Issue #64
June
2003

On the cover:
Alessandra Ferri

Photo: Fabrizio Ferri

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
ALESSANDRA FERRI
DEBORAH WEISS in conversation with the Italian ballerina on the eve of her return to Covent Garden

RAIFORD ROGERS
EMMA MANNING meets a choreographer looking for the inner reptile in his dancers

IOANNA PORTOLOU
KATJA WERNER contemplates the work of a Greek painter turned choreographer

PERFORMANCES
Stealing from the Gods to a whiff of sawdust
MAGGIE FOYER at large in London rounds up visitors from New York, Antwerp and St.Petersburg

Maillot, Bart, Gielgud and d’At
EMMA MANNING catches premieres in Monte-Carlo, Paris and Mulhouse

NDT’s Dynamic Images
DANIEL WALTON weighs up pieces by Andersson, Inger and Forsythe

Joys in Jo’burg
MAGGIE FOYER has praise for two South African ballet companies

FEATURES
KATHAKALI NIGHTS
KAREN THOMAS goes backstage in Kerala

DANCE AND NUDITY
DONALD HUTERA engages with those who bare all for their art

SUMMER FESTIVALS 2003
Who’s where at this year’s Summer Dance Festivals

YOUTH AMERICA GRAND PRIX
EMMA MANNING on the achievements of young dancers gathered from around the world in New York

LETTERS & COMMENTS
Responses to ‘How to Eat and be Thin?’ and more war viewpoints by Jane Muller, Maina Gielgud, Daria Klimentova, Mrs Audrey Sinclair, George Dawson, John Scott, Ben Stevenson and Hans-Theodor Wohlfart

BRIEF REVIEWS
Royal Swedish Ballet

Ballet Theatre Munchen

Young British Dancer of the Year 2003

Young Blood

London Children’s Ballet

XII Rieti International Dance Competition

Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporaneo

American Ballet Theatre

The Royal Ballet

Compagnie Montalvo Hervieu