Angela Posted July 13, 2018 Author Share Posted July 13, 2018 It's complicated, I'm gonna try and write something tomorrow. It was a fight between Binder and the company manager Dirk Hesse, who will also quit in December. They intend a fresh start. The dancers voted for Binder. If you read German, try these articles: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/kultur/tanz-wuppertaler-wirren-1.4043363 http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/buehne-und-konzert/tanztheater-wuppertal-in-der-krise-mit-alphonse-binder-15676494.html https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/krise-am-tanztheater-wuppertal-schreckliche-angst-um-die.1013.de.html?dram:article_id=422395 http://www.wuppertaler-rundschau.de/kultur/taenzer-beziehen-stellung-aid-1.7634875 https://www.weser-kurier.de/bremen/bremen-kultur_artikel,-scharmuetzel-um-das-erbe-von-pina-bausch-_arid,1747242.html http://www.wuppertaler-rundschau.de/kolumne/kommentar/kalt-kalkulierter-wahnsinn-aid-1.7635091 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted July 13, 2018 Share Posted July 13, 2018 9 hours ago, Angela said: Guest stars in 2018/19: Sergei Polunin, Natalia Osipova, Vladimir Shklyarov, Ashley Bouder and Ivan Vasiliev – dates to be confirmed. Does anyone know what Bouder will be dancing??? I'd love to see it ... and, hey, it's only in Munich ... and such a lovely opera house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeauxArts Posted July 14, 2018 Share Posted July 14, 2018 Bruce - I am assuming she will be invited to dance in Jewels.. scheduled for later this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted July 23, 2018 Author Share Posted July 23, 2018 So what’s happening at Tanztheater Wuppertal? – I’m sorry I’m so late. It all started on 6 July with an article in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, normally Germany’s equivalent to the New York Times, but, alas, not with dance coverage. The title was “An obviously dramatic failure” and it accused Wuppertal’s Artistic Director Adolphe Binder who until July allegedly had not even offered a schedule for next season. It went on about a completely dysfunctional relation between her and the management (thus suggesting she was not even part of it), it reported that dancers had complained about “mobbing, sexist remarks, authoritarian and discriminating behaviour”. Only a few hours later, the dance critic of “Die Welt”, another national newspaper, offered in his blog a different view of the proceedings and accused Wuppertal Tanztheater’s company manager Dirk Hesse of wanting to take over all responsibilities from Binder. Unlike in other dance companies, at Wuppertal Binder reports to Hesse, the Artistic Director to the company manager; Hesse had been working at Wuppertal for nine years already, Binder started last season. The “Welt” blog says that Hesse turned down Binder’s repertoire schedule for 2018/19 and cancelled her press conference, that he gave fake news about her to the press. The article continues with accusing the journalist from FAZ of “a very close relationship” with Hesse and of having applied for Binder’s job herself. Other German newspapers like Süddeutsche Zeitung and Tagesspiegel followed suit in defending Adolphe Binder, dancers of the Tanztheater started to speak out about the accusations, talking about “scheming” and an “anti Binder campaign”. Nazareth Pandoro and Julie Shanahan said they wanted to continue working with Binder. So it was his word against her’s. People at Wuppertal started to get nervous about the fate of the proposed Pina Bausch Centre which is to be funded with a huge contribution by the German government, a very rare thing in Germany where cultural funding is up to the Länder (states) and cities, in this case Northrhine-Westphalia and Wuppertal. The dancers continued to defend Adolphe Binder, some of them suspected that it was “too new” what she had brought to the Tanztheater in the last year, two full-length creations by Dimitris Papaioannou and Alan Lucien Øyen. Many of them signed a declaration that they were not involved in discussions with the management and did not receive information about the accusations against Binder. On 13 July, the advisory board of Tanztheater Wuppertal decided to dismiss Adolphe Binder; company manager Dirk Hesse resigned and will quit in December 2018. A committee of experts, among them Alastair Spalding from Sadler’s Wells, will have to find replacements for both of them until the end of the year, working closely with the dancers. Newspaper comments about these decisions suggest that it was a huge mistake to have the Artistic Director report to the Administrative Director and it would be better to start over with another form of organisation. The damage to the Tanztheater seems huge, but the company will continue with tours and performances at home in September. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Thank you so much for this, Angela - my German isn't good enough to have picked up on a lot of important detail. From my very unadventurous point of view it's a disappointment that they aren't bringing any Pina Bausch to Sadler's Wells next season, but I understand that they can't become a museum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 On 05/07/2018 at 16:02, Angela said: @SwissBalletFan: Do you know where the beautiful Odette/Odile = Viktorina Kapitonova is going?? It seems such a big secret... And by the way: Spuck announced that he will stay at Zurich until 2024/25. The pity with Berlin State Ballet is that Duato used lots of money to bring in his versions of the classics, now they throw them out after a very short time to get back the old versions - Nutcracker, Cranko-Romeo. No surprise that they lack money... Thanks, Vanartus, for the striking overview of the German/Swiss/Austrian ballet companies - I totally agree, but not everybody is happy in the cities you envy. At Munich, they have just one premiere next season and the repertoire stays exactly the same, at Hamburg you have to love Neumeier and his increasingly peculiar taste in dancers or else you're desperate for something, anything else. Everybody was happy at Ballet on the Rhine, except for the director, who is leaving. At Vienna, on the other hand, they are baffled why he chose to come there. It's a mad mad ballet world at the moment.. 😶 From an article in the Boston Globe, which will be in the Links tomorrow, Viktorina Kapitonova is joining Boston Ballet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 The official press release from Boston Ballet https://p.widencdn.net/eewsjb/Press_Release_Boston_Ballet_2018-19_Roster-Announcement? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted August 9, 2018 Author Share Posted August 9, 2018 For anyone who has the channel arte on her or his TV: Cranko's Romeo is on at Sunday night, and you can watch it online for one month German https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/080539-000-A/romeo-und-julia/ French https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/080539-000-A/romeo-et-juliette/ 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted August 21, 2018 Author Share Posted August 21, 2018 Some more new dancers for Berlin State Ballet: Sarah Brodbeck, Vahe Martirosyan, Evelina Godunova and Daniel Norgren-Jensen join as soloists (the first two well known to the Zurich audience, they left when Spuck came), Jenna Fakhoury, Ross Martinson and Jonny McMillan join as demi soloists. Murilo de Oliveira is promoted to demi soloist. The Casting for the first Swan Lake performances is already online. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted August 21, 2018 Author Share Posted August 21, 2018 The annual critics’ survey of the German dance magazine tanz yielded the following results: best productions: "Grand Finale" by Hofesh Shechter and "Formosa" by Lin Hwai-min with Cloud Gate Dance Theatre best choreographer: Crystal Pite best female dancer: Polina Semionova best male dancer: Trajal Harrell (a voguing specialist) no company of the year was chosen, as too many were nominated 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted August 23, 2018 Author Share Posted August 23, 2018 This is technically the Netherlands and Het Nationale, but as he was at Stuttgart Ballet for most of his career, I'm gonna put the sad news here: Dutch dancer Marijn Rademaker ends his career due to a recurring injury. http://www.marijnrademaker.com/m/955/marijn-rademaker-stops-dancing/ He danced at the Reid Anderson farewell week at Stuttgart in July, so we saw some of his last performances. And I thought how good he looked, that everything was back to normal with his knee. He was a great dancer-actor, wonderful in Hans van Manen pieces and he created many, many roles with modern choreographers. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanartus Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Very sad indeed.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 I was very taken with him when I saw him dance with the Company in London a few years ago. How very, very sad for him. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toursenlair Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 He is 37, so not really that premature an ending to a career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanartus Posted August 23, 2018 Share Posted August 23, 2018 Heavens - I thought he was much younger! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted August 24, 2018 Author Share Posted August 24, 2018 17 hours ago, toursenlair said: He is 37, so not really that premature an ending to a career. That's true, and he had a long and blooming career with so many different roles and styles. But he had worked for so long to come back from the injury, to create a new work with Hans van Manen, so two or three more years would have been good. And he was an eyecatcher in every ballet with his blond hair and his smooth movements... 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betterankles Posted August 24, 2018 Share Posted August 24, 2018 And was/is, a great artist... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted August 28, 2018 Author Share Posted August 28, 2018 News from Béjart Ballet Lausanne: Queen + Bejart: Ballet For Life Set For UK Screening In London on Sep. 12th http://top40-charts.com/news.php?nid=138317 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm365 Posted August 28, 2018 Share Posted August 28, 2018 Dear Angela, Thanks for this information. Unfortunately I shall be at performance by the Trocks! Do you happen to know if there is, or is to be, a dvd of the documentary? I see it is only an hour long. Julia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted August 29, 2018 Author Share Posted August 29, 2018 Dear Julia, I only found this: http://www.mercuryphoenixtrust.com/site/post_Freddie Mercury Birthday Party: Queen + Béjart: Ballet for Life Documentary To Premiere in Montreux_11605 and it says it's a "premiere", so let's hope they mean the premiere of a DVD publication. It seems more like a Queen enterprise than a Béjart Ballet enterprise. There is a 60 min filmed version of "Ballet for life/Le Presbytère..." (the piece is much longer). It was on Swiss TV maybe a decade ago, it's available on DVD but not in stores any more. But nothing beats the live experience with this piece... 😍😍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted September 3, 2018 Share Posted September 3, 2018 Can anyone advise me about the Munich (Ray Barra) Raymonda? I'm toying with popping over in January and am wondering whether it's worth timing my visit to coincide with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted September 4, 2018 Author Share Posted September 4, 2018 It's been a while, but I did not like it too much. It was made in 2001, a time when reconstructions were still very new and when new versions of the classics still were supposed to be more plausible, to have a better dramaturgy than before (especially in Germany, land of Cranko and Neumeier). Barra's version looks more like the Paris one than like Vikharev's Milano version, but no tutus until act 4, the sets look rather cool and abstract. The storyline is as we know it, Abderakhman is very alluring and seducing. But then, I did not like ANY other Raymonda since I saw Vikharev's... 😉 You'll find a video and pictures here - scroll down https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/raymonda/2018-10-06-20-00.html No cast online yet, Munich is terrible with that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted September 5, 2018 Author Share Posted September 5, 2018 (edited) Edited September 5, 2018 by Angela double post 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted September 5, 2018 Share Posted September 5, 2018 I really enjoyed Vienna's Nureyev Raymonda and preferred it to the Mariinsky version. Not sure Vienna are doing it this season though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
now voyager Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 6 hours ago, Don Q Fan said: I really enjoyed Vienna's Nureyev Raymonda and preferred it to the Mariinsky version. Not sure Vienna are doing it this season though. They are not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted September 6, 2018 Share Posted September 6, 2018 It is announced that Paris Opera Ballet will tour to Japan Feb-March 2020 and they will bring Nureyev's Raymonda, which has not been revived for 10 years. https://www.nbs.or.jp/saiten/ (in Japanese, also announcements of the RB Japan tour July 2019) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted September 24, 2018 Author Share Posted September 24, 2018 Hamburg Ballet postponed this season's premiere of "The Glass Menagerie" by John Neumeier after Tennessee Williams. The premiere will now be in December 2019, for June they announce a triple bill called "Shakespeare – Sonets" with creations by Marc Jubete, Aleix Martínez and Edvin Revazov. Daniil Simkin announced his performances at Berlin State Ballet until December: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted October 13, 2018 Author Share Posted October 13, 2018 Ivan Vasiliev will make his debut as Cranko's Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew at Munich I wonder what "'#Goodnews 2" will be, it was not posted yet... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 13, 2018 Share Posted October 13, 2018 I can imagine that will be a role which will suit him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 On 04/09/2018 at 09:56, Angela said: It's been a while, but I did not like it too much. It was made in 2001, a time when reconstructions were still very new and when new versions of the classics still were supposed to be more plausible, to have a better dramaturgy than before (especially in Germany, land of Cranko and Neumeier). Barra's version looks more like the Paris one than like Vikharev's Milano version, but no tutus until act 4, the sets look rather cool and abstract. The storyline is as we know it, Abderakhman is very alluring and seducing. But then, I did not like ANY other Raymonda since I saw Vikharev's... 😉 You'll find a video and pictures here - scroll down https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productioninfo/raymonda/2018-10-06-20-00.html No cast online yet, Munich is terrible with that. Angela, sorry to trouble you for yet more advice, but in your view is it better to submit a written order for tickets or wait for online booking to open? (I've decided to take a chance on the production as I'll be in town anyway!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted October 14, 2018 Author Share Posted October 14, 2018 Lizbie, I only book online or by phone at Munich, so I don't know if writing is faster (I think they do it by lottery?). However ballet doesn't sell as fast as an Anna Netrebko or Jonas Kaufmann opera at Munich, even it it's Polunin - so if you are able to book immediately at 10 o'clock on the opening day of online booking, that should be no problem, I think. Or try the phone. Try to catch seats (or standing room) in the middle of the balconies - the sight from the sides is not so great. No problem in the stalls. If you take tickets on the balcony sides, only first row. The Nationaltheater is beautiful, but huge, and I could'nt find the perfect place for ballet there until now... ☹️ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted October 14, 2018 Share Posted October 14, 2018 Thank you, that's really helpful! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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