Naomi M

I am not sure if this will be geo-blocked or not but Vienna State Ballet's Mahler program (Van Manen, Schläpfer) will be streamed by Arte on December 4th 20:30 Europe time. 

https://www.arte.tv/fr/videos/099992-000-A/mahler-live-de-hans-van-manen-et-martin-schlaepfer/  

Japan’s Ballet Chambre Ouest’s Coppelia full performance is available free. Mariko Sasaki of Royal Ballet comes from this company.

Chloé Lopes Gomes Speaks Out About Racial Harassment at Staatsballett Berlin

https://www.pointemagazine.com/chloe-lopes-gomes-ballet-2649095670.html

Chloe Lopes Gomes, a black corps de ballet  dancer at Staatsballett Berlin was harassed by the ballet mistress and she did not get her contract renewed.  

1 hour ago, alison said:

Does it work worldwide?  The webpage refers to families in New England.

It does in Japan. But it was not a full one, condensed into about 50 minutes.  Anyway a delightful performance with their famous bear. 

Boston Ballet’s Nutcracker can be viewed for free if you enter your email address and Full name.

https://www.bostonballet.org/Home/Tickets-Performances/Performances/The-Nutcracker.aspx?

Several Italian media have reported that Roberto Bolle intends to retire in April 2022 when he is 47. Bolle is currently 45 years old which is quite unbelievable.  He has talked about this in a recent TV appearance.

https://www.ilmessaggero.it/spettacoli/teatro/roberto_bolle_intervista_a_sky_tg24_pensione_aprile_2022-5615385.html
 

Royal Danish Ballet’s Cinderella is available online and this is not geoblocked.

Ida Preatorius in the title role, choreographed by Gregory Dean. 

https://kglteater.dk/xtra/forestillinger/forestilling-askepot/?section=36848

this making video of the doodle is also fabulous with footage and interviews of Tallchief and the Native American artists who created this. 

You can watch Rastlos here

https://www.staatstheater-hannover.de/de_DE/mediathek-staatsoper

It seems unfortunately the Paris Opera Ballet Facebook event is only available in France. What a pity.

https://www.operadeparis.fr/actualites/le-ballet-de-lopera-national-de-paris-dans-les-creations-de-sidi-larbi-cherkaoui-tess-voelker-et-mehdi-kerkouche-en-direct-depuis-le-palais-garnier-le-vendredi-13-novembre-a-20h

This clip was previously mentioned in this thread, so maybe better to merge the conversation. (Thank you moderators) 

Natascha Mair is a beautiful and lyrical, lovely ballerina, also fabulous in contemporary as well as classical. She is a native of Austria and grown up at the Vienna State Ballet school, Manuel Legris nurtured her. She often appeared in the Vienna Philharmonic New Year concerts and is quite on the smaller side with a beautiful face. You can see her as one of the Odalisques in Vienna State Ballet’s Le Corsaire DVD. 
 

I have seen her several times live, as Gulnare in Le Corsaire and Swanilda in Coppelia, as well as Esmeralda and contemporary works. She has some very good lyrical qualities as well as beautiful feet. 

an introduction video on Wiener Staatsoper’s channel 

Here is the full video to this. More information here. 

https://infocielo.com/despertar/el-la-musica-un-cerebro-alzehimer-n503675

On 01/11/2020 at 05:40, Jan McNulty said:

Milwaukee Ballet streaming Michael Pink's Dracula!!!!  Many longstanding friends of Northern Ballet have very fond memories of this production:

 

https://vimeo.com/469873929/5ee47dee00

Japan's NBA Ballet has this ballet in their repertoire, and they were supposed to perform this summer with guests Ryoichi Hirano as the Dracula and Sarah Lamb. But of course this was sadly cancelled. They did the first act in February with Hirano, and he had such carisma. Hope this one will happen again here. 

1 hour ago, Don Q Fan said:

Have to agree with Jeannette there was just too much "class" for me.  I much prefer interviews and seeing actual pieces of rep danced.  However in fairness they were probably limited this year as to what they could do.  I will go back and watch some of the Bolshoi interviews - Anna Turashvilli really is a great English speaker and is always lovely at stage door so it was great to see her.  I will also look for the DonQ from HK and Japan.

 

 

here is the National Ballet of Japan section, with Don Quixote rehearsal (Act 3 is a run-through, coached by Miyako Yoshida. don't miss Yui Yonezawa's superb fouettes) and some experts from their new ballet Ryuguu the Turtle Princess. Available till November 2nd morning.

They have successfully finished 6 performances of Don Quixote and tomorrow is the last performance. Tonight's performance will be streamed later but you have to pay for it. 

On 29/10/2020 at 19:52, Sim said:

Wow...such a contrast between how the Russians and the Japanese are coached!  
 

Really enjoying Tokyo Ballet rehearsing DonQ, and so pleased to see the company dancing together as a unit, instead of separated by bubbles.  

It is not Tokyo Ballet but the National Ballet of Japan, currently lead by former RB principal Miyako Yoshida. Tokyo Ballet is a private company but has a longer history so maybe more well known in Europe. 

This website is in French but it does put all the companies according to timeline with links to each FB site so this is quite useful.

https://www.dansesaveclaplume.com/hors-scene/1106872-world-ballet-day-2020-le-programme-du-29-octobre/

A glimpse from the wings of Novosibirsk Theatre Don Quixote with Osipova and Vasiliev, shot by corps member Kaito Hosoya. (Dream sequence of act 2 and Act3) It says it will be deleted in a few hours but you can see the grand pas de deux.

Novosibirsk Theatre. The FB is the theatre's official FB.

Their YouTube Channel here.

https://www.youtube.com/c/operansk/videos

The Bolshoi's Jewels must be a pirated one. But there is a Mariinsky Ballet version (available on disc as well) which is a legal online version. 

Diamonds with Uliana Lopatkina is just divine.

Bashkir State Opera and Ballet will be streaming their GIselle September 27th 20:00 (Russia Time)

This is a beautiful creation by Paul Lightfoot, ex Artistic Director of NDT.  He lost his father during lockdown without being allowed into the hospital to say goodbye because of travel restrictions, so he began working remotely on a piece to process his emotions. And here is the result,  a powerful, moving tribute to those affected by the pandemic. It can be seen both on Royal Danish Ballet's website and vimeo, danced by Sebastian Haynes of NDT, filmed in Denmark.

https://kglteater.dk/xtra/digital-scenekunst/unspoken?section=34724

According to this press release from National Ballet of Canada, Francesco Gabriele Frola will dance full-time with English National Ballet as a Lead Principal and will appear with the National Ballet as a Guest Artist

http://www.balletnews.co.uk/the-national-ballet-of-canada-2020-21-season-roster/

In Japan the regulations of social distancing in theatres and classical concert halls, cinemas have been loosened on September 19th. Now they allow 100% seating if safety measures have been taken. (such as audience and staff wearing mask are compulsory, temperature measured at the entrance and disinfection of hands)   We still have 300~500 people diagnosed as COVID-19 patients every day, and a couple of months ago, a cluster occurred in a small playhouse where some play had been performed. (many actors and some of the audience got the virus, probably spread at rehearsals and at the stage door) 

Practically, very few theatres and concert halls have loosened their regulation at this point, we will see what will happen. In this weekend Tokyo Ballet will do Don Quixote, next month several full length performances such as Sleeping Beauty by Asami Maki Ballet, Le Corsaire by K-BAllet Companyand another Don Quixote from National Ballet of Japan will occur but at this point all of them with 50% capacity. 

Reece Clarke and Fumi Kaneko appear on a film for Albert Bartlett. I like the idea of calling seed potatoes Sleeping Beauties.