Dancing Times Magazine November 2016 Back Issue

This issue of Dancing Times sees the first in a series of extracts taken from the unpublished memoirs of the ballerina Nadia Nerina, beginning with her description of the creation of Frederick Ashton’s masterpiece, La Fille mal gardée, for which she was the first-cast Lise, and which has recently been revived by The Royal Ballet at the start of its 2016–17 season. Written before her death in 2008, and reproduced by kind permission of her estate, Nerina’s memoirs describe her early life in South Africa and her wonderful career during the 1950s and 1960s. In future issues we hope to publish her recollections of appearing with the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets in the Soviet Union in 1960, as well as her celebrated performances with The Royal Ballet.
Also this month, we take a look at the thorny issue of the copyright of dance works, meet two new Strictly Come Dancing professionals, Neil and Katya Jones, highlight a fascinating new exhibition at Stockholm’s Dansmuseet on black dance in Paris in the 1920s, talk to our Dancer of the Month, The Royal Ballet’s Reece Clarke, and record some of the wonderful moments in One Dance UK’s Together for Dance fundraising gala.