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  1. Jane S
    I can't remember seeing anything about the Ashton Rediscovered on Feb 20th - did it happen, and if so who danced?
  2. Jane S
    According to the Guardian obituary he was actually five years older than he claimed - 95!
  3. Jane S
    This one? https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/18/archives/dance-prodigal-son-a-ragtime-ballet-is-sellout.html
  4. Jane S
    Yes, lots - of the Royal Ballet's Onegins I remember, only 2 (Bonelli and Hristov) had already done Lensky - though of course others may have danced Lensky before joining the company, or some of the Lenskys may have done Onegin since leaving.
  5. Jane S
    Thanks, Rob
  6. Jane S
    Could someone kindly identify the 4 Flowers in Rob's photos from last night?
  7. Jane S
    It was actually in the November edition - page 13
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    Re Apparitions: The only reviews of the London Festival Ballet version I have to hand are by John Percival and David Vaughan, both of them strongly pro-Ashton, and they both put the casting at the heart of the revival's failure - Schaufuss too solid and Makarova too worldly. (JP thinks the role would better suit 'a teenage ballerina with huge dark eyes' - I assume he's talking about Trinidad Sevillano) DV says that it didn't work on the big Covent Garden stage and it doesn't work in the Coliseum either. Interestingly, JP says that Anthony Dowell had tried to persuade Ashton to let him revive it at Covent Garden, and Ashton had said no. It would be interesting to know what Clement Crisp thought - is his review included in his book?
  9. Jane S
    Have you seen this, I wonder? (or maybe you wrote it!)
  10. Jane S
    Thank you - it will be interesting to see how they are both cast,
  11. Jane S
    https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/nov/29/royal-ballet-dancer-natalia-osipova-to-auction-worlds-first-ballet-nfts And please, if someone could explain in VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE what would be the point of buying one of these, I'd be very grateful.
  12. Jane S
    That could be interesting! How tall is Casalinho, does anyone know? - will they be competing for roles or are they of obviously different types?
  13. Jane S
    If it's the one I'm thinking of Alison, I'm sure I saw a link to it quite recently but can't find it anywhere now. Meanwhile here's how the Wilis' first introduction to London ended, in a 'play with danced episodes' using Adam's music but with choreography by Mr Frampton: The climax is a scene in the ‘translucent palace of 100 fountains [real ones] beneath the bosom of the witch’s lake’ where Myrtha is struck dead by a thunderbolt; Giselle returns to life and marries Hilarion. So now you know. (Originally reproduced by Kathrine Sorley Walker in an article for Dance Now}
  14. Jane S
    Thank you - look forward to it!
  15. Jane S
    i remember there was a man who used to toss little bouquets onto the stage quite often - but he was quite a good shot and it was before people worried much about security. Also, there used to be a net over the orchestra pit didn't there? = which caught and held the no-longer-slender David Drew when he fell off the stage in Sleeping Beauty.
  16. Jane S
    Friends and Supporters? Does this mean it won't be generally available?
  17. Jane S
    The Royal Danish Ballet is currently in the middle of a run of its own preferred Romeo and Juliet - Neumeier's - and last night's Juliet, Wilma Giglio, was promoted to the company's highest rank onstage during the curtain calls. It's five years since they had a new female principal and it was getting fairly obvious that she would be the next one. She comes from Argentina and had her early training there, arriving in Dnamark via the Prix de Lausanne and the Canadian Ballet School - she's been a soloist since 2018 and has already danced La Sylphide and Swan Lake. (And incidentally, checking the press relase on the RDB site, I notice that Nikolaj Hubbe's contract has just been extended for another 4 years.)
  18. Jane S
    Sandra Conley? (Was it at the Coliseum or have I misremembered?)
  19. Jane S
    Thank you, Bluebird - I only knew one of them before but hope I can pick out a few more now!
  20. Jane S
    The happiest thing in the RDB's contribution is to see that Alban Lendorf is in class - he's been off for so long it would be wonderful if he's getting back to performance-ready!
  21. Jane S
    The Times online today has a big photo of the RB's Aud Jensen dancers - all easily recognisable, maybe someone could name them which might help to pick them out in class? (The one in the middle is Darcy Bussell.)
  22. Jane S
    Thanks, Dawnstar - it's ages since I last saw R&J and I've obviously missed some good things!
  23. Jane S
    And Gartside as Lord Capulet - is that new?
  24. Jane S
    Well, for older people - like me - I think a good idea would be a 10p-in-the-slot printer in the foyer - a nice familiar technology we could all manage and no wastage.
  25. Jane S
    The RDB opens a run of John Neumeier's Romeo and Juliet tomorrow, with some interesting new casting. Ida Praetorius is the opening night Juliet (no surprise there) with Ryan Tomash as Romeo (his debut, I think). Andreas Kaas - another Neumeier favourite - also does Romeo, this time with soloist Wilma Giglio, also making her debut, and - the real surprise for me - the third Juliet is corps de ballet dancer Eukene Sagues, dancing with Liam Redhead. Also, I'd like to be there on one of the nights when Jon Axel Fransson is Mercutio and Tobias Praetorius is Benvolio. Amy Watson gives her farewell performance with the company on October 16th, as Lady Capulet. And - and I don't know whether to be sad or glad about this - in two of the casts Lord Capulet will be played by Alban Lendorf.
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