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ROYA L 2018.2019 SWEDISH BALLET From Classics to Cutting Edge PREMIERES TRINITY Works by Kylián and Preljocaj team up with all-new piece by Timulak for a unique triple bill. People ww DANCING | FORWARD Igone de Jongh The elegant beauty of Litar’s 10 Dutch National Ballet - Daniel Camargo and Wende in Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's Last Resistance. © Emma Kauldhar »Suite en blanc« meets cutting edge DEBORAH WEISS in conversation with choreography by Bélingard. Dutch National Ballet's principal dancer Premieres AN EVENING WITH EKMAN Alexander Ekman returns to the 34 Koen Kessels Royal Swedish Ballet after successes AMANDA JENNINGS meets The 26 Catherine I MIKE DIXON reviews Thomas Edur's such as »Midsummer Night’s Dream«, Royal Ballet's Music Director »Play« and »A Swan Lake«. new creation for the Estonian National Ballet THE TRIAL Dancers who take pictures Jiří Bubeníček takes on Kafka in a 54 Roman Novitzky new full-length ballet. 32 Mid Century Modern EMMA KAULDHAR touches base with LUKE BRADSHAW is impressed by ALSO NEXT SEASON the multi-talented artist Richard Alston's latest programme Sleeping Beauty The Nutcracker Dutch Doubles Meet the Choreographer Sessions Adieu Marie-Agnès Gillot 42 64 SUSAN POND weighs up artistic A Day in a Dancer’s Life Sessions FRANÇOIS FARGUE bids farewell to one marriages at Dutch National Ballet of the Paris Opera's most charismatic étoiles 46 Voices of America AMANDA JENNINGS savours 68 Stina Quagebeur an exhilarating new Forsythe in ENB's GERARD DAVIS meets Myrtha in bill of American choreographers Akram Khan's Giselle 50 Tiger Lily DEBORAH WEISS considers ww Norwegian National Ballet's bill of Feature works by Kylián, Forsythe and Øyen 77 Summer 2018 62 Act 2 The low-down on this summer's schools, ALISON KENT catches the second classes, workshops and events instalment of Munich's Minutemade 66 Selon Désir 6 ENTRE NOUS DEBORAH WEISS encounters undiluted excellence and torturous 87 AUDITIONS AND JOBS twitching in Ghent 99 WHAT’S ON 72 Beauty and the Bull 106 PEOPLE PAGE MIKE DIXON reviews Carlos Pons Guerra's take on the fairy tale contents Front cover: The Royal Ballet - Francesca Hayward in Kenneth MacMillan's Manon. → Mastercard www.operan.se © Emma Kauldhar by courtesy of the ROH Savana Wallenius Lines Dance Europe - May 2018 3 DANCE EUROPE Founded in 1995 ISSN: 1359-9798 P.O. 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