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  1. Jan McNulty
    Well actually, while I was drooling over various items in the Chester shop that is exactly what my friend said! Horses for courses!
  2. Jan McNulty
    They are strapped in - there was an item on BBC Breakfast this morning!
  3. Jan McNulty
    ENB has had a history of this - when still LFB with Peter Schaufuss as AD the premiere of Natalia Makarova's production of Swan Lake was at the Alhambra in Bradford. A production (sadly I can't remember which) was also premiered in Liverpool many years ago. Of course BRB and NB productions tend to premiere in their home towns of Birmingham and Leeds (although Jane Eyre premiered in Doncaster - still Yorkshire).
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    Indeed the premiere of Akram Khan's interpretation is in Manchester - I am there on the first night! However you could be forgiven for thinking that the premiere is at Sadler's Wells as the way it was announced over a year ago now was as part of the release about the partnership between ENB and SW. Giselle is, in fact, also a co-production with the Manchester International Festival.
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    Dreda Blow and Mlindi Kulashe of Northern Ballet feature in a pop video that I think is rather fab:
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    Done
  7. Jan McNulty
    Hello fashionista and welcome out of the lurking shadows! Sim is only one of many (me included) who thinks Yuhui Choe merits promotion to principal.
  8. Jan McNulty
    The first one I became aware of a couple of years ago was the one in Chester. I've seen them in several places now including Grand Central in Birmingham. They could be good for quirky gifts!
  9. Jan McNulty
    BRB has published a featurette about Ruth Brill, who is choreographing a new ballet for the company next year: https://www.brb.org.uk/post/ruth-brill-on-working-as-a-female-choreographer
  10. Jan McNulty
    Links - Thursday 11 August, 2016 Interview - Anthony Russell-Roberts: Carrie Seidman, Sarasota Herald Tribune Review – Sarasota Ballet, ‘A Knight of the British Ballet’ Ashton Bill, NY: Robert Greskovic, Wall Street Journal Interview - Irina Kolesnikova: Emma Cann, Broadway World Feature - Shanghai Ballet: Lyndsey Winship, Standard Reviews - Bolshoi Ballet, The Taming of the Shrew, Flames of Paris, London: Graham Watts, London Dance Review - Queensland Ballet, Lest We Forget, Brisbane: Elise Lawrence, Limelight Magazine Review - Paris Quartier d’Été Festival, Paris: Laura Cappelle, FT Review - Moves After Dark Festival, Los Angeles: Jeff Slayton, See Dance Feature - Ella Havelka, Australian Ballet: Bridget Brennan, ABC Feature - BalletMet’s video project “Becoming Violet”: Amanda Etchison, Broadway World Feature - Seeta Patel: Michelle Potter, Blog Preview - FamFest celebrates hip hop: Jordan Levin, Miami Herald Edinburgh 2016: Reviews - Holy Body Tattoo, monumental: Rosemary Waugh, Exeunt Stewart Pringle, Stage Review - Mauro Paccagnell & Alessandro Bernardeschi, Happy Hour: Kelly Apter, Scotsman
  11. Jan McNulty
    Great post! Currently on train so can't type well on move but will try and chip in tomorrow!
  12. Jan McNulty
    Thanks for bringing this wonderfully eloquent post back to the top MAB.
  13. Jan McNulty
    If it isn't a big thing why keep responding? Please do not respond to this question, I really don't want an answer. Please let's get back on topic.
  14. Jan McNulty
    There's some information about Ballet Boost on an earlier thread: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/12230-ballet-boost-summer-course/?hl=boost
  15. Jan McNulty
    Anna, I was posting at the same time!
  16. Jan McNulty
    When I have been to the Stage Door (visiting from my front row of the orchestra stalls seat) I have met other people who sit in the stalls and other people who sit in all parts of the auditorium (not that I ask them where they have been sitting but sometimes we recognise or know each other). Not all of us are autograph hunters - on my occasional visits I have gone to congratulate a favourite dancer. (The only autograph I have ever received was from Irek Mukhamedov at the SD of the Palace Theatre in Manchester and that was by accident.) I have never seen the ROH personnel treat anybody differently from anyone else and how on earth would Stage Door personnel know where anyone sat in the auditorium. Bruce, please post your thoughts. I have hidden a post because it breaches AUP. Please keep this thread for discussing in a respectful, non-confrontational way, your thoughts on the Bolshoi's Swan Lake be those thoughts good, bad or indifferent.
  17. Jan McNulty
    A couple more reviews from Today's links: Carrie Seidman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Mary Cargill, Danceviewtimes Wouldn't it be wonderful if Sarasota Ballet visited the UK?
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    Travelling from afar as I do, I am an occasional visitor to ROH and an even less frequent visitor to the Stage Door. How would anyone know where I sit?
  19. Jan McNulty
    I passed the Chester branch of Pylones today and didn't go in as I was trying not to spend!
  20. Jan McNulty
    Curtain calls are most definitely choreographed - I have often seen this in BRB and NB rehearsals. Wish I could have been there to see it!
  21. Jan McNulty
    Thanks to fellow member Michelle S who highlighted this on FB. It looks like a fascinating evening: http://www.culturewhisper.com/r/dance/yorke_dance_project_lilian_baylis_studio/7557
  22. Jan McNulty
    There's been some very interesting discussion points here. I was a member of the Merseyside Film Institute until it closed 25 years ago. A group of the volunteer still meet on a monthly basis. One of our members said she no longer looks for deep and meaningful films to go and see, she would rather watch something that she can let wash over her and enjoy. Her life has changed in those years since we closed and so have what she needs from a film. Perhaps we can all say that. I have often thought that critics sometimes see too much and become almost jaded. If we can't further the discussion on Flames of Paris and take other interesting points elsewhere this thread will be closed. And yes, I know I have contributed to taking it way off topic.
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    I can't believe it is a year since Jon Ollivier died in a motorcycle crash. Matthew Bourne's Re-Bourne has today announced a new project in his memory. It is in collaboration with the Royal and Derogate Northampton. Details are here: http://new-adventures.net/rebourne/projects/a-project-for-jonny/about
  24. Jan McNulty
    That is appalling Lilac. Presumably the owner of that school could also have been charged with fraud if anyone had taken it forward.
  25. Jan McNulty
    I didn't get myself sufficiently organised this year so I only got to see Shrew because it was arranged by my friend. I am looking forward to seeing what people think of Corsaire. I have wonderful memories of seeing The Mariinsky perform it at the ROH in the late 80s. I also enjoyed greatly ENB's recent production but I know that some people felt the scenario had been messed around with too much. And, of course, Le Corsaire will have a thread all to itself by then!
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