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Indeed. I am shaky on still images: what is situation with fair use (comment, review and so forth)?
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I thought the same (and ditto Mary, cliches!) But maybe there will be something extra, which was left out of this rehearsal (the arrival of an outside character or whatever)? Am eagerly looking forward to finding out when we see the show.
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You beat my personal record! This was after an astonishing performance of Electra in Vienna in the 1970s: we students had queued all night for a ticket, then stood for the performance, and then cheered afterwards for almost half the running time of the show, some 45 minutes. A glorious memory.
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BBC4 Dance Programmes - May 2018
Geoff replied to JohnS's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
I may not know much about ballet but have some professional experience of the making of documentaries, for the BBC and others. I watched Dark Knight: might one suggest to Lady MacMillan that her influence, if that is the right word, does not always achieve the best result? -
For sale: Manon 12 May Saturday 12:30/ Row B Amphi/ £11
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For Sale - RB - Manon - 7 & 12 May (mats) - SC D10
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ENB Coliseum Sleeping Beauty Casting 2018
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My eyes are old and tired but nowhere on this press release do I see the name Petipa mentioned, never mind the fact that this year is the 200th anniversary of his birth. It does mention the (I suppose in some people's eyes) far more important "anniversary of MacMillan's death", 26 years ago this October. Can't help feeling a bit disappointed.- 49 replies
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As Netrebko has just done her first Tosca now (last night at the Met), here are some comments on that performance by way of comparison: http://slippedisc.com/2018/04/so-how-was-anna-netrebkos-first-tosca http://parterre.com/2018/04/22/quantum-leap/
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Beryl Grey / Swan Lake / 1951/52
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This is unlikely to be the reason for "The Black Swan" production being shot on a small stage. 1960s tv cameras did indeed use a limited number of lenses, but that would not apply to a 1952 film shot on 35mm. I suspect the reason is more likely to be a severely limited production budget (a smaller stage is usually cheaper than a larger one, and would also need less scenery to be built).- 24 replies
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Beryl Grey / Swan Lake / 1951/52
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Beryl Grey / Swan Lake / 1951/52
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Do you mean you feel the film might be speeded up, LinMM? Although this copy is in murky black and white, don't be misled: this is nothing like a handcranked silent film from the 1920s (where there often used to be issues with speed, now usually corrected in modern copies). A quick check with an electronic stopwatch against the film's in-vision time-code shows this to be an accurate recording (as I think it would have to be, given the 3D set up). They are dancing faster than we are sometimes used to these days, which happens to be something I really like!- 24 replies
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Incidentally, on the issue of 3D, Peter Brinson, in a lecture to the RSA in 1989, claimed "The Black Swan" (some 13 minutes in total, another listing shows) is the only stereoscopic ballet film to have been made in western Europe. Presumably someone somewhere has researched this subject.- 24 replies
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Perhaps I was too hasty in taking the Huntley Archives dating of "1940s" at face value. A search of British films reveals a production, enticingly "stereoscopic" (ie 3D), released in May 1952 under the name "The Black Swan". Starring Grey and Field it is the work of Peter Brinson. It is briefly discussed in Dance Research Journal (Spring issue, 1996): https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S014976770001634X- 24 replies
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As a postscript to the recent discussion on 32 fouettés, here is a clip of Beryl Grey, probably while still a teenager, doing Black Swan/Odile with John Field (the reference in the Huntley archive says the film has sound but this poor quality YouTube sample is silent) More information would be welcome.
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Melissa Hamilton Manon Thursday matinee - v good, v cheap!
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Just been reading through the online comments on the ROH site and was amused to find this one (particularly as "wobble" features in some criticisms of Netrebko):-
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Ah, thank you John. I will try this when I am next at the desktop (most of what I do balletwise is by IPad).
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So, on reflection, do you have any advice for the time I have a photo I would like to attach (I mean a picture I have taken myself, not something online with a URL)? Your new 1kb limit - thank you again! - is still not going to make that possible so how do people manage their endless curtain call snaps (for example)?
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The Royal Ballet: Manon, London, March-May 2018
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Oh sorry aliceinwoolfland, finally sorted my attachment at the same time as you were writing. Admins please feel free to make sense of the multiple postings, apologies everyone.- 592 replies
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The Royal Ballet: Manon, London, March-May 2018
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I carry no brief for this Twitter person (and have no idea who they are) but I just searched for your reference and that is not quite what was said:- 592 replies
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Ah, thank you. And also for the warning: I am beginning to understand how this works!
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I have got myself into a muddle this morning with attaching small snapshots. I found the page My Attachments but there doesn't seem to be a facility to delete old attachments (which I had previously not realised were stored). What does one do to get the attachment allowance back to full size?