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  1. capybara
    There is now a new clip of Crystal Pite talking with dance images as well on the ROH website: http://www.roh.org.uk/news/crystal-pite-flight-pattern-is-my-way-of-coping-with-the-world-at-the-moment Well worth watching.
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    Maybe the best way forward, Quintus, is to share your concerns with ENB direct? They will vouch for the fact that I do and I always find them ready to listen and to try to find 'another way'. Have you any suggestions as to how things could be improved? If I might say so, I think you need to be a bit careful with your 'jocular' remarks. I responded in similar vein to your first one but now you have introduced the term "two old ladies" (and seemingly have identified one of them) which is a little uncalled for. Are we therefore to assume that you yourself are a youthful male adonis?
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    Please let's not be too hard, Quintus, on the people whose money helps ENB to continue to thrive, to mount new productions and ones new to the Company AND, importantly, to take risks with its touring repertoire which hugely benefit the art form we all love by 'spreading its wings' to different audiences. I don't think that it's ever been the case, has it, that the whole of the front row at Insight Evenings has been reserved for sponsors? I am a long term patron and have never had the advantage of a reserved seat. So I, too, have strained to see from the second or third rows or have stood up at the back in order to see better. And I am not bejewelled with a bloated neck !!!!!! Fortunately, it will not be too long now before ENB has an HQ worthy of the Company and space to do justice to a wonderful range of events.
  4. capybara
    Yes, you're right Bluebird.
  5. capybara
    I guess that Kevin O'Hare is being cautious of giving "jobs for life" which is how one current 'character' specialist once described the rank of Principal Character Artist.
  6. capybara
    Unfortunately, Kevin O'Hare doesn't seem to go in for jumping ranks although he did promote Tierney Heap twice within a year. The last dancer I recall doing so (from First Artist to First Soloist in 2008) was Yuhui Choe.
  7. capybara
    My future line-up for Rudolf includes: Ball, Richardson and both Muntagirov and Clarke taken out of their perceived 'comfort zone'. The latter two not only have excellent partnering skills but both have shown strong dramatic ability which can get overlooked on here. For the next run, however, Muntagirov and Ball should surely get their go ahead of a return RB appearance from Sergei (much as I love Sergei's dancing)..
  8. capybara
    Balcony Centre D18/D19. Face value £40 each. [Yes, I know.......!!!!!!!] Can do exchange on the day. Please post here if you are interested and send me a PM. Thank you.
  9. capybara
    Also agree about Shklyarov, Tereshkina, Osmolkina.
  10. capybara
    Sergei did not dance Rudolf until he was at the Stanislavsky.
  11. capybara
    There are also some other 'Rudolf' candidates within the RB who will be itching for their chance next time around. I read this year's casting as ensuring that certain older dancers had their opportunity before the rush gathered pace.. But Mayerling doesn't seem to be selling all that well, does it? And that must surely raise questions about a quick return to the rep.
  12. capybara
    It was an enjoyable session and unusual these days in two respects: firstly, Principals were fielded; secondly, the dancers were experienced in the roles so, instead of watching them starting from scratch, we witnessed some special dancing and heard finessing corrections. But the Presenter - oh dear. It has worked best when Kristen McNally or Laura McCullouch have introduced the evenings or a Critic has been invited in.
  13. capybara
    That's really interesting. The audience at ROH Opera Rehearsals seems distinctly different from that at ballet ones.
  14. capybara
    Bill - why don't you write about Osipova's performance from your perspective? I would be very interested to read a substantive piece from you.
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    I'd like that thank ToThePointe for her observations. As Sim says, they are lucid and well-argued and I appreciate that a lot.
  16. capybara
    Just to mention that dancers work EXTREMELY hard at ENB
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    Geoff wrote the following in the Audience Behaviour thread: Apropos back of the amphi, I have a question, also relating to last night SB but not only last night. At the start of the garland dance (not my favourite part of the ballet but that is another subject) there is introductory moving around, which finishes with the corps lined up in two diagonal rows. Last night - but not only last night - the back of the amphi, and no other part of the house, applauded this, even though it was not the end of anything, rather a brief break before "the start of the dance". And when I say it was the back of the amphi, I don't mean eight people, I mean most of those rows, a whole section of the auditorium. What is it that they are seeing - or think they are seeing - from back there that the rest of us are not seeing? Maybe they are prompted by what they are hearing, Geoff? I ask this because I have been pondering also what it is, at several places in The Sleeping Beauty, that causes the audience to burst into applause before a solo or pas de deux has ended. Yes, there are poses which look like 'finales' but there is also something about the cadences in the music which seem to signal 'endings' more than in any other ballet. Conversely the final cadence of the Prince's Act 2 soliloquy almost tells us not to applaud.
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    I loved it in the cinema today. It is a very different experience from being at a live show but equally enjoyable, not least for all the close ups.
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    Ivan Putrov is also producing his Men in Motion Shows. One took place in Kiev last November and he has two more in Kiev in April. Men in Motion returns to the Coliseum alongside Amore in Novemver 2017. This is what he recently posted on Facebook: Very happy to be returning to London Coliseum with Men in Motion 22 & 23 November and so lucky to have such great artists working with me: Edward Watson, Arthur Pita, Daniel Proietto, Russell Maliphant, Irek Mukhamedov, Matthew Ball. Full cast and programme will be announced at a later date. Ivan also dances in his own shows and as an international guest artist in full length works and Galas.
  20. capybara
    Which is what Polunin has now. So I really hope that he is happy.
  21. capybara
    There is a very interesting article in the Dancing Times by Julie Kavanagh about how she and her husband (Ross McGibbon) were making a very different kind of film with and about Sergei Polunin - same back story but more focus on celebrating his amazing talent. But, well into production, they lost out to Stephen Cantor who was originally backing them financially but wanted more influence over the storyline.
  22. capybara
    We will never know exactly how much the RB's Principal Dancers earn (and salaries are said to range widely) but the minimum rate that Polunin would have been on is only low when compared with (say) footballers, bankers etc. A flat in Central London may well be out of reach (certainly now) but many dancers seem to have managed to purchase a little further out. Some have even 'gone public' over their purchases and not all have been jointly obtained with a partner, friend or relative.
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    LinMM - bangorballetboy is a very reliable source of this kind of information Someone mentioned that Yasmine was injured. Oh, I do hope not. She has been on in every SB (except the 2 on the nights after her matinees as Aurora) and that must be tough when you have several soloist roles to cope with (2 Prologue Fairies) and Florestan's Sister and many appearances as one of Aurora's Friends.
  24. capybara
    Where are these please, Bill? You are tantalising us!!!!!!
  25. capybara
    Unfortunately, Bill, there is quite a lot of 'hearsay evidence', some of it recent. I wish that that wasn't the case. I want Sergei to be dancing for us all. But that may not be the way he feels he wants it.
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