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Jan McNulty

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  1. If you tried to clap in time to Momoko Hiram's fouettes you wouldn't stand a chance she is soooooooo fast!! But I wouldn't anyway, honest!
  2. Oh dear Wulff, some of us clap along and tra la la la at the end of Fille and sing along to Lily of Laguna in Hobsons. I hang my head in shame...
  3. Hello BlueLou and welcome to the Forum! Thanks for the information.
  4. Thanks to member Toursenlair for this thought-provoking read... https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/ivory-at-the-tip-of-a-complex-issue-for-traveling-orchestra-members/2015/12/30/fb0c818e-8a49-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html
  5. Hello Mumofthree and welcome to the Forum! I do hope you will share your DD's progress with us.
  6. Hello Ozzee and welcome out of the lurking shadows. I hope that you will continue to join in now that you have broken the ice!
  7. Funnily enough Jacqueline I was in a pizzeria in Leeds on Saturday within the cinema complex. One of my companions came back from a visit to the facilities and said they were unisex. We waited till we got to the theatre!
  8. I think the number of curtain calls are fixed! I've often been at performances where the applause looks set to continue but the curtain stays put and the house lights go on...
  9. Hello Emma, Thanks for the information. In accordance with our Acceptable User Policy could I please ask you to add a signature to your profile? http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/417-the-balletcoforum-acceptable-use-policy/ Members who have commercial interests must indicate that by adding a Signature line to their postings, stating the name and type of their business and giving their website and/or business email address for enquiries. (You set up a Signature via My Settings in the dropdown menu under your name.) If members wish to contact businesses, associate schemes or other commercial enterprises this should be done via the vendor’s website or email, not by starting threads on the forum.y
  10. I don't know whereabouts down south you are cavycapers but NB are performing 1984 in Southampton and at Sadler's Wells and Swan Lake in Norwich and Milton Keynes. The new production of Jane Eyre is coming to Aylesbury and Richmond: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/11067-press-release-sadlers-wells-sampled-returns-29-30-january-2016/?hl=sampled
  11. Amelia, is that choreography for the gpdd standard in Russian companies. I am sure I have seen something similar donkeys years ago.
  12. Exactly Bill. I have heard people starting to clap at this point but fortunately most seem to realise and stop. Mind you, I have to confess that I have been equally noisy at that point on occasions, not clapping but sobbing out loud.
  13. My fault Alison because clapping etiquette had been mentioned on another thread. That's partly why I asked Bill later in the thread if the clapping he was referring to was the claque-type clapping I have read about as being common in parts of Russia.
  14. She most certainly is Tulip - she stands out from the crowd for all the right reasons!
  15. I haven't seen any performances in Italy but I have in the other countries you mention (albeit only one in Geneva) and also Denmark and Hong Kong and I do not remember any huge amounts of what I would consider inappropriate clapping (i.e. huge amounts of clapping while dancing going on, enforced pauses for dancers to acknowledge applause etc) in any of them. Could you please give us some specific examples.
  16. Perhaps Shakespeare could write a play on that subject Nina! I don't want to get into a discussion of the discussion but both longer and concise posts have been OK with me on this thread.
  17. I was agreeing with Bill's examples of where I believe it is inappropriate to clap as it ruins the dramatic intention. As someone said somewhere on another thread a concise post can say more than a post the length of War and Peace!
  18. I can appreciate that different cultures have different etiquettes but it does ruin the flow of a true narrative ballet if the audience claps during the drama and ruins the flow. There are some ballets that lend themselves to clapping as they move along - e.g. Don Q and some ballets have applause gaps built into them, whether I agree with those gaps or not. But, if people are continually clapping (however stellar the performance) how are they "feeling" the dramatic narrative or are they just interested in the technique of the dancers on stage? Does the clapping continuously become meaningless because the audience and the dancers expect it, rather than it being a spontaneous burst of the approval at the end of something wonderful? Do standing ovations become meaningless if every performance gets one? I would love to know how the different clapping patterns occur. We clap "free hand" here but when I went to Russia the audience did a fast co-ordinated clap and in Budapest they started clapping slowly in unison and got faster and faster! Bill, on the dvd you were watching, which caused you to start this thread, was it the claques I have read about that were doing the clapping?
  19. I have no experience whatsoever of dance training but Jenny Hackwell graduated from KS dance this year and is now a dancer with Northern Ballet. She has already had a couple of leading roles in her first year: http://northernballet.com/biography/jenny-hackwell
  20. I saw the final 2 performances of Northern Ballet's Nutcracker in Leeds yesterday. Possibly the incentive of a week off gave the dancers an additional sparkle because both performances fizzed like a bottle of champagne opened by Lewis Hamilton! Assorted highlights - Abigail Prudames as a most elegant Sugarplum - a total delight. Antoinette Brooks Daw and Kevin Poeung outstanding as Clara and Nutcracker Prince. Sebastian Loe in his created role in the Chinese Dance - in the doll solo in Act 1 he looked completely boneless (I could see him as an amazing Petrouchka in waiting!). Rachael Gillespie and Ashley Dixon absolutely exceptional as Clara and Nutcracker last night. Mlindi Kulashe and Lucia Solari ravishing as Cavalier and Sugarplum. Last night was Sebastian Loe's final performance with the company after 12 years. I've really enjoyed his performances during his time with the company - his performance as Renfield in Dracula was a particular and very spooky highlight. The Chinese Dance in Nutcracker, which he created, fitted him to a tee making use of his talents and interest in b-boying. Very best wishes to him for the future. 2015 has been a wonderful year for Northern-Ballet watchers. I can't wait for Swan Lake in March now!
  21. Links - Sunday 03 January, 2016 Q&A - Dorothee Gilbert, POB: Afshan Ahmed, The National Feature - This week’s new dance in London: Judith Mackrell, Guardian Feature - What will be the hits of 2016 (scroll down for dance): Rupert Christiansen, Daily Mail
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