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JULY
2005
in this issue
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interviews
& features
 An Interview with Katita Waldo
by Dean Speer and Francis Timlin
It's interesting that for about
the last four or five years of my performing career, I've looked to and
have been focusing on basic training. Going to my roots, so to speak!
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more...
 Talking
with Irish Dancer Jean Butler
by Shane McGinley
Whilst studying drama, Jean received
an invitation from producers Moya Doherty and John McColgan to star in
a ten-minute stage production called "Riverdance" and, as they
say, the rest is history!
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more...
Bode Lawal's Post-Modern African Dance
by Thea Nerissa Barnes
Bode Lawal is an exponent of traditional African dance but is currently devising alternative, syncretic dance making strategies for his company, SAKOBA.
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Kirov in London 2005: Preview
Preview
by Catherine Pawlick
...the illustrious Kirov Ballet returns to the Royal Opera House
for two weeks in July with five programs that display the range
and depth of the company’s repertoire on their most talented
and well-known dancers.
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more...
Interview with Kirov Ballet Artistic Director, Makhar Vasiev
by Cassandra
"Others must evaluate
my achievements. What makes me happier is achieving a goal already
in the past -- a new prospective."
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more...
Kirov Ballet - A Choreographic Journey
by Catherine Pawlick
June 9, 2005-- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
This week the Kirov Ballet
danced a well-rounded program.
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more...
Kirov
Ballet - 'The Magic Nut'
by Catherine Pawlick
June 4, 2005-- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
For this premiere, Prince
Charming saves the day, but only in time for Fate to boomerang
and deliver him a blow of condemnation.
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 Paul
Taylor Dance Company: 'Cloven Kingdom,' 'Lost, Found, and Lost,'
'Company B'
By Hanna Takeshige - April
3, 2005, Yerba Buena Center, San Francisco
The Paul Taylor Dance
Company is currently celebrating its landmark "first 50 years".
Much cause for celebration is in order for the vast body of innovative
dance works this company has produced, all of which have been
choreographed by Paul Taylor.
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more...
Paul
Taylor Dance Company: Promethean Pilot Light
By Dean Speer - Meany Hall,
Seattle, Washington
Paul Taylor used to be one of my choreographic heroes. His stature
was diminished slightly in my eyes by the showing of three of
his latest dances. By his own admission in his quite wonderful
autobiography, "Private Domain," Taylor purports to
work very hard at not repeating himself. I’ve long agreed
that he had been successful at this until now.
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more...
 Paul
Taylor Dance Company: Taylor's Muse of Fire
By Stephen Arnold - July 3,
2004, Jacob's Pillow, Massachusetts
Because in 2000 Jacob’s Pillow asked Paul Taylor for a new
work, Deborah Jowitt asked Taylor in a public forum held to proclaim
that work in Blake’s Barn (a restored late 18th century
barn donated by and named in honor of the dancer son of Marge
Champion (Disney’s model for Snow White) to the 18th century
farm now called Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival and used by
the Pillow as library, archive, education, and welcome center)
what his works were about. Taylor sphinx-like answered, “Death,”
and then he asked, “Can there be anything else?”
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more...
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Selected topics from the forum
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Paul
Taylor Dance Company 2004-2005
"Klezmerbluegrass honors an even more venerable anniversary
than Taylor can lay claim to. The piece was commissioned by the
National Foundation for Jewish Culture to celebrate 350 years
of Jewish life in America."
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more...
Paul
Taylor Dance Company 2003-2004
"Wow, Paul Taylor Dance Company gets more good news
they are nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production
- 'Promethean Fire.'"
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more...
Taylor
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"American modern dance legend Paul Taylor returns to the
Bay Area this weekend."
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more...
Taylor
Company Visits Houston 2003
"Paul Taylor is no Rush Limbaugh."
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more...
Paul
Taylor Dance Company 2002-2003
"We have an astonishing amount of material from the past
three years about the Paul Taylor Dance Company as they toured
the US and the World."
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more...
Paul
Taylor Dance Company in the UK 2003
"Anna Kisselgoff of The New York Times said of "Promethean
Fire" that it was one of the best works by Taylor. I'm hearing
so much about it that I worry I may be expecting too much!!"
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more...
Paul
Taylor Dance Company 1999-2000
"Macau, an hour away from Hong Kong, was the first stop of
the distinguished Paul Taylor Dance Company's Asia-Pacific tour
which also includes Jakarta and Auckland."
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more...
Paul
Taylor Dance Company Nov 2000/Oct 2002
"OUch, that hurt! Although Tobias claims that Taylor hasn't
done anything earthshaking in the past 10 years or so, any choreographer
who has choreographed "Esplanade", "Sunset",
"Runes","Sports and Follies", "Airs"
and "Big Bertha" certainly deserves every accolade we
can throw at him forevermore."
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more...
Paul
Taylor on film - Dancemaker
"I highly recommend the film, if anyone can get a chance
to see it on TV or in a theater."
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more...
Paul
Taylor London 2000
"As the reviews indicate, the Paul Taylor Company was very
well received in London."
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reviews
 Pennsylvania
Ballet - 'Romeo and Juliet'
by Lori Ibay
June 10, 2005-- Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Ballet capped off another successful season with "Romeo and Juliet". Friday evening's performance showed the company in cruise control, like a well-oiled machine driving a familiar course, with hardly a bump in the road.
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more...
 Merce Cunningham Dance Company
- 'Event'
by Cassandra
June 19, 2005-- Barbican, London
Each of the performances of “Event” are unique, with different sets and different musicians, but all use the entire company of dancers. They dance to a complicated montage of sound performed by a trio of musicians...
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more...
 Merce
Cunningham Dance Company - 'Event'
by Lyndsey Winship
June 19, 2005-- Barbican, London
A performance by the Merce Cunningham company would be an event, even if it wasn't named as such. At 86, Cunningham is still seemingly as excited by experimentation as ever.
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more...
 Birmingham Royal Ballet
- Mixed Rep
by David Mead
June 17, 2005-- Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
After the previous week’s rather more serious Stravinsky programme, this was bite-sized ballet with all three works featuring a series of short dances. It also had something for everyone, a tutu ballet, something more modern and a jazzy finale.
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more...
 Pacific
Northwest Ballet - Tribute to Francia Russell and Kent Stowell
by Dean Speer
June 12, 2005-- McCaw Hall, Seattle
The Tribute was an emotional and thrilling roller coaster ride. Very, very well done, the excerpts shown were a complete surprise to the honoring couple until they actually saw them. The exception to this was the announced Liebeslieder Walzer which was a gift from their three sons.
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more...
American Ballet Theatre
- 'Le Corsaire'
by Lori Ibay
June 24, 2005-- Metropolitan Opera House, New York
American Ballet Theatre - 'Le Corsaire'
by Cecly Placenti
June 23, 2005-- Metropolitan Opera House, New York
NewVibes Platform: Meet, Exchange, Engage
by Cerise
June 22-23, 2005-- DanceXchange, Birmingham
American Ballet Theatre
- Fokine Program
by Lori Ibay
June 18, 2005-- Metropolitan Opera House, New York
Kalai
Kaviri Dance Company
by Cerise
June 17, 2005-- St. Martins in the Bullring, Birmingham
Royal Ballet
- 'Inspired by Ashton'
by Cassandra
June 16, 2005-- Linbury Theatre, London
Ballet of the Polish National Opera
- 'Carmen' and 'As If': Heavy on Symbolism
by Catherine Pawlick
June 16, 2005-- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Fresh Meat 2005
by Jessica Robinson
June 16, 2005-- ODC Theater, San Francisco
American Ballet Theatre
- 'Sylvia':Beauty in Simplicity
by Cecly Placenti
June 15, 2005-- Metropolitan Opera House
Nederlands Dans Theater
- 'One of a Kind'
by Maggie Foyer
June 14, 2005-- Sadler's Wells, London
Birmingham Royal Ballet
- Stravinsky Program
by Cassandra
June 11, 2005-- Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
Blue Man Group - 'Tubes': Grist for the Mill
by Jeff Kuo
June 11, 2005-- Charles Playhouse, Boston
Pacific Northwest Ballet
- 'Silver Lining': Better Far Than Gold
by Dean Speer
June 4 and 11, 2005-- McCaw Hall, Seattle
Birmingham Royal Ballet - Stravinsky Program
by David Mead
June 8, 2005-- Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham
Vaganova Academy - Graduation Performance
by Catherine Pawlick
June 6, 2005-- Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Eifman Ballet - 'Red Giselle'
by Andre Yew
June 6, 2005--Orange County Performing Arts Center, Costa Mesa, California
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American Ballet Theatre - 'Sylvia'
by Jerry Hochman
June 3 and 4, 2005-- Metropolitan Opera House, New York
Jess Curtis/GRAVITY - 'Touched': Touched but not quite touché
by Rebecca Hirschman
June 2, 2005-- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Peter Schaufuss Ballet - 'Harald'
by Kate Snedeker
May 29, 2005-- Opera House, Copenhagen
New Art Club - 'The Electric Tales'
by Lyndsey Winship
May 28, 2005-- The Purcell Room, London
New Baltic Dance 2005 -
by Stuart Sweeney
May 3-9, 2005-- Lithuanian National Drama Theatre, Vilnius, Lithuania
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Royal Theatre, Copenhagen 
Congratulations on the Festival!
Day
8: Final Gala
A
Festival Diary 
Bournonville's
House