People 9 Dame Beryl Grey at 85 MIKE DIXON pays tribute to the first British ballerina to dance at the Bolshoi 10 Ekaterina Kondaurova CATHERINE PAWLICK meets the Mariinsky ballerina in St Petersburg 28 Jim Nowakowski MAGGIE FOYER catches up with the virtuosic dancer in Houston 79 Obituary Nikita Dolgushin remembered Performances 16 Modigliani MIKE DIXON considers Thomas Edur’s first full-length work in Estonia 20 Holder and Lang VIKI WESTALL and MIKE DIXON catch BRB premieres in Birmingham and York 24 Festival de Otoño en Primavera JESÚS R. GAMO questions the Spanish festival’s programme during the country’s current crisis 32 Waltz’s Romeo FRANÇOIS FARGUE savours Sasha Waltz’s response to Berlioz’s score 34 I Got Rhythm Contents MIKE DIXON finds ’s dancers on top form in David Nixon’s Gershwin ballet

Maillot, Chouinard and Features 38 Verbruggen 42 The Year of the Faun OLI SPEERS weighs up a diverse bill in MAGGIE FOYER and DEBORAH WEISS Monte-Carlo talk with interpreters of Nijinsky’s Made in America

original ballet and and with those who 40 have created new versions MAGGIE FOYER reviews ’s triple bill by American choreographers

50 Bolshoi Academy and 6 Entre Nous Graduation Performance EMMA MANNING visits the legendary 57 Auditions

school in Moscow 81 Diary 86 People

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