April 2024 Issue Rupert Christiansen Tough Nutcracker The Swans of Harlem: Fifty Years of Sisterhood, Five Black Ballerinas, One Incredible Story By Karen Valby LR
November 2023 Issue Rupert Christiansen Just Dance Dynamo, Michael Somes: A Life in the Royal Ballet By Sarah Woodcock LR
June 2023 Issue Lucy Moore Pointe Taken Don’t Think, Dear: On Loving and Leaving Ballet By Alice Robb LR
November 2022 Issue David Jays Just Dance Mr B: George Balanchine’s Twentieth Century By Jennifer Homans LR
September 2022 Issue Miranda Seymour Dancing Up a Storm Diaghilev’s Empire: How the Ballets Russes Enthralled the World By Rupert Christiansen LR
June 2022 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dance Like There’s No Yesterday La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern By Lynn Garafola LR
August 2021 Issue Rupert Christiansen Taking a Bow Clement Crisp Reviews: Six Decades of Dance By Gerald Dowler (ed) LR
December 2017 Issue Rupert Christiansen The Show Goes On Behind the Scenes at the Ballets Russes: Stories from a Silver Age By Michael Meylac (Translated by Rosanna Kelly)
October 2016 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dancing on Thin Ice Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian Ballet from the Rule of the Tsars to Today By Simon Morrison LR
September 2016 Issue Rupert Christiansen Ballet Good Show Wrights & Wrongs: My Life in Dance By Peter Wright with Paul Arrowsmith LR
February 2015 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dancing Queen Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo By Victoria Tennant LR
December 2010 Issue Rupert Christiansen Heavenly Movement Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet By Jennifer Homans LR
April 2008 Issue Henrietta Garnett Maynard’s Muse Bloomsbury Ballerina: Lydia Lopokova, Imperial Dancer and Mrs John Maynard Keynes By Judith Mackrell LR
February 2013 Issue Rupert Christiansen White Swan Tatiana Leskova: A Ballerina at Large (Translated by Donald E Scrimgeour) By Suzana Braga LR
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