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10 Yuri Fateyev 49 Talkback #metoo EMMA KAULDHAR meets the director of AMANDA JENNINGS considers the the implications raised by the revolutionary movement on the dance world 44 Laurel Dalley Smith and Lorenzo Pagano 54 Balanchine: The City LUCY VAN CLEEF catches up with two Center Years Europeans dancing with the Martha Graham TRINA MANNINO welcomes visitors to company in New York New York and considers their interpretations of key Balanchine 72 Derek Deane AMANDA JENNINGS in conversation with Petipa's Architecture the director of the Shanghai Ballet 58 MIKE DIXON examines the intrinsic Premieres hallmarks of Marius Petipa's choreography La Bayadère in Berlin 70 Choreographic Academy 16 GERARD DAVIS talks with Ted Brandsen and LUCY VAN CLEEF savours 's Ernst Meisner about a project to develop new reconstruction in Berlin new choreographers 28 Winterreise JESSICA TEAGUE considers Christian Spuck's 76 Bayerisches Junior Ballett new work for Ballett Zürich and three creations München for Zurich's Junior Ballet ALISON KENT talks with Ivan Liška about the work of the Heinz Bösl Foundation

6 Entre Nous 80 YAGP in Paris Front cover: Staatsballett Berlin - EMMA KAULDHAR reports on this year's Polina Semionova in 84 Auditions and Jobs Alexei Ratmansky's La Bayadère. first European semi-final © Emma Kauldhar 99 What’s On

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