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  1. That's such a shame for her if it's true. It does make me wonder though, especially given the comments from the Bolshoi on her apparent difficulties with learning choreography, whether she was only accepted into the Bolshoi company as a kind of enticement to encourage more foreigners to pay to study at the Bolshoi school. They may be increasingly reliant on income from foreign students and perhaps the acceptance of one of them into the company, even if she wasn't quite up to the ideal standard, would have been quite an effective recruitment tactic.
  2. Stucha, I'm not sure if you're allowed to put the links up but if not, then maybe you could post the names of the dancers with their Russian spellings and also the Russian spellings of Onegin, so people can cut and paste into the YouTube search bar? If it's not too much trouble, obviously!
  3. There were barely a handful of people at the screening at my local picturehouse cinema. I don't think the Ashton bill was even added to the schedule until the last couple of weeks as I'd checked the Screen Arts section of the website about a month ago and was very disappointed to see no ROH productions whatsoever for the next year. (VERY relieved to see that they are going to be showing the RB live broadcasts after all!). Am sure it would have been far better attended if it had been added to the schedule sooner. Anyway, I really enjoyed the first four performances but struggled to stay awake after that - due to tiredness and pregnancy, not boredom - and missed most of Marguerite and Armand because I couldn't stop nodding off Gutted about that.
  4. Perhaps Kevin O'Hare feels that it could be unfair to ENB, who sometimes struggle with ticket sales, if the RB were to borrow one of their star performers - it may take sales away from ENB if audiences can go to see Vadim Muntagirov dancing elsewhere in London.
  5. Just watched some of it on YouTube. Gorgeous She is such a beautiful dancer.
  6. Watching this topic with interest as I don't have many ballet DVDs and am curious to see what everyone else rates most highly! LinMM I've got a DVD "Great Dancers Of Our Time" that includes the bedroom scene from Manon danced by Diana Vishneva and Vladimir Malakhov. It's in a studio, not taken from a performance. I came across the clip on YouTube and loved it so much that I had to find the DVD it was taken from
  7. Also, you seem to be implying that there's some kind of tokenism going on with regards to Japanese dancers - that there's only room for so many and that they should be compared against each other rather than against other dancers in general. Who is to say that Kevin O'Hare would want a Japanese dancer rather than just a world class dancer?? Who is to say that he's "choosing from a certain ethnic pool" when hiring or promoting dancers? Perhaps you are right, and the people who are in charge of ballet companies do see race as an important factor when they're deciding who to promote. I wouldn't know. I find it a depressing thought though.
  8. Really? Why would it be too many? Are you implying that the RB should not have more than one non white female principal? Until a year ago they had five Spanish/Latin American principal ballerinas. That obviously wasn't considered to be a problem so why would it be undesirable to have as many as three Asian ballerinas??
  9. Absolutely no idea! I'm not that familiar with ENB, just noticed on their website that they have a different ranking system from RB - seven ranks, not including character artists, as opposed to five. And three levels of soloist rather than two. I just thought that if there was any question about a RB soloist's readiness for promotion to principal, it might be a less enormous leap and maybe a less questionable decision if the promotion was only to second/ordinary rank principal and not a declaration that said dancer was now one of the company's biggest stars. I hope that makes sense, not sure I've explained it very well. Apologies if this is too off topic by the way.
  10. Perhaps a two tier principal ranking like ENB's would be the answer in this case?
  11. That's exactly how I was during that scene on Saturday! Paul Kay was fantastic but I couldn't tear my eyes away from Thiago and Melissa.
  12. Me too, Blackqueen. It was my first time of seeing it and to be honest, I found Thiago's performance so moving that I almost feel like I don't ever want to see anyone else dancing Rudolph.
  13. I saw the Soares/Hamilton matinee too and also feel incredibly lucky to have been there. It was so moving.
  14. So sad to hear this, I saw them for the first time in Romeo & Juliet last year and thought it was one of the most beautiful performances of anything, not just ballet, that I'd ever seen. Was hoping to see them again sometime. Wish them both all the very best for the future.
  15. Fascinating to read Xander Parish's diary, thanks for posting that Amelia Sounds like they work unbelievably hard at the Mariinsky. I was amazed to see that they sometimes have to go back to rehearsals after finishing a show! And it looks like Xander Parish is doing really well there too. I wonder if the Royal Ballet will try to get him to come back now that he's proved himself to have enough talent to dance principal roles on the Mariiinsky stage.
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