Dance Europe issue #71

Issue #71
February
2004

On the cover:
Dancer of the Year Alina Cojocaru in the Royal Ballet’s Cinderella

Photo: Dee Conway

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REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

READERS’ POLL
ALINA COJOCARU
Royal Ballet principal dancer voted Dancer of the Year

DAVID NIXON
Northern Ballet Theatre’s director voted Director of the Year

THE KIROV BALLET
Voted Company of the Year

PEOPLE
YURI GRIGOROVICH
EMMA MANNING meets the former artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet

ALEXEI RATMANSKY
MARGARET WILLIS catches up with the Bolshoi’s new director

MARK WELFORD
DEBORAH WEISS asks So How Was Your Day?

BRUNO BELTRAO
in conversation with KATJA WERNER

FEATURES
Pinning down the Butterfly
MAGGIE FOYER takes a look at Dance and Copyright

www.criticaldance.com
Log onto the Politics and Dance link

Letters & Comments
from Breda Pretnar, Fr. Martin Hislop, Martin Campbell and Olivia Dow

Le Concours
EMMA MANNING sits in on the gruelling promotions selection at the Paris Opera

COMPANY CONTACTS
The third and final part of Dance Europe’s updated company contact information for dancers seeking work

PERFORMANCES
Resolution! part one
DONALD HUTERA dips boldly into the potentially thrilling, the hugely suspect and the eminently forgettable

Lulu - A Monster Tragedy
GERALD SIEGMUND in search of the monster tragedy

Page’s Nutcracker
VIKI WESTALL encounters a new take on Tchaikovsky’s seasonal fare

Paris and Russians
EMMA MANNING digests Grigorovich’s Ivan while FRANCOIS FARGUE contemplates Balanchine and his taste in women

Le Ballet d’Europe
FRANCOIS FARGUE on the launch of a new company in Marseille

Attitudes Passionelles
KATJA WERNER is left speculating in a Munich bank

Orfeo Shows/Operation Orfeo
DANIEL WALTON goes Greek with Scapino in Rotterdam

BRIEF REVIEWS
Sarah Goldfarb - L’art du Plongeon

The Royal Ballet - Cinderella

English National Ballet - The Nutcracker

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company

Ballett Frankfurt - Ricercar

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