Tony Newcombe

And already sold out

It’s listed in the Winter Magazine

Booking for Winter Season opened today and interestingly the Insight Evening for the new Marston/Scarlett ballets

listed for 22 Jan 2020 seems to have disappeared. 

2 minutes ago, capybara said:

I believe that the RB soloist Chloe Davies, who left far too quickly for my liking, was actually Nicola Davies. That was an Equity clash, I think. 

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

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’’

Read the response from Leanne Cope on her Instagram page. Quite magnificent

I remember her well. She had an incredibly secure technique.

Hardly surprising in view of cuts in funding. 

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!)

Particularly happy for Gasparini and Pajdak who were superb for the whole of last year 

12 minutes ago, alison said:

Well, the 2019-20 season guide dropped onto my doormat yesterday.  Thick, glossy and very nice to look at (and in a compostable wrapper, hurrah!), but it would be a lot more useful if it actually gave dates and times, rather than just date ranges.  As it is, it means I'm still going to have to visit the website for all the pertinent information  

There’s a full calendar list of performances in side the back cover

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

Don’t know much about the dancers but the artistic director is the great Altynai Asylmuratova

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.

33 minutes ago, ismeneb said:

As a former national dance critic I can help you with better information. Since the slashing of payment rates and writing opportunities to dedicated arts critics about a decade ago some of the critics you complain about as neglecting regions are already in senior jobs full time and have very little time between the end of work and show time. Hence only London is possible except on rare occasions. This was a deliberate policy to cut budgets, and dance coverage took a hit not shared by theatre. In the past I and some other dance critics routinely covered the whole country by train, car or even plane in the case of Belfast or Glasgow, our travel costs paid by our papers. The change is regrettable for readers, yes, and serious for the art form, yes, but these hardworking critics do not deserve your attacks. 

Very valid points Ismene, but I was still very disappointed with the comments I overheard at that premier of Giselle all those years ago.

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

15 hours ago, yvonnep said:

 

Before seeing this picture of Dowell I had never given it a thought…

 

 

Mukhamedov in Collier’s farewell performance

Already booked!

With Yvette Knight as Alice. Heaven!

Mrs Kish looking a little sad

They will probably get a few the cinema broadcast 

On 26/05/2019 at 01:07, alison said:

You know those nice "meal deal" offers you get from various supermarket chains?  Main, side, bottle of wine/chocs and dessert, that sort of thing?  On the hunt for something for a family celebration today, I was going to try one of those deals - but fortunately realised just in time that the chocs had a use by date of less than a couple of weeks!  I mean, you really can't give someone short-life chocs as a pressie, can you?  So instead I bought a different deal from somewhere else.  Looked at the "best before end" date on the (non-refrigerated) drink this evening - "BBE 05/2019"!  I'm feeling well and truly ripped off - so those two supermarkets can go in Room 101  

Hence the phrase no such thing as a free lunch

Where is the full list of winners.

57 minutes ago, zxDaveM said:

 

it also makes you wonder what else they are carelessly getting wrong in the rest of the paper

A great deal

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.