toursenlair

surely you don't mean abominable, Bruce????

He is 37, so not really that premature an ending to a career.

Just thought I'd add to this that if anyone is visiting NY, you can get a free 3-day guest library card for the Performing Arts Library, which is at Lincoln Center. You may end up spending all your NY time at the library though! (when you're not at performances)

the competitive Final saw two gold medals awarded, to Monet Hewitt, aged 16 from New Zealand, trained by Joye Lowe at Philippa Campbell School of Ballet, and Joshua Green, aged 17 from Australia, trained by Karen Ireland at Karen Ireland Dance Centre. Silver medals were awarded to Caitlin Garlick, aged 15 from Australia, trained by Karen Ireland at Karen Ireland Dance Centre, and Basil James, aged 16 from the UK, trained by the Faculty of Tring Park School. Enoka Sato, aged 16 from Japan, trained by Annette Roselli at Annette Roselli Dance Academy, and Jordan Yeuk Hay Chan, aged 16, from Hong Kong, trained by Yui Man Cheung at Jean M Wong School of Ballet were both awarded bronze medals. Jordan Yeuk Hay Chan was also presented with the Margot Fonteyn Audience Choice Award, and the Choreographic Award for best Dancer’s Own variation was awarded to Joshua Green.

51 candidates from 13 nationalities have been whittled down to 14 finalists, all set to compete in the Genée Final to be held at Hong Kong City Hall on Sunday 12 August. This is the first time in ten years that so many have made it through to the Final. 2018 Genée International Ballet Competition Finalists Lily Carbone aged 15, Australian, trained by Juanita Moore at Classical Coaching Australia Breana Drummond, aged 17, New Zealander, trained by Marie Walton Mahon at Tanya Pearson Academy Caitlin Garlick, aged 15, Australian, trained by Karen Ireland at Karen Ireland Dance Centre Monet Hewitt, aged 16, New Zealander, trained by Joye Lowe at Philippa Campbell School of Ballet Sophie Higgins, aged 16, Canadian, trained by Tania Brossoit at Pro Arte Centre Chloe Jackson, aged 18, British, trained by Heidi Landford at Atelier Australia Michaela Louw, aged 16, South African, trained by Natasha Ireland at Carstens Ireland Ballet School Lucy Malin, aged 18, British, trained by Jonathan Barton at Ballet West Soraya Nathasya Dwinandry, aged 17, Indonesian, trained by Maya Tamara at Namarina Dance Academy Enoka Sato, aged 16, Japanese, trained by Annette Roselli at Annette Roselli Dance Academy Lucinda Worthing-Shore, aged 15, Australian, trained by Marie Walton Mahon at Tanya Pearson Classical Coaching Jordan Yeuk Hay Chan, aged 16, British (Hong Kong), trained by Yui Man Cheung at Jean M Wong School of Ballet Joshua Green, aged 17, Australian, trained by Karen Ireland at Karen Ireland Dance Centre Basil James, aged 16, British, trained by Faculty of Tring Park School The Choreographic Award was also won by finalist, Joshua Green. The judges felt that his solo A Man's Sentiment (choreographed by Richard Causer) demonstrated the highest standard of choreography within the Dancer’s Own category. After two days of semi-finals, judged by Janek Schergen, Artistic Director at Singapore Dance Theatre, Joanne Michel, Ballet Mistress for The Australian Ballet School and Chi Cao, former Principal with Birmingham Royal Ballet, the finalists now compete for gold, silver and bronze medals. In addition to the three medals, the Margot Fonteyn Audience Choice Award will also be given. Highlights from the Genée Final on Sunday 12 August will be broadcast live from the Genée International Ballet Competition Facebook page from 7.25pm Hong Kong time.

The National Ballet of Canada sells signed used pointe shoes at their shop at the theatre. $35 for corps de ballet dancers, $45 for soloists, $60 for principal dancers. They do quite a brisk trade; I'm not sure how much money they make off them but it's pure profit. They also ship a lot of gently used pointe shoes to the school and company in Cuba, where there just isn't enough money to buy all the pointe shoes they need.

I don't wish to speak for all of the women on the forum, but personally I find people staring at my chest a bit.... offputting.

Neumeier has done Bach's St Matthew Passion and Christmas Oratorio.

cinema screenings starting Sept 18 in the UK are listed here https://www.nureyevthefilm.com/

For instance here are the numbers for Canada's National Ballet School: Professional Ballet Program 2018-2019 Tuition Canadian Students Tuition Day Students Residence Students Grades 6-8 $16,550 $35,300 Grades 9-11 $16,800 $35,550 Grade 12 $16,800 $33,850 PSP $14,950 $32,000* International Students Tuition Day Students* Residence Students Grades 6-8 $31,400 $50,150 Grades 9-11 $31,750 $50,500 Grade 12 $31,750 $48,800 PSP $27,150 $44,200*

Also Budapest, Prague, Munich, Vienna, Milan, Hamburg....

I also cannot get it to open on Firefox on my laptop. The landing page for 2014-15 comes up! We're in a timewarp

Vail is beautiful and the festival is great fun. However, it's at an altitude of 8000 feet. I found myself short of breath just going up a shallow incline (and I'm pretty fit). They have to have oxygen in the wings for the dancers, and I hope Hayward and Sambe take full advantage of it. The year I was there, Sara Mearns from NYCB had to be airlifted to San Diego (sea level) because of quite severe altitude sickness.

Further to this, if anyone is thinking of going, be warned it won't be cheap. 1) the end of the run coincides with NY Marathon weekend, so hotels are crazy expensive (think $500US a night).... if you can even find one with rooms available 2) ticket prices are also crazy expensive: $275 $225 $175 $150 $125 $75 $50 plus service charges on top. I am no longer planning a group trip!

I am probably going to organize a group trip, maybe for the Thursday through Saturday. If anyone is interested in joining in, they can email me at toursenlair@gmail.com

I agree about the "astonishing". and " Roščić intends to cut the number of ballet evenings ". !!!!! Vienna already has relatively few ballet evenings compared to opera. I don't understand! My sense was that ballet had become much more popular in Vienna under Legris, especially the big extravaganza ballets. 🙁

here's some perspective from this side of the Atlantic. I would be thrilled to be allowed to return a ticket even if it meant paying a $7 return fee. We aren't allowed returns at all at the National Ballet of Canada. Your only option is to accept a tax receipt for the value of the ticket (which can be as much as $265). If you are a subscriber you can exchange into a different performance (no charge if you are a full-season, ie 6 performance subscriber, otherwise I think it is about $10 to exchange. The performance has to be in the same season. So I couldn't exchange a ticket for this June's performance into the coming performances in November. Single ticket buyers do not have any exchange options.

It is easier for NBOC dancers to share their time as they have four discrete chunks of performances (two weeks in November, three weeks of Nutcracker in December, three weeks in March, three weeks in June) whereas Munich is running pretty much nonstop from September to June. Also, it must be said that Jurgita Dronina hasn't been seen much in Toronto since she joined ENB (two Auroras and two Nuts).

Bear in mind that getting a ticket is not easy: For the Nijinsky Gala and “The World of John Neumeier”: Requests in writing (only via mail, with sufficient postage) will be accepted between September 24 and September 28, 2018 at the following address: Hamburgische Staatsoper, Kartenservice/Galabestellung, Postfach 302448, 20308 Hamburg, Germany. Requests and booking cannot be submitted in person and tickets cannot be purchased at the box office or via the internet. All requests will be handled in the order they were delivered to us by the German postal service. Please submit your name, address, customer number (if available), number of tickets requested (maximum of 2 tickets per customer and household) in legible writing (illegible requests will be discarded); please also choose between payment via direct debit or credit card. Accordingly, please submit your account information or your credit card information including the expiry date and verification code. Requests for the Nijinsky-Gala that had to be turned down last year will be treated preferentially if they reach us during the time period mentioned above. From October 29, 2018, we will inform only those whose requests can be fulfilled.

Francesco Gabriele Frola (he goes by "Gabriele"), who has just been promoted to Principal at NBOC, will be sharing his time between Toronto and ENB next year, as will his significant other, Emma Hawes. This is a similar arrangement as with Jurgita Dronina, but I think you will be seeing a lot more of them than we do. Jurgita performed two Auroras and two Sugar Plums in Toronto this year and that's it. Gabriele is a very impressive dancer technically, and in the last year he has started to come into his own in terms of stage presence and acting ability.

I have just announced my schedule of group ballet trips for 2019. You can find it here: http://toursenlair.blogspot.com/2018/06/tours-en-lair-ballet-holidays-2019.html Please bear in mind that if your favourite ballet company does not appear on the list, it is not in any way a reflection on the company. It is very complicated determining which weeks offer the most ballet (and most attractive repertoire) in the least time in cities that are relatively close to one another, taking into account that my clients only want to travel between mid-March and July!

does anyone have more specific dates and rep?

I think this is true. I showed Spuck's Le Grand pdd (mentioned above) to someone and she said "Who knew ballet could be funny?" Well of course, WE all knew that. I have a lecture that I give called "Ballet Laughs: The Unexpected Comic Side of a Classical Art" in an attempt to dispel this notion, and it never fails to evoke guffaws. Not mentioned so far are the comic relief moments in otherwise serious/sad ballets, eg the drunk pdd in Manon, and one of my faves, the bakers' Rose Adagio and Cyrano's "man in the moon" solo in David Bintley's Cyrano, which I ADORED. There are funny moments in Still LIfe at the Penguin Cafe, and I suspect in other Bintley ballets I haven't seen. I understand his Sylvia was quite funny.

The Merry Widow (Hynd) Most of Justin Peck's ballets are very upbeat Jiri Kylians Symphony in D (but I don't think anyone is allowed to do it anymore. But its on dvd) Balanchine's Union Jack. Lots of Balanchine actually.

Here in Toronto, we only just saw the cinema broadcast of this program yesterday. Just wondering.... has no one commented on the highly anachronistic Maple Leaf flag "flash" on the Canadian airman's bomber jacket sleeve? Canada didn't adopt that flag until 1965. Obviously it's more visible and screams "Canadian", although I'm not sure the character's Canadianness is crucial (he does also have "CANADA" on his shirt sleeve), though I know it's mentioned in the poem. All the same, it's a bit startling for a Canadian audience member.