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20 Jean-Christophe Maillot DEBORAH WEISS interviews the artistic director of Les de Monte-Carlo

24 Viengsay Valdés CARLOS FORCADA meets the Cuban ballerina in Havana

40 Francesco Ventriglia GERARD DAVIS interviews the Royal New Zealand ’s new director in Wellington

60 Sorella Englund AMANDA JENNINGS in conversation with the celebrated character artist

73 1st Job: Peter Allen The Central School of Ballet graduate talks about working with Singapore Theatre

87 Obituaries Alla Sizova and Eileen Ward remembered

Premieres Features 32 Ratmansky’s Paquita 34 Changes afoot in Bucharest ALISON KENT reviews the new staging MIKE DIXON touches base with Johan Kobborg, by the Bayerisches Staatsballett artistic director of Romania’s National Ballet 44 Cyrano 46 Marguerite and Armand ALISON KENT considers Goyo EMMA KAULDHAR catches Xander Parish’s Montero’s new creation in Nürnberg significant debut as Armand in St Petersburg 58 ’s Nutcracker Entre Nous ELLIE CARR on Peter Darrell’s historic 7 ballet ‘reimagined’ Photo: Emma Kauldhar. Emma Kauldhar. Photo: 64 Auditions and Jobs

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