Dance Europe issue #84

Issue #84
April
2005

On the cover:
Royal Ballet principal Zenaida Yanowsky in Les Biches

Photo: Bill Cooper

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REGULARS
Editorial
Entre Nous
Auditions/Jobs
European Performance Diary

PEOPLE
ZENAIDA YANOWSKY
MAGGIE FOYER meets the French-born Spanish dancer who has made the Royal Ballet her home

MARGUERITE DONLON
JAMES WOODALL tracks down an Irish woman in Saarbrucken

YOKO ICHINO
DEBORAH WEISS asks NBT’s resident guest teacher: “So How Was Your Day?”

OBITUARY
New York City Ballet dancer Victor Castelli

FEATURES
Antony’s Dancing Ballets
LEO KERSLEY recalls nine ballets Tudor created during the 30s

Classics Reinvented
DEBORAH WEISS questions—choreographic catharsis or catastrophe?

Japanese Summary
Highlights of this issue translated by YUKI NAGANO

PERFORMANCES
Sylvia and Giselle
EMMA MANNING considers the fate of two legendary maidens dragged into the 21st century

13 minutes and more…
JAMES WOODALL savours sweet authority and thrilling tension in Mainz

Resolution! part 2
DONALD HUTERA soldiers on…

Exit, Ink and Balance
DANIEL WALTON mourns the break up of a fabulous group of dancers while ALI MAHBOUBA heads for the transquil

Mahler in Strasbourg
MAGGIE FOYER is moved by two works set to Gustav Mahler

Nelken and Palermo
DONNACHADH McCARTHY and MAGGIE FOYER react to Pina Bausch’s prop-strewn stages

Harald
EMMA MANNING contemplates a homage to one of Denmark’s legends

La Traviata
THOM SHAW weighs up a balletic take on Dumas’s lovers

Front Porch and Kisses
MAGGIE FOYER assesses two Nordic triple bills

Stars in New York
TIM MARTIN reviews a glitzy evening at the Lincoln Center


BRIEF REVIEWS
Birmingham Royal Ballet

Thomas Hauert

Moscow City Ballet

Australian Dance Theatre

Tiroler Landestheater

Ballet du Capitole

Company Thor

Richard Alston Dance Company

Bayerisches Staatsballett

Cullberg Ballet

Scottish Dance Theatre

Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker and Salva Sanchis

Robyn Orlin

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