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  1. Scheherezade
    She will be greatly missed
  2. Scheherezade
    To be honest, if you can’t see the dancers’ feet they should be a lot cheaper.
  3. Scheherezade
    Like everyone else, I am so looking forward to the performances tonight and on Monday evening, my first since the general rehearsal. So sorry that I won’t get to see Laura Morera but pretty much in heaven at what I will manage to see.
  4. Scheherezade
    He had precisely the same impact at the general, ditto the rest of the cast as per other comments above.
  5. Scheherezade
    Isn’t this the sort of feedback the RB marketing department should be sounding out?
  6. Scheherezade
    I did enjoy Lohengrin yesterday although, I have to say, in spite of, rather than because of, the production. Why, oh why, when telling of magic, myth and sorcery, is grey upon grey, irredeemable brutalism and what looked like a collection of backstage planks and poles thought to set the scene? That sort of thing may still be de rigeur in Europe but did it ever really catch on over here? And, if it did, haven't we thankfully moved on to something more likely to fire the imagination than kill it dead? And, wedding dress apart, don't get me started on poor Elsa's wardrobe...
  7. Scheherezade
    Good, too, that in addition to heaping praise on the current run, the critics uniformly seem to be acknowledging the range, musicality and glory of Ashton’s works and bemoaning the RB’s reluctance to perform them. Perhaps this will bear some fruit when scheduling future seasons. We can only hope!
  8. Scheherezade
    Yes please!
  9. Scheherezade
    If only!
  10. Scheherezade
    Yes, yes, yes! It was everything I'd been waiting for; I want to go to every performance!
  11. Scheherezade
    Tbh, is there anything much that she does not seem born to dance?
  12. Scheherezade
    Another shout out for the wonderful box office staff. When my online bookings froze in my basket without knowing whether payment had gone through the other day, they identified the seats, said they would keep an eye on them to prevent anyone else picking them up and additionally held separate, similar seats in case the originals slipped through the net, then emailed and called me back to confirm the position the bookings and payment later in the day. This is what customer service should always be like.
  13. Scheherezade
    Sacrilege!
  14. Scheherezade
    I loved Jolly Folly, congratulations indeed and more commissions please for the talented Arielle Smith. I haven’t seen Revisor so can’t comment on the production but congratulations all the same.
  15. Scheherezade
    I’d say go for both Jaho and Rachvelishvili. And there is also Kaufmann, still, no doubt, as much a draw as in the pre-Covid days.
  16. Scheherezade
    I saw this again last night - so good I had to see it twice! - and if anything it even surpassed the first viewing. Just wonderful and a fabulous ensemble show. A company absolutely at the top of its game. And, yes, their departing dancers and artistic director will be very much missed. Let’s hope that we will have the chance to see them again here in the UK.
  17. Scheherezade
    Phew! Close call there!
  18. Scheherezade
    Yes it is, Jan. I agree with every word of your second paragraph, Fonty, and most of the third, apart from the fact that I didn’t mind the James Blake tracks, although they didn’t, of course, have the energy or variety of Playlist. So for anyone who hasn’t yet been to the Forsythe evening, I have one word: “Go!” The run ends on Sunday so not many performances left but make sure you grab a ticket to one of them. Uplifting, exhilarating, supremely enjoyable, you’ll come out on a feelgood high that lasts well after the performance ends and what’s not to love about that?
  19. Scheherezade
    I’d be happy with Viviana Durante. She has done some interesting things.
  20. Scheherezade
    I think that most of the negative posters - and I am happy to nail my colours to that particular mast - are disappointed at the uninspiring programmes on offer, the lack of any acknowledgment, let alone celebration, of the vast catalogue of the company’s heritage works and the craven cap-doffing to the cult of ‘new at any cost’. The staggering number of untested new works screams of ‘never mind the quality, feel the width’ and I’m sorry, BBB but I think that most of us are able to speculate as to what we are likely to enjoy - or not, as the case may be - with a high degree of accuracy. The coming season has more than a whiff of KOH’s pre-Covid threat of a season dedicated to 21st century works and none of the planned and very welcome heritage works set to air in the Linbury and banished due to lockdown. I am far from being a naysayer when it comes to the new. Last night I spent a totally life-affirming evening at Sadler’s Wells, revelling in ENB’s wonderful performance of Forsythe’s Blake Works and Playlist and I can reel off any number of other new works programmed by this company - Jolly Folly, Broken Wings, to name but two. How is it that this company almost always manages to get it right and to showcase works that I immediately want to see again whereas, for me, I would consign most of the RB’s new works to a very deep dustbin. This isn’t true of everything. Valentino Zucchetti shows enormous promise, I enjoyed Woolf Works and would be interested to see the Dante Project, a revised Cellist and some of Scarlett and Wheeldon’s works again. There must be more but Corybantic Whatnot isn’t one of them. I was, however, cheered at the mention of Pam Tanowitz and Stina Quagebeur, will look forward, as always, to Ballet Black, will look at Acosta Danza with interest and will keep my fingers crossed that William Bracewell, so utterly compelling as Hamlet to Hayward’s Ophelia in the Ashton Remembered programme, is cast as Crown Prince Rudolf.
  21. Scheherezade
    Me too, Jan. They look far more effective and the inherent musicality ups the overall satisfaction.
  22. Scheherezade
    Dawnstar, I’d be very surprised if you annoyed anyone with your post. The importance or otherwise of the fouettés is a totally valid discussion point, as witnessed by the range of opinions posted by way of reply, so please don’t hold back with your views on the rest of the performance.
  23. Scheherezade
    Me too, AnneL. And Arielle Smith’s joyous Jolly Folly, but it’s hard to think of many others that have been anything more than box-ticking exercises. I want to emerge from a new work having enjoyed the experience: entertained, moved or intrigued and wanting to see more. I don’t want to be preached at and I don’t want the all too common reaction of: “seen that, won’t be going again in a hurry”.
  24. Scheherezade
    Great choices, Dawnstar. You’ve managed to avoid the many so-so galas and settled on two of the best.
  25. Scheherezade
    Oh yes, Bruce. Yes to Putrov's amazing achievement and the joy for us all were he to assemble all future London galas, to the tone and tenor of last night's entire gala and to Frola's thrilling and continuing artistic growth. He really does seem to have it all - that rare double of finesse and fireworks in equal measure. I do so hope that he stays here in London and if he is ever minded to move on from ENB (and I am not advocating that he should), wouldn't that short hop down Longacre to the ROH find the perfect home for him. And lucky you, indeed, during your New York dance boom years! I caught Baryshnikov once in London and sadly that was all.
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