Birmingham Royal Ballet - Brandon Lawrence, Lachlan Monaghan, Haoliang Feng and Aitor Galende in George Williamson's Embrace. © Emma Kauldhar

People 18 Reid Anderson EMMA KAULDHAR in conversation with

Stuttgart Ballet's long-serving director as he

prepares to step down

44 Lin Hwai-min GERARD DAVIS meets with Cloud Gate's

director during the company's London season

48 Egon Madsen at 75 ALISON KENT catches a tribute to the

formidable Dane

82 Thomas Forster MARK BAIRD tracks down one of the Class of

2005 grads at American Ballet Theatre

94 Obituary: Errol Pickford Former Royal Ballet and West Australian

Ballet principal remembered

Features

36 Class of 2005 DEBORAH WEISS takes a look at a golden

year of RBS graduates

58 Benois de la Danse CATHERINE PAWLICK reports from

Moscow on this year's awards and gala

74 Emerging Dancer DEBORAH WEISS applauds upcoming

talent at English National Ballet

6 EntrE nous 93 Auditions And Jobs 103 WhAt’s on

106 PEoPlE PAgE

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On the Cover

10 The Sleeping Beauty AMANDA JENNINGS reviews English

National Ballet's revival of MacMillan's

production

Premieres

24 Life is a Dream GERARD DAVIS savours Kim Brandstrup's

baffling yet ingenious creation for Rambert

26 Savoir Faire MITCHELL-LEE VAN ROOIJ goes on an

unforgettable journey with NDT

30 Polarity and Proximity DEBORAH WEISS and AMANDA

JENNINGS appraise BRB's London season

at Sadler's Wells 62 Schläpfer's Swan Lake DEBORAH WEISS encounters a very

different take on the ballet in

Düsseldorf

66 We Children of Bahnhof Zoo ALISON KENT catches a moving

performance in Szczecin

Front cover: English National Ballet - Alina Cojocaru and Joseph Caley in MacMillan's production of The Sleeping Beauty. © Emma Kauldhar

for 22 Years as Director of the Stuttgart Ballet

112 world premieres

90company premieres

100 tours from New York to Tokio

38 prizes, honors and awards

2.500 000 viewers in Stuttgart

94% average attendance

12 Years Ballet in the Park

1 New Building for the John Cranko School

And much, much more.

A Reid Anderson Celebration13th to 21st July 2018

REID!

LET’S CELEBRATE!

W W W. S T U T T G A R T - B A L L E T. D E

cont

ents

Giorgio Garrett and Connie

Vowles in Wiliam Tell pas de deux.

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68 100oC in Dresden JESSICA TEAGUE sums up new ballets at the Semperoper Ballett

72 Twools in Rotterdam ALI MAHBOUBA reviews a Scapino rollercoaster

78 Thierrée, Shechter, Lopez, Pite FRANÇOIS FARGUE contemplates a contemporary evening at the Paris Opera

80 Harlequinade TRINA MANNINO weighs up Alexei Ratmansky's new staging of the Petipa ballet

Performances

50 Elizabeth ROBERT PENMAN sees the Yanowskys

in Will Tuckett's portrayal of Elizabeth I

52 Raymonda in Munich ALISON KENT admires the dancing but is

less taken by the production

54 Romeo and Juliet in Berlin LUCY VAN CLEEF reviews departing

director Nacho Duato's take on the

enduring love story

86 Joys of Spring in New York AMANDA JENNINGS catches some of the

Robbins' centenary programme and a

magical partnership at ABT

Media

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