Angela Posted February 22, 2018 Author Share Posted February 22, 2018 Next season at Semperoper Ballet, Dresden: https://www.semperoper.de/en/whats-on/ballet/spielzeit/2018.html Premieres: Johan Inger's Carmen, a triple bill with "Corpse de ballet", a new creation by Hofesh Shechter, "Heatscape" by Justin Peck and "Gods and Dogs" by Jiří Kylián, another mixed bill with "The Four Temperaments"/Balanchine, "Errand into the Maze"/Martha Graham, "Black Milk"/Ohad Naharin and a new creation by Joseph Hernandez. Repertory: Swan Lake, Bayadère, Nutcracker, all by Aaron Watkin. A Midsummer Night's Dream by Ashton and The Seasons by David Dawson, COW by Alexander Ekman. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Oh, Heatscape ... It is such fun .... and - as ever with Peck - a great company piece firmly rooted in ballet. I saw it in NYC by Miami City Ballet, its originators. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 3 hours ago, Angela said: A Midsummer Night's Dream by Ashton That's a new one on me 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Do you know if Guilia Frosi is still dancing with this Company and if she is how is she doing. I saw her dance as an RBS student and thought she was a lovely dancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 2 minutes ago, LinMM said: Do you know if Guilia Frosi is still dancing with this Company and if she is how is she doing. I saw her dance as an RBS student and thought she was a lovely dancer. yes https://www.semperoper.de/en/ensemble/personen/peid/giulia-frosi/5211.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Ah Thankyou it's just that I've been sorting out my ballet shelves etc and of course it has taken ALL afternoon and some ( just finished ......and then straight on to the Forum lol) because I couldn't resist re reading through certain programmes and cast lists and among these were some RBS performances and I'd underlined certain young dancers as being very good ....in my view of course. Another dancer who went to this Company was Gina Scott....who I obviously thought was outstanding in some piece quite a few years ago now but she may have left now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 she's still there https://www.semperoper.de/en/ensemble/personen/peid/gina-scott/3737.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted February 22, 2018 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Right just been into the website and had a look. So Gina Scott is now a second soloist and Guilia is in the corps still but only been there for two years. in the piece I saw Guilia in she was partnered with a young man who has a Scandinavian looking name who is now in the Royal Ballet Company. Cannot believe the Company didn't snap her up but maybe she didn't want to join ( if she was offered a place) for some reason at that point....though there was a lot of very good talent that year. Some of the other girls I underlined that year went to Birmingham Royal Ballet and are moving up from the corps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 23, 2018 Author Share Posted February 23, 2018 13 hours ago, alison said: That's a new one on me Sorry, I was in a hurry (always trying to bring you the latest news from over here straighaway ) - "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is the name of the whole evening, which by the way premieres in two weeks at Dresden, consisting of Ashton's "The Dream" and David Dawson's "The Seasons". Mixed bills need names in Germany, it seems, an "Ashton/Dawson" title would not sell at Dresden. On the other hand, Ballet on the Rhine just uses numbers like b.34 or b.32 for their mixed bills. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted February 26, 2018 Author Share Posted February 26, 2018 Next season at State Ballet Berlin Johannes Öhman and Sasha Waltz presented the new programme for Berlin State Ballet today. Öhman will direct the company from August 2018 on, Waltz will be his co-director from 2019 on. Premieres in 2018/19: La Bayadère by Alexej Ratmansky, "in the spirit of Petipa" La Sylphide / Napoli 3rd act by Frank Andersen Mixed Bills: - "Your Passion is Pure Joy to Me" by Stijn Celis/ "Half Life" by Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar - New Creation by Anouk Van Dijk /"Half Life" by Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar - Balanchine, Theme and Variations/Forsythe, Second Detail/New Creation by Richard Siegal back in repertory: Nutcracker by Burlaka/Medvedev Romeo and Onegin by Cranko Swan Lake by Patrice Bart New Principals: Yolanda Correa from Norwegian National Ballet, Daniil Simkin from ABT and Alejandro Virelles Gonzalez from Bavarian State Ballet Link: http://www.staatsballett-berlin.de/en/presse/mitteilungen/26-02-2018/94 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanartus Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Ah well my dream of a small MacMillanisation of the repertory will have to wait.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauxArts Posted February 26, 2018 Share Posted February 26, 2018 Members of the Mariinsky Ballet gave 2 performances of a new(ish) version of Petrushka, choreographed by Vladimir Varnava, in Munich at the weekend. The cast was led by Vladimir Shklyarov in the title role. A recording of the performance is now available for viewing on Medici.TV. The orchestra is the Munich Philharmonic, conducted by Gergiev. The performance was in the round, and I was fortunate enough to see it on the Saturday night. It is certainly interesting, and further evidence if nothing else of Shklyarov's dramatic gifts and his range. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erica Posted March 1, 2018 Share Posted March 1, 2018 On 29/2/2012 at 09:45, Angela said: Yes, William Moore and Alexander Jones, both graduated the same year als Xander Parish and Liam Scarlett from RBS, if I remember right. Great dancers - tall, good actors, musical, fine technique, handsome guys. I could never understand why Mrs. Mason did not do everything to get them into the Royal Ballet - good for Stuttgart William Moore, one ot the best dancer-actors I've seen in a very long time, is leaving with Stuttgart resident choreographer Christian Spuck for Zurich Ballet at the end of the season, where Spuck will follow Heinz Spoerli as director. Big mistake for Moore, if you ask me, because he got every role he could wish for at Stuttgart, he was in most creationes by choreographers working there and hugely popular with the audience. Also dancing at Stuttgart: Elisa Badenes from Spain, Prix de Lausanne and YAGP winner, who trained at the RBS and danced her first Odette/Odile in December - an incredible performance, better than all the senior ballerinas of the company. Calm and serene, not a little bit nervous, wonderful arms, and a very dangerous, sensual black swan. Like she was born to dance that role - I could not believe it, she was 19 years old! Strange the RB did not keep her. By what you are seing I wish I could see her dance 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauxArts Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Vladimir Shklyarov has recently announced on his Instagram page that he will dance Onegin on 18 April at the Munich Staatsballet. Well worth a trip to Munich, as the comments above confirm! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Having recently danced Colas in La Fille Mal Gardee in Munich (opposite Laurretta Summerscales), Yonah Acosta will reprise the role in Stuttgart tonight (10th March) as a replacement opposite Elisa Badenes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 Polunin will dance Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew with Osipova on 16 April at Munich: https://twitter.com/staatsballett/status/972765005845352448 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 5 hours ago, Angela said: Polunin will dance Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew with Osipova on 16 April at Munich: https://twitter.com/staatsballett/status/972765005845352448 Thanks so for this, Angela. I am running a programme in Munich for work - as it happens - on that day and was just going to fly in and out to do it ... but now will happily hang around and go to the performance and take a very early morning flight back .... I wish I could say for the 18th Oneign with Shklyarov... and the Cranko R&J in between but sadly work does not permit such luxury. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Posted March 13, 2018 Share Posted March 13, 2018 If you already have a ticket Bruce - well done. I hope you have time to report back on the performance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 15, 2018 Author Share Posted March 15, 2018 Ballet next season at Baden-Baden Festspielhaus: Hamburg Ballet: Bernstein Dances - 6./7. October Anna Karenina – 12./13./14. October Mariinsky Ballet: Prokofiev Evening with Prodigal Son/Balanchine, Violin Concerto No 2/Anton Pimonov and Russian Ouverture/Maxim Petrov, Musical Direction by Gergiev – 21. December Swan Lake – 22./23./25. December The Four Seasons/Ilya Zhivoi: 26. December Ballet Gala with Le Divertissement du roi/Maxim Petrov and Le Carnaval/Mikhail Fokine et. al. – 27. December Alonzo King Lines Ballet 2./ 3. March 2019 Dutch National Ballet with Kleines Requiem/Hans van Manen, Ignite/Juanjo Arqués, Chroma/Wayne McGregor – 22./23. June 2019 www.festspielhaus.de 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 18, 2018 Author Share Posted March 18, 2018 The premieres for Bavarian State Ballet next season: Balanchine, Jewels. That's it. https://www.staatsoper.de/18-19/ballett.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 2 minutes ago, Angela said: The premieres for Bavarian State Ballet next season: Balanchine, Jewels. That's it. https://www.staatsoper.de/18-19/ballett.html Zelensky has not been exactly adventurous in his programming since his arrival, has he? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauxArts Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 I wondered if it was the right season, so similar is it to 2017-18!!! Will be interested to see Raymonda. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oberon Posted March 18, 2018 Share Posted March 18, 2018 Two informative trailers for the two premieres in Munich 2018/19 now available on Youtube (english subtitles and ... english speaking director): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 A new director for the ballet company at Karlsruhe State Theater: the American dancer and choreographer Bridget Breiner will follow Birgit Keil from 2019/20 on. She was a dancer at Stuttgart Ballet and Dresden Semperoper Ballet and has directed the small ballet company at Gelsenkirchen since 2012, very successfully. Birgit Keil, former principal in Cranko’s Stuttgart and the most renowned German ballerina, is 73 years old now. She will retire after 16 years at Karlsruhe, but she will stay as director of the Tanzakademie Mannheim. The company at Karlsruhe has 30 dancers, plus students from the Tanzakademie. Under Keil’s direction they did MacMillan’s Romeo, Peter Wright’s Giselle, Wheeldon’s Swan Lake and many other classics. Breiner will continue with classical/neoclassical ballet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 20, 2018 Author Share Posted March 20, 2018 I should add that Karlsruhe State Theater had also some other jobs to fill, and they hired only women: for the opera director, the playhouse director, the director of the community theatre branch, and the head of the artistic management office. The General Director is still a man, but wow… 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betterankles Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 And for information, the beautiful Bridgett Zehr (ex ENB), is now dancing in Bridget Breiner’s company in Gelsenkirchen, perhaps she and other dances from there will move to Karlsruhe next season... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 After it was not awarded last year, the next German Dance Award will be given to Nele Hertling at a gala in Essen on 22. September. Hertling is a dramaturg and networker who influenced the development of contemporary dance in Germany since the 70s, f.e. by inviting choreographers like Merce Cunningham or Trisha Brown, by founding the Berlin Festival "Tanz im August" or by strengthening the position of independently produced dance. The ballet of the State Theatre at Nuremberg under the direction of Goyo Montero will be honoured for extraordinary development in dance. The Berlin choreographer Meg Stuart and her company Damaged Goods will be honoured as extraordinary artists. The award will be presented for the first time by Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, an official nationwide platform for artistic dance in Germany, and it will be endowed with 20.000 Euro for the first time. The founders who awarded the prize since 1983 ended up in strong controversies, now they united with the Dachverband and created a new concept for the award. As the Dachverband leans stronger to the contemporary scene, more laureates from modern and contemporary dance are to be expected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 The new roster for Bavarian State Ballet is almost the old one (as for the repertoire ): Osipova, Shirinkina and Shklyarov are listed as guests, Polunin as permanent guest. Matthew Golding is gone from the list, as are Alejandro Virelles who moves to Berlin, and Tigran Mikayelyan who dances for Ballet of Difference now, Richard Siegal's modern ballet company at Munich/Cologne. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 25, 2018 Author Share Posted March 25, 2018 For anyone who can watch arte on TV: Neumeier's Nijinsky will be broadcast on 16.April on 00.45, then it is available online as stream for some days. https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/069869-000-A/nijinsky/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 26, 2018 Author Share Posted March 26, 2018 John Neumeier will stay Director of the Hamburg Ballet until 2023, when he will be 84 years old. He directs the company since 1973, since 1996 as Intendant, which means they are independent from the Hamburg Opera Director, a very important fact for ballet companies in the German State Theatres (ask Igor Zelensky who is not). The company will get three additional dancer positions in 2018/19, the existence of the Junior Company (Bundesjugendballett) is guaranteed for the next years, and the town of Hamburg will continue to ensure Neumeier’s foundation and his vast ballet collection. Lloyd Riggins, who was supposed to become Artistic Director next to a chief choreographer Neumeier who initially wanted to retire as AD, now will stay as Associate Ballet Director. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted March 27, 2018 Author Share Posted March 27, 2018 And here is the new season at Hamburg Ballet: http://www.hamburgballett.de/downloads/vorschau/vorschau_ballett_18_19.pdf?m=1522138788& / (Download for the season brochure) The premieres are a Balanchine evening with Brahms/Schönberg Quartet and Liebeslieder Walzer, then Neumeier will create a new ballet after Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie (he already made a ballet of A Streetcar Named Desire in 1983). No changes in the roster, as far as I can see. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 (edited) Brahms/Schönberg Quartet and Liebeslieder Walzer - TWO OF MY FAVOURITES .... I'M THERE ... NO QUESTION .... THIS IS LIKE CHRISTMAS!! SUCH A GIFT!!!! Angela ... Can you buy tickets now .... I'd love to go to the Nijinsky Gala (and a couple of performances before in June '19) .... Grateful for your kind advice. If not, do you know when they go on sale??? I tried on the HB web calendar but it wasn't letting get that far. Edited March 27, 2018 by Bruce Wall 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted March 27, 2018 Share Posted March 27, 2018 (edited) 33 minutes ago, Bruce Wall said: Angela ... Can you buy tickets now .... I'd love to go to the Nijinsky Gala (and a couple of performances before in June '19) .... Grateful for your kind advice. If not, do you know when they go on sale??? I tried on the HB web calendar but it wasn't letting get that far. Don't worry, Angela ... I've found all the info I need now. Thanks so. I know in the past they used to issue all tickets immediately - but - new this year - they are holding them to 11th June (it's in my diary) ... and the Nijinksy Gala is by mail lottery with a requirement that the letter has to be received between specific dates in September. Edited March 27, 2018 by Bruce Wall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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