Issue #48
January
2002

On the cover:
Regina Advento and Michael Strecker in Pina Bausch’s Masurca Fogo.

Photo: Gert Weigelt

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
ADAM COOPER
DEBORAH WEISS catches up with The Swan

WILLIAM TUCKETT
STUART SWEENEY meets up with the dancer and choreographer at Tate Modern

MIKE HODGES
DONALD HUTERA takes the film director on a dance date to see Michael Clark

PERFORMANCES
Going Places!
EMMA MANNING on premieres by Meryl Tankard, Itzik Galili and Beyhan Murphy in The Hague

Wandsworth and Rambert
DONALD HUTERA encounters deadpan delivery and reports on Rambert’s new Merce

Ashes, Monkey Lake and Boris Kochno
FRANCOIS FARGUE is charmed and bored but finds salvation at the Paris Opera

Pushkin at the Garden
EMMA MANNING is impressed by two young Tatianas and welcomes guests to London

When in Wien
JACKIE GRAY cuts through a broad cross-section of Viennese contemporary dance theatre

Ulrich’s Coppelia
ALISON KENT gets to grips with a new take on the notorious philanderer

FEATURES
Dancing Amsterdammers
DRAGAN KLAIC reflects on Dutch social dancing through the years

War and Dance
STUART SWEENEY considers the works of choreographers bold enough to tackle themes of social conflict

So Ballet’s Posh and Becks is Cool?
DONNACHADH McCARTHY explodes the myth that ordinary people can’t afford to go to the ballet

INFO
DANCE SCHOOLS DIRECTORY
An indispenable guide on where to study dance in Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, England, Finland and France.

BRIEF REVIEWS
Walker Dance

The Tokyo Ballet

MacMillan Choreographic Competition

Bondi Ballet

Angika

Javier de Frutos/Royal Ballet

Mavin Khoo