Issue #41
May
2001

On the cover:
Artists of the Houston Ballet in Trey McIntyre’s Second Before The Ground.

Photo: Geoff Winningham

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
The Big Rendezvous: AGNES LETESTU & JOSE MARTINEZ
MICHAEL MONTGOMERY meets two Paris Opera etoiles

DAVID NIXON
DEBORAH WEISS catches up with the Canadian heading for Leeds

SCANNER
DONALD HUTERA takes the musician aka Robin Rimbaud to see Alston

FEATURES
How to avoid the OUCH!
MELANIE NIX on taking care in a high risk industry

SUMMER DANCE 2001
A comprehensive guide to Summer Schools, Courses and Workshops

REVIEWS
Kylian, Cleopatra and Carlos
EMMA MANNING encounters a hiccup in France, Japanese economy, Egyptian parody and a Cuban who flies

From Sylphide to Ornithopter
DON MORRIS digests a diet of wordplay, tartans, Blblical themes and flying machines

Russian Hamlet
SHEILA ORYSIEK considers Eifman’s Shakespearean ballet in California

Bodily Matters
KATJA WERNER gets to grips with Body as Site/Body as Byte in Lucerne

Sudden Space
EMMA MANNING contemplates the phenomenon of illusion in Athens

Alston & Baldwin
ANNE GILPIN weighs up their strengths but is not seduced

Objectifs Danse
DONALD HUTERA acquaints himself with the French-Belgian dance arena…

Vooruit = vorwarts
…and follows it to Dusseldorf

H. C. Andersen
WILLIAM ANTHONY savours Peter Schaufuss’ homage

BRIEF REVIEWS
Bejart Ballet Lausanne

Ballett Komische Oper Berlin

Catherine Diverres

My Fair Lady

Robert Hylton Urban Classicism

Ljubjana Ballet

Jeune Ballet de France