Remembering Nureyev: The Trail of a Comet
By Rudi van Dantzig. Translation by Katie de Haan
Reviewed by Leland Windreich
Yes, Virginia, another book about Nureyev. This will be number eight in my home library, and I don’t have all that have been published. But this study does not start with the dancer’s birth on a Siberian train..
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State of the Art: Czech Dance Platform
by Stuart Sweeney -- April, 2008, Prague
Akram Khan Company and the National Ballet of China - 'bahok'
by David Mead -- May 13, 2008, Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
Through dialogue and dance “bahok” explores relationships between people stuck in an airport departure lounge. It’s a place most of us will have experienced at some time, and choreographer Akram Khan has brilliantly captured the feeling of long periods of boredom punctuated by bursts of energy and hope as the departure board that dominates the stage flickers into life, only for it to be immediately doused as “delayed” or “please wait” appears once more.
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Maly-Mussorgsky/Mikhailovsky Ballet - 'Spartacus'
by Catherine Pawlick -- 16 May 2008, Mikhailovsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia
Pennsylvania Ballet - 'Carnival of the Animals'
by Lori Ibay -- June 7, 2008, Academy of Music, Philadelphia
Robyn Orlin & City Theatre and Dance Company - 'We Must Eat Our Lollipops With The Wrappers On'
by David Mead -- May 16, 2008, Repertory Theatre, Birmingham
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