Dancing Times - 07.2018

The delicate dance moves speak a thousand words on stage and dance surely touches the millions of people around the world. It is the one activity that is common to different parts of the globe and has been practiced by people for a long time. It is a monthly publication that is devoted to stage dancing. Stage performances of dancing are one of the most effective portrayals of art in the highest form. The artists have to give their best every time they perform on stage and there are no second takes.

*** Last month, Dancing Times went stateside. This month, there is a definite Russian feel to the magazine. Margaret Willis reports from the Arabesque Ballet Competition in Perm, there is also the second part of Gerald Dowler’s Ballet in the Soviet Union, Jane Pritchard introduces a collection of costumes and archive material at the Victoria and Albert Museum relating to the great choreographer Bronislava Nijinska, and, of course, we include Igor Stupnikov’s regular Letter from St Petersburg. Russian ballet also turns up in unexpected places – who knew there was a Bolshoi Ballet School in Brazil, revealed in the latest instalment of Fátima Nollén’s guide to Brazil, or that our Dancer of the Month, Ballet Black’s José Alves, studied there? It seems the world of dance is both bigger and smaller than we ever realised. ***