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Premieres on the Cover People Media 38 English National Ballet - Tamara Rojo, Jeffrey Cirio and Joseph Caley in MacMillan's Song of the Earth. Photo: Emma Kauldhar Premieres On the Cover Cinderella 22 10 The Little Mermaid PANDORA BEAUMONT considers Mikhail AMANDA JENNINGS reviews David Messerer's spectacular new staging of Nixon's inspired adaptation of Hans Rostislav Zakharov's historical ballet Christian Andersen's classic tale Autobiography 26 People MIKE DIXON assesses Wayne McGregor's latest creation 16 Alexander Campbell DEBORAH WEISS meets up with Hedda Gabler 30 The Royal Ballet's versatile principal DEBORAH WEISS weighs up a balletic dancer take on a dark Norwegian play Margarita Shrainer 50 Debut 34 GERARD DAVIS welcomes Acosta Danza CATHERINE PAWLICK catches up with 47°N19°E to London for its inaugural UK performances a young Bolshoi Kitri 64 L'Oiseau de Feu 44 Joseph Taylor CLASSIC DEBORAH WEISS contemplates works by MIKE DIXON in conversation with Modern ballet show in two parts Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Crystal Pite and Édouard Northern Ballet's emerging prince Lock in Flanders George Balanchine / Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky u Theme & Variations 48 Adieu Laëtitia Pujol Choreography by George Balanchine © The George Balanchine Trust FRANÇOIS FARGUE bids farewell to the modest Paris Opera étoile Harald Lander / Carl Czerny u Études 7 NTRE OUS Premiere u 15 November 2017, Müpa Budapest (Festival Theatre) E N 80 Antony Dowson Further dates u 16, 17, 25 and 26 November 2017 75 AUDITIONS AND JOBS AMANDA JENNINGS meets the artistic director of Encore Dance at Tring Park 78 OPPORTUNITIES AND School COMPETITIONS Media 101 WHAT’S ON contents 106 PEOPLE PAGE 73 World Ballet Day DEBORAH WEISS sums up a brilliant day showcasing classical ballet www.opera.hu | www.facebook.com/Operahaz Front cover: Northern Ballet - Joseph Taylor and Abigail Prudames in David Nixon's The Little Mermaid,premiered 21 September 2017. Photo: Emma Kauldhar → Dance Europe - November 2017 3 klasszik_47_19_hird_dance_europe_210x297mm.indd 1 10/10/17 15:52 D.EUROPE NOV 2017 (Apricot pair)_October 2017 09/10/2017 18:16 Page 1 DANCE EUROPE Founded in 1995 ISSN: 1359-9798 P.O. Box 12661, London E5 9TZ,UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8985 7767 www.danceeurope.net Twitter: LeChat@DanceEuropeDanz www.facebook.com/DanceEurope Editor/Photographer Emma Kauldhar [email protected] mobile/text: +44 (0)7983 608544 Advertising Manager Naresh Kauldhar [email protected] Tel: +44 (0)20 7682 1733 mobile/text: +44 (0)7981 945320 skype: nareshdanceeurope Senior Critic & Events Editor Deborah Weiss [email protected] Editorial Consultant Clare Taylor 24 Administrator Katie Harrington [email protected] Dance Critics and Writers Pandora Beaumont, Ellie Carr, Gerard Davis, Mike Dixon, François Fargue, Carlos Forcada, Jesús R. 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CARLA ESCODA reports on New 38 Song of the Earth York City Ballet's opening gala and a SPANISH - Danza Europa www.facebook.com/DanzaEuropa and La Sylphide hat-trick of Swan Lakes VIKI WESTALL reviews English National FRENCH - Dance Europe en Français www.facebook.com/DanceEuropeenFrancais Ballet's double bill School Show [email protected] 91 Romantic Revolution JAPANESE - Dance Europe in Japanese 54 Alice's Adventures in www.danceeurope.net/japanese AMANDA JENNINGS reviews an www.facebook.com/DanceEuropeinJapanese Wonderland ambitious programme by London Japanese Translator Yuki Nagano PHILIP TUNSTALL and DEBORAH Russian Ballet School WEISS succumb to Wheeldon's take on Dance Europe was founded in November 1995. It is published 11 times a year in London and distributed Lewis Carroll's timeless story Reviews worldwide by: UK - Intermedia, London; Austria - Morawa & Co. 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