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11 David Dawson EMMA KAULDHAR asks the English choreographer about his new Swan Lake FESTIVAL AT THE AUTOSTADT for Scottish Ballet

IN WOLFSBURG 12 Joseph Caley CARLOS FORCADA meets the BRB A P R I L 02― M AY 10, 2016 principal who was nearly lost to football 22 Melissa Hamilton DEBORAH WEISS catches up with The LOVE Royal Ballet soloist on leave of absence in Dresden

26 Hugo Marchand LAURA CAPPELLE meets the Paris Premieres Opera’s newly promoted premier danseur

38 COW DEBORAH WEISS experiences Alexander Ekman on top form in Dresden

42 Orfeo ed Euridice ALISON KENT savours Mei Hong Lin’s staging of the Greek myth in Linz

47 Hungarian Swan Lake MIA NADASI reports on Yvette Bozsik’s take on the classic

64 Fearful Symmetries CATHERINE PAWLICK weighs up a Liam Scarlett premiere in San Francisco

66 Iolanta + The Nutcracker Performances FRANÇOIS FARGUE considers an ambitious project at the Paris Opera 18 David Nixon’s Swan Lake 74 13 Tongues in Taipei MIKE DIXON revisits Northern Ballet’s unique GERARD DAVIS is entertained by production Cloud Gate 2’s striking new work 30 Anna Karenina in Oslo CONCERTS READINGS AND THEATRE JESSICA TEAGUE considers Christian Spuck’s take on Laila Biali · Al Di Meola Claudia Michelsen Features Tolstoy’s novel Sarah McKenzie · Ed Motta Boris Aljinovic Jon Cleary & The Absolute Monster Gentlemen GRIPS Theater Berlin 50 Ave Maya 34 Giselle Bouchkov Trio · Harriet Krijgh DANCE Philipp Hochmair · Dagmar Manzel MIKE DIXON applauds Andris Liepa’s DEBORAH WEISS reviews Matthew Golding’s debut Marija Skender · William Youn Max Hopp · Adam Benzwi gala in memory of Maya Plisetskaya as Albrecht at Covent Garden Ramón Ortega Quero · Tamar Inbar José Montalvo with the Wiebke Puls · August Zirner La Folia Barockorchester · Ensemble Resonanz Théâtre National de Chaillot Franziska Walser · Edgar Selge Anna Lucia Richter · Michael Gees Compagnie La Baraka Witold Dulski · Caroline Peters 54 Shakespeare 400 44 Herrumbre Julia Fischer · Alexander Sitkovetsky Akram Khan Company Peter Lohmeyer · Sylvie Rohrer DEBORAH WEISS recalls ballets inspired LUCY VAN CLEEF experiences a revival of Nacho by Romeo and Juliet Nils Mönkemeyer · Benjamin Nyffenegger Russell Maliphant Company Michael Maertens · Rolf Becker contents Duato’s work in Berlin Carolin Widmann · Nicolas Hodges Aterballetto Gerd Wameling · Udo Samel

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