On the Cover

12 Mariinsky Ballet in London

LYDIA RADETSKY and MIKE DIXON

review the season at the Royal Opera House

Features 56 Critics' Choice 15 dance critics share their personal highlights

- and disappointments - from the last

dance season

69 Let's Go To... SLEEPING BEAUTY at the Dansmuseet

in Stockholm

70 Opening The New in Hull AMANDA JENNINGS reports on

an exceptional evening with The Royal Ballet

76 Despertares JESSICA TEAGUE is impressed by the

Hernández family's pioneering work

in Mexico

6 EntrE nous 67 Auditions And Jobs

67 opportunitiEs And CompEtitions 98 WhAt’s on

104 pEoplE pAgEs

People

30 Deborah MacMillan MIKE DIXON in conversation with

Kenneth MacMillan's widow on the 25th

anniversary of the choreographer's death

38 Diana Vishneva EMMA KAULDHAR meets the Russian

ballerina striving to break boundaries

50 Mara Galeazzi DEBORAH WEISS touches base with

the Italian dancer who has made a

triumphant return to the stage

74 Peter Åberg GERARD DAVIS catches up with the

juggler and hand-to-hand acrobat

82 Frank Andersen AMANDA JENNINGS sits in on a

rehearsal for La Sylphide at ENB

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Front cover: Viktoria Tereshkina and Xander Parish after their performance in Swan Lake with the Mariinsky Ballet at the ROH, London, on 27 July 2017. Photo: Emma Kauldhar

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Premieres 44 Les Ballets de Monte Carlo GERARD DAVIS considers new works by

Jeroen Verbruggen and Sidi Larbi

Cherkaoui in Monaco

48 Minutemade ALISON KENT checks out the annual

'dance soap' at the Gärtnerplatz in Munich

Media

86 Page and Screen Katherine Dunham: Dance and the

African Diaspora

Rosie Kay Dance Company - 5 Soldiers

My Dancing Life - Spanish and Ballet

Across Three Continents

Our Last Tango

Performances

24 Romeo & Juliet DEBORAH WEISS and AMANDA

JENNINGS savour ENB's revival of Rudolf

Nureyev's production

34 Jewels - 50th Anniversary AMANDA JENNINGS visits New York for

a unique performance of Balanchine's

triptych

Reviews89 cirkuS cirkör Limits

StaatSballett berlin Erde/The Art of Not Looking Back tero Saarinen Morphed alvin ailey american Dance theater Four Corners/Exodus Takademe/ Revelations

icelanD Dance company Sacrifice ann maguire gala with The Royal Ballet and Friends

northern ballet The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

FauStin linyekula Banataba (new work) amanDa SzeglowSki/ cakeFace Stairway to Stardom

Japanese

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Paris Opera - Amandine Albisson in La Sylphide. Photo: Emma Kauldhar

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Les Ballets de Monte Carlo - Taisha Barton-Rowledge, Markéta Pospíšilová and Alexis Oliveira in Jeroen Verbruggen's Massâcre. Photo: Alice Blangero

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