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THE ROYAL BALLET 2021/22 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT
Jane S replied to a topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
How about this, then? (Just came across it in one of my old scrapbooks - it's talking about a TV performance in 1960) "But it is in the transformation scenes that televison really comes into its own. In the stage version the Fairy Godmother throws a pumpkin into the wings and out rolls the coach. ... But this time the pumpkin appears to grow in size, becoming bigger and bigger until it bursts into a 10-ft-high tinsel-encrusted coach, lined with nylon fur and sprinkled with stardust, ready to take Cinderella to the ball." That's more like it. Especially the nylon fur. -
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Debuts to Final Shows
Jane S replied to ToThePointe's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
I think the role only lasted one season - and wasn't there a dance for the soldiers at the beginning of Act 3, maybe cut at the same time? -
Debuts to Final Shows
Jane S replied to ToThePointe's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
It was Collier! As far as I remember his original interpretation was so deep and revealing that all he could do was make it even more so! ( I found inside my programme Clement Crisp's review of the evening and I hope it's included in the new book - one of the warmest and most appreciative pieces he ever wrote!) -
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Jane S replied to ToThePointe's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
Well, I certainly saw David Wall in the first performance of Mayerling and in his farewell in the same role - but I expect lots of other people did, too. -
ROYAL BALLET PROMOTIONS 2021
Jane S replied to capybara's topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
It's amusing to remember that the RB promotion which aroused the most controversy, by far, on this site and its predecessor was Edward Watson's. And look at him now!- 84 replies
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Yes, - sorry - I'd forgotten about the last redesign - 'William Chappell, recreated by Natalia Stewart'.
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Paris used the Patrick Caulfield designs, didn't they? - though I read somewhere that they wanted a new design and weren't allowed to. (A pity!) The RB dropped the Caulfield version after a few years and it's now done in the Jessica Curtis version from 2005. It will be interesting to see which one Paris uses
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Do we need an Ashton Society?
Jane S replied to Rina's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
In fact William Chappell designed the original (1934) set and costumes as well - I never saw them but from photos, Markova's costume was pretty but Idzikowsy's striped tights and frilled and furbelowed shirt might meet with some consumer resistance these days. Chappell then revised/redesigned the ballet 3 times and I think one of the last two is probably the one most people remember. On youtube there's a bit of a performance by the ENB school a few years ago - nice to see they've got the essentials of the set right! Also some of BRB showing the polka dots in motion (Do agree with you about Bussell!) -
Sarasota Ballet digital Ashton bill
Jane S replied to Cherilyn's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
Also, Tucker and O'Hare and BRB did Valses N &S at Sadler's Wells in May 1991 (with the company's first performance of Paul Taylor's Airs also in the programme). (I too cleared out my old programmes but kept the cast sheets!)- 37 replies
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Jane S replied to Cherilyn's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
Louise Britain?- 37 replies
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Mark Morris Dance Group online season, 2020-21
Jane S replied to alison's topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
Yes, I did that too - took me ages to figure out how to watch it on our TV but hugely worthwhile in the end!- 7 replies
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Mark Morris Dance Group online season, 2020-21
Jane S replied to alison's topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
I tried to access the L'Allegro stream just now and got 'video not available - if you are outside the US please contact us' - has anyone tried that? (Sorry if there has been discussion elsewhere)- 7 replies
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Someone mentioned Deanne Bergsma yesterday and looking at her Wikipedia entry I noticed that today is her 80th birthday. It's more than 40 years since she retired from the Royal Ballet, but for me she is still unsurpassed in so many of her roles - Lilac Fairy, Myrthe, Lady Mary Lygon (her created role in Enigma Variations), the Tsarevna in Firebird, the third shade In Bayadere (that's as in Nureyev's production - it's the one with the cabrioles)... And in my patchwork Swan Lake (all the best bits I've seen, sewn together) she does Odette's exit at the end of Act 2, and probably Siegfried's mother as well. A lovely dancer, in every respect.
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I was rather hoping they might open with Dances - imagine the curtain going up in silence on the dark, empty stage which is all there's been for these long months, and then the man walks on and slowly tries a few steps and the music starts... and then the ending, when maybe for this one time they could look directly at us instead of up to the sky, and maybe the man could just stretch out his arms to us... not a dry eye in the house!
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Royal Danish Ballet season 2020/21
Jane S replied to Jane S's topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
From something I read yesterday I think this is geo blocked - hope I'm wrong, though!- 25 replies
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Lockdown and General Streaming Thread
Jane S replied to alison's topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
It was shown on BBC TV so all the credits can be found in the Radio Times archive if you're interested.- 1,212 replies
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Fairies in Sleeping Beauty
Jane S replied to jonac's topic in Performances seen & general discussions
Alison, I don't think they're anyone in particular - just made up names - they appeared for the first time in Aurora's Wedding, which was put together from bits of the Diaghilev production, using the music previously given to the four Jewel Fairies, and choreographed probably by Nijinska. De Valois danced in it at one time. The RNB's first, pre-war, production reverted to the Jewels, but for the 1946 Messel production Ashton rechoreographed the Florestan and his Sisters idea, and it and the Jewels have been swapped in and out at Covent Garden ever since, sometimes in the same production. The characters apparently don't appear in any of the well known fairy tales but if you'd like an invented back story for them - and have pleny of time - try this !- 49 replies
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THE ROYAL BALLET 2021/22 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT
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THE ROYAL BALLET 2021/22 SEASON ANNOUNCEMENT
Jane S replied to a topic in Ballet / Dance news & information
Also from the Times, Kevin O'Hare expects every ballet production next season will be either streamed or shown in cinemas.