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People Premieres Features Premieres 20 David Nixon’s Cinderella MIKE DIXON reviews a new Cinders for the ever versatile Northern Ballet 42 Hansel & Gretel ELLIE CARR considers Christopher Hampson’s creation for Scottish Ballet 48 Goyo Montero’s Cinderella GERARD DAVIS weighs up a darker than usual rendition of the fairytale in Nuremberg 54 Nutcracker Company FRANÇOIS FARGUE visits Monte Carlo for a celebratory Nutcracker Features 30 Men Dancers MIKE DIXON looks at the virility and poetry in the ever-evolving male dancer 58 How to build your own website CARLOS PONS GUERRA explains how to create your own professional platform 70 Departures GERARD DAVIS reports on Northern School of Contemporary Dance’s European event in Leeds People 10 Evgenia Obraztsova CATHERINE PAWLICK interviews the Russian ballerina during the Bolshoi Ballet’s season at the Paris Opéra 14 Steven McRae DEBORAH WEISS catches up with the Royal Ballet’s dynamic principal dancer 40 Ivgi & Greben DANIEL HAYWARD touches base with the Dutch choreographic duo 64 1st Job MATTHEW KOON talks about his first full-time contract with Northern Ballet 82 Obituaries Jeanne Brabants, Tony Fabre and Marco Huicochea Gonzalez remembered CONTENTS 6 Entre Nous 67 Auditions and Jobs 83 Quiz 85 International Diary 90 People Page Front cover: The Bolshoi Ballet - Evgenia Obraztsova and Artem Ovcharenko in Ratmansky’s Lost Illusions. 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Box 12661, London E5 9TZ,UK 26 Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake Tel: +44 (0)20 8985 7767 CARLOS PONS GUERRA considers an enduring www.danceeurope.net Twitter: Le Chat@DanceEuropeDanz take on the classic Editor/Photographer Emma Manning Kauldhar [email protected] 36 Nureyev & Preljocaj FRANÇOIS FARGUE compares two ballets with Advertising Manager Naresh Kauldhar [email protected] 18th century roots at the Paris Opéra Tel: +44 (0)20 7682 1733 mobile/text: +44 (0)7981 945320 skype: nareshdanceeurope 44 Osipova’s Giselle DEBORAH WEISS on a company debut by the Paris Advertising NETA 2 allée Le Titien - boite 39 Royal Ballet’s new Russian ballerina 92400 Courbevoie, France Tel: +33 (0)1 42 42 77 00 Fax: +33 (0)1 42 42 6611 50 Lost Illusions in Paris FRANÇOIS FARGUE views Ratmansky’s ballet Performance Diary Editor Deborah Weiss [email protected] inspired by Balzac’s illustrious novel in Paris Editorial Consultant Clare Taylor 52 Le Corsaire Administrator Katie Harrington MIKE DIXON and DIARMAID O’MEARA catch two [email protected] casts as ENB’s new production arrives in London Dance Critics and Writers Vera Amorim, Clàudia Brufau Bonet, Ellie Carr, Lucía Chilibroste, Gerard Davis, Mike Dixon, Geraldine 56 Royal Jewels Eade, François Fargue, Maggie Foyer, Alessandra AMANDA JENNINGS savours a sparkling evening Gallone, Jesús R. 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