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  1. Jane S
    Found it - 1998. 20 years ago. Crikey.
  2. Jane S
    Does anyone remember what year it was that BRB brought their Nutcracker to the Lyceum in London?
  3. Jane S
    The back few rows of the amphi used to be called the gallery, and just had wooden bench seats. They were taken out in 1964. (I don't remember seeing them - I think I bought tickets downstairs in my early days and moved up to the amphi later!) Edited to add: Just looked out some of my programmes from the early 60s and found I did actually sit up there sometimes - I used to staple the ticket stub to the programme and several say 'Amphitheatre Stalls' - but I still don't remember the gallery.
  4. Jane S
    It wasn't so much that Dowell omitted it as that Ashton refused him permission to use it, miffed that Dowell was dropping all the other bits of his Swan Lake choreography. It was restored after Ashton's death.
  5. Jane S
    Incidentally I was just looking to see how the Proms idea initially came up in the 70s and according to John Tooley, whose idea they were, the original plan was to relay opera and ballet performances to various centres round the country (more than 40 years ago) and Tooley had persuaded the Midland Bank to pay for it - but in the end it proved too expensive (line costs and special projectors) so they abandoned that idea and subsidised the Proms instead. (Leading to Richanrd Buckle's review starting "I'd like to kiss the Midland Bank" - or something like that anyway) Also, in the 1900s Tooley almost fixed a deal with Texaco and the BBC to relay live television performances but it fell through when an oil crisis meant Texaco had to withdraw.
  6. Jane S
    Geoff - at the bottom right hand corner of the picture there are 5 little symbols 1. click on the left hand one and a little red line appears underneath it 2. click on the next one along (the usual 'settings' symbol) and the third option down should say 'Russian autogenerated' 3. click on the arrow next to those words and choose the auto translate option 4. select English ... works for me anyway (on a desktop)
  7. Jane S
    2020, according to this
  8. Jane S
    And in Nikolaj Hubbe's version for the Royal Danish Ballet - also set in the time of the British Raj - the Solor character really is European (an English lieutenant called William) - but in the scene where other Solors smoke opium, he shoots himself dead.
  9. Jane S
    On the other hand, my own first encounter with Alastair Macaulay was at a matinee of Two Pigeons by the RB touring company in Norwich, sometime in the late 1970s - I didn't then know who he was but always remembered him as he spent the whole of the intervals making detailed notes about what he'd seen - not opinions but descriptions of the choreography (so far as I could see from a nosey glance or two). So my first impression was of someone who did the groundwork. (Full disclosure: I know him slightly.)
  10. Jane S
    You have a good eye, Bruce! - Ryan Tomash has joined the Royal Danish Ballet and will be dancing Golfo, the sea spirit, on the first night of this season's run of Napoli.
  11. Jane S
    Fascinating - and it was only in investigating further on Google that I learnt - what everyone else maybe has known all along - that Larisch and Rudolf were actually first cousins.
  12. Jane S
    Well, the way the role was being cast when I last saw Mayerling a few years ago, I used to wonder if there was a lost Act 4 somewhere in which he was revealed as Rudolf's younger brother, stolen in infancy !
  13. Jane S
    And can he juggle?
  14. Jane S
    Can anyone remember, did Gartside ever do Bratfisch? It would have been a perfect role for him.
  15. Jane S
    Casting for this has now been announced - the RB will be represented by Anna Rose O'Sullivan and Marcelino Sambe, who dance one Tchaikowsky pas de deux and two Tarantellas.
  16. Jane S
    This is his farewell tour, I believe, and tonight is his last performance at the Teatro Colon. He's 42. He left the RB in 2005 and I remember him mostly for two things: the complete surprise when he was cast as Siegfried at very short notice after having done nothing more prominent with the RB than a Gentleman in Act 2 of Manon, and his beautiful 'Ashtonian' arms, the best of any man in the company at the time.
  17. Jane S
    The Teatro Colon in Buenos Aries is livestreaming a performance of MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet tomorrow, with Lauren Cuthbertson and Inaki Urlezaga in the leads. It's at 17.00 in BA - 21.00 in London I think but better check. http://www.teatrocolon.org.ar/en/en-vivo Anyone know if it can be seen in Europe? Thanks to Dansomanie for the link
  18. Jane S
    I doubt it - the book has 514 pages and is based on her doctrinal thesis (University of Cambridge)
  19. Jane S
    The two solos in act 1 were danced by two farmhands until the middle of the 20th century, when the second one was given to James (I've read that the change was made by Flemming Flindt around 1965.) You can still see the original casting in the film of the Rambert Sylphide. When the RDB came to London in the 1970s James had the 2nd solo but the first one was still danced by an unnamed character rather than by Gurn. Bournonville saw dancing as an expression of joy and therefore as you say the James of Act 1 couldn't possibly have danced. I asked Kobborg in an interview just before his RB production openind if he'd thought of reverting to the original but he was scathing about the possibility of any James agreeing to give up the solo. I don't think there's any particular reason to long to have Kobborg's production back - like everyone else he'd added little bits - the pas de six for Effie's friends for instance. The film of Lis Jeppesen and Nikolaj Hubbe gives the credit for 'original production' to Hans Brenaa and that would be a good place to start. I'm not entirely sure who came up with the Madge-was-a-Sylphide idea but it certainly wasn't Kobborg - possibly Sorella Englund early in the 1990s - but as we saw in the RB performances she doesn't always do it. Incidentally although Hubbe's current production puts a very different slant on the story I don't think he's altered the choreography at all.
  20. Jane S
    Dozens of pictures here (thanks to Dansomanie for the link)
  21. Jane S
    I think it's really interesting how few people have chosen pure dancing roles - for me, given the technique and physique to dance just one role, I wouldn't want to waste one second on acting or mime - I'd hope to find that rare moment that dancers sometimes talk about as the peak of their experience, when everything clicks and there's nothing but you and the music - and maybe a perfectly-attuned partner, to help you fly. I'd go for the Waltz in Serenade.
  22. Jane S
    I like the way you've put all the things I don't like into the same triple bill!
  23. Jane S
    It was said at the time that Makarova cut the number of the Shades because the stage/scenery didn't have enough space for 32 - don't know if that was actually true, though.
  24. Jane S
    Did he do Elgar? I must have missed that - but I remember him as an outstandingly good Jaeger, rivalling the role's creator.
  25. Jane S
    Sorry if I've missed this somewhere, but is Mathias Dingman injured or something?
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