Lynette H

Angel tube will be shut as part on an extensive closure of the Northern line 22/23rd June. Worth knowing if you are planning to attend one of their Sampled performances.

I meant to note this earlier, but Gailene Stock of the Royal Ballet School was awarded a CBE in the Queen's Birthday honours a couple of days ago. There's a note of the news on the RBS web site at http://www.royal-ballet-school.org.uk/news.php?s=1 ...and there's a nice picture to go with it including McRae, Romany Pajdak, Shevell Dynott, Cory stearns and others surrounding her. Is this the graduates of 2005 or so ? I'm sure someone out there will know. Interesting to think where they all are now.

The document that the original article is about is the recently published ROH annual review for 2012. The finances appear on p45 http://static.roh.org.uk/about/pdfs/annualreview1112.pdf

And another one to add to this list. Liam Scarlett is making a new work for ENB part of a mixed bill at the Barbican in April 2014 http://dancetabs.com/2013/06/english-national-ballet-announces-2014-season-and-new-barbican-performances/

Ordinary Friends booking started today. All went quite smoothly, but tickets for the Osipova R&J on 21 Nov were disappearing before your very eyes (or at least before you could get them into the basket). All the stalls and grand tier are now showing as sold out for this performance.

This will leave some holes in next season's casting. Alina was due to appear in October in the new production ofDon Q with McRae (I think, from memory). And Kobborg was supposed to be choreographing part of the opera les Vepres siciliennes, with principals from the RB and with the corps from the upper school, again with performances in October this year. It sounds as if this will not be happening, though nothing was stated about this.

My (admittedly rather hazy) memory of this is that the rights to Symphony in C passed from Betty Cage to John Taras. Has it passed on again, this time to SAB ?

I saw this on Tues 28th. Quite surreal. Not particularly typical of Khan. I think the press night is tonight.

I noticed in Kevin O'Hare's introduction in the Raven Girl programme that he lists the new commisions this season. He says "In June, Kim Brandstrup creates a work which we take to the Aldeburgh Festival as part of the Britten centenary celebrations." I think it must be this, on 20 June http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events/britten-dances There is no mention of this coming to the ROH. Does anyone have any further details ?

It is all the more bizarre when you consider that the ROH in its new revamped web site still does not have pictures or biographies of the dancers. These used to be available on the old web site. There are however, pictures and bios for the management. Who I wonder, is the public more interested in seeing ?

This had a lot of material packed in it, well worth a listen. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01slkf5/Music_Feature_The_Rite_of_Spring/

This years programme has expanded from one weekend in September to four weekends, curated this time by Stephen Fry See http://www.roh.org.uk/news/deloitte-ignite-2013-to-be-curated-by-stephen-fry It looks to be heavily opera centred byt there are indications of a couple of dance events in there - a new work from Mayuri Boonham (she had a piece in draft works, didn't she ?) and one from the very funny New Art Club, "their own interpretation of Verdi operas". No full listing or dates as yet.

Also added and now bookable at Sadlers, a Gala on 29 September in aid of the Yorkshire Ballet Summer School. "hosted by Sir Anthony Dowell and Sir Derek Jacobi, starring Tamara Rojo, BalletBoyz The Talent, Imelda Staunton, Jim Carter, Stars of the Royal Ballet, The Birmingham Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, Northern Ballet, Rambert Dance Company."

The Sadler's Wells programme for this autumn is just out. Stuttgart Ballet are there 18-23 November with Taming of the Shrew and a mixed programme of work new to the UK. (The new season may not be up on their web site yet. There is lots of interest even if it doesn't strictly belong in the subject matter of this thread. Mark Morris returns..)

And another commission for Liam, this time for Norwegaian National Ballet http://www.operaen.no/en/Performances/In-the-world-of-Fokine/ This time its the Firebird - Sept to Oct 2013. (Rather nice web site and the rest of the programme looks intersting. Dancers in other works include Daniel Proietto, Osiel Gouneo, Yoel Carreño).

And in addition, Liam Scarlett is making a new work for New York City Ballet next season, to premiere in January 2014. Press release here: http://www.nycballet.com/NYCB/media/NYCBMediaLibrary/PDFs/Press/2013_04-17_2013-14-Season-Release.pdf (Moderators maybe you can change the title of the thread - I thought it might be useful to link these two items together).

San Francisco Ballet have announced their 2013/14 season and it includes a new work from Liam Scarlett in April next year. See http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Highlights-in-S-F-Ballet-s-2014-lineup-4401214.php

Thanks for the info - like many others I failed to get a ticket earlier.......

The list is out - you can see the full list of all nominations here http://www.olivierawards.com/news/view/item179593/curious-incident-leads-olivier-nominations/ ...but you need to scroll a long way down before you come to the dance nominations: Best New Dance Production Aeternum by the Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House, choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon Cacti by Nederlands Dans Theatre 2 at Sadler’s Wells, choreographed by Alexander Ekman A Streetcar Named Desire by Scottish Ballet at Sadler’s Wells Outstanding Achievement in Dance Lez Brotherston for the set and costumes for Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty, New Adventures at Sadler’s Wells ILL-Abilities company in Breakin’ Convention at Sadler’s Wells Marianela Nunez for Aeternum, Diana & Actaeon and Viscera, The Royal Ballet at the Royal Opera House Best Theatre Choreographer Scott Ambler – Chariots Of Fire Bill Deamer – Top Hat Scott Graham & Steven Hoggett – The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time Stephen Mear – Kiss Me, Kate

It's Alex Beard, formerly of the Tate. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/9940858/Royal-Opera-House-announce-Alex-Beard-as-successor-to-Tony-Hall.html (No doubt more news items to follow).

If anyone else has been wondering where they have heard Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem used for a dance performance before, then the answer appears to be for Kylian's Forgotten Land. It's not music that strikes me as immediately demanding to be danced to, but I felt convinced I had some distant memory of it being used before.

See http://www.cityofculture2013.com/event/royal-ballet/ for details of Royal Ballet dancers appearing in Derry / Londonderry, March 30/31st 2013.

The Barbican theatre in London will be closed from May to autumn this year for refurbishment: http://creativeboom.co.uk/news/barbican-theatre-and-dance--spring-summer-2013/

Very warm and assured performance today from Francesca Hayward as Clara, with Tristan Dyer as Hans-Peter. I don't think either of these were debuts but they had a very appealing freshness.

The puppet baby Aurora is extremely well done, and very deftly handled by the cast. I recall that in the Imagine tv programme about the making of Bourne's Sleeping Beauty he said that they had about five different Aurora puppets to do different things. He also said that they were not going to give the puppet a curtain call "in case she got more applause than anyone else."