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I’m not sure but think your “Well?” Lizbie 1 might be aimed at my post re the students. 
There is nothing special about mentioning the students other than it’s nice to see students from the last two years or so (from visits to RBS etc) suddenly on stage with the main Company especially dancing as a swan in Swan Lake…..a rather nice culmination of all their ballet studies. 
I don’t know whether it’s an indication of future Company membership or just several get the chance to do this. 
 

Looking forward to seeing Fumi and Vadim on Thursday! 
 

I’m an aisle person too….ever since I had my one and only terrible coughing fit when at Sadlers Wells sat right in the middle of one of their long rows!! 
Ever since I like to be at the very end of an aisle even if not quite so central etc. 

Did they think that somehow the empty seats were actually better than your seat?  So didn’t understand why you weren’t keen to move.  Otherwise they had no good reason to ask you to move to a worse seat if even only a slightly worse seat!! 
 

I think she’s the one at the back on extreme right hand side! 

Yes she’s the one I recognise …who went to Paris recently with some other RBS students but thought the other two girls might be as well!! 

Am not sure but think I can see a couple of RBS graduating students as swans in the pics 

Poor Wendy!!! 
I know breaking just one wrist can be challenging in ones every day activities but two wrists must have been a nightmare😳😱

Am really looking forward to any reviews of this. As I think tonight’s cast is the same as one on 15th when I’m going. 

Thankyou for such a detailed tribute to Capybara Li tai po. 
I had no idea of the true extent of her involvement in the Ballet World. 
She will indeed be sadly missed by so many who knew her personally as well as those of us here who did not. 

It’s a lot of money to be a Friends plus so one has to weigh up what one is getting for this extra payment. One of the benefits is supposed to be advanced booking (before the general public etc) but sometimes this is not much value if you can’t really book for (lack of ) casting reasons. 

Very nice piccies BBB 

I recognise those pink trousers …I have the very  same ones! 
 

Perhaps there are just too many tiers of Friends these days to be able to guarantee casting by the time the first lot of (higher) tiered Friends booking day opens as it’s often a full month or more before ordinary Friends booking opens (and public booking is often a full month after that!!) 

Perhaps the casting ( as the dancers will have been rehearsing for some time) should be announced as “projected casting” as Friends booking opens  if the RB feels it needs to protect itself rather than no info at all. 

Yes I too found I wanted to see what her posts would say about issues so would look out for her name as you sensed her passion for ballet ran very deep and was central to her life. 

It is strange this Forum there are many like Capybara that you have never met but still feel some sort of affinity with after many years of sharing posts etc. So do genuinely feel a loss when their presence is no longer there. 

It will definitely be very strange not to see her name on the Forum any more as she was such a frequent contributor. 
When I first joined the Forum I thought her user name was unusual and somebody told me that it was the name of an animal native to Australia so I looked it up to see what it looked like! So learned something new. 
For this reason I always imagined she came from Australia or New Zealand. 

 

Oh dear have just read this news on the train up to London  and was only thinking yesterday that hadn’t heard anything from her about the new ballet season!  
So very sad to hear she has died as always enjoyed her posts and it was obvious she was very knowledgeable 

I think we both happened to share

a love of Cesar Corrales from back in ENB days and will think of her on the 15th when also going to see him in Winters Tale. 
I didn’t know we also shared a first name!! 
Such sad news. 
 

Can I make a plea for people to stop choosing Forum names that are tricky to type in …so have to keep checking all the time if have the right symbol especially where numbers and letters look so similar 😬

Final gripe of the day! 

Hee hee I think you’ve more than made your point Hephaistion03!! 
But thanks that does clarify it 🙂

Alice is one of those ballets you probably will only want to see once in a run!! So I will have to choose a newby in role for my one visit! 
Going to be difficult to beat Beatrix Stix Brunell as Alice and Laura Morera as the Red Queen though. 

Same for Cinderella will probably only want to see a new person in the role this time around. 
It’s not that I don’t like it but all the main excitement was in the last run and it’s just not that long ago to jump up and down about….like I did when saw Cesar was doing Leontes in Winters Tale! ( only 2 weeks to go!) 
Im pretty sure it will be a while before I see R&J bettered by Hayward and Corrales or Naghdi and Ball both pairs wonderful. 
I’ve not seen Bracewell as Romeo so that will probably decide my main choice or if there was a gamble on Pantuso as Juliet. 
Yes I know lots of Principals etc etc but Juliet is a young persons role for me and only rarely like to see much older dancers  in the role! 
Goodness I  am feeling gripy today 🙁

Thanks for posting Hephaistion03! 
Not sure I understand the list of shorter ballets as there are already five listed plus “four contemporary ballets” so that would be nine shorter ballets! In one evening? Or are these to be split into different days 🤔
To be honest I’m not even overly looking forward to Cinderella as it’s almost too soon to get involved with it all again! So many other things could have been offered and far too much Alice!! 
Onegin is the only ballet that really excites me next season as unless some new (and hopefully risky)  debuts in R &J I know I won’t be as excited as when Hayward and Naghdi etc danced their debuts. 
It just feels like the season is a bit “tired”  but maybe it’s just me …I hope I’m not beginning to tire of going to the Ballet after all these years!!! 

Well to me magenta is magenta and purple is purple …not lilac!!
Some lilacs might be a slightly more pinky shade of mauve and some more of a  bluey shade of mauve but stretching it to magenta or purple is a step too far!! 
I am talking about the colour lilac though not the flowers which come in all shades. 

A nice pic of Ella Newton Severgnini in the background above (behind Leticia Stock I think) with Julia Roscoe holding the bouquet of flowers? 
Have missed out on Hayward this time in Swan Lake unfortunately as days just didn’t work out (she often seems to dance on Saturday evenings which are not good for me! ….and can only go so many times so still haven’t seen her in this role! 
I have no doubt that she will deliver though and would love to see her with Bracewell as I think they have some (dancing) things in common so would expect that they would have pretty good chemistry together somehow. 

I did enjoy reading the book called “The Camomile Lawn” mentioned above but nothing to do with the one in Ockham!!! 

A slightly muddled memory as all these things are 40 and 50 years ago now!! 

Cycling around Ockham I was involved in a survey as a student it was something to do with Wisley as I lived in walking distance of Wisley Gardens but remember being told to try to view this Camomile lawn in a garden in Ockham and cycling around trying to find the road etc!! 
By the time I read The Camomile Lawn in late 80’s my cycling around everywhere days were over!! 

 

Was Carlos in his white suit? 

The three childrens  books which left their mark the most on me were Heidi The Silver Sword and The Secret Garden. 
My mum and dad used to shop on Saturday afternoons and I often stayed at home to read ( although as I was only 8-10ish probably illegal now!!)

Once I remember my mum being surprised to see me in floods of tears on their return  when reading Heidi and many years later I finally made it to Poland (when it was  still behind “the iron curtain”) something I’d always wanted to do since reading Ian Serrailliers  classic. 
When a little older I remember reading a book called “ The Camomile Lawn” and cycling all around Ockham( in Surrey)  trying to find it!! 
As a much older teenager I  also made it eventually to Gavin Maxwells beach Sandaig ( Camusfearna) where he used to live….. long after he’d left though. I  Read every single one  of his books in the end but more when older teenager and very early 20’s. 
Makarova signed her autograph on “The Rocks Remain” and seemed quite bemused by the pictures of otters in it! 
 

Glad you could find them Bluebird I hadn’t a clue!