People Features Performances - Dance Europe
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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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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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