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10 Benjamin Millepied EMMA KAULDHAR has a rendezvous with the Paris Opera’s new director of

22 Tobias Batley

MIKE DIXON meets Northern ’s premier dancer celebrating a decade with the company

52 Mayara Magri CARLOS FORCADA catches up with ’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 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

69 BalletPosition.com 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

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