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People
12 Polina Semionova
JAMES WOODALL encounters the Russian ballerina
in Berlin
16 Bruno Bouché
FRANÇOIS FARGUE meets the Paris Opéra
dancer venturing outside the fold
31 Yvonne Williams
DEBORAH WEISS asks: “So How Was Your Day”
53 Anna-Mi Fredriksson
JOEL STUBBS catches up with a Swedish
student at ENB School
63 Antonia Grove
MELANIE NIX fires the questions
Contents
Features
28 Munich’s Fringe Dwellers
KATJA WERNER considers three generations
living on the edge
Regulars
16 Entre Nous
19 Editorial
20 Letters
54 AUDITIONS
67 Performance Diary
74 People Page
33 Tamara Toumanova
GRAHAM WATTS looks back at the
“Black Pearl of Russian Ballet”
36 The Golden Age
MARINA RADINA considers the background of a
revival marking Shostakovich’s centenary
43 Summer Dance Courses
The pick of this summer’s courses, classes
and workshops
73 Japanese Summary
YUKI NAGANO translates some of the
highlights in this issue
Photos: Alexabder Kenney, Patrick Herrera, Probe, Damir Usupov/Bolshoi Theatre
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Performances
22 Cinders + Episodes
MAGGIE FOYER compares two sides of Scottish Ballet
24 Leap into Dance
DEBORAH WEISS encounters more highs than lows
in Richmond
26 A Midwinter Night’s Dream
ALI MAHBOUBA savours NDTI’s Speak for Yourself programme
38 Castle Nowhere
DEBORAH WEISS is perplexed by super-subtlety
41 Tristan
MAGGIE FOYER digests a story that takes love over the
edge into a spine-chilling amoral abyss...
46 Satisfaction
DEBORAH WEISS revisits the 60s in Peter Schaufuss’
take on The Rolling Stones
48 New York + Boston
TIM MARTIN catches up with two of America’s smaller
ballet companies and JONELLE WILKINSON SEITZ
views a Grand Slam in Boston
51 Winner takes all!
KATJA WERNER reports from the Solo-Tanz-Theater Festival
ar Treffpunkt in Stuttgart
52 Duato in Florence
BRUCE MICHELSON reviews MaggioDanza in Florence
Brief Reviews
57 West End Musicals:
Movin’ Out
Whistle Down the Wind
Footloose
Guys and Dolls
Sakoba Dance Theatre
Sango/Iyanu
Bolshoi Ballet
Spartacus/Swan Lake
Ballet Biarritz
Petits Riens/Don Juan
Russell Maliphant
New Solo/Transmission/Push
Mavin Khoo Dance
Devi: the female principle
Young British Dancer of the Year
Student ballet competition
Richard Alston Dance Company
Volumina/About Face/The Devil in the Detail
MaggioDanza
Mozart Per Gioco
Batsheva Dance Company
Furo
National Ballet of Portugal
Kazimir’s Colours/Return to a Strange Land/Por Vos Muero
Eun Me Ahn Company
Chunhyang
Peter and the Wolf
with choreography by Doug Elkins
The Royal Ballet
Giselle (Edward Watson debut as Albrecht)
On Screen
60 Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
EMMA MANNING reviews Cursive II
Ballet Bairritz in Thierry Malandain’s Don Juan.
Photo: Olivier Houeix
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