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Media Premieres Features on the Cover People On the Cover 34 Onegin SUSAN POND appraises John Cranko’s take on Pushkin in Amsterdam People 18 Germain Louvet LAURA CAPPELLE touches base with the recently promoted Paris Opera étoile 56 The Mariinsky Ballet - Anastasia Kolegova and Xander Parish in Paquita. Photo: Emma Kauldhar 28 Ella Persson PANDORA BEAUMONT meets the Media Mikhailovsky Ballet’s young Swedish dancer 9 Giselle: Belle of the Ballet ROBERT PENMAN views the BBC4 44 Anna Rose O’Sullivan documentary DEBORAH WEISS meets a ballerina in the making Premieres Paquita in St Petersburg Timothy O’Donnell 56 72 MIKE DIXON considers Yuri Smekalov’s CARLA ESCODA meets Milwaukee new staging for the Mariinsky Ballet Ballet’s dancer and choreographer 68 Salomé and Swan Lake 82 Passing on the Flame: CARLA ESCODA weighs up Arthur Pita’s Evgeny Goremykin new ballet and Helgi Tomasson’s enduring AMANDA JENNINGS visits the London Swan Lake Russian Ballet School Features 103 Obituary Trisha Brown remembered 50 Landscapes in Athens GERARD DAVIS checks out the inaugural performance in the National Ballet of Greece’s extraordinary new home 6 ENTRE NOUS 85 AUDITIONS AND JOBS 62 Coaching Coaches MAINA GIELGUD on the art of coaching 104 WHAT’S ON 76 Summer 2017 110 PEOPLE PAGE Guide to summer schools, courses and contents workshops Front cover: Dutch National Ballet - Anna Tsygankova and Sébastien Galtier in John Cranko’s Onegin. 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