By Maggie Foyer It was a cold, grey, wet, and windy day when I met up with Ashley Coupal and Shunhei Fuchiyama at English National Ballet headquarters, but the enthusiasm they showed for their new London life brought out the sunshine. Both young dancers are already stars in the scintillating firmament of ballet competitions and,
By Didi Hoffman Blame it on the Bacchanale. Or rather, celebrate the Bacchanale, danced by the great Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, whose performance inspired a young American sculptor, Malvina Hoffman, to spend years creating a magnificent frieze of this iconic duet. Hoffman would go on to become “one of the few women to reach first
By Gerard Davis Keeping active and sociable is vitally important to humans everywhere, including seniors, as the repeated lockdowns of the COVID pandemic have highlighted. In 2011, Bupa (the UK’s largest private healthcare provider) produced Shall We Dance?, a comprehensive report on the subject, which concluded that dance “can benefit both the physical health of