Dance and Dancers

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Dance and Dancers
Dance & Dancers Sep 1981 - first Brevet issue.jpg
This is the first issue from the new publisher Brevet after the hiatus while Hansom was liquidated.
Editor Peter Williams
John Percival
Categories Dance
FrequencyMonthly
Total circulation
(1950 [1] )
30,000 [1]
First issue1950
Final issue1995
Company Hansom, Brevet, Orpheus [2]
CountryUnited Kingdom
Based inLondon
LanguageEnglish
ISSN 0011-5983

Dance and Dancers was a magazine about ballet. The magazine was founded in 1950 by publisher Philip Dosse and editor Peter Williams. [1] John Percival edited the magazine from 1951 to 1995. [3] [4]

The publishing company, Hansom Books, folded in 1980 and the magazine was then relaunched under new management in the following year and continued publication until 1995. [3] [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Peter Williams (16 October 1980), "A magazine empire's sad decline", The Age
  2. Linda Keir Simons (1994), The Performing Arts: A Guide to the Reference Literature, p. 193, ISBN   0872879828
  3. 1 2 The Oxford Dictionary of Dance, Oxford University Press, 2010, p.  116, ISBN   9780199563449
  4. 1 2 "John Percival". The Telegraph. 22 July 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
Jan 1950. The first issue. Dance and Dancers - Jan 1950 - first issue.jpg
Jan 1950. The first issue.
June-July 1980. The last issue from Hansom Books. Dance and Dancers - June July 1980 - last issue at Hansom Books.jpg
June–July 1980. The last issue from Hansom Books.