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  1. Tony Newcombe
    I remember going to one of a Mukhamedov and Friends performances and wondering who is this Nicola Davies listed in the programme. Question was answered of course as soon as she came onto the stage. Yes she did leave to quickly. Something to do with marrying a guy from down under I seem to remember
  2. Tony Newcombe
    Deborah Bull tells the amusing story, that during a performance she overheard a comment from de Valois who used to sit in the stage side box with Pamela May. ‘’Who is it dancing tonight. Is it Collier? ‘’. To which Pamela May replied ‘’No it’s Deborah Bull’’ de Valois replied ‘’ Oh what a wonderful dancer, shame about the name’’
  3. Tony Newcombe
    Read the response from Leanne Cope on her Instagram page. Quite magnificent
  4. Tony Newcombe
    I remember her well. She had an incredibly secure technique.
  5. Tony Newcombe
    Hardly surprising in view of cuts in funding.
  6. Tony Newcombe
    Seems to have become unavailable or page not found. The only thing I could find was Cinema performance listing Cuthbertson and Bracewell in Swan Lake(tasty!)
  7. Tony Newcombe
    Particularly happy for Gasparini and Pajdak who were superb for the whole of last year
  8. Tony Newcombe
    There’s a full calendar list of performances in side the back cover
  9. Tony Newcombe
    Brandon Lawrence To Principal Kit Holder To First Soloist Rory Mackay To First Soloist Valentin Olovyannikov To First Soloist Laura Day To Soloist Beatrice Parma To Soloist
  10. Tony Newcombe
    Don’t know much about the dancers but the artistic director is the great Altynai Asylmuratova
  11. Tony Newcombe
    BRB and David Bintley have given us two virtually perfect ballets since January. Hobson’s Choice and Beauty and the Beast. Both cast on suitability for the roles rather than seniority. Much loved by his dancers, he will be sorely missed. Until September that is as he will return to stage his Giselle. Can’t wait for that casting.
  12. Tony Newcombe
    Very valid points Ismene, but I was still very disappointed with the comments I overheard at that premier of Giselle all those years ago.
  13. Tony Newcombe
    Spot on. I enjoy telling the story of two critics I overheard at the premier of the Bintley/Samsova production of Giselle at the old Birmingham Hippodrome. Nothing but moans about having to travel to Birmingham to report on the event. Wonder if there will be any national critics at the Hippodrome to report on the same ballet when it opens in the autumn in Birmingham
  14. Tony Newcombe
    Mukhamedov in Collier’s farewell performance
  15. Tony Newcombe
    Already booked!
  16. Tony Newcombe
    With Yvette Knight as Alice. Heaven!
  17. Tony Newcombe
    Mrs Kish looking a little sad
  18. Tony Newcombe
    They will probably get a few the cinema broadcast
  19. Tony Newcombe
    Hence the phrase no such thing as a free lunch
  20. Tony Newcombe
    Where is the full list of winners.
  21. Tony Newcombe
    A great deal
  22. Tony Newcombe
    Just to add to comments about Romany Padjak. 45 minutes before we saw her in scene 2, she was being battered, abused and heaven knows what else in the Clore Studio in MacMillan’s Playground as part of the Yorke Dance Project.
  23. Tony Newcombe
    Have just seen matinee in Northampton. Absolutely wonderful. Three in house choreographers, two of them real newbies, have created the magnificent Seasons. Peter(Petra) and the Wolf is very good as well.
  24. Tony Newcombe
    On my way to Northampton at the moment
  25. Tony Newcombe
    Sim, I have a spare ticket for this. SCS D8
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