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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Will the Internet Keep Critics Honest?
"What started to happen when the public Internet became widely available from the middle 1990's on was that non-professional reviewers started to post their reviews of movies and any arts performance often just hours after the show was completed."

Scott Wells and Dancers
"Scott Wells & Dancers flew through the air last night at the Project Artaud Theater. With captivating lifts and contact movement, Wells seemed poised to take our breath away, but I left without needing an inhaler, a slight shame in the scheme of things."

Prokofiev's original Romeo and Juliet
"Fascinating article in today's Independent about Prokofiev's improvement on shakespeare that was vetoed by Joseph Stalin."

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