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Worth 6 minutes of anyone's time... 🙂

I think we may be overthinking the 'plot' a bit 🙂 Seems to me the plot points are just convenient hooks to hang some wonderful dancing upon. I'd say pretty much all the old classics and romantic ballets have plots not so much a bus could drive through the holes in them, as it would struggle to touch the sides

nuff said!!

Yours Rob (gosh, that went quickly!)

Ticket for sale for the evening performance of Swan Lake, this coming Saturday (27th April) at 7pm, with Francesca Hayward and William Bracewell in the leads. I thought I could go, but now turns out I can't. Which is annoying as it was a cast I wanted to see! It is D5 in the SCS area, cost of £14. PM me if interested (to setup the exchange), and post here that you have done so

I think that the potential brides being so 'inconsequential' (especially to the Prince), is rather the point

That's royalty for you

Six princesses turning up to the ball all wearing the same dress...FIGHT!!!

The Princesses do have a part where they dance to and with the Prince for him to 'assess' his options. Short pieces invidually, and other parts together

I think we need to give you a bull horn to have a word in Kevin's shell-like...

yes, that's true - but I sorta feel she's 'ours', not 'theirs' 🙂

Yas is the besotted ballet fan's little secret 🙂

Really was blown away by the performance of Yasmine Naghdi last night. Even by her own high standards, this was a wowser! The Odette solo/pdds in act 2, THAT balance in the pdd in Act 3, and the heartbreaking, breath stopping pdd in act 4 (I actually was holding my breath in case I broke the spell, only realising so, when they stopped - I mean, as if my breathing at the back of the stalls circle would have any impact on anyone but me!) And I get to see it all again next Wednesday! [I do hope they make a blu-ray of the cine-cast, I will buy one for sure, even at those sky-high prices they charge for ballet blu-rays these days]

I thought it an interesting contrast - virtually stage ready and being 'tweaked', compared to the early stages of learning the intricate and often non-classroom steps

😳