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I was just thinking of ballets like Don Q or Le Corsaire for a bit of showing off not just for the sake of it in any ballet or whether it doesn’t serve the context which is why I used the word ‘appropriate’

Amazing virtuoso feats are fun and great to see …as when dancers compete with each other in class etc….but don’t make a good dancer or performer of course. In a performance it’s the overall quality of dance and being able to illuminate a character which are important. But occasionally at certain appropriate points it’s okay for dancers to do a bit of technical showing off!

I saw a bit of rehearsal for this at the Acosta Centre on a recent trip with London Ballet Circle and it looks terrific ( much more fiery than the recent ENB version I have to say) So I went to look at booking this but there are hardly any seats left mostly only restricted view now 😥 Im hoping to get a return nearer the time!

Above info is only Thameslink I don’t know about Great Northern. Thameslink do have a proper timetable on these days but just half the usual number of trains and more odd cancellations here and there likely

That’s on the Brighton to Bedford line. I know from City Thameslink station to Brighton there are trains every half an hour on work to rule days however whether one comes through from Bedford and then one through from Cambridge I’m not sure. If this was the case there might be only one train an hour on your bit of line though I also seem to think there were no through trains to Cambridge during the overtime ban etc so in that instant it could be one every half an hour on your bit but not more than that.

Richmond Theatre was one of the first regular theatres I attended as a child though didn’t live in London An Aunt used to take me to the then yearly Pantomime and I always loved the “fairies” bit where there would be some ballet type dancing scenes!

However I’m sure I saw another “College” production reviewed will search later but some garden jobs are calling before it rains!!!

🤔not sure what you mean it’s had several performances now.

I’ve been going through the links from April and can’t see a review yet of this Production…have I missed it 🤔

At risk of taking off thread subject now so last technique comment…Alison I don’t see tours en L’air as an assemble step🤔as it’s taken from fifth and lands in fifth so a straight up jump as it were.

OMG there’s a YouTube clip of a class of virtuoses men in tours en Lair. A couple managed three straight off double tours en L’air from same spot and then collapse on the floor lol but then there was one dancer who just kept going …a series of double tours en L’air with no steps in between. It was about six I think but didn’t count just don’t know how he didnt run out of energy!!

I will look for an illegal shot!!

Thanks again that clarifies it!! I thought 8 turns altogether with no step at all in between would be a touch impossible! But anyway still impressive.

Repeats consecutively? ….so 8turns altogether from the same point …no step in between? That does sound amazing! Just to add there are different types of tours en L’air so establishing it ends in 5th position is info I needed …thanks Balletfanp! And for the clip of James BBB.

Just to clarify the double tours …is this the pirouette turn on demi pointe with the leg in second position ( 90 degrees horizontal to side) or a jumped tours en l’air where there are two turns in the air with leg held in second position?

When I had this problem it could even be further back in this thread or one of the booking threads I rang the box office about it and think this is what I was told!! But it does seem a bit daft to me …if they are not available at the time of looking then they shouldn’t say they are I agree. Or did the box office tell me there had been some error at the time …which has obviously just been repeated!!

This has happened and been discussed here before but I can never remember the reason why it happens🙄 I think it’s something like tickets being held back for Friday Rush or they are only available to people with certain criteria ….access problems? So may be eventually released if no takers etc.

Well Thankyou to Doug Fullington for making this show so easily available. I still find live streaming amazing especially when all the way from US and with no hitches!! The only thing was I couldn’t get it to go to widescreen on my phone but I could zoom in and out a bit. It seems to me that the “shades act” is pretty much untouched from what you would usually see though the music was taken a little faster and had a lighter feel so those arabesques not quite so stretched out! All the usual dances were there and dancers all in tutus! So much more traditional in this bit than I was expecting. I missed the very beginning so must have missed the Golden Idol dance! (As it happens saw a student being coached in this for an audition at the Acosta Centre recently) I thought the dancers were quite mixed in skills but couldnt make out whether they are a Professional Company or not or serious students of Dance but not professional yet. It was more balletic than I was expecting so sort of works as an alternative “La Bayadere” but I rather like the melodrama of the original and would love somebody to try to keep the “Indian” feel ( though has always seemed more Turkish in feel to me) while remaining respectful to that culture. The Georgian Ballet we’re doing this recently and had some amazing looking Indian costumes more like the real temple dancers would have worn in Southern India. One thing …the music for the original Nikiya’s dance hasn’t been axed it’s still there but is performed mostly with Nicki holding a guitar. This really limits the body movement that can come from this “yearning” music so I would have preferred her to do the whole piece with the hat ( which she picks up towards the end) so the most can be made of the dance here. Anyway I’d rather have this version than end up with no version at all so can thank Doug Fullington and his team for that.

And 🤔

Probably best to keep any further discussion for that on the other thread though. The Black Swan issue that is.

I was just looking and Simon has conducted the three Stravinsky ballets The Firebird Petrouchka and Rite of Spring and the Nutcracker!! I have a sort of coincidental points of our paths crossing in his life! As used to work with his father in Liverpool so was introduced to Simon over tea with another teaching colleague when he was 17 and about to become a prodigy and world famous according to proud dad. We didn’t believe it of course but what did we know ha!! Then I bumped into his father again some years later at Festival Hall for Simons first time conducting there. So of course went along to say hello afterwards ….though he probably hadn’t a clue who I was!! And then bumped into his father again some years after that in a little park in Islington …where I then lived ….with his little grandson and it turned out Simon lived in the next road to me! He did wonders for the Birmingham Symphony Orchestra when he could have taken more lucrative posts at the time so always admired him for that . And dad was right he has turned out to be famous …in the musical world at least.

I think people know Odile is not a black swan but Von Rothbarts daughter of course who can morph into looking like somebody else!! It’s just that at one point she tries to mimic the movements of Odette to trick Siegfried so goes all swan like in movement so it’s just called the black swan pas de deux for that reason. I don’t really think it’s that big a deal! Though I think it works for the drama of the ballet that she’s now dressed in black. I wonder if Simon Rattle has ever conducted any ballet music…I’m sure he has…It would be lovely for him to make a sort of guest appearance at this event ( a sort of support for the Arts type guesting) owing to his long association with the Hall. He might even do it for free!

Yes I have Emeralds very kindly sent it to me. Matthew seems to have enjoyed it!!

I’ve tried three times and everything is veiled so screen hidden the two boxes definitely didn’t want to take my name but could see dimly that there were a lot of things to accept but couldn’t fill in anyway…very peculiar. Anyway thanks for sending his review …..which I’m mostly at odds with on this occasion but he seems to like this type of dance more though we agree on some of the dramatic points! I seem to agree more with Charlotte Krasner on the whole from Seeing Dance?

When I go to site ( just had another go) a page comes up with two blank boxes but nothing is written! I assume these two boxes could be for name and then email but haven’t a clue! Will try again and fill in the boxes but there’s no indication of what they are for!! I am doing this on my phone so don’t know whether that makes a difference