Jan McNulty

If you search on the (non) word Brexit there were lots of threads discussing potential issues that come up in the search.

Yorkshire Ballet Seminars have posted this on Instagram:

So we are the Premier League Champions for 2019/20.

I watched Manon tonight. I really like this production with its pared down set and costumes (apart from the puff balls in the brothel). What a wonderful performance from Alina Cojocaru and Joseph Caley - her performance is so beautifully nuanced. You see her go from young coquette to sophisticated courtesan and ultimately broken convict. Joseph Caley is heartfelt and in love and totally devastated by her death. They have a terrific on stage rapport. Jeffrey Cirio was wonderfully sleazy as Lescaut and James Streeter nearly stole the show as M. GM. I was in floods by the end, that final despairing duet just broke my heart. I'm not sure if it was the performance I attended in Manchester or one from earlier in the week but it brought back magical memories. I may have to put myself through it all over again tomorrow! Thank you ENB.

The press release about La Sylphide and Cinderella (in the round): ENB at HOME: July English National Ballet’s ‘ENB at HOME’ programme has been providing free access to full-length ballets and online content as a way for people to keep fit and active during this time and keeping ballet accessible to everyone, everywhere. Today the Company announces the final instalment of their ENB at Home Wednesday Watch Parties. Through the weekly watch parties English National Ballet has invited audiences from around the world to enjoy never before seen recordings of Company performances for free, from their own homes. The eight full-length ballets which have been streamed in the series so far have been viewed more than 900,000 times by people in over 100 countries. The final instalments of the company’s Wednesday Watch Party series are announced today, and will be available on Facebook and YouTube for 48 hours. Wednesday 1 July, 7pm – La Sylphide Wednesday 8 July, 7pm - Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round Devised by one of the world’s leading producers of Bournonville ballets, Frank Andersen’s faithful version of the 1830s Romantic ballet La Sylphide sees James wake from a dream on the morning of his wedding to Effy to encounter a mysterious sylphide before him, setting off a fateful sequence of events. This performance was filmed at the Palace Theatre Manchester in October 2017 and was the first time Andersen’s La Sylphide had been performed in the UK. Co-produced by English National Ballet and the Royal Albert Hall, Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella in-the-round features over 90 dancers and combines magnificent sets and costumes, theatrical surprises, and lively choreography set to Prokofiev’s famous score performed by English National Ballet Philharmonic. Working from the darkly intriguing Brothers Grimm version of the story, Wheeldon originally created Cinderella to great acclaim for Dutch National Ballet and San Francisco Ballet: he and his creative team reunited in 2019 for the re-staging of this sparkling ballet. This performance was filmed at the Royal Albert Hall on 5 June 2019. The ENB at HOME programme, which has been running since March, hosts a range of videos and classes on the Company’s website and YouTube channel. These include ballet classes with ENB’s Artistic Director Tamara Rojo, family workshops, Ballet Fit classes, beginners classes, Dance for Parkinson’s, Youth Ballet, Boy’s classes and classes for those with limited mobility. -ENDS- English National Ballet is a National Portfolio Organisation supported by Arts Council England. Notes to Editors About English National Ballet English National Ballet has a long and distinguished history. Founded in 1950 as London Festival Ballet by the great English Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, it has been at the forefront of ballet’s growth and evolution ever since. English National Ballet brings world class ballet to the widest possible audience through performances across the UK and on eminent international stages including The Bolshoi Theatre and Palais Garnier; its distinguished orchestra, English National Ballet Philharmonic; and being a UK leader in creative learning and engagement practice, building innovative partnerships to deliver flagship programmes such as English National Ballet’s Dance for Parkinson’s. Under the artistic directorship of Tamara Rojo CBE, English National Ballet has introduced ground-breaking new works to the Company’s repertoire whilst continuing to honour the tradition of great classical ballet, gaining acclaim for artistic excellence and creativity. 2019 saw English National Ballet enter a new chapter in its history with a move into a purpose-built state-of-the-art home in East London which brings a renewed commitment to, and freedom for, creativity, ambition, and connection to more people, near and far, than ever before. www.ballet.org.uk About Arts Council England Arts Council England is the national development body for arts and culture across England, working to enrich people’s lives. We support a range of activities across the arts, museums and libraries – from theatre to visual art, reading to dance, music to literature, and crafts to collections. Great art and culture inspires us, brings us together and teaches us about ourselves and the world around us. In short, it makes life better. Between 2018 and 2022, we will invest £1.45 billion of public money from government and an estimated £860 million from the National Lottery to help create these experiences for as many people as possible across the country. www.artscouncil.org.uk

Hello Rosa and welcome to the Forum. I've added some tags to the top of your post. If you click on them you will be taken to earlier threads that may be of some use to you.

I'd not noticed it and I've just had a look. The day and date are blue - how bizarre. When I transfer my links over the underline is lost from the formatting for the date and I have to remember to reapply it!

There was a feature about concerns for theatre on Breakfast News this morning with Julie Hesmondhaugh and James Graham. It starts 2hrs 53 mins in on the iPlayer (I think news programmes are only available for 24 hours). https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000kc3z/breakfast-24062020

Thank you Irmgard.

I tried to watch something on Vimeo yesterday on my TV via my NOW stick only to discover that it doesn't seem to support finding files that require passwords... I was able to watch it on my laptop using the link provided but the TV would have been much better.

Well that's a larf!!! I've just seen that the Theatre Royal in Plym is probably making 100 people redundant. At this rate there won't be a theatre left for him to visit!

Sad news indeed. RIP

I've merged your post with the latest existing thread Jonac. I've got no idea why the Wilis hold the bamboo canes in their mouths but AK also used this device in Until the Lions so I assume it is an effect he likes. Member @Irmgard may know.

Here's a fledgling I managed to capture yesterday on my walk with Chipdog

Well it did help because today I have watched both Connection and Don Quixote and have thoroughly enjoyed both. Connection had a gorgeous score by Ezio Bosso and the danced moved beautifully to it with very lyrical choreography. Don Quixote is a sort of bijoux version coming in at just over 90 minutes and I thought it was great fun!

English National Ballet School Virtual Summer Performance & Graduation Ceremony Saturday 11 July 2020 From 7.30pm Details here:

English National Ballet School Virtual Summer Performance & Graduation Ceremony Saturday 11 July 2020 From 7.30pm www.enbschool.org.uk English National Ballet School is delighted to announce that this year its Summer Performance and Graduation Ceremony will be streamed online for the first time in its history via the School’s website on Saturday 11 July from 7.30pm (BST) and for 30 days after. Edited by the BalletBoyz, the virtual Summer Performance gives audiences all over the world the chance to witness the future stars of ballet showcase their talent and celebrates the Third Year Students who are about to embark on their professional careers. In the first Summer Performance under the direction of internationally celebrated dancer Viviana Durante, students will perform three new works from some of the world’s leading choreographers created through virtual classes and rehearsals throughout lockdown across four different time zones. Award-winning choreographer Annabelle Lopez Ochoa has used her Memorias del Dorado as inspiration for a piece for the School’s First Year students. Lopez Ochoa’s recent choreography has included Broken Wings for English National Ballet, Red Riding Hood for Ballet Black and earlier this year premiered Frida for Dutch National Ballet. Third Year students will perform a new creation choreographed by rising star Andrew McNicol. McNicol has previously choreographed for the Joffrey Ballet, The Royal Ballet, BalletX, NYCB’s Choreographic Institute, Royal Ballet of Flanders and McNicol Ballet Collective, among others. Last year he created two works for the schools Winter Showcase, Splendourand Grand Finale, hailed as a ‘classical blowout’ (Dance Europe). The Summer Performance is completed by renowned choreographer Didy Veldman who has created a new work, Not so Strictly. Inspired by our continued need to move and connect but with the limitations of lockdown, Not so Strictly features the music from social dances including the waltz and foxtrot. Veldman’s career has seen her create over 45 works for 27 international companies including Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert, Goteborg Ballet, Introdans and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal. With its building closed until further notice, English National Ballet School has been operating online since March for the first time in its history. Its online learning platform is constantly growing in order to provide support and teaching that matches as closely as possible the range of provision at the School, ensuring students stay fit, positive and engaged during this time. - ENDS - Notes to editors The Summer Performance will be streamed from 7.30pm on Saturday 11 July on the School’s website and will be available for 30 days. Admittance to the Graduation Ceremony is by invite online. About English National Ballet School English National Ballet School prepares the finest young ballet dancers for a lifetime of achievement. Our state-of-the-art facilities are matched by world-class training, education, pastoral care and performance opportunities. We provide our students with the confidence, creativity and skills for a career as a professional dancer with the major international companies, and for a future beyond performing. We aspire to be the school of choice for the next generation of ballet artists and to pioneer the future of dance education. www.enbschool.org.uk Annabelle Lopez Ochoa The Colombian-Belgian Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (1973) completed her dance education at the Royal Ballet School of Flanders in Belgium. After a 12-years long dance career, where she danced in various European dance companies such as the Scapino Ballet, she decides in 2003 to focus her energies solely on choreography. In that same year she is hailed “rising star of the Dutch dance scene” (NRC newspaper). In her 16 year career the award-winning choreographer Annabelle has carved a position of sought-after choreographer who has created around 100 works for more than 60 companies around the world such as the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Dutch National Ballet, Djazzex, Ballet de Genève, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Gothenburg Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, BalletX, BJM-Danse Montreal, Luna Negra Dance Theater, Ballet National de Marseille, Saarbrucken Ballet, Jacoby & Pronk, Chemnitzer Ballet, Ballet Hispanico, Morphoses Wheeldon Company, Whim W’Him, IncolBallet de Colombia, Finnish National Ballet, Compania Nacional de Danza Madrid, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Scottish Ballet, The Washington Ballet, Ballet Nacional Dominicano, Ballet Saarbrucken, Augsburg Ballet, Ballet Austin, Atlanta Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Ballet Moscow, Ballet Nacional de Cuba, West Australian Ballet, Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Ballet Nacional Chileno, Ballet Staatstheater am Gartnerplatz Munchen, Ballet Manila, Daniil Simkin Intensio Project, 59°North Stockholm, Cincinnati Ballet, Silicon Valley Ballet, Joffrey Ballet, English National Ballet, Ballet Black, Tulsa Ballet, Smuin Ballet, Estonian National Ballet, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, San Francisco Ballet, New York City Ballet, Ashley Bouder Project, Kansas City Ballet, Taller Coreografico UNAM Mexico, Dance Theater of Harlem, Sacramento Ballet, Chamber Dance Project, Joss Arnott Dance, and BalletMet. Mrs. Lopez Ochoa is a versatile choreographer who has also created for theatre, opera, and musical theater and for fashion events such as for the celebrated Dutch fashion designers Viktor & Rolf’s project in the Van Gogh Museum. Andrew McNicol British choreographer Andrew McNicol trained at The Royal Ballet School and completed his formal studies through Ballet Central’s professional choreographic programme. (MA) He has been noted as “a rising star” BBC News and “really someone to watch” Sir Peter Wright. Andrew has created works for major companies and organisations such as the Joffrey Ballet (Chicago) The Royal Ballet (London), The Royal Ballet of Flanders (Belgium), BalletX (Philadelphia), The New York Choreographic Institute (New York) The Royal Ballet School, New English Ballet Theatre, Ballet Central, Images Ballet Company among others. Andrew was the recipient of the 2018 BalletX Choreographic Fellowship and created Requiem. The NYTimes wrote “abounds in dramatic situations, McNicol has plenty of formal skill” Main Line Times hailed it as “powerful and sensitive” In 2019 he created Yonder Blue for Chicago’s Joffrey Ballet receiving critical acclaim; “gives a sense of awesome wonderment” Chicago Tribune “A rare gem of a ballet that transcends the here and now” “Achingly gorgeous duet”Lynn Colbert Shapiro. Andrew is a versatile choroegrapher. Alongside creating narrative and abstract ballets for the stage he has also created dance works for film, site specific work most notably for The London Olympics and collaborated with acclaimed opera trio Juice. Andrew launched his company The McNicol Ballet Collective working with dancers from some of the worlds leading ballet companies to create ambitious new ballets, original dance films and special collaborative projects. In 2019 Andrew was invited as choreographic mentor for The Royal Ballet Upper School. www.mcnicolballetcollective.co.uk Didy Veldman Dutch artistic director, choreographer and contemporary teacher Didy Veldman was trained in Amsterdam. She danced with Scapino Ballet, Bal-let Genève, Rambert and co-founded Alias Company in ’92. She began choreographing in ‘87, creating work for all four companies. Didy left Rambert in 2000 to concentrate on her choreographic career and has cre-ated over 45 works for 27 international companies including, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Cedarlake, Goteborg Ballet and Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal. In 2016 Didy started her own Company ‘Humanoove’. Her first independent production ‘The Happiness Project’ premiered in Nov. ’16 followed by 14 performances in England, Scotland with a London premiere at The Place in May ’17 and a tour to Sweden. In Nov. ’17 she cre-ated her 2nd production ‘The Knot’ for Humanoove with support from the Arts Council Eng-land, Wayne McGregor Free Space Scheme, The Place, Dance East, Linbury Trust, The Mas-ter-Charitable Trust-The Marina Kleinwort Trust, Beth Krasna and an anonymous donor. Working with her long-standing collaborator Ben Ormerod light design, Joana Dias set and costume design and composer Ben Foskett. This successful production toured throughout the UK in Nov/Dec 2018 and finished in Copenhagen. Humanoove was invited to perform at Ja-cob’s Pillow in the summer of 2019 with The Happiness Project. She is currently preparing her 3rd production for Humanoove called @Home. Didy was awarded a Dance East choreographic development award in 2015 and was selected for the 8th rural retreat for future leaders in dance at The Jerwood Dance House. She has been appointed in 2018 as Program Director of the contemporary department at the school of Jacob’s Pillow, USA. In 2019, she created a new work ‘Sense of Time’ for Birmingham Royal Ballet with composer Gabriel Prokofiev as well as ‘Made in Holland’ for the Dutch National Bal-let School and ‘Is to B’ for the Choreographic Project of the Prix de Lausanne. In 19/20 she is choreographing for the opening of the Youth Olympic Games, she has been invited for a 2-week residency with her Company at Jacob’s Pillow and is working with The Royal Ballet School, the ENB school, Palucca Hochschule in Germany and the Rosella Hightower school in Cannes. She is also creating a new Carmen for Natalia Osipova, from the Royal Ballet, which will premiere in September of 2020.

Love it! Thanks Stevie.

Thanks for the information Irmgard.

Love this: Dedicated to the memory of Gillian Lynne and supporting the arts.

She's learning about ballet though (assuming you mean Anita Rani) - she's now an enthusiastic board member for Northern Ballet.

Thanks Terpsichore! Damien was the star of the event despite the issues with Zoom. Zoom seems to be very variable in its quality of offering - I had issues attending a BRB Friends' event on Friday afternoon - in the end I had to uninstall and reinstall the software! Let's hope this coming Sunday's talk with Bethany K-G runs more smoothly. As ever, thanks for organising the talks Terpsichore.

Hello Manosdanx and welcome to the Forum. I have moved your post to Doing Dance where you are more likely to get a response.

I was moved to tears of joy by this: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fprojectsaute%2Fvideos%2F1123926161315584%2F&show_text=0&width=560" Clicking on the link will take you to the video, produced by George Liang (Project Sau:té) and dancers and orchestra members of Northern Ballet.