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10 Vadim Muntagirov DEBORAH WEISS meets The Royal ’s REPERTOIRE Russian star after his first year at Covent Garden

Forsythe 28 Simon Valastro IMPRESSING THE CZAR EMMA KAULDHAR meets the multi-faceted September 2015 Paris Opera soloist

Balanchine / Forsythe / Ek 73 Obituary THEME AND VARIATIONS Albert Evans remembered Performances September, October 2015 & July 2016 16 Cinderella Watkin & Beechey Features AMANDA JENNINGS considers Christopher Wheeldon’s fairy-tale ballet for November & December 2015 42 Preview: Jonathan Watkins’1984 20 L’Anatomie de la Sensation Dawson MIKE DIXON touches base with the creator of FRANÇOIS FARGUE sees Wayne McGregor’s TRISTAN + ISOLDE Northern Ballet’s upcoming Orwellian premiere Francis Bacon-inspired ballet at the Bastille January & June 2016 45 Season 2015 - 2016 23 Tree of Codes Watkin DANCE EUROPE’s indispensible guide to what’s MIKE DIXON reviews a Paris Opera/Random LA BAYADÈRE new and who’s where next season Dance collaboration in Manchester February & March 2016 58 What do dancers read? 24 Ardani Gala Watkin VIKI WESTALL chats with Leonard Engel, Vito AMANDA JENNINGS sums up by Marcelo THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Mazzeo and Nancy Osbaldeston about the books Gomes, and Arthur Pita April & May 2016 and papers they read 26 La Fille Parisienne Celis 62 Restaging Wheeldon & FRANÇOIS FARGUE savours the Paris Opera’s CINDERELLA McGregor renditions of the Ashton classic June 2016 LUKE FORBES discusses the issues répétiteurs face with Jason Fowler and Antoine Verecken 32 Gauthier’s Colours INTERNATIONAL TOURS DEBORAH WEISS checks out the new Antwerp, Belgrad, Gothenburg, enterprise in Stuttgart Paris, St. Petersburg With works of Celis, Ek, Ekman, Forsythe, 7 Entre Nous 36 in New York Godani, Lidberg, Ratmansky 75 Auditions and Jobs WENDY PERRON reports on the company’s 91 What’s On first New York season after a decade’s absence

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contents Information & tickets Front cover: The Royal Ballet - Vadim Muntagirov as Lensky in Cranko’s Onegin. Photo: Emma Kauldhar by courtesy of the ROH T +49 (0)351 4911 705 Contents page: Dutch National Ballet - Anna Tsygankova and Matthew Golding in ’s Cinderella. → semperoper.de Dance Europe - August/September 2015 3 3

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