The best advice I ever received
The truth is like oil. It always comes to the surface.
The advice I would pass on
Patience and humility.
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REST OF Issue 9 – Feb 2024
50 episodes of Why Dance Matters
Olga Smirnova marks 50 episodes of the RAD podcast, writes David Jays.
Dance Gazette Top 40
Music and dance are intimately linked. Sanjoy Roy explores this essential relationship, and we share the Dance Gazette Top 40 – music for movement ranging through place, time and style.
Inside the music
Dancers are often praised for musicality – but what does that mean? Lyndsey Winship asks dancers, musicians and coaches at The Fonteyn.
Scene Change
Ballet classics can contain beloved dance and music – but also outdated cultural stereotypes. Can we reimagine them? Phil Chan offers a sound solution to problematic music.
Think fig
Ballet, music and more are on the syllabus at the Fig Club in Erbil, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Bekir Aydoğan visits the only RAD-registered school in Iraq.
Power in Motion
Darcey Bussell helps launch the RAD’s new leadership training programme.
Holly Pooley
Australian teacher Holly Pooley describes the appeal of the Rambert Grades syllabus – and why RAD teachers should explore it.
Jonathan Lo
Australian Ballet’s music director picks favourite tracks from Beethoven to Michael Bublé.
Swan songs
The RAD’s Silver Swans programme brings older students to ballet classes. As the RAD launches the next stage of the programme, Emily May meets dancers in Germany and the UK.
Fight the power
Celebrating 50 years of hip hop, expert voices – including the rapper Ice T – talk dance, relevance and sneakers.
Music matters
Dancers and singers live and breathe music. In this special audio feature, we visit the Royal Opera House in London to ask a leading soprano and principal ballerina about working with music, and how it feels to perform to a mighty score.