Preview 14 Claudio Coviello BRUCE MICHELSON meets La Scala’s young principal dancer 32 Goyo Montero CARLOS FORCADA interviews the Spanish choreographer/director in Nuremberg 42 Wendy Whelan Farewell TRINA MANNINO reports on a performance to celebrate the ballerina’s 30-year career Features 24 35th Anniversary - CND JESÚS R. GAMO reports on Compañía Nacional de Danza’s celebratory season in Madrid 50 YAGP in Paris EMMA KAULDHAR goes to Paris for the Youth America Grand Prix European semi-finals 60 Krasnoyarsk 7 64 85 86 89 90 Peter Darrell’s Nutcracker KELLY APTER reports on the revival of a landmark production by Scottish Ballet Premieres 10 The Age of Anxiety DEBORAH WEISS is engaged by Liam Scarlett’s new ballet inspired by Auden’s wartime poem 20 Back to Bach JESSICA TEAGUE considers Dutch National Ballet’s programme including the premiere of Ernst Meisner’s Axiom of Choice 28 Romeo and Juliet DEBORAH WEISS catches Ben Van Cauwenbergh’s latest take on Shakespeare’s play in Essen 36 Anna Karenina contents People 9 JESSICA TEAGUE considers Christian Spuck’s new ballet inspired by Tolstoy’s iconic novel → DEBORAH WEISS sees a Swan Lake, a ballet competition and a hydroelectric power station in Siberia Entre Nous Auditions and Jobs International Diary Dance on Screen Exhibitions and Events People Page Front cover: The Royal Ballet - Laura Morera and Steven McRae in Liam Scarlett’s The Age of Anxiety. 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