June 2022 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dance Like There’s No Yesterday La Nijinska: Choreographer of the Modern By Lynn Garafola 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)
February 2015 Issue Rupert Christiansen Dancing Queen Irina Baronova and the Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo By Victoria Tennant 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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