John Mallinson Posted May 27, 2012 Share Posted May 27, 2012 Links – Sunday May 27, 2012 Review - Paris Opéra Ballet, Manon: Rachel Mann, DanceTabs Review - Paris Opéra Ballet, Roméo et Juliette: Rachel Mann, DanceTabs Review - The Royal Ballet, Ballo della Regina, La Sylphide: Luke Jennings, The Observer Jenny Gilbert, The Independent on Sunday Review - Matthew Bourne, Early Adventures: Luke Jennings, The Observer Jenny Gilbert, The Independent on Sunday Who's afraid of Pina Bausch? Peter Aspden talks to Alistair Spalding and Clement Crisp: (podcast) Financial Times Review - San Francisco International Arts Festival: Rita Felciano, DanceviewTimes Review - Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet: Deborah Jowitt, ArtsJournal Barcelona Ballet “technically bankrupt”: Carmen de Val, Roger Salas, El País (Google translation) 10 Dance Tweeters To Know Right Now: Huffington Post A Spacesuit Ballet - NASA Spacesuit Tests: (video) Geeks are Sexy Review - Northern Ballet, I Got Rhythm, Leeds: Charles Hutchinson, The Press Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted May 28, 2012 Author Share Posted May 28, 2012 Links – Monday May 28, 2012 Review - Matthew Bourne, Early Adventures: 4 stars, Clement Crisp, Financial Times Review - DanceAfrica 2012 festival, New York: Brian Seibert, New York Times Jodee Nimerichter and the American Dance Festival: Claudia La Rocco, New York Times Interview - Ohad Naharin, Batsheva Dance Company: Zachary Whittenburg, movement research My Muse and Me - Lauren Cuthbertson & Christopher Wheeldon: Laura Barnett, The Guardian Review - Ayikodans (Hawaiian dance troupe), Miami: Jordan Levin, Miami Herald A Coppélia quiz: Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post Answering back to the critics: Mark Shenton, The Stage Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 Links – Tuesday May 29, 2012 Review - San Francisco International Dance Festival, 12 companies: Aimee Tsao, DanceTabs Review - Marie Taglioni, La Sylphide: Queen Victoria, The Journals Hard times for Barcelona Ballet: Lola Ramirez, Ballet y más Benois de la Danse awards: Raymond Stults, Moscow Times Review - Festival TransAmériques, Guilherme Botelho, Sideways Rain, Montreal: Paula Citron, Globe and Mail News from Queensland & New Zealand: Valerie Lawson, Dancelines James Penberthy and Kira Bousloff, founders of West Australian Ballet: Ron Banks, The West Australian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 John: Your ability to extract esoterica, nay exotica, from the aether never fails to astound. And so we know that the Imperatrix appears not to have considered Mme Taglioni as 'air-mailed laundry' in "La Sylphide" - and perhaps we also see an example of the circumstances that convinced Miss Rojo to seek a Directorship elsewhere than in Spain? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted May 29, 2012 Author Share Posted May 29, 2012 Well we can thank Christopher Hampson for tweeting about the Queen-Empress. You're right. Tamara Rojo has been on record several times expressing her reluctance to get involved in running a company in Spain in the absence of funding through some Arts Council like organisation, independent of government, national or local. These events with Barcelona Ballet seem to be proving her judgment a sensible one. It'll be a terrible shame and a national humiliation if the company collapses. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Good to have something in comprehensible English about the situation, thanks, John, but I agree with your comments. I suspect it will set classical ballet in Spain still further back than it currently is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 A feature about Northern Ballet's I Got Rhythm, which opens in Norwich tonight: http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/what-s-on/theatre/glitz_glam_and_gershwin_from_northern_ballet_1_1392121 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted May 30, 2012 Author Share Posted May 30, 2012 Links – Wednesday May 30, 2012 Review - American Ballet Theatre, La Bayadère (5 performances!): Alastair Macaulay, New York Times Review - Royal Swedish Ballet, La Sylphide: Gerald Dowler, Financial Times Review - The Royal Ballet, La Sylphide: David Bellan, Oxford Times Preview - Breaking Pointe, US reality tv series about Ballet West: Rebecca Milzoff, New York Times Preview - Wah! Wah! Girls, Bollywood dance comes to London (video): Judith Mackrell & Gauri Sharma Tripathi, The Guardian Preview - San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival: Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian Preview - David Gordon does Pirandello: Gia Kourlas, TimeOut New York Preview - National Ballet of Canada, Hamlet: Richard Ouzounian, Toronto Star Keenan Kampa, American dancer joins the Mariinsky Ballet: Janet Rems, FairfaxTimes Review - Company Chameleon, Gameshow, London: Misa Brzezicki, LondonDance Books remembered - Noel Streatfield’s Ballet Shoes: Tobi Tobias, ArtsJournal Dance (and bullfights) in Spain: Rachel Straus, musicalamerica Matthew Lawrence - BRB dancer choreographs for Olympic gymnast: DanceTabs Review - Ballet Manila, Swan Lake: Rosalinda L. Orosa, Philippine Star Preview - BBC’s Imagine, Dancing with Titian, RB & National Gallery collaboration: BBC press release Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted May 31, 2012 Author Share Posted May 31, 2012 Links – Thursday May 31, 2012 Review - American Ballet Theatre, The Bright Stream, NY: Brian Seibert, New York Times Marina Harss, The Faster Times Leigh Witchel, New York Post Review - Bolshoi Ballet, Coppélia, Washington: Alastair Macaulay, New York Times Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post Review - New York City Ballet, Double Feature: Marina Harss, The Faster Times Zora Semberova, the original Juliet: Valerie Lawson, Dancelines Review - Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, triple bill, London: 2 stars, Clement Crisp, Financial Times 3 stars, Clifford Bishop, Evening Standard Graham Watts, LondonDance Gerald Dowler, Classical Source Review - Scott Wells & Dancers, At Ease, Parkour Deux, San Francisco: Aimee Tsao, DanceTabs Paul Parish, Bay Area Reporter Review - LINK, Slack, Sweet Fields, Perth: Rita Clarke, The Australian Preview - National Ballet of Canada, Hamlet: Kathleen Smith, NowToronto Preview - San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival: Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Chronicle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 Links – Friday June 1, 2012 Review - New York City Ballet, Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3: Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times Review - American Ballet Theatre, La Bayadère: Deborah Jowitt, ArtsJournal Preview - Pina Bausch, World Cities, London: Rosyln Sulcas, New York Times, Slideshow Preview - David Gordon, Beginning of the End of the ... : Rebecca Milzoff, New York Times Kenneth MacMillan, Desert Island Disks from 1983: BBC podcast TV review - Breaking Pointe: Carrie Seidman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Brian Tallerico, HollywoodChicago Interview - Lucien Postlewaite, Pacific Northwest Ballet: Alice Kaderlan, Crosscut Steven McRae performs in 7 countries: Will Fitzgibbon, Australian Times Film review - Joffrey - Mavericks of American Dance: Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ann Williams Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Have just listened to Kenneth MacMillan on 'Desert Island Disks' - what a find, John! I was surprised at KMc's ease and the straightforwardness of his account of his career, and - despite the plumminess of his accent - at Roy Plomlely's pleasantly laid-back interviewing style.. Loved KM's 'Madame' stories, and enjoyed his romantic 'Misty' story. I wish the BBC would let us hear re-runs of other dancers/choreographers on DID - I believe Madame herself was the subject of one programme and if Fonteyn and Ashton weren't also subjects they certainly ought to have been! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted June 1, 2012 Author Share Posted June 1, 2012 Ann, there are an awful lot of programmes in the Desert Island Disks archive here. All have details but not all have the recording. Fonteyn is there but hasn't, Ashton is there and has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 1, 2012 Share Posted June 1, 2012 Steven McRae performs in 7 countries: Will Fitzgibbon, Australian Times I *thought* that was a bit extreme, even by his standards, until I actually read the article John, that archive sounds wonderful. It'll give me something to do if I have any free time over the Bank Holiday (which I hope I will). Thanks very much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted June 2, 2012 Author Share Posted June 2, 2012 Links – Saturday June 2, 2012 Review - New York City Ballet, triple bill: Alastair Macaulay, New York Times Review - American Ballet Theatre, The Bright Stream: Mary Cargill, DanceviewTimes Preview - The Royal Ballet, The Prince of the Pagodas: Jessica Duchen, The Independent FT Masterclass - Ballet with Marianela Nuñez: Jeremy Taylor, Financial Times Review - Wah! Wah! Girls, London: Tanika Gupta, Evening Standard Review - Bolshoi Ballet, Jewels + preview of Los Angeles visit: Lewis Segal, Los Angeles Times Review - Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, London: 3 stars, Sanjoy Roy, The Guardian Review - La Tania Baile Flamenco, Esencia, Despertar es un Color, San Francisco: Aimee Tsao, DanceTabs Review - Ian Spencer Bell Dance, Socket: Brian Seibert, New York Times Interview - Julia Carruthers, director of the Dublin Dance Festival: LondonDance Interview - Bob Hercules, director of Joffrey: Mavericks of American Dance: Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times This Week’s New Dance (London) - RB Prince of the Pagodas; Pina Bausch World Cities: Judith Mackrell, The Guardian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Just got an email through from The Times to say that this weekend access to the website is available to all: time to catch up with everything you've been missing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim b Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 and I have just received an e-mail which I think talks about 6% discount if one subscribes for the 12/13 season of Het National - booking opening soon - unfortunately I don't understand Dutch - if there is a press release or something to read giving more info about this, are you wizards able to see if there is a link to something in English please - many thanks for all the hard work as always Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Tim: If you go to the Company website, you'll find an English translation button for the site at bottom left. For 'Subscriptions', that appears to give you English text followed by Dutch: http://www.het-ballet.nl/en/tickets/subscriptions/series-subscriptions/ .... but no sign of anything about 6% that I can see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim b Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Thanks so much - I have read it thro & it looks as though it must have been notifying the opening date of general booking for the 12/13 season - I am still living in about 2010 - the subscription booking period which says it gives 10% discount has already closed - it also appears there are lots of little add-ons and cancellations of concessions so seems very complicated aaah me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 Just got an email through from The Times to say that this weekend access to the website is available to all: time to catch up with everything you've been missing? Well, it'd be very nice if it actually worked. Has anyone managed to persuade it, because it doesn't work for me, on either browser? I'm logged in, but the site won't let me past the Subscribe page. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Alison: In the paper it was mentioned as being a free 'trial' weekend, presumably implying a sign-up of some sort to participate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Well, yes, you had to register, but I still couldn't get at anything. No sign of any response from their technical team, either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) A friend has just sent me a link to a fascinating video clip on the New York Times website. It is entitled, 'Dancing with Swans' and this title is an exact description of the clip! http://video.nytimes...2313/index.html I did look to see if the link had already been posted and didn't find it. Apologies if it has, indeed, been posted already. Edited to add that I'd forgotten to say that there's a brief advert before the clip starts. Edited June 5, 2012 by Bluebird 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 That reminds me: whisper it very quietly so that the Powers that Be don't get to hear about it, but I managed to get 15 separate links from here open from the NYT at the end of last month: and this despite the monthly limit of 10 which is supposedly in place without paying a subscription. So I guess that something I saw a while ago on Ballet Talk is true and that it doesn't apply when you're sent to the page via a link from somewhere else. So even more thanks to Ian and John, and to everyone else who's contributed NYT links. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted June 5, 2012 Author Share Posted June 5, 2012 Yes, NYT links via Google for instance seem to bypass their restrictions. If you run into their paywall barrier then google the title of the article and you should get it. I don't think this is a state secret! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 I wish I could be so sure about this - I got a 'just 4 left this month' warning yesterday, 6th June! And now to today ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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