Amelia

The first interview in English: https://youtu.be/1JHScgksPvc

The young boy rehearsing with Masha Vinogradova is Ivan Poddubnyak, a 2019 graduate of Vaganova, joined the Bolshoi's corps in September: https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/ballet/chorus/ The principals and soloists are here: https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/persons/ballet/soloist/

For those who are sitll struggling I recommend the link advised by Odyssey: https://worldballetday.com/ You can watch there the continued streaming of the Australian Ballet and the Bolshoi Ballet as well as the Royal Ballet live. After watching the RB live for one hour I received now a message from the RB with an invitation to watch it. It looks they reacted to criticism on the forum.

I just copied it from the Bolshoi's site. Thank you, Minder, for keeping a watchful eye!

23.10.2019. Bolshoi Ballet will gather all its friends and admirers in front of the screen at 9 pm Moscow local time and will host 4 hours talk show session. Australian Ballet, due to time zones difference – will start first (4 pm – 8 pm, Moscow time), whereas The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden, will end up the broadcast (1 pm – 5 pm, Moscow time). https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/about/press/articles/announce/World-Ballet-day-2019/ Moscow is 2 hours ahead of London.

It is disappointing but depends on the preceding events. The visitors/tourists have to leave the Abbey by 4.30 pm. Evening prayer normally said on Wednesday at 5.00pm. That is why the photography will be allowed only at 5.30 pm.

Thank you, Billboyd, I am clearing the message box now and will send you a pm soon.

Hi, billboyd. I want your ticket for a friend. Thank you.

It began much earlier. As far as I remember no other RB member was ‘marketed’ by the company with greater vigor than Darcey Bussell. ************** Very upset to hear about McRae's injury. Best wishes to him for speedy recovery.

For the first time ever, Westminster Abbey is allowing photography within its building by members of the public. It will be a one-off event on 23 October: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/10/14/tickets-alert-opportunity-to-photograph-inside-westminster-abbey/?fbclid=IwAR2-9yWN5VwY7EL1z9cCysoie0LHMthMJfZ2FzZ3jcCcSrxelJ2j-t2R5n4 It can be of interest for those who would like to take a photo of a memorial stone to four founders of the Royal Ballet In the Poets’ Corner and of a window with Margot Fonteyn in the passage between the Dean’s Yard and the Cloisters: https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/commemorations/royal-ballet-founders:

Thank you, Buddy, it is an interesting interview but there are two inaccuracies there. Gustav Legat went to Moscow not for the purpose “to set up the Bolshoi Theatre and the Moscow School of Ballet.” Tatiana said that her grandfather was sent to Moscow in order “to make improvements to the Bolshoi Theatre and the Moscow ballet school.” (The Bolshoi company was founded in 1776 and the school was set up in 1773, a century before Gustav Legat was working there in 1872-1874.) Nikolai Legat is not buried in London but at Kent and Sussex Cemetery and Crematorium in Tunbridge Wells. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32471259/nikolay-gustavovich-legat

I liked Tewsley as Onegin when he danced it at ROH as a guest from Stuttgart before joining the Royal Ballet.

I really enjoyed watching this film because it portrayed different types of future dancers, various problems experienced by them and different attitudes to their profession. Assoluta, I agree with you that the translation was rather approximate and some phrases have not been translated at all. In my view, it did a disservice to the Principal who was explaining very clearly why he was unhappy with Kirill’s work. He said in Part I: “I love him as a child but how this connects to ballet? Yes, it is obvious that he has a beautiful physique, he is slender but he does’t have tenacity to grow as a dancer. Any professional will notice that he doesn’t work hard and never will…” In Part II: “…He can not do anything. He cannot dance. He gives nothing to ballet. He lacks coordination and doesn’t try to develope it. He has no wish to dance something from the beginning to the end and doesn’t work on it. He can not partner girls at all. He can not be put in the corps or given a solo. He can not manage any jumps which are necessary for men in ballet.” When excluded from the graduation performance, Kirill remarked: “I am not interested. I don’t care.” However, in Part I he was justifying the Principal: “He shouts a lot but he does it because he loves us all. He is not shouting for the sake of it but because he wants to get the result.” And Tsiskaridze said the same: “I want them to learn it not just for the exam but for their lives (careers), they will need it.” How good, maryrosesatonapin, that your impression of the relationship between the teacher and his students is not based on unproved assumptions but on attentive observation of their behavior. The broad-brush, random translation was omitting many details and the spirit of Tsiskaridze’s remarks was lost. He calls the boys, including Kirill, by diminutive and affectionate names. He calls Aaron -- Arosha, Aroshen’ka; Marco — Markulya, Markulen’ka, etc. He said to Marco: “Tomorrow you go for an audition. You have to make them fall in love with you. I love you already. You need to make them love you.” Before the exam he crossed them and asked: “Do you know how I love you?” They cried out: “Yes!” And he assured them: “You are the most beautiful dancers!” As an ethnic Georgian he is of course a hot-blooded man. Where his teaching is concerned — his pupils had a run of luck.

On the 25 October at the Mariinsky Theatre Mikhail (Misha) Barkidjidja will dance Conrad in Le Corsaire. What an excellent start! https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2019/10/25/2_1900

The 19-year-old dancer Marco Yuusela became the first Finn to receive a permanent contract at the Mariinsky Theater. https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/novosti/marko_yuusela_stal_pervym_finskim_tantsorom_mariinskogo_tyeatra/10964731

For Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes Picasso did design for “Tricorne”, “Pulcinella”, and “Parade”. There are plenty of pictures on internet.

Pierre Cardin made costumes for Maya Plisetskaya in "Anna Karenina”:

Thank you, Naomi. It was fascinating to watch boys at their exam -- auditions -- graduation concerts.

Excuse me but how to watch NHK world-JAPAN in the UK? Will it be streamed online?

THIS SUNDAY! UNIQUE TWO-HOUR BALLET MASTERCLASS WITH FORMER ROYAL BALLET PRINCIPAL IVAN PUTROV! JOIN THIS TWO-HOUR GRAND ALLEGRO & PIROUETTES MASTERCLASS WITH BALLET STAR IVAN PUTROV! Join incredible former Royal Ballet Principal Ivan Putrov and Director of Men in Motion, on Sunday 22nd September, 3.30-5.30pm at Danceworks for a fantasticBallet Masterclass. For intermediate+ dancers aged 14 and above. Fee: £20 This unique two-hour Masterclass will focus on the particular disciplines of pirouettes and grand allegro following a 30 minute warm up class. Ivan says - "The art of ballet depends on the ability of mastering the movement of the dancer's body. Jumps and pirouettes are some of the most impressive elements of the ballet technique. Perfecting those elements allows one to enjoy more freedom in dance". Click here for more information.

The capacity of The Swan Theatre at Stratford on Avon is 450. https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=OuRwXbDtO62clwSc6pb4Dw&q=how+many+seats+at+swan+theatre+stratford&oq=how+many+seats+at+swan+theatre+stratford&gs_l=psy-ab.3...1893.23428..25465...4.0..0.132.3873.38j6......0....1..gws-wiz.......35i39j0i131j0j0i67j0i20i263j33i22i29i30j0i22i30j33i160j33i21j33i10i160j33i10.114mSgkjLhk&ved=0ahUKEwiw8pO0vbnkAhUtzoUKHRy1Bf8Q4dUDCAs&uact=5

London Russian Ballet School with Principal Artists of the Bolshoi Ballet. Mikhail Fokine and Marius Petipa choreography Cadogan Hall. Tuesday 29 October 2019, 19:30 https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/london-russian-ballet-school-2019/

A Russian TV programme about the Bolshoi Ballet's tours of Brisbane and London, Summer 2019:

A little Figaro on ice - starts from 1:30