Dance Europe issue #57

Issue #57
November
2002

On the cover:
Birmingham Royal Ballet - Nao Sakuma and Chi Cao in David Bintley’s Concert Fantasy

Photo: Bill Cooper

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Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
KENNETH MACMILLAN
MAGGIE FOYER looks back on the career of the choreographer who stripped ballet of its fairytale wrappings

WORKING WITH MACMILLAN
DEBORAH WEISS tracks down eight dancers who enjoyed close working relationships with MacMillan - Patrice Bart, Darcey Bussell, Wayne Eagling, Alessandra Ferri, Irek Mukhamedov, Jennifer Penney, Peter Schaufuss and David Wall

CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHONBERG
VIKI WESTALL meets the West End composer who has ventured into ballet

ARTHUR MITCHELL
EMMA MANNING catches up with Dance Theatre of Harlem’s director of 33 years

PERFORMANCES
A Leap out of the Window and Way Out West!
EMMA MANNING on the season’s opening programmes by the Paris Opera and BRB

Heights
DONALD HUTERA weighs up Northern Ballet Theatre’s new windswept drama of raging passions

Are you talking to me again?
KATJA WERNER finds La Ribot, Maren Strack and Olga Mesa back in old ditches in Berlin

Lyon goes Latin
DONALD HUTERA hits Latin America big time at Lyon’s Biennale de la Danse

The Man Who Wished For Sea View
DEBORAH WEISS is suitably impressed by a last minute revival

Alienating the Audience
FRANCOIS FARGUE longs to leave, but it’s Forsythe and Catherine Deneuve is in the house

Sylphs, Rites and a Faun
FRANCOIS FARGUE catches old rites and new at this year’s Le Temps d’Aimer festival

What stirs the heart?
DONNACHADH McCARTHY finds Baryshnikov too cool but warms to Paco Pena’s Voces y Ecos

Commelin’s Sleeping Beauty
ANDREW GILDER contemplates a fresh take on the Tchaikovsky classic in Cape Town

Le Regard de l’autre
EMMA MANNING savours a gala to compete with the United Nations in Luxembourg

BRIEF REVIEWS
Wim Vandekeybus

Deborah Colker

Birmingham Royal Ballet

Danses Concertantes

La Scala

Les Etoiles du XXie siecle

Scottish Dance Theatre

Dublin Fringe Festival

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