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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.

Review: 4 March 2008
Keersmaeker's Tornado Watch Hits a Nerve in Paris
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's new work, Zeitung, a piece for 9 dancers set to music by Bach, Webern and Schonberg aims high but falls flat.

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

Feature
Promising Young Dancers in Paris
Two glittering productions by Rudolf Nureyev showcase the future dance stars of the French capital.

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.

Interview
Obsession: A Viennese Nutcracker
Austrian audiences have conservative tastes. Patricia Boccadoro asked Vienna State Director Gyula Harangozó why this was so and what he intended to do about it.

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.

News
Maurice Béjart: 1 January 1927 - 22 November 2007
After many years of ill health, Maurice Béjart, one of the most influential and controversial figures of 20th century ballet has died in Lausanne at the age of 80.

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

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

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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


Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theater
  15 -18 May 2008
at the Teatro Centro Cultural Usiminas
in Ipatinga, Brazil

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