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Review: 24 October 2008
A Tribute to Jerome Robbins
The Paris Opera Ballet marks the tenth anniversary of the American choreographer's death.

Review: 10 October 2008
New York City Ballet in Paris: Great Expectations, Disappointment for Some
European dance critic Patricia Boccadoro weighs in on the first visit of the American troupe to the Paris Opera in 43 years.

Review: 21 September 2008
Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal
The Canadian dance company marks the 400th anniversary of the city of Québec.

Portrait: 7 September 2008
Hervé Moreau
Patricia Boccadoro on Paris Opera Ballet star Hervé Moreau.

News: 4 September 2008
Coming Soon to DVD: John Neumeier's Lady of the Camellias
The recent filming of John Neumeier's La Dame aux Camélias at the Palais Garnier features Paris Opera Ballet stars Agnès Letestu and Stéphane Bullion.

Review: 13 August 2008
Swedish Cross-Dressing Mocks Catholic Spain
The wild violence and cruelty of Mats Ek's creation profoundly shocked Catholic Spain.

Review: 28 July 2008
Evolution: Balanchine, Nureyev, Forsythe
A recent evening at the Paris Opera Ballet sought to demonstrate the evolution of classical ballet over the past one hundred years.

Review: 25 June 2008
East Meets West in Sacred Monsters
Sylvie Guillem and Akram Khan at the Theatre des Champs Elysées.

Feature: 27 May 2008
Finland's Tero Saarinen Triumphs at Paris Dance Festival
Attractive music, extravagant staging, glamorous costumes and a particularly inventive use of videos marked the recent Chatelet Dance Festival in Paris

Review: 5 May 2008
Angelin Preljocaj: Myth, Muscle and the Wrong Music
Half-men, half-horses flex their muscular bodies to produce startling sculptural effects in Centaures but even near-nakedness won't distract an audience from the torture of the music in the Frenchman's new work,Eldorado.

News: 19 April 2008
Pina Bausch Agrees to Film of Orpheus and Eurydice
Broadcast recently at primie-time on French and German television, it is the first time that the German choreographer has accepted to have one of her works recorded on film.

Exhibition: 1 April 2008
Paris Exhibition Honors Roland Petit
"The Grand 'Old' Man of French ballet, Roland Petit, will probably go down in dance annals as the most important French choreographer of the 20th century", writes Patricia Boccadoro.

Interview: 17 March 2008
Rudolf Nureyev at 70 According to Ariane Dollfus
Born 17 March 1938, Rudolf Nureyev would have been 70 today. Patricia Boccadoro talks to French journalist Ariane Dollfus about her new biography of the celebrity Russian dancer.

Feature
Spartacus and His Gladiator Slaves Battle Roman Legions at the Bolshoi
The Bolshoi returns to Paris with three programmes including Grigorovich's Spartacus.

Review
Darwin's Evolution Theory Survives Paris Opera Ballet
British choreographer Wayne McGregor's Genus, a ballet inspired by Charles Darwin's book On the Origin of Species.

Reader Comment
Nureyev: Everything He Ever Said or Did
Kathy Costello in Massachusetts comments on Dance editor Patricia Boccadoro's review of Nureyev: The Life by Julie Kavanagh.

Book Review
Nureyev: Everything He Ever Said or Did
Patricia Boccadoro reviews the latest book about the world's most famous dancer.

Review :
Robyn Orlin's Three-Ring Circus
Dance critic Patricia Boccadoro on the ultra-contemporary and controversial South African choreographer, Robyn Orlin.

Review :
Kabuki Stars Take Centre Stage in Paris
Parisians were treated to two magnificent Kabuki dramas performed by the  Ichikawa family on their first visit to the French capital.


Episodes
Choreography: Balanchine
New York City Ballet
Photo: Paul Kolnik

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