hfbrew Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 I was surprised to read this as I thought I remembered seeing Year 11 White Lodge students doing pas de deux work. I checked on the White Lodge website and found the following (the highlighting is mine) "A five-year course is offered here for students between the ages of 11 and 16, incorporating comprehensive classical ballet training together with an excellent academic provision up to GCSE Level. ...................... At senior levels, classes in repertoire, solos, pas de deux and upper body conditioning for male students are incorporated into the curriculum." http://www.royalballetschool.org.uk/training/full-time-courses/white-lodge/ You are right Bluebird.The rudiments of partnering are taught right from the start of year 7. As the pupils get older pas de deux gets more advanced and certainly when my ds was at White Lodge the young men (they are referred to as men from year 10) were gettin regular sessions of weight training. It certainly isnt all left to the last couple of years of RBS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 (edited) But would they be learning and doing high and complex lifts of the type that you see in the big pdds and, increasingly, in modern choreography? What happens to the boys who are still only 5 foot tall at 15 or 16 or who lose a lot of strength during a late growth spurt? Edited March 30, 2014 by aileen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A frog Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Yuhui Choe is now replacing Natalia Osipova on the 5 April as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Oh dear. It sounds as if her injury is quite serious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Yuhui Choe is now replacing Natalia Osipova on the 5 April as well. Sounds an ideal time to announce a promotion to Principal from the stage! ;-) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BD19 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 (edited) Edited. Edited April 2, 2014 by BD19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest BD19 Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 sorry, I'm still not clear why Watson does not dance the 'classical' roles and that includes the Balanchine ballets Because Aileeen he doesn't have the technique for them never has done and definitely not now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Are we waiting for Godot here? All getting a bit surreal, isn't it? Edited to say that all is now explained - so I think I'll have some lunch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Are we waiting for Godot here? All getting a bit surreal, isn't it? Edited to say that all is now explained - so I think I'll have some lunch. This sounds as though you have 'the inside track' on something, Ian, which you are not sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 capybara: No inside track, I fear. The biter has been bit - and with post 138 effectively deleted, the surreality is now all mine! I think we can all move along now, nothing to see here ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrischris Posted April 3, 2014 Share Posted April 3, 2014 Winter's Tale rehearsal now closed http://www.roh.org.uk/news/the-winters-tale-general-rehearsal-on-10-april-2014-to-be-closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted April 4, 2014 Share Posted April 4, 2014 Choe replacing Osipova in Sleeping Beauty on 9 April. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Soares replaced by Gartside as Leontes in The Winter's Tale. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 This presumably explains why the second cast is not dancing until the 16th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Soares replaced by Gartside as Leontes in The Winter's Tale. Link Yet another "hug" for Kevin O'Hare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I don't remember seeing you at the BA on Monday, meunier? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 I don't remember seeing you at the BA on Monday, meunier? Well, I saw you hiding out at the back, Alison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nina G. Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 This presumably explains why the second cast is not dancing until the 16th. Yes it looks like they needed more time to prepare the other cast (at least this time there is another cast "ready" ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 11, 2014 Share Posted April 11, 2014 Yet another "hug" for Kevin O'Hare! It probably should be explained that, at the Ballet Association on Monday, Kevin O'Hare mentioned that, when he told Bennet Gartside that he would be playing Rudolf in Mayerling last season, Ben's response was to ask Kevin if he could give him a hug. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveclassics Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 I'm sure I read on this thread that Bennet Gartside is leaving at the end of the season. Is it true? It seems a shame - he's been such a reliable dancer and good in stepping in to so many different roles over the last few years. I hope his last performance (if it is this year) is suitably marked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 Not on this thread, you didn't (If you look at the search box at top right, you'll see it currently relates to "this thread", and you can search for terms in it that way) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrischris Posted April 12, 2014 Share Posted April 12, 2014 I haven't heard anything about him leaving/ retiring. Hope it isn't true. Dancers like him are a real asset to a company, and he still seems pretty young. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loveclassics Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) Not on this thread, you didn't Should have said 'site'. At least I'm pretty sure it was this site - there aren't many other ballet sites that I read regularly. Edited April 13, 2014 by loveclassics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Please note that I am not speculating here but I did read somewhere what his reaction would be if he ever got to dance Rudolf, which he now has done (but is still with the Royal Ballet!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 Please note that I am not speculating here but I did read somewhere what his reaction would be if he ever got to dance Rudolf, which he now has done (but is still with the Royal Ballet!) You may not be "speculating" but you are stoking the fire of a baseless and unfounded rumour. To put this to bed, Bennett confirmed to me last night that he has no plans to leave the RB at the end of this season. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 You may not be "speculating" but you are stoking the fire of a baseless and unfounded rumour. To put this to bed, Bennett confirmed to me last night that he has no plans to leave the RB at the end of this season. I am very glad that Mr Gartside has confirmed to you that he is not leaving RB at the end of this season and, indeed, to you for sharing this morsel. Perhaps Mr Gartside should not, however, have said what he said in response to Graham Spicer's questionnaire, however much that might have been in jest: http://www.gramilano.com/2013/02/bennet-gartside-answers-the-gramilano-questionnaire-dancers-edition/ "What role have you never played but would like to? The Crown Prince Rudolph in Kenneth Macmillan’s Mayerling. I’d promise to retire after that if it helps, Kevin?? Cheers! [2 months later on 25 April his dream came true, and he played Rudolph to rapturous applause. Joyce Di Donato wrote on Twitter: #Mayerling at the @RoyalOperaHouse last night was one of the most sublime, yet shattering evenings I’ve ever spent in the theater.]" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Bonelli is injured and out of the last two performances of Winter's Tale: replaced by Hristov: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/cast-change-valeri-hristov-to-dance-in-the-winters-tale-on-1-and-8-may-2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted April 30, 2014 Share Posted April 30, 2014 Oh dear, yet more injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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