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  1. toursenlair
    oh this is a new new version? The latest one was done by Nikolaj Hubbe and... gag me.
  2. toursenlair
    it's not just the audience, though, it's the performers and backstage crew. A very interesting article: https://www.dance-enthusiast.com/features/barefootnotes/view/Screw-the-Audience-David-Gray-Opinion-Formerly-of-Pennsylvania-Ballet-American-Repertory-Ballet-Speaks-Out-to-Protect-Artists-?mc_cid=0f1b66a77b&mc_eid=c2e02122f6
  3. toursenlair
    why do you think this would be the case?
  4. toursenlair
    Here's another weepfest for Lady of the Camellias. I first saw it in Stuttgart with Robert Tewsley and Sue Jin Kang. From the moment he gives her the money at the party to the end of the ballet (must be about 15 minutes) I sobbed uncontrollably, tears pouring down my cheeks. I have never had an experience like that at the ballet before. I was worn out from crying by the curtain calls; I could barely clap or shout bravo.
  5. toursenlair
    Count me as another huge fan of Lady of the Camellias and Nijinsky. Streetcar not so much. I did enjoy The Seagull. I love Neumeier's Illusions Like Swan Lake, Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. He was supposed to be doing a new version of the latter for this June; I hope he won't mess with it too much. I also like 3rd Symphony of Gustav Mahler, Bach Suite 3, and Shakespeare Dances. I haven't seen Othello. I find Neumeier is either brilliant (and when he is brilliant he is really brilliant) or.... not.
  6. toursenlair
    Yes, a lovely ballet. I've seen it with several other Stuttgart casts and thought it was mighty fine (never having seen the original cast, mind you)
  7. toursenlair
    Dying Swan is also only about 3 minutes, they did a repeat da capo for today's video.
  8. toursenlair
    I cancelled my group booking just last week and I got a cheery email back from the Hippodrome saying "so sorry you can't join us!"
  9. toursenlair
    "the legendary Tony Bennett singing “Fly Me to the Moon” to adapted choreography by Jessica Lang (Let Me Sing Forevermore) performed on location in Central Park by ABT Soloists Catherine Hurlin and Aran Bell, a talented couple who are sheltering in place together." Hurlin and Bell are very much rising stars in ABT. They performed this Fly me to the Moon piece for the last Erik bruhn competition, and I can assure you, you will love it. Fortunately in the current circumstance they are a couple offstage as well so they can perform without violating any social distancing guidelines.
  10. toursenlair
    I don't care who is married or not, but I think a woman (and a dancer) should be identified by her name, not as "wife of x".
  11. toursenlair
    Daniel Ulbricht is always quite something! :-)
  12. toursenlair
    His wife being Maria Kowroski of New York City Ballet
  13. toursenlair
    from a recent interview in the Berliner Zeitung with the director of the Komische Oper Berlin We have plan A and hopefully we will soon know if it works. Plan A is business as usual, i.e. we're opening in September. This option still exists? Probably not, but we remain hopeful. We need a little miracle for that, someone who says next week: We have a vaccine or a drug. We are also developing Plan B for a season starting in early November. This means that productions have to be exchanged, canceled, repertoire has to be rebuilt. Then we have plan C: early January 2021. Then plan D: March 2021.
  14. toursenlair
    it was originally a longer piece, with a section for a small corps in part 1 and then the pdd as part 2.
  15. toursenlair
    that's a very tactful way of putting it. ;-)
  16. toursenlair
    I wish they would find a way to stream Hobson's Choice. I have the DVD but (after I got it) I found out it's only a PAL version and there is no NTSC available so we North Americans are shut out.
  17. toursenlair
    RDB Raymonda is working for me. At least the beginning is, i haven't watched the whole thing.
  18. toursenlair
    Greig Matthews has been in Chicago with the Joffrey for a few years now and hasn't made any announcements about moving from there.
  19. toursenlair
    another 60 or so to go in the active repertoire ;-)
  20. toursenlair
    I believe the cure for this is... see more Balanchine!
  21. toursenlair
    I would just like to point out that Nijinsky and his sire Northern Dancer were Canadian (born about 40 miles from where I sit typing) so this is another clear example of how Canadians are taking over the world. ;-)
  22. toursenlair
    Neumeier is obsessed with Nijinsky and there are more Nijinsky-related ballets in his oeuvre.
  23. toursenlair
    Here's the direct link. They don't make it easy to find https://www.staatsoperlive.com/2/b7b379e7-9c43-4f41-ae98-a2ba515b0c13/player
  24. toursenlair
    8 pm Eastern Time. = 1 am British Time, but up for three days.
  25. toursenlair
    Allegro Brillante starts today, 21 April.
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