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RobR

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  1. I fully understand the ‘dressing up’ issue. The jeans I wear to the ROH are generally newer than those I wear to the National Theatre 🤪
  2. Hi Ann, most companies understand that relations (and guardians) want to see their children perform, particularly when dancing a lead role. Perhaps your ward might speak to someone at ENBS, who can arrange for a ticket or two.
  3. And very nice to see Katharina Nikelski back dancing
  4. Me too! (The exclamation mark is for emphasis 😀)
  5. I’ve always watched it on the same basis set out by @ellyb
  6. I’m sorry but your post is too vague for anyone to give any meaningful advice. Assuming that your daughter attends a ballet school, and speaking as the parent of a daughter who did join a professional company, I strongly recommend that you discuss the options with your daughter’s teacher(s). If you want to send me a pm, I’m happy to respond but I’m not sure that any additional advice I could offer would be particularly useful.
  7. Good explanation - stick with it 👍😉
  8. Thanks for this, Peter. I’m rarely lost for words but this is one such occasion.
  9. Well, if you start getting ads for shaving gear, beard trimmers and Y fronts, you’ll have to let me know 🤪
  10. I love classical ballet (no surprise there) and as the owner of a Parson Russell terrier, dogs too. Like many of you, I go to Instagram to find (ballet) news and photos. I follow various dancers and other posters; @dancersdiary, @missbunnyman and @embracethe ballet, and others All straightforward so far but, what I don’t get is why my Instagram stream has so many advertisements and links to women’s clothing, fashion, swimsuits, make up, …. Do the cookies assume that because of my interest in ballet that I’m probably a woman?
  11. I see from tonight’s cast list that Itziar Mendizabal is Lescaut’s mistress tonight. I was very impressed by her performance in the general (tbh I’m always impressed by her) so I’m sure those going tonight will enjoy her dancing and acting.
  12. I’m also very much looking forward to seeing Fumi and Vadim on 23 February. Interesting to read the various reviews. Having seen a few of the casts, I very much enjoyed Lauren and Matthew.
  13. I think I’m right in saying that this is not scripted or choreographed but is very much a matter for the individual dancer(s) to interact or interpret in their own way. Most, if not all, of the female dancers/townswomen in this particular scene are less experienced dancers. This isn’t in any way a criticism of them, their dancing or their age and experience. I merely mention it to put my earlier paragraph into context.
  14. Like @JohnS, and many other regulars living in London and the South, I like to go to a few performances of the same ballet, generally classics (I would have said 'white' ballets meaning Swan Lake, Giselle etc but didn’t want to be misinterpreted), MacMillan, Scarlett, Wheeldon, Balanchine, Ashton, to name a few. I like to watch different casts so I’m all for long runs. I'm not such a fan of newer, shorter works, with quite a few exceptions which I enjoy, but would be happy for these to have shorter runs, as they currently seem to do.
  15. Just to add that I decided, on impulse, that I fancied seeing this cast and responded, unsuccessfully, to two earlier offers so I'm thrilled to get this ticket. Thanks @cjps
  16. Thanks for the memory @Sophoife, I have a happy recollection of that cast - with Will Tuckett as a very menacing Gaoler
  17. None of the princes in classical ballet are perfect apart from the Sugar Plum Fairy’s Prince (with the possible exception of Florimund in SB, and that’s only because he’s late to the party). Apart from those mentioned above, Siegfried picks Odile rather than Odette, Albrecht lies to (and possibly seduces) Giselle, Leontes is a complete jealous rat in The Winter’s Tale, Solor in La Bayadere, feckless James abandoning Effie in La Sylphide, and street hoodlum Romeo ruining Juliet's life in R & J. No doubt there are others but the role of the prince depends on failure, jealousy or (in D G's case) weakness….. I'm sure there are more
  18. Luca Acri stole the show as far as I am concerned
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