Lynette H

The full list of winners is at

http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/latest-news/article/item225529/almeida-wins-big-at-2014-olivier-awards/

Nice to see that Wind in the Willows won best Entertainment and Family

Dance related:

Michael Hulls, Outstanding Achievement in Dance

Eastman / Puz/zle  Best New Dance Production

The ROH are not the only site which automatically populates a suggested donation.  It has recently started happening at the National Theatre too. I think there they work it out as a percentage of the total ticket price.  Sadler's also automatically suggests a donation of £2. Annoying.

Spotted this in The Stage when looking at another of today's links

http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2014/04/olympic-park-shortlist-500-seat-sadlers-wells-venue/

It also mentions Wayne McGregor setting up new rehearsal studios in the area.

I think I have seen Dane Hurst in an excerpt from this, but I can't place where. I don't think it was in the Clore. I think it might have been at Sadler's but I can't quite place the context. It was just a solo for him, no one else.

The dance performances for the EIF 2014 are listed at

http://www.eif.co.uk/dance

Includes Pina Bausch, and a new work from Mark Baldwin.  This features dancers from the Royal Ballet and Rambert with music performed live by Ladysmith Black Mambazo.

The Olivier awards nominations are here

http://www.olivierawards.com/news/view/item222452/hit-musicals-lead-olivier-nominations/

The dance nominations (you will need to scroll a long way down) are as follows - an eclectic bunch.

Best New Dance Production
 

Compagnie 111 Aurélien Bory/Stéphanie Fuster for What’s Become Of You? (Questcequetudeviens?) at the Barbican Theatre   
Eastman - Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Sadler’s Wells for Puz/zle at Sadler’s Wells    
Richard Alston Dance Company/Britten Sinfonia for Barbican Britten: Phaedra at the Barbican Theatre

Outstanding Achievement in Dance
 

Arthur Pita for his choreography of Ballet Black - A Dream Within A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House    
Clemmie Sveaas for her performance in Witch-Hunt at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House 
The Mark Morris season at Sadler’s Wells  
Michael Hulls for his body of lighting work including Ballet Boyz – The Talent at Sadler’s Wells

There was an earlier documentary on the Royal Ballet in wartime, back in 2007. You can find discussion on it on this thread from the old forum

here

http://www.ballet.co.uk/dcforum/news/3547.html

and here

http://www.ballet.co.uk/dcforum/happening/6124.html

I went to an event in the Cabinet War rooms about this. The interviewees then were very lively, and I recall them discussing the difficulties of making pointe shoes last. 

Dane Hurst's speech, on receiving his award, thanking the teacher in South Africa who had taught him without charging any fees (which he could never have afforded) came across as really heartfelt and very touching.  

It was extremely well received. Lots of the audience were on their feet applauding at the end of Saturday night's performance.

Another view of the same issue - this time from the perspective of a samall theatre company and how other theatre screenings affect their potential audience:

http://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2014/jan/20/live-theatre-screenings-elizabeth-freeman

There is now an apology and explanation on the ROH web site:

http://www.roh.org.uk/news/spring-general-booking-2014-an-apology

Yes, I had the same issue with "these tickets not avaiable". All the more confusing when you go back in to choose something else and find the "not available" tickets are still showing up as available.

There have been many long obituraries for Sir John Taverner, but in the ones I have seen there isn't any mention that his music was used for ballet and dance.

David Bintley choreographed The Protecting Veil for BRB in 1998.  Wayne McGregor created Amu for Random Dance in 2005. This used music specially commissioned from Sir John Taverner - his first dance commissin. It appeared at Sadlers Wells that year. I recall the voice of Patricia Rozario very clearly.   Some details about this here

http://www.randomdance.org/productions/wayne_mcgregor_past/amu

Bintley's ballet was very striking.  The only image I can find that gives a sense of it is on the site of its lighting designer here

http://www.markjonathan.com/site/Dance_files/Protecting%20Veil-1.jpg

There is an article inthe Sunday Times of 3 November all about the costs of live cinema broadcasts of productions, the audiences the NT is able to reach, and the financial implications. It is behind the paywall, if you have paid-for access it is worth a look.

I thought it might be of interest from a ballet perspective since the costs of broadcasting might be in some way similar, or a least give us a broad idea about the economics of the process.  

Since the first "NT Live" broadcast (Helen Mirren in Phedre), NT Live has reached 2M viewers worldwide.  NT Live has not yet equalled the audiences for performances in the actual theatre building.  In 2012/3 500,000 people watched plays via NT Live vs. 760,000 live in the building.  But the view is that it is only a matter of time before broadcast viewing exceeds the in-Theatre viewers. It already has for some popular productions (Alan Bennet's People had marginally more viewers in the cinema than in house).  (NT Live also covers some productions in other theatres, not just the NT).

According to the NT it costs about £250,000 to stage a broadcast, maybe up to £300,000 for a complicated one (plus satellite costs).  However, it is pointed out that the screening of The Audience (Helen Mirren again) earned £590,000 in Australia alone.   Not all productions might be as popular as this however.

I assume the costs for recording and transmitting ballet might well be greater because of the larger number of performers and musicians involved, but it is interesting to have a point of comparison.

Moderators - please move this into a more appropriate thread if there is one.

The directions on the venue web site for how to walk there from Tower Hill (or other tube stations) are quite good. I ended up following a number of people all clutching their A-Zs and checking them at intervals. It was fine.

Jonathan Goddard is an amazing charismatic presence in this production. It's in the atmospheric setting of Wilton's Music Hall, London's oldest surviving Music Hall,  all crumbling walls and peeling paint. 

One of the most striking and compelling productions I've seen this year.  It's on until 2 Nov. 

Details here

http://wiltons.org.uk/event.php?p=642

NB I saw an offer in the Sadlers Random programme for this for £2 off top price tickets, quote "Dracula".

There seems to be another new work from Liam Scarlett, a short piece for new York's Fall for Dance programme this autumn.

Programme 4 on 2 and 3 October

http://www.nycitycenter.org/tickets/productionNew.aspx?performanceNumber=7520#programs

"The Royal Ballet – Untitled New Work – Liam Scarlett *FFD Commission"

This is scheduled to take place at the Royal Ballet School, but details about it are not easy to find. There is nothing about it on the RBS site itself, although that does have details of the symposium on Helpman later in the year.

http://www.royal-ballet-school.org.uk/rhsymposium/

The only details so far online seem to be on the ROH facebook page

"Participants/speakers include Christopher Cook, Alastair Macaulay, Richard Alston, Geraldine Morris, Stephanie Jordan, Jane Pritchard, Lesley Collier, Francesca Hayward, Ricardo Cervera, Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Margaret Barbieri, Wendy Ellis-Somes, Desmond Kelly, Liz Cunliffe, Jeanetta Laurence, Kevin O'Hare and Anthony Russell-Roberts (information correct at 30.7.13)"

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Frederick-Ashton-Foundation/502448869816967

So far in the Bolshoi performances at the ROH, I haven't felt I've seen a great partnership on stage with real chmistry between the dancers that gives that extra frisson to a performance.   Of course, I may have been unlucky in casting, injuries and so on and just haven't been at the right performances. But I note a general absence of commentary about partnerships in reviews and discussion.  No one can make a great partnership happen - the spark happens or it doesn't. 

Who are the established partnerships in the company today ? Are we seeing them here ? Or are we in a period where the stars just aren't in alignment to deliver them ?

The Coli was steamingly hot last night - had something gone wrong with the air con ? In previous visits there had been sudden icy gales from it when in the centre of the auditorium. This time I was very much to one side and it was uncomfortably warm (on one of the cooler days of July) and everyone was fanning themselves vigourously.

Your last chance to see Leanne Benjamin in the Pie Jesu from Requiem.  There are only a tiny handful of tickets left. Go if you can.

There are extensive road closures in central London on 3rd and 4th August.

Prudential RideLondon will take place in London on closed roads during the weekend of Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 August 2013. There will be bridge closures, bus diversions and parking restrictions.  You may not be able to cross the event route.

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/27647.aspx

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/27647.aspx#page-link-bridge-and-road-closures-on-3-4-august

The Northern Line is mostly closed this weekend 13/14 July, so if you were planning to use it to get to the ROH then you should find an alternative...

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/emails/worksandclosures/Planned_closure_WE_14_JULY_A4.pdf

Apologies for typos. BEB should be BRB. And I must learn to spell Singapore correctly.....

From the list in the Linbury performances programme

Luca Acri, RB

Matthew Ball, RB

Annette Buvoli, RB

David Donnelly, RB

Anna Rose O'Sullivan, RB

Marcelino Sambe, RB

Yaoqian Shang, BRB

Nikita Ruhl, BRB

Mariko Sasaki, BRB

Daniele Silingardi, ENB

Joan Zamora, ENB

Evan Loudon, Scottish Ballet

Nikisha Fogo, Vienna State Opera Ballet

Suzan Opperman, Vienna State Opera Ballet

James Stephens, Vienna State Opera Ballet

Danielle Muir, Berlin Ballet

Matthew Knight, Zurich Ballet 2

Hannah Beach, Hamburg Ballet

Alexander Bennett, Bavarian State Ballet 2

Takahiro Tamagawa, Dortmund Ballet

Luke Cinque-White, NDT

Esteban Hernandez, SFB

Lucy Gold, Sarasota Ballet

Kevin Hale, Colorado Ballet

Lewis Gardner, Singapore Dance Theatre

Can anyone say what the running time for Programme 1 is please ?