JOANNE
DE SOUZA
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Why
do you think that so few ballet dancers come
from Indian backgrounds?
In ballet tights and
tutus, you are very exposed, and I think that
Indian men try to keep their women hidden
away – they are not supposed to be on
show! My father, who came from Goa, really
believed that it was just a hobby and that
one day I would grow out of it and get an
office job!
Joanne de Souza has danced
with Northern Ballet Theatre, Joffrey Ballet
and Wayne Sleep’s Aspects of Dance and
is now a principal dancer with City Ballet
of London which is currently touring to Basingstoke,
Isle of Man, Southport, Ulverston, Wimbledon,
York, London (Peacock Theatre), Folkestone
and Eastbourne.
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Joanne
de Souza in Carmen.
Photo: Peter Teigen |
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the complete text of this article, see the printed
edition of Dance Europe, issue 24, October/November
1999. |
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| Contents |
| 1.
Evening Standard. July 16, 1998. 'Funding puts London
dancers on their toes again.' |
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The Guardian. September 5, 1998. 'Arts: Another close
shave.' |
| 3.
The Sunday Times. September 20, 1998. 'Double helping'
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The Times. June 8, 1999. 'Wayne's world of hits' |
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The Stage. June 17, 1999. 'Aspects of Dance' |
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Yorkshire Post. 18 June 1999. |
| 7.
Time Out. December 03, 2003. |
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| Date:
July 16, 1998
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Funding
puts London dancers on their toes again. |
BY:
Robin Stringer |
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The
irrepressible City Ballet of London is back in business.
Led
by the exotic Joanne De Souza,
born in Wiltshire of Goan-South African parentage, and young
Muscovite Vitaly Malko, they have been learning the jazzy,
offbeat Balan-chine style from American expert Nanette Glushak.
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| Date:
September 5, 1998
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Arts:
Another close shave. |
By
: Judith Mackrell. |
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If City Ballet of London survives to
the millennium, it may go down in history as the pluckiest
underdog of British ballet. Despite receiving almost no
money from the Arts Council, it stumbles on, buffeted
by bankruptcy and the whims of sponsors
The only problem is that a limited budget means it
suffers from wildly uneven standards.
Take Balanchine's Donizetti Variations, which opens
the new programme. It's a real pleasure to see this
choreography, with its masterly changes of pacing and
its sophisticated fantasy world of aristocrats playing
at peasants. But though individual dancers, like Joanne
De Souza and Jee-Hyun Noh, make brave attempts
at its wickedly calibrated style, many of the cast struggle
visibly.
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| Date:
September 20, 1998
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Double
helping |
BY:
David Dougill |
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text see http://www.thetimes.co.uk/
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| Date:
June 8, 1999
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Wayne's
world of hits |
BY:
Donald Hutera |
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| Date:
June 17, 1999
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Aspects
of Dance |
BY:
Emma Manning |
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Lindinger
fared better when he partnered the delightful Joanne
de Souza in an excerpt from La Sylphide, and de Souza
also scored dancing Don Q with Jean-Claude Nelson.
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| Date:
18 June 1999
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BY:
Stephanie Ferguson |
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He might be less
than sylph-like around the middle these days, but dance
maestro Wayne Sleep can still twinkle those toes.
The consummate
showman, Mr Sleep OBE tapped and hoofed and span his way
through this three-act spectacular with dancers from the
City Ballet of London.
Other joys were
Sleep's Savoy Suite set to a Gilbert and Sullivan medley
with a pretty duo for sultry Joanne
de Souza, formerly with NBT, and Lindenger.
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| Date:
December 03, 2003
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The
Nutcracker'Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon St, WC1. 020 7388
8822.
Sun. 7 Dec 2003. 2.30pm & 5.30pm. £15, concs £12.
English National Ballet star Yat-Sen Chang and Joanne
de Souza of Chicago's Joffrey Ballet perform alongside
more than 100 youngsters aged six to 17 from the West London
School of Dance in a performance of Tchaikovsky's classic
ballet. |
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and funded by donations from the world-wide Goan Community.
Email: bindiya@goacom.com |
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