Lynette H
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Right at the end of the page linked to it states
"The Times Breakthrough Award awarded to Luke Pasqualino" -is that the award you were referring to or a different one ?
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Afternoon of a Faune returns next season as part of the autumn mixed bill (with Viscera, Tchaikovsky pas de deux, and Carmen). However, although the ROH web site has the casting for the other parts of the mixed bill (unusual to get the cast for a new ballet this far in advance, but I assume people are keen to know on what dates Acosta is appearing) I can't seem to locate any casting details for Faune in the autumn. I presume Hamilton won't be appearing as she will be elsewhere - but who will ?
If this really belongs in a 2015/16 thread then moderators please move.
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Pietra Mello-Pitman of the RB managed it. She's the Executive Producer of Inala (returning to Sadler's Wells in July. See http://inala.co.uk/cast-creative
Sisters Grimm is her production company. (Excellent name..)
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I presume not all the final casting went quite as planned, because there are bios for a number of dancers in the programme booklet who haven't made it on stage. Nagdi, Hirano and Thom were the ones I spotted - perhaps there are more.
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I always think that the flute boy should get a credit in the cast list but it seems he doesn't. Can the sharp eyed among you report on who our flute boys have been in this run ?
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Some interesting changes in the pricing policy it seems.
Connectome / Raven Girl is the cheapest by a long way - top price of £45 in the stalls, £24 in the central block of the amphi.
The Viscera/ Faune /Carmen mixed bill is rather more expensive than these have been in the last few seasons - £100 in the stalls, £59 in the central block of the amphi. Gulp. (Looks like same prices for the Monotones/ Two Pigeons programme).
Nutcracker and R&J are both more expensive. Evening perf stalls seats at £127 / £117, central amphi £69. Even the slips ticket price is in double figures.
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Interesting to see Alexis Oliveira as Friar Lawrence. I remembered him from English National Ballet some years back, when they did those UK split tours that BRB do now, where he appeared as Apollo.
Slightly annoying that the ushers refused to give out cast lists unless you bought a programme, which they said was a company decision. There are good photos in the programme, but no details of the dancers. I would like to have known a bit more about our Mercutio and Tybalt (George Oiliveira, Alvaro Prieto) on Saturday afternoon.
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De Frutos is also the choreographer for Rufus Norris's production of wonder.land, which is at the NT from late November 2015. It premieres at the Manchester International Festival in July.
Details here
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/wonder.land
A new musical inspired by Lewis Carroll’s iconic Alice in Wonderland, by Damon Albarn and Moira Buffini.
wonder.land is designed by Rae Smith, with projections by 59 Productions and lighting by Paule Constable, the design team behind War Horse.
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I see Hofesh Shechter also features in the next season, but this time for opera. He is staging Gluck's Orphee et Euridice with John Fulljames.
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And changes to Fille 21/4 and 2/5
http://www.roh.org.uk/news/cast-changes-la-fille-mal-gardee-on-21-april-and-2-may-2015
Zucchetti is injured.
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This summer at the Barbican there is Station to Station: A 30 Day Happening. This is from Saturday 27 June and includes more than 100 free events over 30 days, with special ticketed events every Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
From a dance point of view you might like to know that Siobhan Davies and also New Movement Collective are on the (long) list of participants. Details here
http://www.barbican.org.uk/stationtostation/home/
and here
http://www.barbican.org.uk/stationtostation/lineup/
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More about the change on the ROH web site here
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An email from the Friends states that online booking for summer 2015 on 3 March will now begin at 8am instead of 10am. The Box Office telephones will not be staffed till 10am.
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Very happy to hear that additional performances have appeared. They definitely weren't there when I originally posted. Most peculiar.
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I jut noticed that the ROH web site had been updated with additional summer events, including the Springboard series of dance school performances. It's good to see that the Dutch National Ballet Junior Company are coming back in June.
There are also details about the Ed Watson / Wendy Whelan collaboration which featured heavily in the latest ROH Friends magazine, though with some vagueness about the dates, described loosely there as in the week of the 6 July.
Well the date - singular - is now confirmed as 9 July. Details here
http://www.roh.org.uk/events/fdrd2
Bit of a puzzle that there should only be one date announced. It's not as if there is anything else scheduled at present for the Linbury that week.
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Coming up this spring at the National Theatre is a production of Everyman, a version of a medieval morality play with Chiwetel Ejiofor in the title role. What caught my eye was that Javier de Frutos is to be the choreographer and Clemmie Sveas (who has appeared in a number of his works, including the lead in The Most Incredible Thing) is in the cast.
Details here
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/everyman
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There's a bit more detail on the programme available from a news item on the ROH web site
"The Gala will include Frederick Ashton’s Monotones II and extracts from Ashton’sRhapsody and Kenneth MacMillan’s Concerto and Requiem featuring soprano Madeleine Pierard. The second movement from Liam Scarlett’s Asphodel Meadows and contemporary work by Rambert dancer and choreographer Miguel Altunaga will also be performed. Royal Ballet Principal Steven McRae will dance the London premiere of his tap solo Czardas and Johan Kobborg’s Les Lutins, accompanied by Concert-master of the Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Vasko Vassilev on the violin, will be danced by Emma Maguire and fellow members of The Royal Ballet Marcelino Sambé and Valentino Zucchetti."
additional details available at
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The Resolution series is now running at The Place and continues for a number of weeks.
I thought some readers might be interested to know that Nicol Edmonds and Matthew Ball of the RB are appearing in a piece by Joshua Beamish on Feb 20th. He made a piece for last years Draft Works.
Details here:
http://www.theplace.org.uk/julia-thorneycroft-dance-b-hybrid-dance-joshua-beamish
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Mon 23 February – Sat 28 February
Print Room at the Coronet,
103 Notting Hill Gate,
London W11 3LBCHOREOGRAPHERS: Hubert Essakow, Kirill Burlov, Tamarin Stott, Mbulelo Ndabeni.
Three choreographers join our Artistic Associate Hubert Essakow in creating 4 new short dance works that celebrate 1898: the year that the Coronet was built.
Details at
http://www.the-print-room.org/theatre/spring-2015-season/1898-dance-workshop/
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Odd, isn't it, that the gardeners get their own curtain call and yet aren't listed in the cast sheet. Can anyone confirm who are three gardeners were on the 12th ?
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I thought than the traverse production worked very well for this show. You can be really close to the action. Warning if you are on the front row: there is some audience participation in the second half. Well, it is panto time.
The participants pulled on stage on the 9th to join the tea party included Wayne McGregor, draped in a resplendent yellow feather boa by a cast member.
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Casting is given on the ENB site as:
Alina Cojocaru as Medora, Vadim Muntagirov as Conrad, Erina Takahashi as Gulnare, Dmitri Gruzdyev as Lankendem, Junor Souza as Ali and Yonah Acosta as Birbanto
Royal Ballet School: Annual Performance 2015
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Are these a return to the original designs for Lez Rendezvous, with the gates of the park standing open ? The programme says that the costumes are courtesy of Sarasota Ballet. I think they revived it, with the original designs.