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  1. Jane S
    I assume the RB has film of its original Dances at a Gathering cast somewhere in the archives but I don't think its ever been released even in extracts. There is definitely a film of Seymour and Dowell in Month in the Country: it was shown on television in 1978 but so far as I know has never been released commercially.
  2. Jane S
    Ian, the Watson/Bostridge dream is mine, not Kim Brandstrup's - sorry if I didn't explain it properly!
  3. Jane S
    John Mallinson posted a list of graduate contracts from that year: http://www.ballet.co.uk/dcforum/happening/4450.html#7
  4. Jane S
    I think she danced Myrta with SWRB and had done Gamzatti with the RB before Pagodas.
  5. Jane S
    I just read on Dansomanie that the May 31st performance was filmed and will be issued on DVD in the autumn.
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    There's another performance the next day - Friday 21st - but no plans for an ROH showing at present, so far as I know. Cast includes Mara Galeazzi, Edward Watson and Marcelino Sambe. (I know because I did an interview with Brandstrup last week, which will be on DanceTabs soon(ish).)
  7. Jane S
    He won jointly with Alban Lendorf, I believe - double delight for me!
  8. Jane S
    As I remember it, Cassidy said that at the end of his second year he'd been offered a choice between joining the company right away and staying at the school for another year - I think it was something like "and then you can join as 'somebody"' - the implication being that it wouldn't just be physical maturity he'd gained. (And he and they were right - I've never seen anybody, before or since, walk on to the Covent Garden stage with such an air of 'OK, you guys, move over - I have arrived' - but making it seem like total confidence rather than arrogance.)
  9. Jane S
    But she only has 420 words - to cover 8 works and an introduction and any overall comments! How could she review anything in depth in that much space?
  10. Jane S
    By coincidence I just came across this link on Ballet Alert, which tells a bit more.
  11. Jane S
    Lendorf must have been skipping about - apparently he danced he danced Mercutio in Copenhagen on Saturday night as well as Etudes in London on Friday and on Sunday afternoon!
  12. Jane S
    Pity you went home, Bruce - the last 2 minutes were the best! Ratmansky uses Shakespeare's ending - the reconciliation of the feuding families - and I found it, rather to my surprise, much more moving than the one used in most ballet versions. Otherwise the whole piecei was full of steps - too much so at times, when I wished Ratmansky had chosen stillness instead - but lighter in feel than Lavrovsky etc, more - like Ashton in that respect. But for me nothing disguises the fact that the score dictates that it's simply too long, especially in those endless market-place scenes.
  13. Jane S
    July 15th, according to the ROH site today. But UK only, so far .
  14. Jane S
    An obituary in this morning's Times announces the death, on March 27th, of the music and dance critic Noel Goodwin. He wrote about both those arts for numerous magazines, newspapers and reference books as well as serving on various committees. I remember him most from his contributions to Dance & Dancers, where every review of a new ballet would include a contribution from him on the music. Ballet.co owes him a particular debt for allowing us to reprint his break-down of the score for Mayerling - still online in our archives .
  15. Jane S
    I know from experience on Ballet Alert, which uses the same software, that the Views count isn't updated in real time - there's often quite a long timelag and I assume (though I've never checked closely enough to see it happening) that the count then jumps by the number accumulated in that time. But a gap of a whole day doesn't sound right.
  16. Jane S
    What I most remember is Collier's entrance for that 'Diana' number - shooting out of the wings like an arrow from her own bow. (And Bryony Brind did it too, at a later performance, if I'm not imagining it.)
  17. Jane S
    Glen Tetley also used it for the second half of a piece he made for the RB around 1980 - it was called Dances of Albion and rather oddly started with Britten's Serenade and then went straight into the Sinfonia da Requiem.
  18. Jane S
    Gemma Bond was out for the whole of that summer, I think, and had to teach Olga to both Jane Burn and Belinda Hatley - but there were so many people injured and so many cast changes that I'm not surprised the programmes couldn't keep up. (They ran out of Tatianas eventually and had to bring in Yseult Lendvai.)
  19. Jane S
    There's one of her and Bonelli being released later this month.
  20. Jane S
    Yes, Sim, she danced Tatiana in the RB's first run - with Adam Cooper I think. And Sarah Crompton is right about Nunez - i saw her and Soares last night and was very impressed indeed. (Simultaneous posting - sorry, capybara!)
  21. Jane S
    Kish danced Onegin during his time with the Royal Danish Ballet.
  22. Jane S
    Some interesting bits of news here (borrowed from BalletAlert with thanks!)
  23. Jane S
    Could someone who saw Acosta in In the Night please tell what costume he wore? - a very dark one, like Kobborg's, or the more usual lighter-coloured one?
  24. Jane S
    An article in today's Times carries the sad news that the German firm which has been supplying the world with nutcrackers - 'the brightly coloured soldier models... operated by a wooden lever at the back' - since 1890 is threatened with closure as it is proving impossible to attract new apprentices into the trade. So that's it. Sorry, folks.
  25. Jane S
    Cast changes for the Firebird triple bill: In The Night Saturday, 22nd December - 12.30pm Marianela Nunez and Rupert Pennefather will be replaced by Zenaida Yanowsky and Nehemiah Kish Raymonda Saturday 29th December – 7pm Rupert Pennefather will be replaced by Ryoichi Hirano (debut performance) Friday 11th January Rupert Pennefather will be replaced by Ryoichi Hirano
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