Jump to content

Jane S

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    997

  • Joined

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Jane S

  1. Jane S
    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.
  2. Jane S
    No, neither of those.
  3. Jane S
    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!
  4. Jane S
    Yes, - sorry - I'd forgotten about the last redesign - 'William Chappell, recreated by Natalia Stewart'.
  5. Jane S
    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
  6. Jane S
    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!)
  7. Jane S
    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!)
  8. Jane S
    Louise Britain?
  9. Jane S
    Yes, I did that too - took me ages to figure out how to watch it on our TV but hugely worthwhile in the end!
  10. Jane S
    Sunshine from Mark Morris
  11. Jane S
    Anna Pavlova's did!
  12. Jane S
    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)
  13. Jane S
    Yes - wires crossed - sorry!
  14. Jane S
    ...as she did at the premiere, in 1973, and for years afterwards.
  15. Jane S
    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.
  16. Jane S
    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!
  17. Jane S
    From something I read yesterday I think this is geo blocked - hope I'm wrong, though!
  18. Jane S
    It was shown on BBC TV so all the credits can be found in the Radio Times archive if you're interested.
  19. Jane S
    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 !
  20. Jane S
    The Times piece says general booking opens on August 24.
  21. Jane S
    Also from the Times, Kevin O'Hare expects every ballet production next season will be either streamed or shown in cinemas.
  22. Jane S
    By the way, it's nice to remember that Two Pigeons had its premiere on Valentine's Day - 60 years ago today!
  23. Jane S
    Jonac, I think the names you give are probably those used by Russian companies much later on. This link shows (I hope) the names used originally and in some of the best known later productions up to the mid-1960s - later scholarship may have overwritten some of them, of course. (link comes originally from Dance & Dancers, quoted on balletalert by rg )
  24. Jane S
    Thank you so much for mentioning this - I had not seen it before - pure gold! Doreen Wells interview
  25. Jane S
    It's in colour, assuming it's from the tape. Nice cast, too.
×
×
  • Create New...