Issue #76
July
2004

On the cover:
Mathieu Ganio as Basilio in Don Quixote.

Photo: Icare

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
MATHIEU GANIO
FRANCOIS FARGUE catches up with the Paris Opera’s new etoile

THE BOLSHOI EXPERIMENT
MAGGIE FOYER talks to Maria Alexandrova and Declan Donnellan about the Bolshoi’s new Romeo and Juliet

GARY FEINGOLD
DEBORAH WEISS asks: “So How Was Your Day?”

FREDERIC OLIVIERI
EMMA MANNING meets the Frenchman reviving ballet's status in Milan

OBITUARIES
Sally Gilmour, Mark Kindred, Leonard Reed and Sulamith Messerer

FEATURES
INSPIRED BY DIAGHILEV
Five choreographers— Matjash Mrozewski, Cathy Marston, Robert Garland, Alastair Marriott and Vanessa Fenton— talk about their creations for the Royal Ballet

LITHUANIA
STUART SWEENEY and JURATE TERLECKAITE check out the new EU country

LETTERS and COMMENTS
from Fiona Fairrie, Ariane Dollfus, Mrs M. E. Mulady, John Davidson and Ms Linda Roberts

PERFORMANCES
Blood Relations
KATJA WERNER rates the political and humanitarian message in Cekwana’s Ja, Nee

Men Behaving Badly…
EMMA MANNING savours Ek’s Giselle and Nureyev’s Don Quixote in Paris

Icon Skin & Carbon
KATJA WERNER encounters a performance without an ending in Athens

Les Rencontres de Carthages
FRANCOIS FARGUE weighs up a fledgling festival in Tunis

FabbricaEuropa2004
BRUCE MICHELSON sums up self-effacing humour… and several bottles of olive oil

Craft at full throttle at NBT
DONALD HUTERA exudes enthusiasm for Marston’s plunge into Martinu…

BRIEF REVIEWS
The Cholmondeleys & The Featherstonehaughs

American Ballet Theatre

The Royal Ballet

Ballet Central

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie Productions

Belgrade Dance Festival

Paris Opera

Grease

Ballet Preljocaj

Rambert Dance Company

Oktana

Random Dance Company

Teatro alla Scala Ballet

Goteborg Ballet

English National Ballet