Lynette H
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I'm quite curious to know how the company go about rehearsing the Rite of Spring. The movement must be heavily influenced by the soil (peat?) underfoot. Do they only get the chance to rehearse with the actual soil underfoot on stage ? Or is there an opportunity to do this in the studio? It must be quite a logistical problem. Does anyone have any insight into this ?
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Cast changes on the ROH website
http://www.roh.org.uk/news/cast-changes-the-human-seasons-after-the-rain
The Human Seasons:
Edward Watson is replaced by Vadim Muntagirov on 16, 18, 21 and 24 March.Vadim Muntagirov is replaced by Nicol Edmonds in The Human Seasons on 17, 20 and 23 March.
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...The scheme is still worth it if you tend to book shows individually but everyone benefits from the 20% discount if they book for two different productions at the same time.
I think that is going to change too, though it was not immediately apparent. It used to be that (as you say) booking two shows as a non Friend / Member at he same time meant you got a 20% discount. But this will be only 10% in future. The site is now saying that there is a 10% discount for two productions booked at the same time using promo code SAVE10. This seems to imply that only Members get the 20% discount in future. More details here
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Do you know for sure, Amelia, that the ROH is selling tickets to agencies?
Yes they are - I got an mail from one of the agencies offering tickets to Mayerling and Jewels, and posted about it on a different thread. You can see the tickets for sale here (opera tickets too).
The mark up is substantial, plus a transaction fee.
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I'm a bit surprised that I just received an mail from See tickets (an agency) about ROH ballet tickets for the spring season available through them (not the ROH). They have added on a hefty premium for buying through them of about 10% (from a cursory glance), but seem to have some availablity for the difficult to find tickets. Buy why through them and not the ROH ?
http://www.seetickets.com/tour/mayerling/calendar/2
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To place the BRB cuts in context, here is some related news about other impacts in Birmingham including the possible closure of some museums.
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/nine-birmingham-museums-could-close-12414999
http://www.localgov.co.uk/%C2%A3500,000-cuts-threaten-Birmingham-museums-/42342
http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/theatres-orchestras-galleries-anger-17-12354181
It's a pretty grim picture overall.
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I noticed from the Interview with Will Tuckett posted in yesterdays links that he " is creating a film based on the verse of English poet Charlotte Mary Mew ...- with Royal ballerina Zenaida Yanowsky".
So we may see more of her yet, though not necessarily at the Royal Ballet.
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...in dance that is.
For me it's Zenaida Yanowsky and Ed Watson in a new work by de Frutos, Les Enfants Terribles later this month. What are your thoughts about the coming year ?
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Didn't see this in the links
"The clinical director of one of the country’s leading ballet companies has called for an anti-doping body to combat misuse of steroids, performance-enhancing drugs and supplements in the dance world.
Nick Allen of the Birmingham Royal Ballet has spoken out after an investigation uncovered evidence of steroid and amphetamine abuse in ballet and other dance companies."
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ballet-drug-abuse-prompts-call-for-anti-doping-body-qh2hf3k7l
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Just as well they picked this one of the three for the photographers. The opening item was almost in darkness. A struggle to make out the dancers at all...
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The Balletboyz film, Young Men, is still available on iPlayer for another couple of weeks. Details here
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0834qvd/balletboyz-young-men
I felt sure there had been a specific reference here to this but couldn't find it. Perhaps a casualty of the earlier forum problems ?
This is a radical revision of the stage work, now firmly set in the First World War, trimmed to a running time of 60 minutes. It was filmed in France, with plenty of mud. It is very much worth a look.
Elizabeth McGorian and Oxana Panchenko appear as women caught up in the effects of the trauma.
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The 2 Dec performance has been sold out for many weeks now, so if this is the first you have heard of it, you are out of luck....
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You might be thinking of another work, Rushes, which he did for the Royal Ballet in 2008. There were wo casts then (one with Cojocaru) and I recall interviews at the time where he said he had adapted it differently for the two casts. The dynamic between the individual dancers involved was certainly different in performance. Details here:
http://kimbrandstrup.org/project/rushes_fragments_of_a_lost_story_kim_brandstrup
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There were 4 cameras filming this in the stalls last night so I imagine it may be available on TV or DVD at some point.
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This lecture is at he National Portrait Gallery where there is currently an exhibition of Picasso portraits. It's on 19th January at 1:15pm
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/event-root/january/lunchtime-lecture-19012017.php
"Richard Shone looks at Picasso’s stay in London in the summer of 1919 during which he designed the scenery and costumes for the great Spanish-themed ballet Le Tricorne (The Three-Cornered Hat), with music by Manuel de Falla and choreography by Massine. He worked in collaboration with others in a scene-painting studio in Floral Street, Covent Garden. He and his wife Olga stayed at the Savoy Hotel, along with Diaghilev and Massine"
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Okay, I'm going to stick my neck out on changes made to Act III for the 2004 production. This has been prompted by the realisation over the past few days that the Brother has become such a non-role that I wonder why they bother naming him in the cast sheet, and I suspect that what's happened in a number of cases is that Rasputin has been moved into choreography originally written for the Husband, who in turn has been shifted into the Brother's shoes, so to speak. I'm sure I remember the Brother having more to do than he now has. So my guess is that the Olga/Rasputin/Husband trio where they all keep changing places was originally Olga/Husband/Brother, and also that the part very early on where Rasputin and the Husband are forming a protective circle around Anna (but all facing in the same direction) was originally Husband/Brother. Also, I think there was an early and relatively violent pdd between Anna and the Husband which Rasputin now performs: I think I always wondered why the husband would be treating the wife like that - plus I'm wondering whether all the parts where Anna is being carried around in inverted splits involved the Husband rather than Rasputin.
OTOH, as I've said above, my memories of 1996 are pretty hazy, so I could be completely wrong, but I wonder if anyone recognises what I've sketched out above?
Talking about haze, though, I am *very* glad that they've got rid of the incense in Act II: the smell of it always used to turn my stomach!
I think you are correct about choreography for the husband being shifted to Rasputin. I've found some reviews from 2004 which make this explicit.
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Rambert are staging a Merce Cunningham "Event" on Sat 19 November at Phillips in London. Details here
http://www.rambert.org.uk/performances/rambert-event/
"The specially commissioned music is performed by Philip Selway (of Radiohead), Quinta and Chris Vatalaro. The set and costumes are based on Gerhard Richter‘s Cage series of paintings."
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This is a free event - "Dancing Museums residency". More details here
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/dancing-museums-residency
Sounds like this would be interesting to drop in on.
See also further details at
http://www.siobhandavies.com/whats-on/talks-events/dancing-museums-seventh-residency/
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Is this run the first time Simon Hewett has conducted at the ROH ? Does he conduct regularly for ballet ?
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The Marquez performance on the 15th October is now sold out.
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I didn't spot this article in links
https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/freedom-in-motion
This touches on Dane Hurst and other South African dancers and their successes, including international prizes won, Worth a read.
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Open House London takes place on the weekend of 17/18 th September. Some dance related venues participating include
Rambert - details here
http://listings.openhouselondon.org.uk/listing/rambert/?sf_action=get_results&_sfm_boroughs=Lambeth
Laban
Festival Hall
There are probably others too, do have a look at what's available at
http://www.openhouselondon.org.uk/
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For those who haven't managed to see this yet, An Italian in Madrid returns on tour this autumn in Edinburgh, Northampton, Woking and Norwich.
Details here
http://www.richardalstondance.com/performances?category%5B%5D=69
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There is also a review by Debra Craine in Saturday's Times (23 July 2016). Again, behind a paywall.
The Royal Ballet: Jewels, April 2017
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I have one rather trivial query about the costumes in Rubies. I found it rather distracting that when the petals (can't think of a better description) of the skirts of the women fly up as they tend to, it becomes obvious that the underside is not made of the same red material red but a greeny-grey colour. It's noticeable in the picture of Hamilton above. Surely it would have looked better if the underside was red too ? At the time I wondered if it was some sort of costume malfunction and the interlining was coming out. But I assume it mus be original and deliberate as the Trust are supposed to be very picky about the costumes for this work. I just wondered if anyone else was similarly distracted, as I don't remember this detail from the last run.
I very much enjoyed the performance but I'm still curious about this.