Dance Europe issue #54

Issue #54
July
2002

On the cover:
Oriola Islami in Opera North’s Petrushka

Photo: Bill Cooper

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Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
CELINE TALON
FRANCOIS FARGUE meets the Paris Opera sujet born to dance Mats Ek’s Giselle

STUDENT VIEW
KEVIN TURNER, a graduate of the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, shares his views on dance and life

DANCE DANCE
Visual artist LILIA PEGADO warms to Cloud Gate’s Moon Water

PERFORMANCES
Romantic Englishmen
EMMA MANNING compares the cool sensuality of a Wheeldon premiere with a sepia-tinted Tudor and a full-blooded Ashton

Leningrad Symphony
DONNACHADH McCARTHY finds sparkling gems and negative Soviet baggage at two Mariinsky Theatre galas

Jan Fabre & Isabel van Grimde
KATJA WERNER reports on a disturbing solo in Weimar and digests new pieces in Leipzig

Ek, Kemp, Soup and Psalms
DEBORAH WEISS succumbs to blissful ignorance and breathlessness at Sadler’s Wells

Agon, Rubies and Prism
EMMA MANNING catches up with the San Francisco Ballet in Athens

Snagged, Buterched and Skinned
DONALD HUTERA enjoys a diverse weekend in town

Irish Fare
PAUL CLANCY finds much to commend at Dublin’s first International Dance Festival

Made in New Zealand
JACKIE GRAY chews over homegrown dance at the Third Auckland Dance Festival

Swans and Kitris
DONNACHADH McCARTHY crosses a bridge to see the Bolshoi Ballet in Savonlinna

A(t)tempting Beauty
ALISON KENT is entertained and moved by Philip Taylor’s latest piece

FEATURES
Honesty in Cultural Diversity?
MELANIE NIX shares her experiences working as a choreographer on a British/African collaboration

Will The Real Turkey Please Stand Up?
NICHOLAS ROWE assesses Turkey’s thriving dance culture at the second Dance Platform in Ankara

BRIEF REVIEWS
English National Ballet

Rome & Jewels

Opera North

Dance Theatre of Ireland

Choreftes

Snjezana Premus & Ignaz Schick

Andreja Rauch & John Sweeney

Naked Fish

Gary Rowe Company

Riverdance

Northern Ballet Theatre

Tantztheater Heidelberg

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre

Company in Space

Akram Khan Company

American Ballet Theatre

Verve

Transitions

Vena Ramphal

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