contents 10.04

the olympics' grand opening
was one of this year's most acclaimed choreographies. Dimitris Papaioannou was the nation's hero. But was anyone expecting more than a nationalist cliché? Asks Natasha Hassiotis

news
War and peace in Avignon: Thomas Hahn on morning-after feelings and other unpleasant after-effects in the South of France / Dance fair: Düsseldorf is a city of dance, says Bertram Müller of tanzhaus nrw. Visit us there - stand L 42 from 29 September to 2 October / Chemnitz in China: Germany's East in the Far East / New books: by Kazuo Ohno and about Merce Cunningham / The death of flamenco star Antonio Gades / How does one get a colossus like the Opéra de Paris moving, Mme Lefèvre? / Obituaries: Bella Lewitzky, Betty Oliphant and Imanol Larzabal

outline  body values
Does globalisation affect dance?
Not as long as dance defines itself as chief promoter of trans-global physical languages. But now, it seems, the World Trade Organisation has a say in the matter. Mario Stumpfe sees trouble ahead

outline  rui horta
rose to fame with the S.O.A.P. Dance Theatre. Then he left Germany to breathe life into a former monastery in Montemor-o-Novo in his Portuguese homeland. Today it is one of the finest research centres for dance in the world. By Arnd Wesemann

Go to the opera!
For a hundred years dance tried to emancipate itself from opera. Now dance is coming back - not remorsefully, but triumphantly! Exuberant crowd scenes and wild dancing are used as an antidote to the exaggerated intellectuality of directors' theatre

More Venus mounds than ever seen before. Love and sexuality from Brussels: Jan Fabre stages Wagner's "Tannhäuser" and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker presents Mishima's "Hanjo". Hartmut Regitz looked twice.

Choreographer Joachim Schlömer is known as a dance theatre man. Since his departure from Basel, he has increasingly turned his attentions to the opera. Hartmut Regitz explains why.

When love pinches. Emio Greco's "Orfeo ed Euridice" in Edinburgh, reviewed by Lilo Weber

Freeing movement from music. Michael Seaver on some questions regarding the phenomenon of "prima la musica"

Roland Pfrengle on music and dance and their mutual dependence Notes from Gerhard Bohner's composer

Also: Frieder Reininghaus and Katja Schneider present a handbook on experimental music and dance theatre

On stage
Sidi Larbi Cerhaoui: "Tempus fugit" in Avignon
Lynda Gaudreau: "Research-Labo Document 4" in Munich
Kader Belarbi: "Les Epousés" in Paris
Jo Kanamori: "Shikaku" in Tokyo
Martine Pisani: "Bande à part" in Hanover
Karole Armitage: "Echoes From the Street" in Venice
Dominique Efstratiou: "Salome" in Potsdam
Ginette Laurin: "Passare Or Another Shape For Infinity" in Ottawa
Spot-check: Philippe Decouflé dances himself
Nibroll: "Dry Flower" in Tokyo
Thomas Langkau, Yoshiko Waki: "Schwund" in Berlin
Alexei Ratmansky: "Lea" in Moscow
Charles Linehan: "New Quartet" and "Grand Junction" in Munich
Frankfurter Küche Leipzig: "As If (It Was Beautiful)" in Vienna
Vladimir Derevianko: "Don Quixote" in Dresden
A letter from Györ: marching and hand-clapping at the Magyar Táncfesztivál

diary
October 2004: international performance schedules, tours, premieres, festivals, exhibitions and dance on TV
By Sofie Goblirsch

dance-art
Love Zoo. Infectious interaction or a controlled experiment in uninhibited physical contact in Felix Ruckert's body-love camp. This menagerie of sensations or sado-masochistic paradise was experienced by Elke Koepping

classifieds
Auditions, jobs, news, prizes, schools, competitions and workshops
By Heike Drisch
Plus: Volkmar Draeger on the Magdeburg ballet school festival
Where to get the best dance training? This issue: NRW, Germany

workshop
The problem of En Dehors. This outwards turning of feet, knees and hips is so ingrained into young ballet dancers that later their everyday posture immediately gives away their training at the barre. Richard Gladstone and Irene Sieben ask if there is no alternative to this professional deformation

in the opinion of...
Raimondo Rebeck. Was the Berlin Ballet treated with such condescension becauseit didn't have enough supporters?

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The great beyond
The peepshow is alluring and its home is Hamburg, St Pauli. Klaus Witzeling on the dance side of the hard-core art and favours business