballet School

REVIEWS
In the bleak mid Winter
EMMA MANNING on London’s seasonal fare

Aladdin in Edinburgh
MARY BRENNAN rides along on Scottish Ballet’s magic carpet but is not wholly enchanted

Nuts and Skates
DON MORRIS wades through a threadbare Nutcracker but is cheered by some Dutch offerings

Resolution!
DONALD HUTERA digests five triple bills and is still hungry for more

Don Quixote in Stuttgart
HILARY SOUL weighs up Maximiliano Guerra’s first choreographic venture

Kammer/Kammer in Frankfurt
GERALD SIEGMUND on Forsythe’s latest delivery

Manon in Munich
ALISON KENT sings MacMillan’s praises

Tanznacht in Berlin
KATJA WERNER finds passionate, if starving artists on Berlin’s fringe

Cultural Crossroads in Canada
DONALD HUTERA has an absolute ball in Montreal

Don’t Look Back
EMMA MANNING on Pietragalla’s extraordinary solo

Melting Snowflakes…
MAGGIE FOYER rounds up the dance on offer in a sunny clime

Neither and Chocolate Sessions
CAITLIN SIMS follows Doug Varone to the Lower East Side and catches Dwight Rhoden’s latest piece for Ailey’s dancers

2 for 1 Flamenco Tickets
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BRIEF REVIEWS
National Ballet of Greece

Darshan Singh Bhuller

Croatian National Theatre Ballet

Avour Dance/Janis Claxton/RE:MOVES

Singin’ in the Rain

The Witches of Eastwick