The Spring 2008 DanceView is out and contains the following articles:

Stepping Up: The New York City Ballet's Winter Season, by Michael Popkin

Winter in Paris: Paris Opera Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, and West Side Story, by Marc Haegeman

Olds Friends in New Guises: Jewels and The Nutcracker at the Miami City Ballet, by Carol Pardo

Slovak National Ballet: A Sampler of Ballet in Bratislava, by Julie Van Camp

and New York, London and San Francisco reports by Gay Morris, Jane Simpson, and Rita Felciano respectively.

DanceView is a quarterly print companion to danceviewtimes that makes readers wish there were 8 seasons and 8 issues a year. Subscriptions are available here.

It's a good issue, even by the high standards of this publication. I especially appreciated Haegeman from Paris and Simpson from London.

Rita Feliciano's reports on the rich, varied dance scene in the Bay area remind me of the good old days when the Village Voice was full of dance criticism.

Carol Pardo has chosen to make herself a Miami City Ballet expert. She's seen the dancers and the productions enough to allow her to make interesting and useful comparisons, something that can't be expected of someone like Alistair Macaulay of the New York Times.

Accompanying Michael's vivid descriptions of the experience of Hubbe's last performances are two wonderful shots of Hubbe by Costas as "Apollo"; a third -- a stunner -- appears on the cover.

Thank you, faithful readers

I don't usually do this, but here's a link to the cover. Costas's photo is wonderful!

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I agree. I don't recall many -- if any -- photos where the performer receiving the ovation seemed so genuinely delighted.

Thanks for breaking your habit, Alexandra. A wonderful and unusual photo!

I would love to subscribe on this quarterly, especially because of the article on Hübbes farewell in the latest issue. But can it really be true that one cannot subscribe or pay in any other way than by sending a letter by snailmail enclosing a "a check, or international money order"? Isn't there any possibility of paying in some on-line way? It costs (at least in Denmark it does) a fortune to have a check made by the bank, about half of the prize for the quarterly itself.

Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit cards -- it cost us nearly %2,000 a year and which greatly exceeded the amount of money we took in. You can send us money through PayPal. Anne, I'll email you with details.

I just learned about DanceView by reading through the Forums (I'm new to Ballet Talk). I read that John Percival had a review of that book by Julie Kavanagh in the Winter 2008 issue. Could some one tell me what his opinion was?

Thank you for the information.

bart (thank you!) summarizes Percival's review here, on the thread titled "Julie Kavanagh's Nureyev Biography".

Thank you Carbro and Bart. I just knew Mr. Percival would hit the nail on the head. I would like to order the Winter 2008 issue of DanceView. Do you know if it is possible (please say yes!), and how much would it cost.

Thanks again for your help. I just love Ballet Talk - I am having a wonderful time reading and learning.

Unfortunately, DanceView is available by subscription only.

There is a link to its subscription info. In fact, after having lapsed for too long, I'm going to take care of it now. Thanks for the prod!

Thank you for the info. I'll be mailing my check this week.