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    Unfortunately that's what I have just found.
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    Thank you JNC, I have just created my free account so I can watch later.
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    Link to Times Article There is an interesting article in today's Times 2 about the collage of famous women by the creator of the iconic Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band record sleeve. Fonteyn has a prominent position on panel 6 - it is what caught my eye. But it is an amazing creation! There are 7 panels with 133 notable women historical and contemporary. This may not be the best forum, but I thought it would reach most people.
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    My pupils successfully used Sharpie pens for both scarlet and purple shoes. I would think black would work well too.
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    It would affect much in the performing arts, not just ballet! The comic unwanted suitor is a stock figure, Malevolio, Kate's suitors in Taming of the Shrew, Gamache in Don Q. Pierrot in Comedia del Arte is a more tragic traditional figure, memorably used by Glen Tetley in Pierrot Lunaire. In my mind Alain fits into this tradition blending the comic with pathos. Another example is Charlie Chaplin's character, The Tramp.
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    No it is a much stronger attachment than that!
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    If Alain is just an awkward gangly teenager, can someone explain the significance of the red umbrella? His fixation with it is not what one would expect from a boy who is merely shy and lacking social graces.
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    This truly surprises me, any mime or actions in classical ballet are set to the music in the same way that the steps are, and should be just as thoroughly rehearsed!
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    I believe there are still very few paid jobs for ballet dancers in Japan. Only the stars/principals get fees and everyone else dances for free. If this has changed please correct me.
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    Does anyone know if there are plans to stream this or put it on Youtube?
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    I think you may mean the one Sophoife mentions above, Steps, Notes and Squeaks.
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    Touring lasted well into 1960s. At our nearest theatre , Arts Theatre in Cambridge, we had regular visits every year from: RBSW touring and Ballet for All; Rambert in its original classical form and then as a contemporary company; Western Theatre Ballet (now Scottish ballet), Northern Ballet Theatre (not sure if this is exact name), London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and some shorter lived ones such as Walter Gore's Company. It was wonderful to see so much good dancing and be able to compare productions. E.g. RB's Coppelia was more technically polished, but Rambert's was so much more fun!
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    Thank you Angela for posting this - a truly exception dancer, RIP.
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    I clearly remember seeing it on BBC more than once, so hopefully they didn't wipe the tape to reuse it.
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    John Cranko school in Stuttgart, Hamburg school - John Neumier. In UK have you looked at King's International or Edinburgh Festival Ballet School?
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    Reminds me of one of my boys several years ago. He liked to wear his hair very long, so I gave him the choice, for the exam either a hair cut or a man bun. He decided to have the haircut!
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    Yes, but you have to factor in that this supports two major establishments, Opera Garnier, and Opera Bastille. I think the article is misleading where it says the Garnier "has been home to the ballet since the modern Bastille Opera House was opened in 1989". POB performs in both houses, sometimes different programmes simultaneously. The company is much bigger than RB. I don't know whether the Opera productions are in both houses still or just Bastille.
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    Yes, I created a free account and have no problems watching on my lap top. It is when I log on with my TV that the free account is not shown. I get a still of the Prix Gala on the screen, but no play button that I can find! Loved MSND, perfect dancing and interpretation.
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    I couldn't start watching this until last night. Can anyone explain why it was fine on my laptop, I created a free account with Medici TV and it all went smoothly, but when I tried to access it on my smart TV, big screen, it said the streaming was only valid until 5th February!
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    There was a RB production in the 1960s shown on TV where the fairies each seemed to enter down a sunbeam. Absolutely magical!
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    Born to be Wild documentary Does anyone else remember this programme with Corella, Correno, Malakov and Stiefel? I have the DVD somewhere - will have to look it out.
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    I think there are many wigs in the RB repertoire that could be retired, they now just look dated.
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    Odyssey, I am with you. Why should the two be mutually exclusive?
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    There is also the question of costumes. In Fonteyn's day bodices were boned like corsets with firm satin or cotton, so dancers couldn't move their torsos in the same way as they do today with stretchy materials. Leg height was thus able to go up with the invention of lycra!
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    Yes, as funded places are in the minority, the majority of places are self funded.
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