December 2016
Dancing Times, December 2016 Volume 107 Issue 1276
Cover Stories
17 – Art and love. Matthew Bourne and Ashley Shaw tell Zoë Anderson about The Red Shoes
23 – Bright young things. Nicola Rayner meets Strictly’s AJ Pritchard and Chloe Hewitt
33 – Another opening, another show. How dance companies get us to buy tickets, by Paul Arrowsmith
58 – Anastasia. Jonathan Gray reviews The Royal Ballet’s latest revival
Features
27 – Antwerp’s Royal Ballet School by Jenny Veldhuis
30 – The Taglioni of horsewomen. Caitlyn Lehmann looks at the life of Camille Leroux
39 – A new trend? With increasing numbers of older artists appearing in performances, Jeannette Andersen wonders if this is the start of a new era in dance?
Dance Today
74 – Cha-cha-cha changes. Nicola Rayner at the 2016 International Championships
78 – Christmas dancing. Zoë Anderson finds out where to go festive dancing
80 – Tips on technique by James Whitehead
81 – Technique clinic by Phil Meacham
82 – Simon’s Guide to Swing by Simon Selmon
83 – Stepping Out by Marianka Swain
84 – Notes from the dance floor
86 – Somewhere in time by Jack Reavely
Regulars
6 – News. The Royal Ballet DVD box set competition, Scottish Ballet plans, National Dance Award nominations announced
12 – Letters
15 – Talking Point by Neil Norman
43 – Variety Lights. Barbara Newman sees Side Show and Lulu
45 – Letter from St Petersburg by Igor Stupnikov
47 – Notes from New York by Jack Anderson
49 – Media. New books and DVDs
51 – Dance Scene. Reviews this month include Dance Umbrella 2016, Jasmin Vardimon Company, Rambert, New English Ballet Theatre, Royal Swedish Ballet, the Ballet of La Scala, Milan
89 – People. Roberta Marquez farewell, Liam Scarlett, Nicholas Legat celebrations in London
90 – Dancer of the Month. Margaret Willis meets English National Ballet’s Rina Kanehara
95 – Obituaries. Yvette Chauviré, Ellis Ann Rothenberg, Edward Griffiths
99 – Products
102 – Education. Dance Proms 2016
105 – Fire and light. Debbie Malina considers the role fire has played in shaping the stories of many of our theatres
109 – Classified
111 – Calendar
118 – Listings
122 – Last Dance. We look back to December 1976