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  1. Jane S
    Where I was watching, the lighting seemed fine and the music sounded very good - but I did miss a lot of what the two presenters were saying. I don't think their was much applause in the cinema but what I assume was the surround sound from the transmission would have made it difficult to tell our applause from what we were hearing from the theatre! I was really disappointed that the camera higher up in the theatre was so little used, especially in the lakeside scenes - they could have shown us far more of the stage patterns in the corps dances for instance. I'm pleased to have seen it as I haven't seen a live performance of this production but for me there are far too many close-ups. Loved the last pas de deux for Odette and Siegfried. And cinema or live, some of the music is still painfully too slow!
  2. Jane S
    The gala programme was Susanne Grinder's last performance with the company - I gather it wasn't mentioned on stage but there are some lovely photographs and messages appearing on her Instagram page.
  3. Jane S
    Well, that's always a nice cheerful gala number. It looks as if each guest has brought something from their home repertoire - Dorothee Gilbert has just posted an Instagram picture of her rehearsing 'Auber' with Marcin Kupinski - will this be Grand Pas Classique? And that leaves Birkkjaer to do Stars and Stripes. Presumably there will be a Bournonville piece too - Emma Riis-Kofoed perhaps? I bet she didn't expect to end her first year in the company like this!
  4. Jane S
    It sounds as if it may be fun - the guest dancers are Lauren Lovette (NYCB) Semyon Chudin (Bolshoi) Reece Clarke (RB) Dorothee Gilbert (POB) Francesco Mura (POB) and it looks as if at least some of them are going to be dancing with an RDB dancer - those listed as taking part are Ida Praetorius J'aime Crandall Emma Riis-Kofoed Ulrik Birkkjær Marcin Kupinski So far all I've seen is that Praetorius and Chudin will do Sleeping Beaty Act 3 and Lovette will do Stars and Stripes... Also 3 of the RDB senior ladies - Grinder, Matiakis and Watson - do Bournonville's Three Graces and the programme ends with Holly Dorger, Andreas Kaas, Jon Axel Fransson and Jonathan Chmelensky in Etudes. (I think there has already been an open rehearsal so perhaps someone else can fill in the blanks)
  5. Jane S
    A little video on the theatre's Facebook page shows some of what Hubbe has been doing to 'get Denmark dancing' - he demonstrated some moves on an earlier video and challenged people to copy them and put up their own videos. https://da-dk.facebook.com/kglteater/videos/10155289097161455/
  6. Jane S
    The RDB Ballet Festival starts today, with a performance of Napoli (Ulrik Birkkjær, Amy Watson, Jonathan Chmelensky). And tomorrow is Bournonville Day, with an open company class, several films, discussions etc and a Bournonvilleana programme in the evening. Anyone who's going, please tell us about it! Nikolaj Hubbe has put a lot of effort into putting this over as a festival for Denmark and it will be interesting to know how it works out. (For RB fans: Reece Clarke is one of the guestd in the end-of-Festival Gala next weekend.)
  7. Jane S
    Good - I'm glad I hadn't just imagined it!
  8. Jane S
    I'm mildly surprised to read about this as I'd have said that's what always used to happen - is this maybe a reinstatement from some time ago rather than an invention?
  9. Jane S
    Oh. The one thing above all others I hoped they would change...
  10. Jane S
    Please tell me that amongst all this splendour they also took the Act 2 pas de deux a bit faster? (Better stil, a lot faster?)
  11. Jane S
    In my dreams, Suzanne Farrell's dress from the last scene in Vienna Waltzes - the ultimate balldress; for more everyday wear, I rather fancy the Hostess's dress from Les Biches - might need to pop a little cardie over it though, at my age. And the pearls as well, please.
  12. Jane S
    Well, if I had to choose a performance based on those photographs, I'd say never mind Odette and Siegfried, catch a night when McGorian and Gartside are on!
  13. Jane S
    I wonder if they'll bring Winter's Tale to London? That would be interesting.
  14. Jane S
    Excellent news! - and a very popular decision, to judge from the Facebook video It had to be very soon but I had thought Hubbe might be saving it till the Festival.
  15. Jane S
    Eva Kistrup has just posted a report on the new season which answers some questions. I'm really sorry (for the company's sake) that Sebastian Haynes has decided to stay with NDT - he was a huge asset.
  16. Jane S
    Don't think so - he's been listed as solodanser all this season and I've assumed it just meant that they expect him to come back sometime or other.
  17. Jane S
    Summary of the main events and some comments Giselle - the recent production I assume - but only 3 performances - one at the end of August, weeks before anything else, and 2 more in November Carmen - by Marcus Morau - anyone seen any of his work? opens 28/9 Dans2Go - cheap tickets, aimed at young/new audience, happens every year - this season it's Symphony of Psalms (Kylian ), Harald Lander's Dvorak pd2, and a new piece by company choreographer Oliver Starpov, called My Daddy LOves Sugar so Much he Eats it with his Nose Napoli - some B0urnonville at last - opens 3/11 with repeats at intervals till March Alice (Wheeldon) - first seen here a couple of years ago, this year's Christmas show Cinderella - new version by Gregory Dean, with designs by Jon Morell who just did Queen of Spades for the company Big challenge for Dean! Opens 9/3/19 Afterite (McGregor)/ Etudes (Lander) - interesting combination... Kameliadamen (Neumeier) - hugely popular in Copenhagen Also a Hubbe evening, several pieces for Corpus, and Thomas Lund's piece for children, Kom Bamse The company list in the online brochure doesn't include either Susanne Grinder or Sebastian Haynes, and lists Lendorf as a guest principal.
  18. Jane S
    Just as a footnote to this: I saw the dress rehearsal of the 1963 revival of House of Birds , at Covent Garden, and a couple of performances later on tour, and I'm interested to see from the notes I made at the time that I thought it looked far better on the bigger stage - rather against what I've usually found for ballets originally made for Sadler's Wells etc.
  19. Jane S
    "a current rising star of the Royal Ballet, .... Natalia Osipova"
  20. Jane S
    Good! - I've always liked him but never managed to catch him in a big role. Eva Kistrup rather liked him too.
  21. Jane S
    Which cast did you see, Vanartus? (I rather hope you were there last night as I'd love to hear how Tobias Praetorius got on!)
  22. Jane S
    I seem to remember there was a huge argument on ballet.co when he was promoted, along the lines of how could a classical company have a principal who didn't do classical? I think he's proved his worth...
  23. Jane S
    Poltiken has some wonderful photographs of Kizzy Matiakis preparing for her role - Google Alert gives a reasonable translation of the words but reall you hrdaly need them! Also there's a link from this page to an interview with Liam Scarlett
  24. Jane S
    A minor point perhaps but the name of the ballet is Apparitions. Also, both David Vaughan and John Percival - and others for all I know - made the point that neither Makarova nor Schaufuss was well cast in the revival.
  25. Jane S
    Much to my surprise I've discovered that this piece is still preserved online - it's here if anyone's interested.
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