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Clore Studio, D-17 £20.00

Please DM me if interested.

Both seats: View may be obstructed by a camera

Not sure if you are still looking but I am selling:

Both seats: View may be obstructed by a camera

Just so you know, I am going to advertise these tickets on the forum.  Please let me know if interested.

25 minutes ago, ctas said:

Looking through my booking history they’re C91 and C22 - view is heavily restricted thanks to the pillar so I wouldn’t recommend if you’re seeing something for the first time but it’s very close up. It’s always a toss up between seeing the lot from far off or seeing some it but close when you’re on a budget — so I’ll mix and match between amphitheatre slips and the stalls circle pillar seat!

I know these seats. Boy do I hate the pillar!

7 minutes ago, ctas said:

Thank you - my favourite of the Rush tickets are the solo stalls circle pillar seats so I usually opt for them. Have bought them quite a few times! 

What seat numbers are those?

Please can someone open a thread on Spring 2020 Booking as casting is up for Swan Lake and Onegin.

17 minutes ago, MRR said:

Meaning he has sort of a "ta-da" look whenever he finishes something difficult.  I don't mind it so much in difficult classical variations but from my understanding Balanchine hated these affectations.  However, Campbell seemed more reserved tonight, or maybe the first night I saw a couple instances of this and exaggerated them in my brain.  I believe we're referring to the same thing.

We are indeed but you are able to articulate this better than I could.  In my experience, he does this consistently and frequently but I just accept this is what he does.

"Audience-faced mugging" - I absolutely love this expression. 😄

4 hours ago, MRR said:

Yuhui Choe seemed miscast with her lack of elevation and penchees barely extending above 90 degrees, and while Campbell was technically strong there was a bit too much audience-faced mugging.

Please can you explain what "audience-faced mugging" means.  Campbell has a tendency to pull some particular faces and I wondered if you mean what I have experienced.

Can someone please post the link to access this?

Insights: The Unknown Soldier

27 September 2018, 7.30pm | Clore Studio

TICKET:

• LEVEL 6 Clore Studio, C-3

Please PM if interested.  I won't be able to respond until 21:30 tonight so please bear with me.  Thanks.

On 21/09/2018 at 17:36, zxDaveM said:

 

though I don't know the reason they split the role - suitability to each section maybe?

There again, I think I've seen James Streeter do the wriggly bit in the first section as well, so ... who knows!

The wriggly bit is my favourite part Dave.  I have no idea what is means or signifies but I find it mesmerising.

Does anyone have the link to the ROH website where you can select seat views without having to search for a particular seat in an actual performance?  Please share if you do.

Thanks bangorballetboy!

Please can someone do me a favour and post the PDF that lists Winter casting.  The website still hasn't been updated casting for the triple/double bills.  Thank you.

47 minutes ago, Livia said:

 

 

The sweetest thing is, Dear Lindsay, you and Dear Robert think this is witty and clever. Despite responding to you civilly, explaining my points and addressing yours, you all persist in this rudeness. It's terribly sad and very immature. And yes, indeed, I do have many messages complaining of this behaviour.

I was going to private message you as well Livia - empathising that one cannot express views freely without the threat of an angry lynch mob assembling should one's opinion not be shared.  I totally accept that everyone will have their own opinion (irrespective of 'credentials') and that they may not agree with my views....and that's OK!  Live and let live.  I don't have to like what you like, and vice versa.  I actually enjoy hearing why others like dancers that I don't admire and vice versa.  We can co-exist as mature adults, surely?

So please add me to your list of people who feel self-censorship is less stressful than the possibility of a lively and engaging debate, encompassing disagreements and varying opinions.  Also add my circle of ballet-loving friends who do not post because of this.  Sadly, I know there are many of us who lurk in the shadows for fear of offering opinions that not everyone agrees with.  Let's not distract and obfuscate from the issue here by focusing on how many private messages Livia has received or her age (really?!).  Let's focus on the climate of fear and repression that people who do not post feel.  By definition, these people are hardly going to come out in hoards to wade into this debate unless they want their feet beaten with bamboo sticks.  I just felt a little suicidal/reckless so decided to stick my neck out to post what I hope is not controversial or unreasonable - the right to freedom of speech without persecution or pathological hatred.

Until this forum starts to be more inclusive and tolerant of opposing views, this will be the only thing I post to a discussion thread which is why you probably won't have heard of me and will hopefully forget me very quickly too.  Please don't get flippant and underestimate/dismiss as trivial how many of 'us' there really are.  You'll never know because we fear the bamboo sticks too much and at the end of the day, this is just a ballet forum; there are far more important issues to stand up for what you believe in and get knee-capped for.  

6 minutes ago, bridiem said:

 

Yes - I had no idea they offered such flexible packages now! I long ago stopped looking at their info re this because it only ever used to cover the more expensive seats. (But it still doesn't include the amphi restricted view seats I book so I probably won't use at the moment.) Very interesting and I will bear in mind for the future.

Indeed.  You are also not restricted to specific dates but can pick virtually any performance you want (may be restricted for popular shows).  I didn't know about that change either.

The seats offered used to be quite restricted (I like row A of Orchestra Stalls) but they seem to have expanded the selection.  Thank you for bringing this up Richard, thus making me check, and therefore saving me money in the future!  I wish they'd publicised the wider selection of seats when this changed as I could have made substantial savings in the past.  

Hi Bill - I'd buy your OS ticket, after LinMM of course.

32 minutes ago, zxDaveM said:

had a rather unpleasant experience at The Coliseum last night. After the interval a very tall young woman sat in front of me (it had been vacant) blocking a lot of the centre of the stage. So for the next act I moved one seat back so that I could see. The woman behind me muttered "seriously!!!" which I ignored as I'm not hugely tall and don't lean forwards, so can't imagine I was blocking her view - and she had virtually the whole row to herself anyway. Anyhoo, as the performance resumed, she spent the next 15mins kicking the back of my seat, or forcing her toe through the gap into my back. Several spun around glares and 'excuse me's' only fired her up, so biting my tongue, I studiously ignored her, and she eventually ran out of steam. Do such people have to work on being so horrible, or are they naturally gifted?

Very restrained of you Dave.  I would have grabbed the offending ankle and cut of it's blood supply until she started behaving like a normal human being again.

10 minutes ago, Sim said:

He's standing in the opposite wing....you can just make out his legs behind her right arm. 

You must have X-ray eyes as I can only see black in the wing. Time for Specsavers!

2 hours ago, Sim said:

 I just adore this photo of Natalia Osipova giving Matthew Ball the thumbs up just before the Act 3 pdd.  You can just about see him in the opposite wing.  Fabulous!   With thanks to Andre Uspenski.

 

 

Am I being blind Sim but where is Matty Ball?!

11 hours ago, Sim said:

I don't particularly want to watch dancers in underwear, whether it's trendy or fashionable or not.

Come on Sim, depends on who's wearing them surely?!!! LOL.

8 minutes ago, MAB said:

I've been told a story (apocryphal?) about a man who always buys two seats in A row stalls and leaves the one next to him empty as it's for the ghost of his late wife.  If true the guy needs bereavement therapy rather than wasting a perfectly good ticket that could be used by a fan.  The box office should make a point of just selling him a single if he habitually wastes the second.  Anyone know if this story is true or not?

If this is the same man I see regularly in row A OS (elderly, quite formally dressed), my take is that he buys the extra seat to act as an exclusion zone to keep members of the public at bay.  The seat acts as a kind of buffer zone.  I once saw someone try to carpet bag the seat next to him and he swatted them away like a fly with great irritation and excessive vigor.  He then placed his coat and bag on the seat to make the point that he had purchased the seat and could do whatever he liked with it.  Must be torture to mix with the general public when you loathe it so much.  Is there a word for this - a phobia for interacting with the general public?

The Illustrated 'Farewell' / The Wind / Untouchable

Thursday 9 November 2017, 7.30pm Main Stage

• Orchestra Stalls Left, A-2 | Full Price £39.00
• Orchestra Stalls Left, A-3 | Full Price £39.00

Please inbox me if interested.  I may not be able to reply immediately so your patience is appreciated.  Thanks.