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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.
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
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