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Well there goes the rest of my money. Slightly disappointed there's no Cojocaru/Muntagirov but Golding/Rojo make up for it.

I already have tickets for the first night so I'm already going, I would love to see Daria though so I want to get tickets for her, if she's dancing of course.

If ENB don't get their act together soon and release the Manchester casting I might cover all my bases and just book cheap tickets for every performance after reading all the good reviews.

Continued application of the title "ballerina" to any female who dances 

  I watch a lot of artistic gymnastics and a particular bugbear of mine is the way fans will describe any gymnast with a modicum of elegance as a "ballerina". Comparisons between gymnastics and ballet also get on my wick, especially when people try to argue one is harder than the other.

You can still buy posters from the ROH shop but they are smaller than the full-sized Underground posters. Their range is quite limited at the moment so I do hope they issue more posters soon as dd wants a "Romeo & Juliet" one for her wall.

 

 

   I bought a R&J poster from the ROH online shop about a year ago, it seems strange to stop selling them when R&J has just been put on again.

We used a charity called The Mustardtree and they took all sorts. Some of it goes to help people start up their own homes and some of it gets sold. They took all sorts as well as furniture but they were the only charity we could get to come out. 

  In preparation for our move to a smaller house we got a skip to clear out the loft and garage. When we finished it was full and even then we had to get a charity to come round three times with a truck to pick up stuff we were getting rid of that was too good to skip and even now I think we have way too much crap lying round the house.

   This whole thing seems very strange. I'd like to hear the RB's side of the story but I don't think that'll ever happen. The interviews do  seem to suggest that this move was already in motion well before it was announced which seems strange and unfair to the fans who had no chance to get tickets to see them one last time. 

  Ooh very lucky getting to see all the performances. If they were anything like Thursday night they must've been brilliant. 

  Jenna Roberts and Iain Mackay were wonderful last night as were the entire company. Did anyone else think that the music was faster than normal though?

This family has been embarrassingly happy at the sudden proliferation of Krispy Kreme stands in Tescos and motorway service stations anyway!

  I'm always a bit wary of those, I just feel like they're likely to be stale. 

   When I was in sixth form we used to get boxes of the original glazed Krispy Kremes and sell them for a pound a doughnut, it was fairly like being in a piranha pool at feeding time.

Cars that travel at 50mph plus through little villages - especially when its raining and the country roads are full of puddles so the spray covers the whole of the pavements where children are walking home from school.

  Anyone who deliberately speeds up when going through a puddle in order to drown unsuspecting pedestrians. It has happened to me many times, sometimes accompanied with a few young men howling gibberish from the warmth of their car. 

 I don't suppose there's any hope it might tour?

New dancer?

I really want them to announce Manchester casting!

Also looking at the clips of Wheeldons Cinderella....on your other thread....this looks to be well worth catching too. Does only the Dutch National Ballet do this particular version do you know? Thanks, Linda

 It was a co-production with San Francisco I think.

My copy arrived the other day and it is really good. I like the Golding/Tysgankova partnership and they had a cracking supporting cast and the whole production was fairly fab.

 You'd think with Tony Hall now heading up the BBC they'd manage to shoehorn a ballet in somewhere. They wouldn't necessarily even need to film it if they used the ones that had been broadcast to cinemas, surely that's archived somewhere and could be shared with the BBC? Or they could make them available on iPlayer.

 Well true. There does seem to be the opportunity for the Royal to bring in Mr Osipova as a one-off though it seems unlikely this season, it'd certainly shift tickets!

I'm ther exact opposite. I don't want the RB to take on any new dancers or guests, but instead provide more opportunities for their younger dancers and cast their principal's in roles outside of their box.

   Exactly my thoughts. The Royal has a lot of potential in the lower ranks who are just waiting for their chance.

I know there is a rule somewhere that cyclists should ride against the traffic, but personally I think that's even more dangerous.  The other day my husband went round a blind corner and came face to face with a cyclist coming at top speed towards us. Luckily his reactions are still fast and he managed to vere the car out of the way in time, but both of us had shaky legs after that

  When on earth did that become a rule? I knew you walked against traffic so you can see what's coming but I used to horse-ride and we always rode with the traffic and I would assume the same rule applied to cyclists.

This is in response to claquers. Feel sorry for the dancers who need to get involved

with this system.

By the way I've only seen the Russians twice. First time a lady screemed during the

performance!!!!!! Second time this summer the applause went on and on and one felt

one should be applauding, even though we weren't overhelmed by it.

Next time I stick with RB, ENB thank you very much.

 Was that during the Krysanova/Ovcharenko Swan Lake? Someone also took a picture with the flash on during the White Swan pas de deux. 

  On the subject of cyclists I saw one t'other day cycling along on the pavement while texting. Fair play to him, if I tried that I'd end up crashing into a lamppost but I do like not being nearly run over by distracted cyclist when wandering up to the shops. 

   Also can we put crippling heels in? I wouldn't have minded but they weren't even that high and they still made me want a bucket of ice for my feet after taking about 3 steps. 

  More DVDs, especially of triple bills and I would say more exciting programming for cinemas like showing Jewels instead of the Nutcracker but seeing as there were three of us in the cinema for the Ashton Mixed Bill I'm not sure that's practical. 

   A small touring group of RB dancers would be nice, they could maybe do more modern pieces and maybe some pas de deuxs. 

   They used to have written bios on the website, at least for the principals. It'd be nice if they brought them back. 

     On a positive note the insight videos they have been posting are fantastic.

 There's a new RB DVD out with the Nunez/Soares Swan Lake, Cojocaru/Bonelli Sleeping Beauty and either the Yoshida/McRae or Marquez/McRae Nutcracker on, depending on whether you read the Blu-ray description or the DVD description. 

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tchaikovsky-Classic-Ballets-Marianela-Yoshida/dp/B00E1C4R7U/ref=sr_1_13?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1376750685&sr=1-13&keywords=tchaikovsky+the+classic+ballets