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what filled those 10 minutes of music then?

VickyPage, your review made me laugh out loud! oh dear.

I tried that, searched on justgiving.com for "robertparker", "Robert Parker" etc but no luck

Elmhurst Artistic Director Robert Parker is running the 2017 Virgin London Marathon in aid of the MS Society. If someone can figure out how to donate, please post here.

for me, "dances like a woman" is not a commendation for a male dancer...

I think the Metropolitan Opera holds more people than the Koch theatre so they can get more revenue out of it. Also ABT does mostly full-length classics which, even in NY, pack in the ticket buyers more than NYCB's mixed programs.

I would agree. I took a group of ballet lovers to London about 8 years ago and asked if they wanted to buy tix to see an extra performance with Acosta, and they said "Who?"

POB's version is different and quite a bit longer. NYCB did it last year without an interval, but not by itself; the first part of the program had various Bournonville bits.

the National Ballet of Canada did it on its own! we were all home tucked up in bed by 930 pm. Not much ballet (though a beautiful one...) for one's buck... or one's 200 bucks, in Toronto...

He is in the Nureyev film but not as Nureyev. That is Oleg Ivenko, another Ukrainian currently dancing in Kazakhstan, I believe.

First black FEMALE principal dancer in ABT. Desmond Richardson was a principal with ABT in the 70s.

That may be true in the UK but in North America Misty Copeland is a household name.

You shouldn't have any problem. I watched their previous livestream from Canada at Christmas time.

"gives it some welly"??? Now THAT really is UK English. What does it mean? "Load of cobblers" is too but at least I know what that means.

For a few days now I've been wondering about this usage of "boot", thinking, "Oh that must be some British English expression for what we dictionary editors would define as "a contemptible person". Maybe I'll adopt it. "You BOOT! please stop talking during the performance!!!" I only just twigged that it was meant to be "boor". :lol: As you were. Nothing to see here.

DANSOX presents a lecture on twentieth-century choreographer, John Cranko, by Dr Julia Buhrle (Oxford). John Cranko (1927-1973) was a South African born ballet dancer and choreographer with the Royal Ballet and the Stuttgart Ballet. His most famous "literary" ballets include Romeo and Juliet (1962), with music by Prokofiev; Onegin (1965, an adaptation of the verse novel by Alexander Pushkin, with music by Tchaikovsky; The Taming of the Shrew (1969). There will be a drinks reception after the event. Free and open to all - booking essential at Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dansox-lecture-on-john-cranko-twentieth-century-choreographer-tickets-30889702933 Date and Time Thu 23 February 2017 17:30 – 20:30 GMT Add to Calendar LocationJacqueline du Pré Music Building Cowley Place Oxford

Here's a report from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from last year: " Canada's plastic money is stumping counterfeiters. The RCMP estimate the number of fake bills passed on to retailers in 2015 dropped by 74 per cent compared with the previous year. That doesn't mean people have given up trying to copy Canada's banknotes — it's just that even their best attempts to make fake cash are falling well short."

we got new plastic money in Canada a few years ago and though everyone hated them at first, after they get a bit worn in they are less slippery (or even worse, sticky so that you end up handing over two twenties when you thought it was one!). We're all pretty used to them now.

I also thank you! I'll pass this info along to my group which is coming to the UK starting May... 11!

it is a fabulous ballet.

The NBOC will be at the Theatre des Champs-Elysees with Neumeier's Nijinsky October 3-8.

A heads-up for those attending the Saturday May 13 evening performance. Although the website says it starts at 715 pm, I just got a ticket confirmation that says 7 pm. I was also booking at the restaurant so I had them double-check the curtain-up time for me and they confirmed it's 7 pm.

The ballet critic has died at the young age of 57 , No further info http://www.danzaedanzaweb.com/articolo/1093/giannandrea-poesio.-1959-2017

ok, way off topic, but the bar staff in Toronto say that the ballet audience consumes way more... cookies than the opera audience. WAY more (and not just for Nutcracker performances where it could be attributed to the large number of children in the audience).

If like me, your reaction on reading that Nureyev will be played by "Russian dancer Oleg Ivenko" was... "WHO??" you may be interested in the following info. As the -enko in his name suggests, he is in fact Ukrainian (like Artem Ovcharenko, who played Nureyev in the recent BBC docudrama), but he is a principal dancer with the ballet company in Kazan (Tatarstan). Here's the Google translated version of his page on the company website. http://kazan-opera.ru/team/25/695/ Honored Artist of Tatarstan Laureate of international competitions He graduated from the Kharkov choreographic school in 2006, the Belarusian State Choreographic College in 2010 Admitted to the ballet troupe in September 2010, Winner of the International Competition "Crystal Shoe" (Kharkov, 2005, 2006, 2009), Diploma and a special prize of the International Ballet Competition "Arabesque" (Perm, 2010), Winner of the International Competition in Varna (2010) Member of the V International festival of choreographic schools and schools in Kazan (2010) Winner (paired with Kristina Andreeva) II of the International Prize "TANZOLIMP" Contest-Festival (Berlin, February 2011) Winner of the Prize II, winner of the special prize of the jury and the press prize STD Russia XII International Ballet Competition "Arabesque" (paired with Kristina Andreeva) (Perm, 2012), The winner of the II International Yuri Grigorovich Competition Prize "Young Ballet of the World" (Sochi 2012). In 2012, he took part (in pair with Christina Andreeva) to show the TV channel "Culture", "Bolshoi Ballet". Winner of the Grand Prix International Competition Yuri Grigorovich "Young Ballet of the World" (Sochi 2014) Winner of the I prize of the Krasnoyarsk International Ballet Competition "Grand Prix of Siberia" (Krasnoyarsk, 2014) Winner of the I prize of the Korean IX International Ballet Competition (Seoul, 2016). Repertoire includes: Basil ( "Don Quixote"), Solor ( "La Bayadere"), Coghlan, Allen ( "Vain Precaution"), Shurale ( "Shurale"), Jester, Neapolitan dance Arapchonok ( "Swan Lake"), Prince, Harlequin, Chinese Dance ( "Nutcracker"), Merry Gnome ( "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"), Blue Bird ( "The Sleeping Beauty"), Mercutio, Benvolio ( "Romeo and Juliet"), Ali ( "Corsair"), Franz Friends ( "Coppelia"), Nuradinov ( "Golden Horde") Student ( "Annie"), Pierre Gringoire, Acteon ( "Esmeralda") and others.