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  2. I don't mean to spam the forum, just wanted to say thank you to everyone who kindly helped me find the casting, and also to say wow, Dawnstar, I'm so impressed with your spreadsheet and found it enormously helpful, so thank you for going through the trouble of representing the data in a different way and sharing it. Now, to beat my dead horse the wig conundrum, was Hayward a blonde Titania in previous runs, does anyone recall? Thank you again.
  3. I was wondering if anyone apart from me has received the above? "Performance: Ticket protection Performance date: 31 March 2024 Performance start time: 11.58pm Performance end time ..." I don't seem to be able to respond to it and ask them.
  4. Oh joy. Oh pure, unadulterated, beautiful joy. I refer to tonight’s Swan Lake.
  5. I think someone was complaining about the cost of getting to Norwich a while ago. Well, if you can travel via Greater Anglia you might be interested in their rail sale offer: https://www.greateranglia.co.uk/harefares Other routes - and operators - are of course available.
  6. @JNC Laura was a wonderful Titania and I will be thinking of her in June.
  7. Something I only realised last night was the number of unusual steps which appear in both Different Drummer and Requiem - at some points I felt as though I was playing "step bingo" spotting them again in Requiem. Examples included various "legs in a twist" moves where dancers often seemed almost to be trying to tie their ankles in knots. Another common theme - not surprisingly - was the Christian imagery in both ballets: upside-down crucifixions, pietàs and so on, plus of course the "Christ" figure in Different Drummer and his interactions with Marie (Magdalene?). Very appropriate for Easter, of course, even if it wasn't chosen intentionally.
  8. Yes. Though at least the two I mentioned are in the fairly recent past and easy and not too expensive to revive! The three 'choral' works should be 'regulars' really but aren't. In an opera house this shouldn't be difficult. https://britishballetnowandthen.com/category/kenneth-macmillans-choral-works/
  9. That's good. I reckon we probably lost 90% of the subtitles (my Italian is VERY limited!), and for those we did get, sometimes we only got the top few pixels of them, or we'd get multiple titles being flipped through very quickly, like someone desperately trying to find the right slide in a Powerpoint presentation, or occasionally we did get the proper subtitle, and as far as I could tell synchronised with what the singers were singing (which is more than I can say for their mouth movements!). It did rather detract from my appreciation of the performance.
  10. Top flight influencers are given an eye watering amount of high end goods as their endorsement brings in far more revenue for the suppliers. And to channel Linda Evangelista’s oft-repeated statement that ‘80s supermodels wouldn’t get out of bed for less than £10,000, influencers who are at the top of their game are paid upwards of this sum for a single line of text or a few spoken words so, yes, lucrative indeed!
  11. Better late than never (!) but one day after public booking does feel a big gaffe. I suppose we’d have to have it at least two days before (as releasing it after 9am when booking opens is little help), I wonder if there was an internal slip? Delighted I have Hayward/Sambe in the dream but sad to be missing Osipova/Bracewell as that would have been my second choice. Instead I get Cuthbertson and Vadim which to be fair is a pretty close third! Whilst I really like Nunez/Clarke so am not unhappy with this choice I am very disappointed not to see Fumi/Vadim. It’s annoying the two Saturday performances weren’t split between the two casts as I may have gone down a separate weekend for Fumi/Vadim but I can’t go down during the week again after Sarasota. it’s times like these I’m very jealous I don’t live in London as otherwise I would be seeing all casts! It does seem very complex casting…is this being filmed at all? Wonder if I can catch additional casts in the cinema? Similar to the MacMillan there’s no easy way to see each single cast once without any repeats(?). For me I wouldn’t have been able to see them all anyway and the ones I’ve got sandwiched during the week of Sarasota I’m overall quite happy with but… It is odd Ball isn’t appearing at all, nor James Hay!! I was hoping Hay and Hayward would be cast for Rhapsody. No Takada either, and yes Campbell is very much missed here too. (Dare I say Morera as well, would have seen her in Five Brahms perhaps, I’m not familiar with the other works so I can’t place her exactly but sure she could have fit anywhere). I do very much hope we get something like this next season (ie lots more Ashton!)
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  13. I suspect the problem is that the three big full length works form such a core part of the Royal Ballet's repertoire, with R & J, Mayerling and Manon performed on a regular rotating basis that to 'do more MacMillan' (and I agree, there is good and interesting work not performed which should be) that it would be seen to be MacMillan overload by some. Concerto again? Elite Syncopations? Works for the whole company to enjoy performing. MacMillan became a genius the day after he died, a wry comment from Lady MacMillan.
  14. Where have the past recent graduates received employment contracts? Is there any movement into the main ENB company from the school? It doesn't appear that there is any sort of apprentice level within ENB.
  15. From Monday's Links this review from Vera Liber https://www.britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/macmillan-celeb-royal-opera-hou-23121 which I found far more illuminating than many, possibly as it didn't concentrate on the pirouettes and went deeper into the works. MacMillan (1929–92) is sorely missed. His works are inspirational, breathtaking at times in their audacity, yet faithful to his training. Not always understood, he raised the standard, increased the vocabulary of dance and probed at issues not usual to ballet in his day. Is the overarching theme tonight marionettes, human beings puppets in the hands of fate? MacMillan Celebrated can be seen streamed live in cinemas 9 April with encore showing 14 April. Not to be missed. If you think ballet is all twee tutus and fairy stories, this will make you think again.
  16. Another thing we have experienced is this...following the audition the director will sometimes select a FEW (3-5 max) dancers that are of interest and have these stay for an informal interview. A few times my dancer has had VERBAL contract offers made and been told to expect to receive a contract the next week. However, the email received the next week states unfortunately no more contracts are available.
  17. BRB’s main main full length ballet next year is Cinderella. After this evenings Music and Dance offering Swan Lake has to follow the year after. TonightYu Kurihara was absolutely phenomenal as Odile in the Black Act Pas de deux. Lachlan Monaghan’s Siegfried didn’t stand a chance. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. This young lady is something very special
  18. That (approximate) wording was also used in earlier emails and, I think, was accepted, albeit reluctantly, on here. My latest post simply pointed to the date of KOH’s casting pdf preceding public booking by a day.
  19. Hi Geoff, Thank you for the response! I could learn more about cecchetti so I will check it out. I mainly studied RAD but I have friends who know a lot about cecchetti and it would be interesting to get a better understanding of it. I haven’t used forums in quite a long time so I’m just working out to reply on here! I talk about history a little bit on my channel and I have a ‘Dancing Through The Decades.’ Video here: It comes out on the 1st of April! Feel free to subscribe so you don’t miss it. I can recommend another one of my favourite history channels but it’s not about dance. Would you like to know what it is anyway @Geoff? Thank you for letting me know! I did email in the contacts section to ask if this type of thread was allowed. I have not got an Official response yet but I am happy that you and a few others have replied here. These are just the kind of people I want to reach who read and know about dance. Thank you for responding and for the warm welcome!!!💐 Thank you Alison! That makes perfect sense to me. Does that mean my video I shared to @Geoff (Dancing Through The Decadea) isn’t allowed on here? Just because some of the songs I danced to for each decade have been cleared by YouTube (it took some work) but they aren’t my songs! For example the 1960s decade is sung by Shelley Fabares. Please let me know but I appreciate your response to this thread very much!💐 I completely agree with you and actually in response to historic performances I was amazed to find some original works by George Balanchine from 1960 (full versions of ballets) uploaded to YouTube! I watched his ‘Allegro brillanté’ and one my favourites ‘concerto Barocco’ which I got to dance once and it was a dream role! I adore macmillan works. The royal ballet is just a worldwide treasure. Do you like Balanchine works too?
  20. The cover email that was sent out with the casting included the following paragraph: ”'Please find attached the latest casting for Ashton Celebrated which begins in two months’ time. I do apologise that these are reaching you later than we had planned; due to a number of factors the casting has been in flux, so we did not want to give you incorrect information. You have received this email because you are a Friend of the Royal Opera House.
  21. In the text it says half price for local students and senior citizens. I wish we had the latter reduction in London.
  22. After rather a lot of working out (I don't think my brain's worked this hard in ages!) I've found that I can manage to see every cast of Dream, Rhapsody, Rendezvous and Hamlet & Ophelia over 4 performances if a) I accept that I won't be able to see Magri in Five Brahms Waltzes & b) I brave the rail replacement buses. As I gather the Five Brahms Waltzes has a running time of under 10 minutes & as I'd only have to suffer rail replacements buses for a matinee rather than at midnight then I think I'll have to go with those compromises. And I'll have to spend from now until June praying that there aren't too many cast changes to mess up my calculations!
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