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People Premieres Performances People Mikhail Messerer at the 12 Mikhailovsky Theatre ANDREJ USPENSKI and EMMA KAULDHAR meet the eminent teacher in St Petersburg The Royal Ballet - Valentino Zucchetti in Swan Lake. © Emma Kauldhar by courtesy of the ROH Valentino Zucchetti 18 MIKE DIXON interviews The Royal Ballet's Italian first soloist Premieres 32 Dorothée Gilbert FRANÇOIS FARGUE catches up Geisha 38 with the Paris Opera étoile MIKE DIXON considers Kenneth Tindall's creation for Northern Ballet The Cellist 62 ROBERT PENMAN and AMANDA JENNINGS review two casts of Cathy Marston's new ballet programmed with Dances at a Gathering The Big Hunger 84 MARK BAIRD reviews Trey McIntyre's new work for San Francisco Ballet Performances 24 Swan Lake Patrice Bart AMANDA JENNINGS reviews The Royal 52 Ballet's production of the timeless ballet, LUCY VAN CLEEF talks with the including Reece Clarke's debut as Siegfried Frenchman about his extraordinary career Giselle in Amsterdam Andrew McNicol 42 74 SUSAN POND applauds two newly appointed GERARD DAVIS touches base with the principals in Amsterdam young choreographer making waves contents Front cover: The Royal Ballet - Natalia Osipova and Reece Clarke in Swan Lake. © Emma Kauldhar by courtesy of the ROH 7 ENTRE NOUS 71 AUDITIONS AND JOBS 99 WHAT'S ON 102 PEOPLE PAGE Dance Europe - April 2020 3 ANCE UROPE D E The Sleeping Beauty FOUNDED IN 1995 44 PANDORA BEAUMONT sees an P.O. Box 12661, London E5 9TZ,UK outstanding debut at the Mariinsky Tel: +44 (0)20 8985 7767 www.danceeurope.net Theatre Editor/Photographer Emma Kauldhar [email protected] Romeo & Juliet mobile/text: +44 (0)7983 608544 48 LYDIA RADETSKY is enchanted by Advertising Manager Naresh Kauldhar May Nagahisa and Victor Caixeta [email protected] mobile/text: +44 (0)7981 945320 Alina at Sadler's Wells Editorial Consultant Clare Taylor 58 MIKE DIXON savours an evening of Film-maker/Photographer Andrej Uspenski elegance and impeccable taste Administrator Katie Harrington [email protected] 68 Portrait Wayne Listings and Videos for Digital Edition McGregor [email protected] ALISON KENT reviews a bill pushing dancers to new heights CRITICS & WRITERS in Munich Mark Baird, Pandora Beaumont, Valentina Bonelli, Luke Bradshaw, Gerard Davis, Mike 78 Isadora Now Dixon, François Fargue, Maina Gielgud, Amanda AMANDA JENNINGS finds the Jennings, Alison Kent, Ali Mahbouba, Trina Mannino, Bruce Michelson, Mia Nadasi, Yuki new more interesting than the old Nagano, Catherine Pawlick, Robert Penman, Susan Pond, Gonzalo Preciado-Azanza, Lydia Radetsky, Jessica Teague, Philip Tunstall, Lucy Van 82 Vivace - Let's Play Cleef, Viki Westall. GERARD DAVIS catches Norway's junior ballet company on fine form FREELANCE WRITERS Media The editor welcomes applications from new writers with significant dance backgrounds, especially from former professional dancers. In Enrico Cecchetti 87 the first instance, interested parties are invited to AMANDA JENNINGS reviews a submit a sample review of a recent performance new DVD by Diane van Schoor and a comprehensive CV to the editor. DISTRIBUTION Reviews Dance Europe is published 11 times a year in Cloud Gate Dance Theatre London and distributed worldwide: Austria 89 - Morawa & Co. Ltd; Australia/New Zealand 13 Tongues/Dust - Gordon & Gotch; Canada - LMPI; Croatia - ANGCRO; Germany - We Saarbach GmbH; Birmingham Royal Ballet Iceland - Innkaupasam band Boksala; South Swan Lake Africa - Magscene (Pty); Sweden - Svenska Interpress AB; Poland - Ingland Co. Ltd; Croatia, Kate Prince Slovenial - Levant Dist; Portugal - International Message in a Bottle News; Trieste - EST; Finland - Rautakirja Oy; Poland - Ingland Co. Ltd; Sweden - Sevenska 80 Interpress; U.S.A. - SEMAJ INC/IPD/; Spain - Paris Opera SGEL; Belgium - AMP; Hungary - Libropress Serenade/Concerto Barocco/ 2000; Taiwan - Multi-Arts Enterprise; Singapore The Four Temperaments - Borders/STP; Japan - Yohan ; Malaysia - STP; Italy - Intercontinental (FE) and in France by the Staatsballett Berlin Kreativ publisher +44 20 8985 7767. Weld Company Dance Europe is published in both printed paper © Emma Kauldhar Bayerisches Staatsballett and digital editions. Subscriptions, single and La Dame aux Camélias t. back issues and library and institution subscrip- tions online at www.danceeurope.net. Nederlands Dans Theater 2 Standalone ISSN: 1359-9798 and Julie Romeo The content of Dance Europe is copyrighted and Kimberly Bartosik/Daela may not be freely reproduced in any medium Through the Mirror of their Eyes whatsoever, including on the internet. The scan- ning and posting of articles published in Dance Mark Bruce Company Europe online is strictly forbidden and constitutes Return to Heaven a breach of copyright. © Dance Europe 2020 Ballet du Rhin Yours, Virginia in Nagahisa - May Mariinsky Ballet Dance Europe - April 2020 5.
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