| Description | Documents relating to the seventeenth Ballet Independents' Group Discussion Forum, 'State of the Art?', which was held at the Thames Pavilion, Royal Festival Hall, London, on 1 October 2002. The guest speakers were: Assis Carreiro, director of DanceEast; Matz Skoog, artistic director of English National Ballet; and Alistair Spalding, Sadler's Wells Theatre's director of programming. Background research carried out by BIG directors Susan Crow and Jennifer Jackson; announcement of the forum; letters thanking the guest speakers for their contributions; transcript of the forum; list of attendees; receipts; proposed BIG Forum topics for 2002/2003. Articles:
McCarthy, Brendan. State of the Art discussion, ballet.co.uk/magazine (website), 20 Dec 2002.
Parry, Jann. Bring back hairy legs. The Observer, 10 March 2002, p11. |