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    Yes, I too could dowload the pdf - and what a wonderful interview - thank you so much
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    nor for me, I'm afraid.
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    I hope the loos on the Amphi level are not affected by all this. As they are not specifically mentioned, I am hoping for the best!
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    Madame Golovkina's book on the School gives nothing of its history, unfortunately, but does refer to the School Museum and its Archives. Have you made any contact with it?
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    Is there any means of viewing the trailer without going through Facebook? I'm not on Facebook and don't want to sign up.
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    sorry - where is the link to the latest reply that used to appear as a blob or star on the left? It took me ages last time to find out, and just as I was comfortable, it's changed again!
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    I couldn't agree more if it ever became the norm anywhere! However, it does appear that these are to be special performances for special audiences who might not be able to sit through a 'normal' show. Quite a few places now put these on so that a wider public might feel at ease going to a performance. As long as they are clearly signalled so that no one who might object buys a ticket, I can't see any harm.
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    I saw the Thursday matinee and was very impressed indeed with Max Maslen and the girl who danced Prayer (sorry, my programme is not to hand and I have forgotten hr name). I don't know the BRB dancers very well, but I thought the whole company were splendid. I haven't seen the traditional Coppelia for many years and I loved the whole thing.
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    One of the odder facts I know about this company is that Maurice Bejart was briefly a member. Unfortunately I never saw the company - or him.
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    A long time ago - but Donald Macleary partnering Lynn Seymour in Giselle. I never thought of him as an actor, but at that performance he was the first Albrecht who really made sense of the part for me.
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    As usual - diverse opinions on the forum! I have just read the list and thought oh good, money saved, so little I really want to see - just Akram Khan's Giselle and one of the BRB programmes.
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    Great photo too!
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    And Nureyev was a sensation because of his dramatic defection - the first. And I can remember the excitement when he came to London - it was a news story, not just a ballet story. It helped that he was a 'personality' off stage as well as on - and extraordinarily good looking. He was endlessly photographed.
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    Raymonda? I am editing because the list above was added at the same time as I was posting! I think that you need to specify the choreographer for Cinderella and Romeo and Juliet - and I don't really think any of them are Big C classics. I definitely think that Mayerling, Fille and Ondine are also not Big Cs. I'm afraid it is only the 19th century works that qualify - even though so many of them are not pure 'Petipa'. Just to use classical ballet steps in a ballet such as Mayerling or Manon does not, IMHO, make them Classics.
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    Yes, that's right - Monday morning at 9 a.m
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    Interviews from these programmes were collected in a book by John Drummond: 'Talking About Diaghilev'. I'm not sure if the publisher was the BBC.
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    Which FT colleague was it, please? Sorry - posted this before I looked at the Reviews section. Therefore ignore this post! edited to add second sentence
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    This does sound interesting - do please let us know what you think of it.
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    I have just watched the Ballet de Marseille trailer - any idea who the choreographer is? It is so typical that so little information is given on the booking site - it seems that anything so specialist as the name of a choreographer is cobnsidered unnecessary! Or is it me, and I just can't find it?
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    Goodness how interesting, Scheherade. I had never heard that explanation before, but I have often wondered why I have felt the need to cough in the theatre when, on the whole, I don't outside.
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    Most embarrassing moment of my life - sitting near the front in the middle of the row at a concert at King's Place, London, I had an asthma attack and couldn't stop awful coughing. I tried to get my inhaler out of my handbag, someone from the row behind offered me a cough sweet. I finally got the inhaler, but of course it doesn't have an instant effect. If I'd been at the end of a row I would have got out, but I thought I would cause even more upset by trampling over everyone. Now, I tend to have the inhaler in my hand every time I go to anything. So - although I totally agree about people not holding in a cough - just occasionally it may not be totally within their control. However, I did go to another concert at the Wigmore Hall that was being broadcast. Someone came on stage before it started, asking people not to cough if at all possible. It was astonishing how silent the audience could be!
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    Odd one out, it seems. I turned off after half an hour - hated it, other than the R&J extract. But it sounds as if I missed the best bits as a result!
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    I really want to see this programme again. Does anyone know if it will be presented later? And if so, where.
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    I'm definitely in! I would prefer round - but if the vote goes for bar I don't really mind.
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    Jorge Don
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