Issue #81
January
2005

On the cover:
Tetsuya Kumakawa in K Ballet’s Don Quixote

Photo: Jin Kimoto

REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
TETSUYA KUMAKAWA
EMMA MANNING visits K Ballet in Tokyo

GAILENE STOCK & ELIZABETH PLATEL
English or French School? MAGGIE FOYER and FRANCOIS FARGUE discuss the differences with the directors of the Royal Ballet and Paris Opera Schools

JEANETTE SIDDALL
DEBORAH WEISS asks the Arts Council’s Director of Dance: “So How Was Your Day?”

ERROL PICKFORD
EMMA MANNING meets the former Royal Ballet principal turned teacher and coach

OBITUARIES
Dame Alicia Markova, Mark Arvin, Maude Lloyd, Serge Lavoie and Uwe Scholz

FEATURES
FOCUS ON ESTONIA
STUART SWEENEY discusses the country’s past and future with Priit Raud and Tiit Harm

JAPANESE SUMMARY
Highlights of the January issue translated by YUKI NAGANO

PERFORMANCES
Diabelli & Fearful
JAMES WOODALL encounters inventive choreography in Mainz

Fancy Free, In the Night & Far from Denmark
WILLIAM ANTHONY sees the Danes tackle Robbins and domestic vaudeville

Morgen Gestorben
DANIEL WALTON weighs up the latest piece from Hans Hof Ensemble

2Lips and dancers and space
JAMES BEECHEY watches NDTIII drawn into Robert Wilson’s austere world

Perrault’s Tales
EMMA MANNING admires fairy tales in London and Paris

Devils’ Holiday
MAGGIE FOYER encounters an old Ashton gem and diverts

The Hard Nut
STUART SWEENEY has praise for Mark Morris’ take on Tchaikovsky