Jan McNulty

Links - Tuesday 11 August, 2020

Streaming Preview - San Francisco Ballet, Dance of Dreams:  Janice Berman, San Francisco Classical Voice

Streaming Review - Edinburgh International Festival - An evening with Scottish Ballet:  Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

Streaming Review - Royal Ballet, Anastasia:  Oksana Khadarina, Fjord Review

Streaming Review - Akademi, The Troth:  Lyndsey Winship, Guardian

Featurette - Royal New Zealand Ballet preparing for live tour starting on 20th August:  Elizabeth White, MSN

Feature - Will Covid-19 sound the death knell for sacred Khmer dance?:  Taing Rinith, Khmer Times

It's the National Indoor Arena and is on the opposite side of the canal to Symphony Hall.

If you were arriving at New Street Station you should allow 20-30 minutes to walk.

9 hours ago, LinMM said:

I read that BRB were looking for an alternative venue to the Hippodrome to put on Nutcracker. 
I don’t know where that could be in the Midlands area but I was thinking the Royal Albert Hall

could be good. It’s SO huge I’m sure even with some social distancing in place they could get a reasonable audience in. I suppose it could be costly to open though. 
I know RAH is not the ideal for ballet but for this year I would be willing to risk it. Perhaps every other seat for people not in “bubbles” it’s all you get on a bus now!! 

BRB have performed a modified version of Swan Lake at the RAH for the last couple of years!  They are due to again this year (and this date has not yet been cancelled).

I think the point is that they are looking for an alternative venue IN THEIR HOME AREA - the West Midlands.  I wondered about the NIA where they have performed before.  It's not ideal but it could work.

Links - Monday 10 August, 2020

LIVE Review - Queensland Ballet, 60 Dancers: 60 Stories, Brisbane:  Olivia Stewart, Limelight

Preview - English National Ballet, Akram Khan’s Creature, London:  Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

Exhibition Preview - Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, London:  Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper

Streaming Reviews:

Edinburgh International Festival:  Scottish Ballet, My light shines on:  Mary Brennan, Herald Scotland

Australian Dance Theatre, Construct:  Michelle Potter, ... on dancing

6 Digital Dance Projects from quarantine:  Courtney Escoyne, Dance Magazine

Interview - Katherine Minor, Royal New Zealand Ballet:  Emma Maguire, Wellingtonista

News - Cincinnati Ballet plans return to live performance with modified Nutcracker:  News Desk, Broadway World

Oh what an interesting thread - come on folks let us know.

Here are mine:

1.  Stuttgart Ballet - Mayerling - loved everything about it!

2.  Stuttgart Ballet - Initials RBME

3.  Pennsylvania Ballet - Trigger Touch Fade (but hard to decide as I enjoyed everything I watched by them).

4.  Northern Ballet - Dracula ... well it is Northern Ballet!!

5.  Ballet Hispanico - Waiting for Pepe (I'm a huge admirer of Carlos Pons Guerra's work)

6.  Dance Theatre of Harlem - Balamouk

7.  Royal Ballet - The Cellist

8.  Dutch National Ballet - Don Quixote

9.  Northern Ballet - 50th Anniversary Gala snippets of Carmen and Madame Butterfly

10.  Northern Ballet - For an Instant

Hello Firebird21,

We've had a couple of earlier threads that may contain useful information:

Links - Sunday 09 August, 2020

Streaming News - Edinburgh International Festival online:  Barry Didcock, Herald Scotland

Feature - Landmark moments in the history of pointe shoes:  Julia Guiheen, Pointe Magazine

Streaming Reviews:

Old Vic/Drew McOnie/Dancers, Jekyll & Hyde:  David Cunningham, British Theatre Guide

92nd St Y Mobile Dance Film Festival:  Staff, Seeing Dance

Diavolo|Architecture, This is me: Letters from the front lines:  Valerie-Jean Miller, Broadway World

Feature - Ardani Artists, “old-fashioned” impresarios:  Aram Arkun, Armenian Mirror Spectator

How lovely.

Thanks for sharing.

A super article in the New Yorker:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-uk/the-season-of-cricket-returns-to-the-uk

32 minutes ago, Fonty said:

 

Oh that is sad news.  I was looking forward to that this year.  

Nothing about the Albert Hall yet...

2 hours ago, capybara said:

I would have wanted to respond in the affirmative but I've had no response to my e-mail of 10 days ago seeking to (re)become a BRB Friend.

I wrote to the company with a query a couple of months ago and it took a while to get an answer as most of the staff were furloughed.  I suspect the office staff may still be.

I've just picked this up via a newsletter from Phoenix Dance Theatre:

https://www.phoenixdancetheatre.co.uk/whats_on/lets-move-an-national-dance-summer-school-presented-by-danceeast-and-the-place/

Hello BalletmumH and welcome to the Forum!

Two points:

1). If you have an issue with a post or topic then hit the report button.

2).  When you respond to a post you bring it back to the "top of the pile" when otherwise it may just slip down the topic list and disappear into the mists of time.

I finally caught up with Sleeping Beauty last night.

I will state from the outset that this is in no way my favourite production (that is SPW's for BRB) but I loved the performances.  

Fumi Kaneko is just sublime as Aurora, she has a joyous  and radiant presence.  Federico Bonelli is elegance personified and a wonderfully generous partner.  Yasmine Naghdi and Matthew Ball were terrific as the Bluebirds.

So an evening well spent!

26 minutes ago, Bunny said:

Is it just me that feels this is a slightly unusual question by a relatively new member of the forum? I apologise if I’m off the mark but it seems a little bit inappropriate. Perhaps I am a little over sensitive/paranoid but I have seen many dodgy questions asked on dance costume selling sites and the tone of this post seems off to me. 

Rest assured Bunny that the Mods keep an eye on all posts.  The original post does not breach AUP and has sparked some interesting and useful responses.

1 hour ago, danceparent said:

This is correct and just as it should be but surely the Elmhurst graduates could have at least been seen? 

We don't know who was seen.

BRB take the dancers they perceive to be the best fit for the company whether that is RBS, Elmhurst or elsewhere (eg the wonderful Max Maslen came from Central).

Me too!  I wondered about the NIA where they performed many years ago?

I'd already signed it but thanks for sharing.

Hello Amme76 and welcome to the Forum!

7 minutes ago, Tony Newcombe said:

I’m fast losing hope. The Maryinsky are performing with social distancing in the audience( 50%) capacity.

The wisdom in this country is that it is not viable to open with audiences limited to 50% capacity.

I already had tickets for BRB Swan Lake in Plymouth, Nutcracker in Birmingham. Still waiting to hear about Cinderella in Southampton. I just don’t get it.  People can dump themselves on the beaches in their thousands and the government couldn’t care less.

Check the dates for Southampton Tony.  I was chatting to a friend yesterday who told me the dates have changed from January to February.

Very sad news from the Birmingham Hippodrome this morning that the Nutcracker (and the theatre's pantomime) has been cancelled.

But devastating news this morning that the Nutcracker in Birmingham has been cancelled.  Feeling rather sad.

Hello Olver,

Are you doing ballet or other dance lessons with a teacher?  You need to learn the technique that will enable you to do these moves without injuring yourself.