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    http://www.fionagraham-mackay.com/gallery/drawings/ some od the preparatory drawings here. The actual portrait is amazing https://mobile.twitter.com/FionaGrahamMack/status/914877650862305280/photo/1
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    Thank you chaps! All very helpful!
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    Hi, I am looking for size 18 performance ballet wear. I can see loads of sites in the US that cater for larger sizes, but very few in the UK. Does anyone know of a good source in the uk please?
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    Have a look at the reviews re Precious Adams, you are not the only one who thought she was knockout! "Best of all is English National Ballet’s Precious Adams" (The Guardian)"Precious Adams was magnificent" (The Independent)
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    I am so jealous, I will have to wait for it to come to the Coliseum in January. Sounds divine. Isaac Hernandez looks exactly how i would imagine James to look!
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    Yeah, the Americans seem as obsessed with NC at Christmas as we are! Looks like it will have to be Europe, not a single Caisse-Noisette to be found in Paris ('Play' and 'Don Quixote'), 'Sleeping Beauty' in Amsterdam, 'Alice in Wonderland' in Stockholm, 'La Dame aux Camelias' at La Scala. Or I could just crawl under the duvet and wait for January and dream of Giselle, Song of the Earth and La Sylphide!
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    The RB is selling quickly, but the ENB and the BRB aren't selling nearly so well. However, as the RB sell out pretty much whatever they do, if they were brave enough to break with tradition, they could maybe leave Nutcracker for the other companies. I can't believe that if they put on a crowd pleaser, such as Swan Lake, they wouldn't sell that out also. Looking at what other companies around the World are putting on over Christmas, there is generally much more adult fayre. Whilst christmas is indeed a time for children, there are many adults who don't have children, or whose children have left home, who would enjoy some ballet in that long break over Christmas and New Year. I am seriously considering having getting on a plane to go somewhere to see something other than NC!
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    I think i might, Alison! Although I approach Nutcracker with about as much enthusiasm as last year's unopened panettone, I am very intrigued by the idea of 60 snowflakes twirling round the Albert Hall! .Looking at the bookings between Christmas and New Year, only the ROH seems to be selling at a reasonable rate. There are so many performances by each company, I am not surprised. I imagine that the majority of children might only get taken once in their lifetime, unless their parents are real balletomanes. It's not really like pantomime, as even if you get taken every year, at least it will be Alladin one year, and Cinderella the next.
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    Oo, i know, let's have a trip to London to see a ballet between Christmas and New Year. Oo, yes, we could see the Royal Ballet at the ROH, they're doing Nutcracker, or we could see the ENB at the Coliseum, they're doing...Nutcracker, or we could see the BRB at the Royal Albert Hall, they're doing....Nutcracker. I know Nutcracker is the great cash cow for companies, but with the BRB also in town, surely London only has so many nuts that need cracking, and some of us are over 12....
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    I am in my fifties and am quite often instructed to do a running step in my various adult ballet classes, but have never been taught it. Could anyone give me any guidance please on how to run in a ballet way, without looking like a complete idiot, which would be quite likely at my age and not being a size 8! I can't find anything on Youtube except for 4 and 5 year olds!
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    Maybe I should rephrase this. What is it that the English National Ballet do for those of adult age who live in the UK between Christmas and the Summer? 😃
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    Feeling a bit underwhelmed myself....what is it that the ENB do between Christmas and the Summer each year?
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    I am now getting infuriated by the sellong of the Concerto / Le Baiser de la fée / Elite Syncopations tickets for 18th/19th October. Since general booking opened with only a handful of tickets at the back of the amphi, there has been a release every couple of weeks of 50 or so tickets for each night. Why is this happening? What i find so infuriating is that i bought tickets at general booking at the back of the amphi, thinking nothing else would be available, and then it's maddening to keep habing to exchange them as better tickets are trickled onto the site. Very annoyed All i would like to have is clarification for the policy for the selling of tickets, which seems to differ for each production, on which i can base my buying.
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    Some tickets have arrived on the website, but be quick!
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    What I am trying to say, (in a less grumpy sounding way) is that it can be quite a trial to take children to a full lenght ballet for you and for them, not knowing if they will be bored or not, and rather than having grumpies sat around you and complaining, it would be much more pleasant for all if it were a production specifically aimed at children, and then you don't have to worry if they do wriggle or chatter. And as I said, if they do enjoy those, a Nutcrcker or Fille or Coppelia might be the next step.
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    My experience of sitting behind young children at ballets is that they are enthralled for 10 mins, start to wriggle, talk, wave their arms round in ballerina fashion, get up and down and then crawl over their parents. Why anyone thinks taking very young children to 3 HOURS of Romeo and Juliet (yes, you, two ladies at the Royal Festival Hall two weeks ago) is suitable is beyond me. Many people turned round and shushed them, which is fair enough if you have paid £55 for your seat. That's why I think the ENB's My First...series is a great idea. Nobody would have the right to shush you, when it has been advertised as a children's ballet specifically, and if they enjoy those, then maybe try a full length ballet.
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    Two tickets available in balcony on ROH website for triple bill thursdat night, concerto, etc.
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    True, the reviewers seem to have approached this with preconceptions. Those that really enjoyed it seem to have thought, OK, this is a production with many faults, now let's just sit back and enjoy the sheer joie de vivre with which the ENB dance it, and those that didn't enjoy it seem not to have been able to have overcome their prejudices. It does seem strange to me though, that one critic (Stage) should have thought "the ensembles are sloppy and conspicuously uncoordinated", whilst another (Telegraph) thought, "This was one of those rare evenings where there wasn’t a single weak link across the entire, impeccably rehearsed troupe". That was the point when I wondered if they were watching the same performance!
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    How can two reviewers, both attending the same performance, come up with such disparate reviews! Mark Monahan's⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Telegraph Review: "entertainment as vital, as alive and as stirring as can be". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/ballet/enb-make-nureyevs-drama-soar-romeo-juliet-festival-hall-review/ Then Neil Norman's mean little review for The Stage: "drab and lifeless". https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2017/enbs-romeo-juliet-review-royal-festival-hall-drab-lifeless/
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    Sorry seem to have 'reported' this post by mistake! Technology, eh!
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    Laurretta Summerscales! What can i say? Glorious. Emotion shone from every pore, she almost looked like a girl who is getting married in a few days :D. I struggled to work out Josua Hofalt's Romeo though, he seemed to be somewhere else. Fortunately Laurretta showed enough emotion for both of them. Laurent Liotardo brought much to Benvolio that i hadn't seen before. James Streeter once again dominated the stage, as Lord Capulet this time, so commanding (and sexy!) In fact the whole production has a lovely bawdiness and sexiness about it. However, as others have mentioned before, it is a problem with Nureyev's version that the most affecting pas de deux, the one that moved me most both nights, was the pas de deux between Romeo and Benvolio when the latter comes to tell him of Juliet's death, rather than any between Romeo and Juliet. I saw so much in tonight's performance that i hadn't caught last night, so rich is the action. Unfortunately, the small stage won over the complicated action in the end, as one poor corps member tripped on Juliet's bed steps, and seemed to take a very nasty fall, before leaving the stage. Best wishes to him for a fast recovery.
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    I have seen the ENB's production quite a few times, but i don't remember it ever being like this. Ditto to all that Bruce said. Even more amazing in that Bufala stepped in at the last moment for Cesar Corrales!
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    Well whatever is, or isn't going on behind the scenes at the ENB, it didn't show in tonight's performance, which was glorious. What a fabulous place to watch a ballet, the Royal Festival Hall is, everyone can see, the sound is glorious, although the stage is small, but I soon forgot that, caught up in a production so full of gifts i didn't know where to look....
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    Very sad to see the announcement that Cesar Corrales won't be dancing tomorrow night, due to illness. It was mostly in anticipation of seeing his Mercutio again that made me buy the ticket ?
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