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Ripples Upon the Surface - Swan Lake's Tale of Two Cities
by S.E. Arnold
Yet such was the rush of one's Orphic possession that it often set one loose in a swirling rather than a steady stream of time.
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Dance in Academia
by Elif Isikozlu
How can dance scholarship contribute to the discourse on the body? What is unique about the perspective of the body in dance and how can knowledge generated by dancing bodies and dance researchers contribute to the understanding of the body in other fields?
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High Spin: Using the power of dance theatre to move and inspire
by Annie Wells
High Spin has to be one of Carousel's greatest successes. It is working proof of what people with learning disabilities given the correct opportunities and support can accomplish and contribute to both art and society.
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The beginning of a new era:
New Baltic Dance 04
by Jurate Terleckaite
Distinct from other festivals and an important “crossroads“ in the context of the Eastern and Western European countries, this year's festival was particularly rich and diverse.
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Two-by-two: Preview of the visit of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company to Dance Umbrella 2004
By Donald Hutera
The great octogenarian American choreographer, Merce Cunningham, is returning to Umbrella this year with a tantalising new work called "Split Sides". The title is a nod to the fact that, alongside music by contemporary rock’s great miserablists Radiohead, there is an alternative score courtesy of the otherworldly, head-filling Icelandic band Sigur Rós.
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Big, Beautiful, Bolshoi
by Cassandra
July 2004 -- London
This month the Bolshoi Ballet returns to London with a programme of full-length works for the first time in several years. Much has happened to the company in that time and it could be said that what marks the Bolshoi out from other companies these days is the tendency to wash its dirty linen in public.
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Interview with Maria Alexandrova: London is in for a surprise
by Cassandra
July 2004 -- London
On the opening night of the Bolshoi’s London season, Maria Alexandrova will dance the leading role of Kitri in “Don Quixote”, surprisingly she has only just been promoted to the status of principal dancer...
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'Don Quixote': The Finest
by Cassandra
July 19, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
The Bolshoi has produced some of the finest Kitri's and Basilio's in the business since the ballets inception and indeed the company's sadly absent prima ballerina, Nina Ananiashvili, probably gives the definitive interpretation of the role of Kitri at the present time.
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'Don Quixote': Signature Show-biz Spectacular
by Rosie
July 19, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
Spectacular dancing is the point of "Don Quixote" (it certainly isn't the plot, is it?) and this production had bucket loads of it.
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'Don Quixote': Falling Into Grace
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
July 20, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
It is the journey with its incessant questing that seems most important in Cervantes' book and in the ballet.
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'Swan Lake': Murky Lakes
by Rosie
July 22, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
Originally produced in 1969, the version was considered too dark by the authorities and was banned. In 2001 Grigorovich finally mounted the production he’d originally envisaged with the tragic ending intact. I’m afraid I found it very pedestrian and tired looking.
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'Swan Lake': Symmetry and Psychology
by Patrizia Vallone
July 22-24, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
Prince Siegfried is portrayed as a romantic character who is longing for an ideal love. The Evil Spirit may be seen as a projection of Siegfried's mind, a kind of double that transfers him into an ideal world - the lake.
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'Swan Lake': Corps is the real star of the ballet
by Cassandra
July 24, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
It is the Kirov Ballet that presents probably the most traditional version of 'Swan Lake' to be seen anywhere in the world today and perhaps it is for this reason that the Bolshoi Company feels compelled to do something completely different.
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'Romeo and Juliet': Theory of the Leisure Class
by Cassandra
July 26, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
The dysfunctional Capulets in modern evening dress rather than renaissance costumes made me realise that this family represents an idle leisured class for whom feuding with the neighbours helps fend a off a perpetual state of ennui.
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'Romeo and Juliet': Take No Prisoners
by Lyndsey Winship
July 26, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
In collaboration with choreographer Radu Poklitaru, Donnellan has stripped the work of some of its characters, its sentimentality, even of its ballet.
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'Romeo and Juliet': Love in the Modern Age
by Julia Skene-Wenzel
July 28, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
Stripped of pointe shoes, lavish costumes and virtuosi, the cast is battling through a brave new world.
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'Swan Lake': Unhappily Ever After
by Stuart Sweeney
August 5, 2004 -- The Royal Opera House, London
The good news is that the Bolshoi dancers are on great form. The corps de ballet was impeccable and I have rarely seen such well-matched, synchronised and elegant dancing by men.
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Preview: A Tudor Portrait
by Karen Webb
'The Festival wanted Tudor’s work represented in one program,' Kåge explained in an interview from the Ballet West offices just as the company entered its intensive rehearsal period for the program.
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Trusting Tudor: An Interview with Sally Brayley Bliss
by Dean Speer and Francis Timlin
"The legendary impresario, Sol Hurok made Tudor go out and tell the audience that it wasn't quite done and they could come back and see it when it was complete, which they did!"
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Transitioning Tudor - Staging the Works of Antony Tudor for Ballet West: An Interview with Donald Mahler
by Dean Speer and Francis Timlin
"His sardonic humor was very British, and he could be painful and difficult, but he could also be very inspiring!"
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'All the couples who dance together are in love' - Preview of Ballet West's 'Leaves Are Fading'
by Kate Snedeker
When Ballet West performs in the Edinburgh International Festival this month, the company's repertoire will pay tribute to Antony Tudor, a British-born choreographer who made his mark in the United States.
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'Cinderella'
by Jerry Hochman
July 16, 2004 -- Metropolitan Opera House, New York
In every respect it was a memorable performance of a memorable ballet.
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'Giselle'
by Andre Yew
July 10, 2004 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
Cojocaru danced Giselle with an optimistic innocence throughout, including Act II, which made Giselle's protection of Albrecht that much more believable.
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'Cinderella,' 'Giselle': Ballet with a British Clip
by Dean Speer
July 8-9, 2004 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
While I did very much enjoy Friday night's "Giselle," the real treat for me was seeing Ashton's "Cinderella." Of the Cinderellas that I've seen, I find this one to be one of the most glorious.
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'Cinderella': Made in England
by Jeff Kuo
July 7, 2004 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
As a touring vehicle, the Royal Ballet chose well as this 'Cinderella' not only shows off the company’s dancers to great advantage but shows itself as an organization capable of mounting spectacular productions.
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'Cinderella': A Fairy Tale Experience
by Art Prirompintr
July 5, 2004 -- Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
Cojocaru plays Cinderella as the demure, pretty girl next door who doesn’t seem to notice how beautiful she is because her noisy sisters distract everyone’s attention.
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editors' picks

Los Angeles
· Art Exhibition: Gestures of Life:
Martha Graham’s Legacy Through the Lens of Barbara Morgan
May - October, 2004 - Langson Library Lobby, University of California, Irvine, California
Exhibition of modern dance icon, Martha Graham, as witnessed by the photography of Barbara Brooks Morgan. Curated by Bonnie Oda Homsey.
· Rei Aoo's Dance Planet & Satori Daiko of Taiko Center
August 28, 2004 - Ford Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
A collaboration of traditional Japanese Taiko drums and western dance, 'Origins,' tells the engaging story of how life was created.

New York
· Mark Morris Dance Group - 'Mostly Mozart Festival'
August 19 & 21, 2004, New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York
New dance set to Monteverdi, Haydn, and Bach performed by the Orchestra of St. Luke's.
· Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker & Rosas - 'Mostly Mozart Festival'
August 25 & 27-28, 2004, LaGuardia Concert Hall, Lincoln Center, New York
Moving to Mozart's concert arias, the acclaimed choreographer and her company explore the relationship between the sexes.

San Francisco Bay Area
· Yerba Buena Gardens Choreographers Festival
August 23-27, 2004,12:30 pm, Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
Take your lunch outside and catch free performances by ten local choreographers every day this week.
8/23: Alyssa Wilmot & Danny Nguyen
8/24: Erica Jeffery & Deborah Slater
8/25: Mark Foehringer & XYZ
8/26: Nancy Karp & Fellow Travelers
8/27: Kunst Stoff & Tongue

Philadelphia
· Phrenic New Ballet - Annual Performance
August 11-14, 2004, The Arts Bank Theater, Philadelphia
Phrenic presents new works by Hubbard Street Dance's Lauri Stallings and Pennsylvania Ballet dancer/Phrenic co-artistic director Matthew Neenan.

London
· The Place Prize
September 8,9,10,11, 15(Final), The Place, London
Important new choreographic award. The semi-finals lead to the Final on the 15th August.

· Les Ballet C de la B - 'Wolf'
September 9-11, 2004, Sadler's Wells, London
Featuring 19 musicians, 3 singers, 10 dancers and 14 dogs, Alain Platel's first new show in London for 5 years.

Estonia
· August Dance Festival
kanuti gildi saal, Tallinn
16.-27.08.2004
A collaboration between Springdance, Utrecht and 2.tants Tallinn bringing fine dance from around Europe.

Italy
· Rome Opera Ballet - 'Swan Lake'
August 7, 8, 10, 11, 12 - Caracalla Baths, Rome
Galina Samsova’s production is back in this open air evocative venue

· Léonide Massine Prize Gala
September 4 - Spiaggia Grande, Positano
The 33rd edition of this popular dance award, which mixes young and superstar dancers in one of the most beautiful places in Italy.

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