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People 10 Benjamin Millepied EMMA KAULDHAR has a rendezvous with the Paris Opera’s new director of dance 22 Tobias Batley MIKE DIXON meets Northern Ballet’s premier dancer celebrating a decade with the company 52 Mayara Magri CARLOS FORCADA catches up with The Royal Ballet’s young Brazilian dancer 58 Rosa Park DEBORAH WEISS meets Singapore Dance Theatre’s lively Kitri - and mother of twins 76 Obituaries Premieres Derek Rencher and Wilfride Piollet remembered 28 Strike Root ALI MAHBOUBA weighs up Marco Goecke’s new piece for NDT 30 Paul, Rigal, Millepied and Lock FRANÇOIS FARGUE on two new ballets in a quadruple bill at the Paris Opera Performances 16 Onegin DEBORAH WEISS reviews two contrasting casts in Cranko’s sublime masterpiece 34 Beauty and Flames Features MIKE DIXON reports on debuts at the Mariinsky and Mikhailovsky Ballets in St Petersburg 46 The Tales of Hoffmann → MIKE DIXON on the remastered 1951 movie featuring Shearer, Massine, Helpmann and Ashton BalletPosition.com 69 VIKI WESTALL asks Ian Knowles about his new website for dancers needing practical info contents 7 ENTRE NOUS 63 AUDITIONS AND JOBS 88 WHAT’S ON 94 PEOPLE PAGE Front cover: The Royal Ballet - Natalia Osipova and Matthew Golding in John Cranko’s Onegin. 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Box 12661, London E5 9TZ,UK GERARD DAVIS reviews Royal Ballet Flanders’ Dutch National Ballet Academy present: Tel: +44 (0)20 8985 7767 new Spanish acquisition www.danceeurope.net Twitter: LeChat@DanceEuropeDanz www.facebook.com/DanceEurope 48 Dutch Jewels JESSICA TEAGUE on sterling performances in the Editor/Photographer Emma Kauldhar [email protected] Balanchine triptych in Amsterdam mobile/text: +44 (0)7983 608544 Advertising Manager Naresh Kauldhar [email protected] Media Tel: +44 (0)20 7682 1733 mobile/text: +44 (0)7981 945320 skype: nareshdanceeurope 67 Dancing Across the Atlantic MIKE DIXON reviews a new book Senior Critic & Events Editor Deborah Weiss [email protected] Editorial Consultant Clare Taylor America Administrator Katie Harrington [email protected] 70 San Francisco Ballet Gala CATHERINE PAWLICK sees SFB kick off the Dance Critics and Writers new season with a varied gala Luke Bradshaw, Laura Cappelle, Ellie Carr, Lucía Chilibroste, Davide Cocchiara, Gerard Davis, Mike Dixon, François Fargue, Luke Forbes, 72 Mariinsky in New York Carlos Forcada, Jesús R. 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