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16 Casanova MIKE DIXON appraises Kenneth Tindall’s outstanding creation for 16

38 Ballet Black PHILIP TUNSTALL catches Cassa Pancho’s Northern Ballet - Javier Torres in Kenneth Tindall’s Casanova. Photo: Emma Kauldhar

latest programme at the Barbican

42 Big Fat Ten ALISON KENT reviews Gauthier Dance’s On the Cover 10th anniversary programme

La Sylphide 28 46 Flight Pattern PANDORA BEAUMONT savours Mikhail AMANDA JENNINGS is moved by Crystal Messerer’s staging at the Mikhailovsky Pite’s inaugural work for People 60 Project Polunin PHILIP TUNSTALL considers Sergei

Polunin’s new enterprise 10 Carsten Jung LUCY VAN CLEEF meets ’s charismatic principal dancer 72 Sleepless Beauty DEBORAH WEISS applauds an engaging quadruple bill of new work in Oslo 22 Ashley Wheater DEBORAH WEISS catches up with Joffrey 78 Sacred/Profane Ballet’s artistic director TRINA MANNINO catches a premiere by Annie-B Parson and a lost solo 52 Rina Kanehara reimagined GERARD DAVIS meets ’s young Japanese dancer

7 Entre Nous 80 Passing on the Flame: 84 Auditions and Jobs Christopher Marney AMANDA JENNINGS sits in on a 99 What’s On Ballet Central rehearsal at Central School

106 People Page contents of Ballet

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