Jan McNulty

It looks as though UK Masterclass may be organising another couple of events. If you scroll down the page you will come across the proposed dates. http://www.ukmasterclass.co.uk

And very memorably too!!!

Links - Monday 05, 2016 Review - Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Viktor, Paris: Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times Reviews - Ballet du Nord, Tragedie, Eveleigh: Jill Sykes, Brisbane Times Clive Paget, Limelight Preview - Les Ballets C de la B, NY Gent, Excelsior Brass Band, En Avant, Marche!, Brisbane: Vanessa Tomlinson, The Conversation Feature - Robert Binet, The Dreamers Ever Leave You: Nick Patch, Our Windsor Review - Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Horses in the Sky, Sydney: Deborah Jones, Blog Preview - Australian Ballet, Nijinsky, Melbourne: Mike Bartlett, Weekly Review Feature - Jill Ogai, Australian Ballet: Patrick McDonald, Adelaide Advertiser Review - Dallas DanceFest, Dallas: Mark Lowry, Dallas Star Telegram Preview - Chanje Kunda, Amsterdam, London: Jessie Thompson, Standard News - What’s On at Bangkok’s 18th International Festival of Music and Dance: Pawit Mahasarinand, The Nation

She's mentioned the gala in Indonesia on her blog: http://www.mikofogarty.com/blog/

Best wishes to your son and all of you Primrose.

Hello Dancertell and welcome to the Forum. I notice that you had put the same post on several threads. It is not permitted to put the same post on multiple threads so I have hidden all the others and left this one. If you search the doing dance forum you will find a number of threads about adult ballet, which I am sure you will find useful. Good luck with your dancing!

Links - Sunday 04, 2016 Review - Irina Kolesnikova & St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, Her Name was Carmen, London: Luke Jennings, Observer Feature - Jeroboam Bozeman, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre: Davina Hamilton, Voice Online Feature - Natalia Osipova: Charlotte Pearson Methven, Mail Review - BalletMet, Rhythm on the River, Columbus: Peter Tonguette, Columbus Dispatch Edinburgh 2016: Blog - Top three dance moments on the Fringe: Christina Elliot, The Place Review - Tango Opera - Maria de Buenos Aires: Daniel Perks, Exeunt

I'm so sorry to hear about your grandson's ill health Karen. I am sending positive, healing thoughts his way and hugs to you all.

Hello Susan, many of our members are interested in adult ballet so it would be great to hear news from the EBC. You could continue with this thread so all the details are kept together. Thanks for the background and good luck with the rehearsals and performances!

Thank you so much for sharing your son's inspirational, heart-warming story. Wishing you all the very best for the future.

Mlindi Kulashe of Northern Ballet has participated in another music video:

I wasn't moderating on that one SBF but I assume it is because the source of the video could not be validated in terms of copyright. This reminder was recently issued: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/13310-videos-photos-and-copyright-issues/#entry182356

Links - Saturday 03 September, 2016 News - Three of the best dance performances this week, London: Judith Mackrell, Guardian Feature - Hiplet, an implausible hybrid plants itself on pointe: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Review - Robert Binet, The Dreamers Ever Leave You, Toronto: Martha Schabas, Toronto Globe and Mail Review - Compagnie Kafig, Pixel, Melbourne: Lee Bemrose, Australian Stage Preview - Olivier Dubois, Tragedie, Sydney: Valerie Lawson, Dancelines Feature - Isanusi Garcia Rodriguez on dancing back to life: Jordan Levin, Miami Herald Preview - XXI Internation Ballet Festival of Miami, Miami: Barbara Corbellini-Duarte, South Florida.com Feature - Gavin Larsen, Everyday Ballerina vignettes: Oregon Arts Watch

What a truly dreadful experience for your son Pictures. I do hope this horrible event does not have a long term effect on him.

It seems to have been the family that contacted the press. Why?

The casting for the mixed programme at The Lowry has been published: https://www.brb.org.uk/whats-on/event/shakespeare-triple-bill-the-dream Scroll down and click on individual performances. I regret the passing of the days when the casting for a whole week was put on one page. Can't wait to see Chi as Oberon again!

I'm not taking sides on this but we do not know if anything was "said" that could have led to the teacher snapping. Also, in print he could have come across as a lot more articulate and reasonable than in person. I have known many instances throughout my career where people were brilliant in print and not in person and, of course, vice versa.

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OK, I'm not overly familiar with Waterloo tube station so therefore I would: Get the tube to Embankment. Come out of Embankment on the river side (there are only 2 exits - river side and not river side). Walk over the river on the Hungerford foot bridge. Walk past the Royal Festival Hall etc till I got to the National Theatre. Go behind the National Theatre and look for Rambert. It shouldn't take more than 10 minutes on foot, if the map is accurate.

If the map on the website is accurate it took me a 5 minute gentle walk to get from the bus stop on Waterloo Bridge to the RFH recently. It looks as though Rambert is a similar walk away. I would tend to use the bus these days as I find the tube much more stressful. The Rambert site lists the 68 and 168 which, for me, can be picked up at Euston. The bus map of London is fantastic and I have become much more adventurous since I got a copy!

It's the sort of hotel I absolutely adore, full of character and charm. It's nicely kept and spotlessly clean, although no facilities other than the breakfast room. It is at the end of a gallery with other galleries at the back so you don't get any views but it is very quiet. The main gallery is a delight to walk down (and very tempting). Assuming it is still there, on the opposite side of the road at the start of another gallery there is a fantastic creperie for late night feasts (or at any time of day really). It is about a 10 minute stroll to the Garnier so very handy for walking from the airport bus too. It's a couple of years since I have been able to go to Paris but I am sure it is still as charming as I remember. The breakfast is very basic but nice and fresh. Yes, I like it a lot!

When my niece was doing some martial arts as a youngster one school let you watch one lesson and that was it, the other let you in to watch for the last 10 minutes of each lesson. I think we all accepted that. Having parents, friends, others watching can be distracting and disruptive.

Link to Telegraph article on the subject as mentioned by Sherbert above: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/01/furious-row-erupts-over-girls-ballet-lessons-as-dad-and-dance-sc/

Links - Friday 02 September, 2016 Feature - Viviana Durante: Fionnuala McHugh, South China Morning Post Feature - Sergei Polunin; Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times Review - Royal New Zealand Ballet, Giselle, Auckland: Sarah Knox, NZ Theatreview Review - LA Dance Project, Harbor Me, Martha Graham Duets, Helix, On the Other Side, New York: Susan Yung, Brooklyn Rail News - Dance Listings for 2-8 September, New York: Brian Schaefer, NY Times Review - Herve Koubi, What the Day owes to the Night, Jacob’s Pillow: Gillian Jakab, Brooklyn Rail News - Balletboyz to release first ever feature-length film, Young Men: David Hutchinson, Stage Feature/Preview Suzanne Farrell is remounting Gounod Symphony: Joan Acocella, New Yorker Blog - Dancer’s report on returning to dance in Laurel Jenkin’s BASE: Jeff Slayton, See Dance Feature - Slawomir Wozniak, AD Phoenix Ballet: Betty Bartkowski, Phoenix New Times P/Review - Takao Kawaguchi, About Kazoo Ohno, Lisbon & NY: Jaime Shearn Coan, Brooklyn Rail Preview - Louisville Ballet, Stars + Stripes programme, Louisville: Elizabeth Kramer, Courier-Journal Edinburgh 2016: Review - Kabinet K, RAW: Roisin O’Brien, Seeing Dance Review - Nora Alexander, Kat Cory & Dora Lynn, We Are Ian: David Ralf, Exeunt

Thanks for the clarification Susan. I think, in any event, it would be useful to put the EBC contact details in your signature.