Dance and Dancers 1978 Directory

December 1978

-The queen of spades
-Australian festival of dance
-Scottish Ballet working in many areas
-Irish Ballet's Playboy of the western world
-RB at ROH

November 1978

-Three generations of British choreography for SWRB
-Interview with Sara Rudner
-Romeo and Juliet and Les sylphides for Northern Ballet Theatre
-The last of summer for RB at ROH
-London Festival Ballet at the Royal Festival Hall
-Ballet Rambert at the Round House
-Asami Maki Classical Dance Company of Tokio at the Wimbledon Theatre
-Leda and the swan on BBC2
-Wuppertal Dance Theatre in Edinburgh
-ABT at the Met: summer survey

October 1978

-Scottish Ballet's Napoli
-Interview with Gatehouse and Darden
-Hamburg Ballet's Sleeping beauty
-Nureyev festival at the London Coliseum
-Gala ballet season at the Royal Festival Hall
-Spanish dance at Sadler's Wells
-Lunchtime ballet at the Arts Theatre
-Robert Wilson and Lucinda Childs at the Royal Court Theatre
-Baryshnikov's Don Quixote
-Paul Taylor Dance Company at City Center
-Martha Graham Dance Company at Met
-Final round-up of 77/78 season in Germany
-National Choreographic Summer School

September 1978

-Batsheva Dance Company's first London season
-Balanchine and sons
-Interview with Paul Sanasardo
-Hungarian State Ballet at the Montecarlo Festival
-Ballet Rambert at the Round House
-Nikolais Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells
-Dutch National Ballet and Netherlands Dance Theatre in Amsterdam and The Hague

August 1978

-Festival Ballet's season at the London Coliseum
-Irish Ballet's Shadow-Reach and Othello
-Interview with Joan Denise Moriarty
-New works for Northern Ballet Theatre
-RB School 's annual performance at Covent Garden and the following week at the Wimbledon Theatre
-Theatre Ballet of London at the Richmond Theatre
-Ballet Internacional de Caracas at Sadler's Wells
-Dancing in galas
-Dance at Dartington
-POB school at the Salle Favart
-Ballets de Marseille at the Théatre de la Ville
-Ballet de Lorraine at the Grand Théatre

July 1978

-Stuttgart home and away
-Tamara Karsavina
-Interview with Peter Schaufuss
-Steps, notes and squeaks: the show devised by Maina Gielgud
-SWRB at Sadler's Wells
-The second ADMA festival
-Lunchtime ballet at the Arts Theatre
-Béjart's Gaité parisienne

June 1978

-Nureyev in two worlds
-Interview with Richard Alston
-Creations and revivals for SWRB
-RB's Swan lake
-Scottish Ballet's spring tour
-Ballet Rambert workshop at Riverside Studios
-Baroque dance at the English Bach Festival
-POB's Soirée Balanchine
-POB School at the Salle Favart
-Carlson's Year of the horse
-Sleeping beauty in Catania, Rome, Milan

May 1978

-Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet for London Festival Ballet, Grigorovich's Romeo and Juliet for POB in Paris
-Araiz's Romeo and Juliet for the Jeoffrey Ballet in NY
-20th Century Fox's The turning point
-Interview with Desmond Kelly
-Danish classic restored: The toreador
-RB's The firebird and Song of the Earth
-Pilobolus Dance Theatre at Sadler's Wells
-Germany's 77/78 season

April 1978

-Ballet Rambert's celebration of Dame Marie Rambert's 90th birthday
-Mayerling revisited
-Interview with Nadine Baylis
-New choreographers in Stuttgart and Glasgow
-Scottish Ballet's Nework '78
-SWRB's triple bill at Stratford
-London Contemporary Dance Theatre at Oxford
-Ballet Théatre Contemporain at Sadler's Wells

March 1978

-Mayerling
-Ballet Rambert's Praeludium
-Interview with John Lanchbery
-RB's triple bills
-Balanchine in Hungary
-NBoC
-NYCB
-Paul Taylor Dance Company
-77/78 season in Milan, Venice, Rome

February 1978

-Survey '77
-A Lancashire Coppelia
-Ballet Théatre Contemporain in three works by American choreographers
-Interview with Zoltam Imre
-RB's The taming of the Shrew
-Nureyev's Romeo and Juliet in Birmingham
-Scottish Balllet's The nutcracker
-POB's Homage to Lifar
-Ballet of the 20th century at the Théatre de la Ville
-Jeoffrey Ballet at the City Center Theater

January 1978

-Vassiliev in Béjart's Petroushka
-London Contemporary Dance Theatre's season at Sadler's Wells
-Recent creations for the Dutch National Ballet
-A good night's Sleep
-Americans in Paris: Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, Pilobolus, Théatre du Silence, Bella Lewitsky, Carlson's The Beginning...and the End
-Caciuleanu's ballets in Nancy
-Soloists of the Royal Danish Ballet at Jacob's Pillow