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<strong>People</strong><br />

10 Nadia Yanowsky<br />

MAGGIE FOYER meets the Dutch<br />

National Ballet dancer perpetuating<br />

her family’s dynasty<br />

20 Aaron Robison<br />

DEBORAH WEISS talks with Corella<br />

Ballet’s newly appointed principal<br />

dancer<br />

41 Tshepo Zasekhaya<br />

MAGGIE FOYER catches up with the<br />

South African dancing in Sweden<br />

53 Obituary<br />

Rudi van Dantzig remembered<br />

54 Rose Metcalf<br />

MIKE DIXON meets one of the<br />

dancers who worked on board the<br />

Costa Concordia<br />

7 Entre Nous<br />

9 Politics<br />

62 Auditions<br />

64 Summer Courses<br />

83 Diary<br />

90 <strong>People</strong><br />

Front cover: Men in Motion - Sergei Polunin in Narcisse. Photo: E. Kauldhar/<strong>Dance</strong> <strong>Europe</strong><br />

Contents page photos: Kirill Radev, Carl Thorborg/Kungliga Operan, <strong>Dance</strong> <strong>Europe</strong><br />

<strong>Features</strong><br />

28 Focus on Firebird<br />

DANCE EUROPE sits in on rehearsals for<br />

George Williamson’s new ballet for ENB<br />

36 Directors: Born or Made<br />

MAGGIE FOYER puts the question to Mathias<br />

Bruehlmann, Clara Barberá Tomas, Beate Vollack<br />

and Alexander Whitley<br />

57 A <strong>Dance</strong>r’s Guide to London<br />

JULIA DAVIES on how to survive in the city<br />

between dance jobs<br />

<strong>Performances</strong><br />

14 Very British in Munich<br />

ALISON KENT savours ballets by MacMillan<br />

and Maliphant along with a premiere by<br />

Simone Sandroni<br />

18 Let’s <strong>Dance</strong><br />

MAGGIE FOYER is engaged by an English<br />

evening in Mulhouse<br />

24 A New Era<br />

JESÚS R. GAMO considers Compañía Nacional<br />

de Danza under new director José Martinez<br />

32 The Sweet Art of Bruising<br />

ALI MAHBOUBA on André Gingras’s foray<br />

into the world of boxing<br />

Contents<br />

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DANCE EUROPE<br />

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Editorial Consultant Clare Taylor<br />

Administrator Katie Harrington<br />

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<strong>Dance</strong> Critics and Writers<br />

Lee Bamford, Alessandro Bizzotto, Clàudia Brufau<br />

Bonet, Lucía Chilibroste, Michelle Cuneo, Julia<br />

Davies, Mike Dixon, François Fargue, Maggie<br />

Foyer, Jesús R. Gamo, Dwayne Holliday, Patrick<br />

Hurde, Donald Hutera, Amanda Jennings, Alison<br />

Kent, Tim Martin, Ali Mahbouba, Donnachadh<br />

McCarthy, Bruce Michelson,Yuki Nagano, Diarmaid<br />

O’Meara, Catherine Pawlick, Carlos Pons<br />

Guerra, Marina Radina, Jenifer Sarver, Oli Speers,<br />

Toba Singer, Stuart Sweeney, Angela Vadori,<br />

Deborah Weiss, Viki Westall.<br />

Japanese Translator Yuki Nagano<br />

DANZA EUROPA<br />

Founded in 2009 ISSN 2041-8841<br />

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Spanish Translators<br />

Carlos Pons Guerra, Jesús R. Gamo,<br />

Fernando Balsera Pita<br />

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copyright. © <strong>Dance</strong> <strong>Europe</strong> 2012<br />

34 Kylián, Bruce & Delcroix<br />

DEBORAH WEISS weighs up a new work<br />

with two contemporary classics in Essen<br />

40 Faith, Messias & Swan Lake<br />

MAGGIE FOYER considers a diversity<br />

of dance in Sweden<br />

44 Men in Motion<br />

MIKE DIXON savours an evening of<br />

poetic classicism<br />

50 Phoenix<br />

MIKE DIXON on new pieces by Ana Luján<br />

Sánchez and Kwesi Johnson in Leeds<br />

51 Whole in the Head/Stellentstellen<br />

LEE BAMFORD struggles to find any heart in<br />

Forsythe’s programme in Frankfurt<br />

66 Wheeldon in New York<br />

TRINA MANNINO reviews an all-Wheeldon bill<br />

featuring the premiere of Les Carillons<br />

70 Murphy’s Romeo<br />

MICHELLE CUNEO considers a Romeo and Juliet<br />

that strays far from Verona<br />

Reviews<br />

73 The Royal Ballet<br />

The Dream/Song of the Earth<br />

Jin Xing <strong>Dance</strong> Theatre Shanghai<br />

Shanghai Tango<br />

Gandini Juggling Smashed<br />

Victor Fung/Gwyn Emberton/Lila <strong>Dance</strong><br />

Positively Phototactic/The Seamless Art<br />

of Being/A Readiness<br />

David Dorfman <strong>Dance</strong><br />

Prophets of Funk<br />

Aterballetto<br />

Come un Respiro/<br />

Incanto Dall’Orlando Furioso<br />

Random <strong>Dance</strong>/Candoco/Hofesh Schecter<br />

Far/Set and Reset/Reset/<br />

The Art of Not Looking Back<br />

Balet HNK Split<br />

Zorba the Greek<br />

Scottish Ballet<br />

The Sleeping Beauty<br />

Flavia Cacace & Vincent Simone<br />

Midnight Tango<br />

La Veronal – Marcos Morau<br />

Islandia<br />

81 Japanese page<br />

3 月 号 の 主 な 記 事 :プトロフの「メン・<br />

イン・モーション」<br />

Photos: Jesús Vallinas, Gert Weigelt, Paul Kolnik, Manuel Harlan<br />

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