Jan McNulty Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 And I just loved her as Kitri! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A frog Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 (edited) I'm relatively new to ballet so don't really know what happened before her partnership with McRae, but to me she's always been making their performances just as enjoyable as he has, I'll add her Odette/Odile and Manon to the list of roles I have found her great in (although I must say I've only seen her as Juliet in the past run and didn't like her that much then). It does seem that McRae is being put forward for a bigger profile within the company, and as he keeps increasing the theatrics, they may no longer always be ideally suited to dancing together, but I don't think it means anything about her, they are just developing as artists in occasionally different directions (I for instance fully support not having them together in Don Q). ETA: and I just see that a book of pictures of McRae is about to be published. Edited April 9, 2014 by A frog 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I would agree with you there A Frog - I thought she had a brilliant Basilio in Alex Campbell and I thought they were scintillating together. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 The question of partnerships at the RB interests me as the dancers don't seem to have regular partners in the way that they do at some of the other companies. I shall be very interested to see how Golding and Muntagirov fit into the mix. Regarding Marquez, although she has danced with McRae a lot in the past recently he has been partnering Lamb more, particularly in high profile performances eg the opening night and cinema broadcasts of Beauty, and has also danced with Osipova, leaving her to dance with a number of different partners eg Kish (not an obvious choice as he is so much taller than her), Campbell and Hirano, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 I shall be very interested to see how Golding and Muntagirov fit into the mix. Well, at the moment, it looks as if both Muntagirov and Golding are being tried with a range of partners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Please could someone tell me who did Catalabutte at the April 5th performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james sinclair Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Roberta Marquez...wonderful as Cinderella, (with McRae) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Cattalabutte was played by Thomas Whitehead on the 5th April and very good and entertaining he was too!! I also forgot to say earlier too how good Kristen McNally was that night as Carabosse loved her performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted April 9, 2014 Share Posted April 9, 2014 Thank you - someone was praising him on another site but didn' t mention his name! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan66 Posted April 13, 2014 Share Posted April 13, 2014 (edited) hello A Frog, thanks for your comments about Roberta Marquez's performance. I totally agree. I was lucky in march 2004, when I went to London, and I saw 4 auroras in just 3 days. so lucky¡¡¡ thursday night, Nuñez, I think it was her debut as Aurora, maybe I'm wrong, but I think it was her debut that night. anyway, she was superb, as always. Friday, day off... Saturday, matinée ( Darcey Bussell...injured or ill,I dont know, so Cojocaru came to that matinée, very nice she was of course, but I wanted sooo much to see Darcey. Saturday evening, Rojo, ok, but no smiles...maybe she was not very good that evening. who knows. And then sunday 3pm. Roberta Marquez, the star¡¡¡ Really, she was the BEST of the serie. and as I had seen the other 3 stars, so recently, just a few hours before, I could compare them, and definitely, Marquez was first class¡¡¡ what an ideal aurora, IDEAL Edited April 13, 2014 by Swan66 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted May 1, 2014 Share Posted May 1, 2014 Resurrecting this thread, there is now posted on YouTube a recording of Anthony Dowell coaching Yuhui Choe and Ben Ella in a pdd from Sleeping Beauty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Nice to see a youngster given an outing - maybe the whole Xander Parish business has led to a rethink of how they treat the male corps members. I also appreciated the way Anthony Dowell was explaining how Margot Fonteyn did things; hopefully that sort of coaching will mean that the Royal Ballet Sleeping Beauty still has some of its own flavor and doesn't start looking like everyone else's. Here's a link to the video. Edited May 2, 2014 by Melody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 Thanks, Melody. I couldn't work out how to post it. Btw, you must be up early (or late). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melody Posted May 2, 2014 Share Posted May 2, 2014 (edited) Up late, it's 5am. Just about to go to bed. If you want to embed a YouTube video, just click Share and a box will show up containing a URL. Just copy the URL (the one that starts with http://youtu.be...) and it should embed. If you copy the URL from the bar above the page, it won't embed, you'll just see the link. Edited May 2, 2014 by Melody 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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