Jump to content

Pas de Quatre

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    2,928

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Pas de Quatre

  1. Pas de Quatre
    Exactly! There are many things considered normal in the past that are no longer acceptable.
  2. Pas de Quatre
    It isn't the same thing, using padding to create a character or make an accurate historical costume. The problem is in creating a costume specifically to mock a young woman because she is too fat and thus ugly. Likewise the other sister is mocked because she is too thin, unacceptable and totally out of touch with modern thinking about mental health issues.
  3. Pas de Quatre
    How do people feel about one of the Ugly sisters wearing a fat suit? It made me feel uncomfortable when I first saw it, and today when there are highly publicised issues about ballet dancers being fat shamed perhaps it should be discarded.
  4. Pas de Quatre
    I think the problem arises because hardly anyone anywhere uses the full name of the steps. At the barre the steps are nearly all named battements plus an adjective but the word battements is dropped frequently e.g. battements tendus become tendus, battlements frappés become frappés, battlements développés simply développés. Literally translated it would be unfolding movement, so yes it is being said as an instruction - unfold. Another difference is that in French ballet classes there are petit sauts, small jumps. The word sauté is only used as an adjective show it is a jump, an échappé can be either sauté or relevé, likewise grand fouetté can be relevé or sauté.
  5. Pas de Quatre
    I had various pupils do it in the past, but most schools in this area have dropped it now. One of the last of my pupils to do GSCE dance was very dismissive of the whole thing. She was a very able dancer but they were put into groups by the school and she was placed with some people who basically had no prior training and no idea! This meant she ended up doing all the work. They all passed with a reasonable mark, but she was convinced if she had been marked on her own she would have had a much higher mark. The school tried to get her to do A level dance but she refused point blank
  6. Pas de Quatre
    In some cases it may be "nervous laughter", a well known reaction to surprise, shock and alarm, rather than finding the moment comical. A quick Google search will find lots of information about this.
  7. Pas de Quatre
    It has been recorded in various biographies that there was a lot of bad feeling between Ashton and Macmillan, so maybe out of loyalty?
  8. Pas de Quatre
    They have a schedule on their website of the number of candidates who applied from each country and the number who were selected to take part.
  9. Pas de Quatre
    It is already on YouTube, I just watched part of the first classical class, girls A & B.
  10. Pas de Quatre
    If you want to see him teaching, he has a whole series of classes online. It started during the pandemic and developed from there. Even now, if I want to do something at home, he is my first choice.
  11. Pas de Quatre
    Total rubbish!
  12. Pas de Quatre
    It is 9.30 - 2.30 for ages 5 - 12, so probably no more exhausting than a summer camp in any type of sport or even just day care.
  13. Pas de Quatre
    Gautier's musings that Bathilde wanted to take Giselle back to the castle may not be so impossible. Some people have wondered (we discussed this in a previous thread) whether Giselle is in fact the illegitimate daughter of a nobleman. There is nothing about her father in the ballet at all.
  14. Pas de Quatre
    UK copyright, (and European I believe) is not the same as that in USA. Here copyright lasts for 70 years after the death of the creator, not counting years of war. Prokofiev died in March 1953, so the 70 years is up this year, but presumably 5 or 6 years should be added for the 2nd World War.
  15. Pas de Quatre
    Yes please bring it back - to other theatres, not just in London!
  16. Pas de Quatre
    When I was performing as a professional ballet dancer it was normal for management to tell dancers that if they sunbathed during the summer and got a tan then they would have to use white makeup on exposed arms, shoulders for Giselle, Swan Lake etc. Water soluble pan cake did the trick.
  17. Pas de Quatre
    These days PdL participants have a whole week of classes and coaching for solos before the selection on Friday afternoon for the Final on the Saturday. There are only a few UK students who apply and even fewer selected. The PdL website gives a full breakdown of the numbers on their website.
  18. Pas de Quatre
    The Fonteyn is an RAD competition and you have to pass their Vocational exam with a particular mark to enter. So whilst the RAD is one of the largest individual Exam awarding bodies, the vast majority of ballet students world wide don't do exams.
  19. Pas de Quatre
    There is a lovely photo in today's Times of Katja Khaniukova and corps in Act 2.
  20. Pas de Quatre
    LinMM - in the second episode of Fonteyn's Magic of Dance there is a wonderful extract of Fonteyn and Nureyev dancing Giselle Act 2, a Fonteyn is a perfect example of the style.
  21. Pas de Quatre
    However I have always understood that only the Principal dancers get paid in the Japanese ballet companies. Has this now changed so everyone getd payment?
  22. Pas de Quatre
    I am not sure, but I think it likely that the halls are only available in the summer hols. Many other halls of residence are available then in Central London. I think there is a previous thread if you or another Moderator can find it.
  23. Pas de Quatre
    DH has a connection to Goodenough and we have used it several times over the years. It is in a quiet central location and you get a splendid breakfast in the refectory (like Uni halls). I would thoroughly recommend, but wouldn't class it as cheap.
  24. Pas de Quatre
    At Prix de Lausanne in recent years there has been a class for non-finalists which for ADs to watch and offers have been made to participants for training and jobs.
  25. Pas de Quatre
    In the early 1970s I worked as an Usher(ette) at Cambridge Arts Theatre, 3 or 4 times a week on average. There was a chocolate booth and we took charge of it in strict rotation as you earned a percentage of the takings. A good incentive to encourage sales! Stock was mainly boxes of chocolates rather than individual bars.
×
×
  • Create New...