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John Percival Obituary. The Telegraph. 22 July 2012. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/dance-obituaries/9419042/John-Percival.html

Graham Spicer has posted this on his blog Gramilano. 18 July 2012. "A won­der­fully nat­ural and rare shot of Cuban baller­ina Alicia Alonso in her heyday." http://gramilano.com/2012/07/unseen-photos-alicia-alonso/#.UAxeoKPhfOM

Leo Kersley obituary. Judith Cruickshank. The Guardian. 17 July 2012. http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/jul/17/leo-kersley

"Irek Mukhamedov - a legend in ballet" The Voice of Russia http://ruvr.co.uk/radio_broadcast/77030634/80997467.html Audio Program "This week, Alice Lagnado and Julian Gallant invited ballet superstar Irek Mukhamedov into the studio. They discussed Irek's return to London to dance in Peter Schaufuss' Tchaikovsky Trilogy at the Coliseum, what it's like to be an older dancer, and why classical ballet is like a vitamin pill for the body."

Copyright and Choreography: The Good, The Bad, and The Fair By Elizabeth F. Jackson From the Green Room: Dance/USA's e-Journal July 10, 2012 http://danceusa.org/ejournal/post.cfm?entry=copyright-and-choreography-the-good-the-bad-and-the-fair

"Aurélie Dupont talks about being the Paris Opera Ballet's shining étoile" by Gia Kourlas, Time Out, Jul 10 2012 http://www.timeout.com/newyork/dance/aurelie-dupont-talks-about-being-the-paris-opera-ballets-shining-etoile

From BALLETNEWS: Sergei Polunin is now a senior principal at the Stanislavsky Ballet http://www.stanmus.com/performance.html?id=80 http://www.stanmus.com/people.html?grp=3

Retired dancers are a ballet important resource by Judith Mackrell, Guardian, 24 November 2006 http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/theatreblog/2006/nov/24/post8

Insight: ABC of Ballet - The Fred Step "Ursula Hageli, Ballet Mistress with The Royal Ballet, and Romany Pajdak, First Artist, explain The Fred Step, a signature move of the late, great, choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton."

This shows the development of an artist over time Le Corsaire: Revisited - by Daniil Simkin

Anna Pavlova - an interview with Leonard Newman [VoiceOfRussiaLondon] Jun 22, 2012

Interview with Darcy Bussell by New Zealand radio: on retiring from dancing, the Royal Academy of Dance, being a judge on tv etc http://podcast.radionz.co.nz/art/art-20120603-1453-international_ballet_star_darcey_bussell-048.mp3

Interesting review/article about The Prince of the Pagodas: Royal Ballet – The Prince of the Pagodas – London Jann Parry DanceTabs June 7, 2012 http://www.dancetabs...pagodas-london/

One question. Perhaps I misunderstood but I thought that later choreographers used less mime and tried to incorporate characterization into the choreography. I would like to understand better why characters were often more fully developed with the earlier works. Would this be because of the loss of mime? From the pointe article mentioned above: http://www.pointemag...volution-ballet How are the notations different from the Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty that audiences are used to seeing today? The choreography is often simpler (though not in the case of petit allegro variations for men!), the mime more prominent, the characters often more fully developed and the plots more involved.

Thank you so much for posting the youtube. What a privilege to be able to watch a lecture like this.

Here is some information I have been given in response to your question. Hope it helps. Maker - Capezio Title – Famous Dancers Gallery Number of cards in set – 12 Year of issue - 1950 Current catalogue set value – 36 UK pounds Available on-line from Murray Cards London (code CCG 200). Murrays also have various other cigarette and trade card sets related to dance in their current on-line catalogue.

It is frightening how widespread this attitude is. When staff disagree with a shift in underlying values of an organization management says the individuals are not flexible enough and can't cope with change. And when dissenting staff resign management are not concerned because the resignations help reduce staff numbers through "natural attrition". And all that experience and knowledge those staff members have is lost to the organization. . . .

Behind the scenes photo shoot with David Hallberg -- Dance Magazine May 2012 http://www.dancemedia.com/v/6847

Look at the menu bar on the bottom of the youtube picture screen. If you see CC click on that. If you don't see CC there are no captions. You can't see the CC in this post until you click on the video. A Ticket to Bolshoi #208 (sub) / Билет в Большой №208

From The Australian Ballet a podcast of 3 pianists speaking about the experience of playing for a ballet company. . . http://www.australia...k_into_a_studio

A Life for Ballet: http://www.idfa.nl/industry/tags/project.aspx?id=04cfb6d4-0faf-4173-8963-51721cf24052

Social Media A new issue for dancers to be mindful of -- prospective employers asking for access to an individual's facebook account. . . http://www.smh.com.a...0321-1vioi.html

Libraries are being squeezed from many different directions. Full text journal articles are a wonderful resource but come with a real sting in the tail. The Lairds of Learning How did academic publishers acquire these feudal powers? By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 30th August 2011 "You might resent Murdoch’s paywall policy, in which he charges £1 for 24 hours of access to the Times and Sunday Times. But at least in that period you can read and download as many articles as you like. Reading a single article published by one of Elsevier’s journals will cost you $31.50. Springer charges Eur34.95, Wiley-Blackwell, $42. Read ten and you pay ten times. And the journals retain perpetual copyright. You want to read a letter printed in 1981? That’ll be $31.50. Of course, you could go into the library (if it still exists). But they too have been hit by cosmic fees. The average cost of an annual subscription to a chemistry journal is $3,792. Some journals cost $10,000 a year or more to stock. The most expensive I’ve seen, Elsevier’s Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, is $20,930. Though academic libraries have been frantically cutting subscriptions to make ends meet, journals now consume 65% of their budgets, which means they have had to reduce the number of books they buy. Journal fees account for a significant component of universities’ costs, which are being passed to their students." http://www.monbiot.c...ds-of-learning/

Thanks, Mme. Hermine, for bringing a smile into the day with the youtube of Matz Skoog

I am concerned no one is asking what the "weeding" policy (the removal of books from the collection) is in the light of storage issues. Is there pressure to "weed" at a higher rate than in the past?