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Ismene Brown

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Dr Ismene Brown designed and launched the original version of The Arts Desk in 2009, and was the Site Coordinator and a board director for three years, as well as its dance editor. A musician trained at the Royal College of Music, she has been dance critic for the Daily Telegraph and the Spectator, and has also written for TAD on classical music, theatre, TV and film. Since then she has gained an MA at UCL and DPhil at Oxford University for work on the Soviet politician and arts minister Ekaterina Furtseva.

Articles By Ismene Brown

Re-Triptych, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Playhouse, Edinburgh

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My Summer Reading: Composer Nitin Sawhney

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BBC Proms: Ax, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Haitink

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BBC Proms: Batiashvili, Philharmonia Orchestra, Salonen

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BBC Proms: Swan Lake, Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, Gergiev

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La Bayadère, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House

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Swan Lake, Guangdong Acrobatic Troupe of China, London Coliseum

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The Turn of the Screw, Glyndebourne Festival Opera

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Scotch Symphony/ In the Night/ Ballet Imperial, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Opera House

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Carlos Acosta, Premieres Plus, London Coliseum

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BBC Proms: Bavouzet, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jurowski

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Rattigan's Nijinsky/ The Deep Blue Sea, Chichester Festival Theatre

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theartsdesk in Verbier: A Cable Car Named Inspire

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English National Ballet, Roland Petit Triple Bill, London Coliseum

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50 years since Nureyev defected and Kirov Ballet debuted in London

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Royal New Zealand Ballet, From Here to There, Barbican Theatre

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