PREVIEw PERFORMANCES PEOPLE FEATURES - Dance Europe

People
12 Guillaume Côté
EMMA MANNING meets the Canadian dancer
making his Royal Opera House debut
18 Elías Aguirre & Álvaro Esteban
JESÚS R. GAMO catches up with the choreographic
duo in Madrid
26 Sasha Mukhamedov
MAGGIE FOYER meets the young dancer
forging her own career with Dutch National Ballet
31 Raymond Gubbay
MIKE DIXON asks the impresario about his strategies
for programming
57 Obituary
Beryl Kaye (Kate) remembered
61 Ana Maria Gergely
Winner of the Dance Europe Award for
Outstanding Artistry in Paris
Features
40 Focus on a Variation -
Nutcracker Prince
Dance Europe sits in on an English National Ballet
rehearsal with Maina Gielgud and Vadim Muntagirov
48 Directors’ Choice - No.2
Kenneth Greve, Nina Ananiashvili, Igor Zelensky,
Madeleine Onne and Eric Gauthier reveal
what prompts them to offer a contract
58 YAGP in Paris
EMMA MANNING repots on the first YAGP semifinals
held in the French capital
6 Entre Nous
10 Letter from Eric Gauthier
11 Politics - Paris Concours
51 Auditions/Jobs
81 International Diary
86 People page
Photos: Dance Europe, Andrea P. Merlo, Bill Cooper
Front cover: Guillaume Côté in Swan Lake.
Photo: David Cooper, courtesy of The National Ballet of Canada
Contents
Preview
9 Fifty Years at the Royal Ballet
MATTHEW PALUCH meets the photographer
Colin Jones
Performances
20 Cinderella
MIKE DIXON, EMMA MANNING and VIKI WESTALL
assess ballets by Bintley, Ashton and Bourne
28 Leonce and Lena
DWAYNE HOLLIDAY applauds Spuck’s take on
Büchner’s satirical play in Stuttgart
32 Madrid en Danza
JESÚS R. GAMO contemplates old and new work
on show in the Madrid festival
34 La Bella Dorment del Bosc
EMMA MANNING considers an innovative
take on Sleeping Beauty in Barcelona
37 Time Codes
ALISON KENT weighs up some of the talking
points at this year’s Munich festival
38 Fille in Budapest
MIKE DIXON sums up the Hungarian National
Ballet’s interpretation of Ashton’s Fille
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44 Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker
MAGGIE FOYER welcomes an innovative
new staging for English National Ballet
62 Malditos + Deus ex Machina
ALI MAHBOUBA compares two new works
by Nederland Dans Theater II
64 Onegin
ALESSANDRA GALLONE
contemplates Cranko’s take on Pushkin at La Scala
66 New York Choreographic
Institute
TIM MARTIN applauds a body dedicated to
keep ballet current
68 New Zealand
MAGGIE FOYER visits the New Zealand School
of Dance and the Royal New Zealand Ballet
Reviews
72 Independent Ballet Wales
The Lady of the Lake
Zoo / Thomas Hauert Acords
Mikhailovsky/Mariinsky
Grand Prix/Tribute to Makarova
Rambert Dance Company
Indlela/The Mustard Seed/Jeremiah/Atomic
Café/For P/hold me
Perm National Opera Ballet
Swan Lake
New Chamber Ballet/
Emery LeCrone
Moments/Symmetry/Songs Without
Words/Palindrome
Ballet Chemnitz Scheherazade
Tanztheater Munich
The Nutcracker
Genée International
Ballet Competition
Wayne McGregor I
Random Dance FAR
Compagnie Thor
To the Ones I Love
Catfish Movie
Ballet Ireland Romeo and Juliet
New National Theatre Ballet
Cinderella
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Photos: Brescia-Amisano Teatro alla Scala, Janire Najera,
Dieter Wuschanski, Hidemi Soto
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