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  1. Does anyone know of any good adult ballet classes in the Liverpool area? I miss dancing so much since I moved north.
  2. A bit of a shot in the dark but looking for two tickets for RB Alice on 4/10 or 9/10 - looking to pay < £40 each. Hannah
  3. Love Arvo Part - sadly will not be in the country to see any more ballet til the autumn myself but I envy you all this music. Please don't worry about the 'bees' piece - it's a Part composition from the 1970s for wind quintet/string orchestra/piano. It's a rather nice piece of minimalist music. The title is a rather clever play on words I understand - the Bach refers to the fact that Part uses the note pattern B A C H (old German notation system refers to B as B flat and H as B natural). Then there is some building string tremelo playing that sounds a bit like bees - hence If Bach had been a Beekeeper. Hope I explained that alright!!
  4. I adore reading Clement Crisp's reviews. Not because I always agree with them (because I often don't) but I love his clever and accurate use of the English language. My favourite was a review of Beatrix Potter a few years ago.
  5. I think it's very interesting this is being talked about, mainly because I've always thought that what's so powerful about Macmillan's work is that through dance and the stories he chose to portray, he enables very difficult issues and emotions to be addressed. It was often, but not always, women and their part in society that he picked up on. When I watch Mayerling, I see a woman being contorted around a man, but actually, what I really notice (and what I suspect Macmillan wanted me to see) is the terror in Princess Stephanie, the anguish in Rudolf, the journey of emotion we see in Mary. And then we talk about it - and it reflects real events in real life and therefore we're talking about things that are often swept under the carpet. And with a polite display of dance on stage, without a choreographer willing to explore those difficult themes and without dancers willing to put their bodies through that, we're a less informed group. And that's the joy of the arts for me anyway (just my tuppence-worth anyway, and I also am beginning to find MacGregor very same-y).
  6. I first came to the ROH through the Student Standby scheme - my parents had already taken me to the theatre regularly but as a student I would never have gone independently without schemes such as this one (and the NT travelex). I had to go to whatever was offered - usually triple bills and there found a real love of Macmillan and Balanchine rep. Then discovered the ROH cheap standing places, then the best views around the house when sitting cheaply when I come with Mum and the rest is history - 8 or 9 years later I come as regularly as I can, never pay more than £25 a ticket (as I haven't yet made it in the city Dave) but very very grateful for the encouragement from the student standby scheme for helping to discover different works that I would never have tried.
  7. Saw La Bayadere last night and thought the biggest applause of the night was well deservedly given to the corps in Act 2. Beautifully placed arabesques, perfectly timed and I just wanted the stage to never run out as they wound their way forwards. Alexander Campbell was also superb as the Bronze Idol.
  8. I was reading this topic with interest. I'm not sure I really know the answer of how to increase interest in Triple Bills but the ROH helped me! I first discovered the ROH £5 amphitheatre standing tickets as a student and I've just been looking through my cast lists. The first few I went to see were the "big" ballets - Swan Lake, Giselle, Manon. I then discovered the ROH Student Standby scheme and the only ballet tickets generally available are to Triple Bills and so I began to get more adventurous - I discovered Balanchine and the one act Macmillan ballets and then started to come to everything and anything. By the end of my final year (a six year degree), I was coming to every production the RB put on. Now, working shifts, I have to be very selective about my choices of production, and generally I'll come to a Triple Bill (with some exceptions of course!).
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