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    I LUV the programme notes for Woolf Works as they are good for hours of amusement. I love sitting in the Hall before the performance watching guests furrowing their brows over this exercise in pretentiousness. I think if I had read the notes before booking, I might not have turned up. As it happens the ballet is wonderful and immensely accessible - with or without Virginia Woolf.
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    Could you contrast Kondaurova and Osmokina for me?
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    Thanks for that
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    I have never seen Alice so have that treat in store. I'm thinking Hayward and Sambe
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    In advance of the Marinsky arriving, would be interested to hear people's views of which ballerina has, in the past, best captured Swan Lake. Have been looking at Zakharova on Youtube, also Makhalina and Lopatinka. I have a ticket for Osmolkina, based on advice gleaned on here but might go to one other. Would you advise Skorik or Kondaurova?
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    Ooh, can't wait for the 10th. Hope JK stays standing till then! Are there three intervals?
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    Did anybody else go, apart from Geoff? Would love to hear comments
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    Thank-you
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    When did RB last do Cinderella? Would love to have a change from the Nutcracker
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    I have tickets for the 10th? Is he great? The reviews are a tad mixed?
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    Was Asylmuratova at the Design Centre? I don't remember it. I saw her at The Colisseum and she took my breath away.
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    Would prefer anything to Don Q which I've never liked and Acosta's version didn't do anything to change my opinion
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    Was Lopatkina the ballerina everybody was raving about when the Kirov came to the Design Centre?
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    It's interesting that Don Quixote is selling particularly slowly. Hope they don't bring it again. Gratifying to see that the Vishneva performance of Anna Karenina is the first to sell out
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    Wow!
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    Does that mean he will no longer be dancing?
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    I agree. Okay there are times when one wants to say W-H-A-T but mostly it is the gentle supportive and knowlegable nature of this board that makes it such a pleasure and a privilege to be a part of.
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    I think you need to apply a little bit of a sense of humour, as I did, based on my experience of watching this programme at Sadler's Wells. Sergei Polunin is an adult and needs to be treated as such, criticised and praised as the occasion warrants. Jumping all over anybody who is less than orgasmic about him relegates him to the status of a child.
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    Poor Parma!
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    I noticed the coughing on Saturday. Unfortunately I had a group of American ladies beside me who simply would not get up and go. For each interval I ended up being virtually the last person out of the auditorium. At one stage I politely asked if they could move along and was told that I 'should climb over the back of the seats into the row behind.' Charming.
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    I certainly wasn't heaping scorn and meant my post to be humorous. I regard Sergei as rather a sad case of a wasted talent but it is his business what he does with his life and I wish him good things. Whether he returns to ballet or not is, again, up to him, but any criticism I have made is regarding his unreliability which I find unprofessional and disrespectful to his audience and to all the legions of people involved in putting on a performance. I have seen him dance twice - once with Tamara Rojo at ROH when he was totally fabulous and latterly at Sadler's Wells when he was ....well, not remotely fabulous. One thing we know about Sergei is that he will do exactly what he wants to do which is why I don't worry about him. For me he has become something of a comic figure, made the more so because of his army of defenders who keep insisting he is a dedicated ballet dancer who would never let anyone down. Clearly the evidence is that he prefers to have a portfolio career that keeps him in the limelight and I am happy for him but can no longer take him seriously.
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    Sorry, I was obviously being dum! Perhaps he could dance the length of the corridor, feather duster in hand. i guess Sergei is settling for being a personality now rather than a dancer. Sigh. How long before we see him on Love Island or I'm a Celebrity?
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    Is that a dancing role?
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    I just don't see it for Yuhui Choe. She is a fine artiste and certainly I saw another side to her in Woolf Works but being made a Principal is surely something special to be reserved for those with that little something extra. I don't know what that is and my best stab would be star quality which, respectfully, I don't think Yuhui has. This is no reflection on her but I like the way KOH has promoted talent and I would be loathe to see him promote people because it was their turn or just because they had a strong body of repeatedly excellent work. Whether we like it or not, non balletphobes often book against the 'stars' and I do not think it would be doing Yuhui any favours to put her in that top grouping. For the future I look forward to a continuation of KOH's policy of pushing the outstanding dancers up the ladder.
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