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LinMM

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  1. Well no worries you cheered me up MAB šŸ™‚ What worries me is when I see Iā€™ve made a mistake and then it takes me 3/4 times to still hit the correct letter!! My finger just wonā€™t go where my eye is telling it to lol!!
  2. Hmm I know Dowell is getting on a bit now but definitely in pretty good nick then for about 140 years old!!
  3. In my Raqs Sharqi class ( no longer do) both the teacher and one of the really good dancers in that class had never done any ballet. It takes quite a while for ballet people to really let go of their hips and core!!! Iā€™m a bit hesitant to say though that you can only be any good at something if you come from a particular culture though almost certainly may find it easier.
  4. That will be a blow for ENBS though. She seemed to be doing such a great job there. One shouldnā€™t speculate but if there is a move to another well known Ballet establishment at least you know they will be in a very good pair of hands!! I really hope ENBS can find a replacement equal to Viviane but wonā€™t be easy.
  5. Ah thanks yes took me straight there andā€¦.what do I know!! I didnā€™t miss Onegin last time around at all!! I went on Feb 12th 2020 to the Nunez Bolle performance. It was the last thing I attended before lockdown so must also have been free of the crutches by then!! That whole time from September 2019 to July 2021 is all a bit hazy in my memory!!
  6. Can somebody tell me how to access the reviews here for Onegin in 2020 Ive tried putting Onegin in search but nothing is coming up
  7. As someone who started with ballet and from a young age Iā€™d say itā€™s one of the most difficult Dance forms to actually look accomplished in because it requires so much strength to develop first. However when I had a very long break from Ballet I did loads of other styles of dance both National type dances, Limon style modern dance, Indian dance ( mainly Kathak but a little Odissi mixed in) and the most beautiful form of ā€œbelly dance ā€œ Raqs Sharqi the classical Egyptian form (which doesnā€™t have any ballet moves in!) What I found was that when I eventually went back to ballet some 20 plus years later having engaged with these other forms of Dance had helped enormously with my expression there. I felt so much freer! So I donā€™t think you need to do ballet to be good in other forms of dance but I definitely think if you have done ballet it will make you generally stronger which is helpful.
  8. Yes Iā€™ve found this with Colmans posts on other threads you canā€™t ā€œlikeā€ them Perhaps you can opt out of this if you want to I donā€™t know.
  9. Thanks oncnp! I missed the 2020 run then because I was still on crutches in early 2020 after a bad ankle injury in 2019 I missed the whole of the Autumn 2019 season and then 2020 ran into Covid so tickets purchased for April 2020 performances were gifted to ROH!!
  10. Iā€™d forgotten this! However there is an article dated March 2023 which says they are considering doing a U turn regarding BBC 4 as it is comparative low cost and has undoubted popularity with the publicā€¦ā€¦But canā€™t see any news after that date.
  11. I love Onegin too and hope itā€™s on the cards for 2024-5 for the Royal. Id love to go to Munich too as itā€™s years since Iā€™ve been there and itā€™s a lovely city ( I used to go to Germany a lot as I studied the language) but havenā€™t been to the theatre there yet and the Company today has so many really good dancers! Thanks for reviews and piccies Don Q
  12. An asideā€¦a picture of Nureyev arriving at the film Premiere of Valentino just dropped into my Facebook page. Heā€™s wearing a very large and voluptuous cloak which looks suspiciously like the ever expanding one he wore in Giselle lol!!
  13. Hee hee Balletyas substitute walking home in the summer by choice humming the tunes with a few odd ballet steps thrown in for cycling home!! Those were the carefree days!
  14. Yes another option. Itā€™s only in very recent years Iā€™ve been lucky enough not to have to try to get back to Brighton after performances otherwise given the way the trains have been in the last 5 years or so with so many later night cancellations ā€¦.standing on a Victoria platform at 10.30 pm and seeing the train just cancelled in the middle of the winter is not for the 70 plus!!! ā€¦or worse being turfed off the train at East Croydon or Three Bridges ( where drivers change over) because thereā€™s nobody to take the train further!! ā€¦..Iā€™d rarely go to the ROH if couldnā€™t stay for free in London. Saturday matinees are often no good because of engineering works especially between October and April Id really love a regular weekday matinee, a few more 7pm starts or shorter intervals ā€¦all three would be great. Though I do feel Iā€™m probably showing my age here as when younger never even occurred to me to worry about end times though did live in London then. I retired in 2012 and think have slowly got more bothered by being out much after 11.30 whether in London or Brighton for whatever reason.
  15. I was at their last performance of this at the ROH. What a night!! The audience just wouldnā€™t let them go! Id had a great view from standing that night. I couldnā€™t see Marguerite and Armand for years after that as it felt so much ā€œtheirā€ ballet.
  16. I donā€™t believe Travis Clausen Knight is with the Royal Ballet ( listed next to Corrales) so definitely some sort of semi colon needed there! I hope to get to this but canā€™t book until I know what the trains are doing that w/end with either engineering works ā€¦probably 80 per cent chance or Strikes 20 -30 percent chance!!
  17. Loved your review Bruce Wall except for your hint of a suggestion that McCormick might dance elsewhere šŸ˜±. Please no ā€¦not just yet!
  18. Dawnstarā€¦Thankyou so much for your advice but I too think Ā£118 is a lot to pay if any kind of restrictive view so think will give those two Bench seats a miss and trust will get a return nearer the time. I have seen both these two before in Swan Lake or otherwise might have been tempted to go at any price šŸ˜³ however think good sense can prevail here but just wanted to support Cesar on his return to the stage!! Before Covid I used to say absolutely not over Ā£100 for a theatre seat but found Iā€™ve been pushed to the Ā£120 mark more recently ā€¦just on occasions ..but always seats with a very good view. Tickets in the Ā£150-175 mark itā€™s just a no from me šŸ˜± but if you were only to attend the ROH once or twice a year I suppose could be considered reasonable for the great view they would afford.
  19. Thanks for heads up re tickets but canā€™t pay over Ā£150 even for Cesar! I canā€™t sit in Amphi or the loose chairs on the side in level B and C in Balcony (Row A is okay as have a barrier in front of you) but these not available and anyway too expensive for Swan Lake!! There is a seat in stalls circle .. a bench seat B.27. Still a bit pricey but have never sat on a bench seat before. Has anyone sat in B.27 is view okay from there?
  20. I sat in Palladium only the once for Emerging Dancer a few years back and am having to really think hard where I was sitting but think it was towards the back of the stalls. I didnā€™t have any problem seeing the stage anyway but Iā€™m tallish and maybe that makes a difference.
  21. Yes Cesar confirmed for me in that particular performance that he was truly a dancer to be reckoned with!! I was so relieved when he joined the RB and didnā€™t go off abroad somewhere. I did really search for reviews of him and Zhang and couldnā€™t find any although one reviewer who had written up about Vasiliev and Rojo did say get tickets for the Corrales performance if you can too!! Such a shame Cesar has been so injury bound in following years. I still feel we also lost a wonderful dancer in letting Shale Wagman go too who is of course now doing so well in Munich
  22. I thought access meant people either in wheelchairs or who have mobility type issues so seats need to be easy to get to. I can only go by what Iā€™ve been told but these days in big organisations people only seem to know the bit of information they need to do their own job! The other day I was in a large well known Garden Centre which has outlets selling other things. I tried at least four outlets to ask where the Garden furniture was ( as couldnā€™t see a Garden Centre employee) and none of them knew where it might be located! So they go to work there every day and just go to ā€œtheir bitā€ eyes closed everywhere else it seems!!
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