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People
12 Altynai Asylmuratova
CATHERINE PAWLICK calls in on the former Kirov
ballerina who now directs the Vaganova Academy
16 Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
MAGGIE FOYER catches up with the Belgian
choreographer
53 Obituary
Todd Bolender, artistic director, Kansas City Ballet
54 Mikko Nissenen
TIM MARTIN meets Boston Ballet’s Finnish director
Regulars
6 Entre Nous
11 Editorial
21 Letters
45 AUDITIONS
65 Performance
Diary
70 People Page
Photos: Vaganova Academy, Tony Higgins, Bill Cooper
Contents
Features
20 The Credentials Bait
VANINA and DENNIS WILSON question whether university
programmes are valid for dancers who want to dance
26 What are they looking for
Bertrand d’At, Janet Smith, Mehmet Balkan, Ted Brandsen,
Victor Ullate and Wayne Eagling advise on auditions
43 The Fall of Milosevic
Random dancer CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM shares
a moment in history
38 Punters on Rosas
Audience comments on a Dance Umbrella programme
59 Critics and the Public
Contrasting views on the Dutch National Ballet
69 Japanese Summary
YUKI NAGANO translates some of the
highlights in this issue
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Performances
22 Pulcinella, Apollo, Firebird and Romeo
DEBORAH WEISS hankers for a less familiar rep but
praises BRB’s dancers
32 Cervantes in Toulouse
FRANÇOIS FARGUE applauds Ballet du Capitole’s Don Q
34 Dutch National in London
EMMA MANNING on triumphs from Amsterdam
36 Umbrella
ELIZABETH OLD, JOEL STUBBS and MAGGIE FOYER
round up the second part of Val Bourne’s last Umbrella
40 N.O.W. dance Saar
JAMES WOODALL visits a “natural, objective, wakeful”
happening in Germany’s South West
51 CaDance in The Hague
ALI MAHBOUBA goes along with his intuition...
56 Dodge, Kieffer & Elo
TIM MARTIN at large in New York
Ballet du Capitole - Maria Gutierrez and Breno Bittencourt in Don Quixote.
Photo: Patrice Nin
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