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    Ignore the above post for the MO. I think I have put the wrong ticket up. I do have a standing ticket spare, and will 're post when I have had time to get the details straight!
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    Hi Alison, and anyone who had terrible struggles getting the seats they wanted. I didn't seem to have any probs and hedged my bets cos I didn't have time to work it out too closely, and got 3 tickets, all confirmed, for Thursday 1st October R@J 7.30pm Muntagirov/Osipova. I bought a stalls circ standing, a stalls circle seat and a balcony seat. Obvs, as I am going on my own I will want only one of the three, and have decided to go for either of the two seats, which means I can offer, to anyone dissappointed today, the stalls circle standing seat, which is: Item Quantity Total Romeo and Juliet Friday 9 October 2015, 7.30pm | Main Stage Balcony Right, C-65 | £11.00 - Full Price (Standing Place), view obstructed by tier ledge & safety rail, NOT for people of short stature 1 £11.00 Subtotal: £11.00 Grand Total: £11.00 Let me know if this would help out your disastrous experiences!
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    You want me to buy you a ticket?
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    You still not got tickets, Alison?
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    So, I feel now how I feel every time the general booking opens for the next season. Usually nervous, sometimes frustrated and always a bit sick! I have managed to get some tickets for R and J and Cheri this morning, but I wish it weren't like this. I hope you managed to get your tickets, Alison. I'm afraid the ROH booking system also makes me horribly aware of the class system in this country that I usually don't have to confront. I know they hold some seats back, but I can't help but feel that by the time the booking has been opened to friends, special friends, extra special friends and friend of friends (you know what I mean), that as one of the general public we have to be happy with the floor sweepings. I know the answer would be to become a friend, but I can hardly afford the visits I make as it is. I have nothing against the friends themselves,they are obviously very important to the ROH. It just makes me, who comes 120 miles many times a year, and gets the last coach home at midnight, feel not as important to the ROH as an acquaintance of mine who is a friend, but never comes.
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    By the way, I saw Kimin Kim dance with Alina Somova last year in SWAN LAKE and he was fabulous!
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    I don't think I was saying that the ENB's production is 'lumpen', I was rather saying that the particular performances I saw just before I saw the BRB looked tired and lumpen in comparison to them. It was not until I saw the BRB dancing with such joie de vivre and cohesion that it occurred to me.
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    It's funny, I always get the same feeling when I go to see the BRB. Although they may not have quite the virtuoso principals of the Royal Ballet or the ENB, I always feel that they match better as a company. No-one seems to be out dancing everyone else. I remember a couple of years ago going to see three Swan Lakes very close together, one by the ENB, one by the RB and the last one by BRB, and the latter felt like a breath of fresh air after the two tired and rather lumpen performances I had seen in London.
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    Dying to know what you thought, Janet!
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    And the pirates were so piratey! They were obviously enjoying it. Their ship was brilliant, the prow came on at the front of the stage and then when it left, a little ship sailed across the back. Made me laugh.
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    I've just seen the Friday night performance, and was grinning all the way back to my hotel. If there is any chance of you making it to the sat performances, I would thoroughly recommend it. The theatre was only about 2/5ths full, which was criminal but the audience that were there loved it. I am a huge David Bintley fan anyway but whenever I see the BRB the word 'fresh' always comes to mind. The cast as a whole were superb, but special mention must go to Chi Cao for his fantastic catch of Miki Mizutani as she fell backwards off a shoulder lift! Also to Yasuo Atsuji, so commanding as Orion and such huge jumps, and the delight that was Tzu-Chao Chou and Lewis Turner as Gog and Magog. The sets deserve a mention too. The whole thing was sophisticated and witty.
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    How beautiful are Sarah Lamb's legs and feet in that first picture, gorgeous.
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    Hello Coated. Sorry, away from the subject, but every time I see your signature picture of the little furry creature, I wonder what it is. Is it a Bush Baby? I love it by the way.
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    You are right about Virelles and Hernandez, sorry. It still would be nice to see occasionally the steady hands of Rojo and Cojocaru supported by some of the junior male dancers of the company.
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    I do wonder what it must do to the company morale when guests are usually brought in to dance with Tamara and Alina, unless there is a reason I don't understand. Especially considering how successful (the much missed) Daria's partnership was with the very young Vadim.
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    Does anyone else have the same worries that I do about what will happen principal wise when Tamara Rojo and Alina Cojacaru eventually retire, although that thought is unbearable,and it will not happen for a long time hopefully?
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    I haven't read Waves and probably won't have time to now, but from the rehearsal, I was blown away by the impression that Ferri was being tossed about by the sea (Bonelli). It looked exactly like what drowning must feel like!
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    Than you, Jacqueline, that is exactly what I meant. I remember being near the front watching Cojacaru dancing Lise and being very shocked by the shape of her poor feet, with those awful bunions. They were not pretty. However I have always loved Alina despite this. I think she wore badly fitting pointe shoes as a child and this caused the deformities. I believe that every dancer should the shape of shoe and width of platform that enables them to dance their best. My point was just that with her teensy platforms, Osipova's pretty feet enhanced her fantastic footwork.
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    I waited an age to see Svetlana Zhakarova exit the ROH when the Bolshoi were last in town. There was quite a crowd, and we thought she would never come, but when she appeared it was well worth it. I have never seen someone look so like a superstar ballerina offstage as she did! She was wearing the most amazing couture coat, very tight on the waist with a big flowing skirt cut into points at the bottom. Gorgeous! Although I don't care if they are wearing grungy old tracksuits! And last summer I finally managed to miss the last coach home, which I have nearly done by a whisker so many times! Cost me a fortune!
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    Osipova seems to have the smallest platforms on her pointe shoes! It did enhance the quicksilver footwork and her amazing jumps. Made them all the more remarkable. The first Lise I saw was Cojacaru, who was glorious too, but couldn't have been said to have pretty feet. The ribbon assisted pirouette: how on earth does that work? Are the ribbons exerting enough force to pull her round? Amazing.
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    I have just watched the rehearsal clip on the ROH website and was blown away! Really glad I got a ticket now. How gorgeous is Ferri?!
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    Oh you guys! That's a fantastic response. I have only read a fraction of these. I shall look them all up. I'm so glad I asked. Thank you all. Ps I have just finished The Cranes Dance by Meg Howrey and loved it.
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    I am just reading a novel called 84 Ribbons, which I suspect is for young adults really, but I am loving it. I am constantly looking for ballet novels and biographies, but I have have read everything I can find on Amazon,etc,and am now struggling to find anything new. Has anyone got a favourite that they can suggest that I might not have read? I suspect that my standards are lower when it comes to ballet books than they are for other books!
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    Yes, I guess so, thanks.
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    Can anyone tell me why the tickets for Woolf Works are so much cheaper than for the normal run of productions at the ROH? I myself am beyond excited at the prospect of seeing Alessandra Ferri finally. The rest of the line up is pretty stunning as well. So why are the tickets so much cheaper? Alessandra Ferri, dancing Juliet when she was young, is the only person who has ever really convinced me that Juliet was only 14 years old.
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