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just fast forw just fast forward to the women's solos (Novikova is amazing) and poor Friedemann's 90-second variation in the grand pdd. What a waste of a good dancer. But that's just a general problem with Raymonda I think,not this production particularly

wait, what? it's non-stop dancing.

of course the publishers need a snappy title. Do you think "A History of the Bolshoi Ballet" would fly off the shelves?

This gala, livestreaming from Havana starting at 4 pm Eastern Time (ie 9 pm British time) on Saturday August 20th, features these dancers: Desmond Richardson Jurgita Dronina Matthew Golding Daniil Simkin Maria Kochetkova Iana Salenko Semyon Chudin Ivan Vasiliev Misa Kuranaga Joseph Michael Gatti Adiarys Almeida Rodrigo Almarales For $14.95 US, you can watch these international ballet stars take class, rehearse, be interviewed, and dance in the Ballet Royalty Gala™ performance live plus much more. For more information and to buy a ticket, visit the website: http://improvedance.com/balletroyalty/ Clicking on each dancer's picture will take you to their bio page with videos of them dancing.

The program, which opens with And the Sky on that Cloudy Old Day by Marco Goecke, is diverse. It features classical pieces and contemporary ones, among others: Bruno Moretti's Caravaggio, performed by Elisa Carrillo Cabrera and Mikhail Kaniskin, Grand Pas Classique by Gsovsky, performed by Iana Salenko and Marian Walter. The last dance, Nacho Duato's Arcángelo, is danced by lead dancers and soloists of the Staatsballett Berlin. Discover this special event broadcast live from Mexico on medici.tv. Free webstream available here http://www.medici.tv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_term=elisa+y+amigos&utm_content=post+lien+fb&utm_campaign=live#!/elisa-carrillo-y-amigos-ballet-live

just picked up the program for the week in Stuttgart including the gala. Guests are Helene Bouchet and Carsten Jung, Hamburg Elisa Carrillo Cabrera and Mikhail Kaniskin, Berlin Kathleen Rae Thielhelm and Julien Favreau (Bejart) Semion Chudin (Bolshoi) Mathieu Ganio!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (paris opera ballet, ooops my finger seems to have slipped on the exclamation mark key...

truer words were never spoken!

Just to say I had to read those two sentences twice!!!

The Oxford English Dictionary has just included these abbreviations in its latest updates. Phew for me, because I only just realized after several years on this forum that they DON'T stand for "dancer son" and "dancer daughter"! (I have to admit I was a bit puzzled by some references that I interpreted as "dancer husband")

I am entertained that google translate renders "Christian Spuck" as "Christian spitting"

Hi Duck, I'll be there with a small group all week. I have the Sunday morning free. Would be nice to meet up.

This is the same interview to which Angela posted a link a few posts up. I find it entertaining however that this version refers to the ballet company as a "Sänger-Ensemble" (singers company)!

it's a fairly ridiculous story, and the best dancing is concentrated in Act III. Nureyev moved some of the best variations from Act I and II to his standalone "Act III" so you get the most ballet for your buck. Beautiful music in Raymonda, though. Shame about the story. Australian Ballet did a full-length version a few years ago which is set in the 1940s with Raymonda being a Princess-Grace type figure torn between her prince and her rat-pack friends (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin). The rethinking worked quite well I thought, but then in Act III suddenly a bunch of Hungarians showed up and did the regular Raymonda choreography, which of course you wouldn't want to trash . But it seemed a bit incongruous in the circumstances.

do you mean "potboiler"? defined in OED as An artistic, literary, or other creative work produced solely to make the originator a living by catering to popular taste, without regard to artistic quality;

just wanted to seek independent confirmation before I email them to ask where my cheque is

BRB told me they were planning to use an article I wrote about Shrew for their program. Can someone tell me whether they actually did?

I believe those are the National Ballet of Canada's costumes, aren't they?

Fabulous as Roxanne in Cyrano.

Dutch National Ballet will be livestreaming their stage rehearsal for their upcoming program this Wednesday at 8 pm European Time, 2 pm Eastern Time, noon Mountain Time, 11 am Pacific Time. Year of the Rabbit -Justin Peck Overture – Donald Dawson CRANE - George Williamson Merge - Ernst Meisner It will be on their facebook page: https://www.facebook...Ballet/timeline

You should totally read the book. It's a fantastic book! Maybe my favourite novel.

I've always thought Stendhal's Scarlet and Black would make a good ballet, and that it should be choreographed to Berlioz, most likely the Symphonie Fantastique. And lo! apparently Uwe Scholz thought the same thing! Berlioz, anyway, not specified which work but I'd lay money on Symphonie Fantastique. I would love to see this. (Ballet du Rhin's full-length).

Bordeaux tells me they will announce their season on June 27.

I have now completed my list of possible ballet trips for 2016-17. Please see below. For more info, visit http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2016/06/2016-17-tours-en-lair-ballet-trips.html or message me. You can join a trip from anywhere in the world. Please let me know if you are even tentatively interested in any of them. 2016 August 10 - 13, 4 days, 2 performances Saint-Sauveur, Quebec BOOKING JUNE 2016 Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur Guillaume Côté and dancers of the National Ballet of Canada: The Story of us (Marcelo Gomes, World Premiere, with Heather Ogden) Venom (Côté) The Sleeping Beauty prince's solo Dance me to the end of love (Côté) Solos and pas de deux from the classical, neoclassical and contemporary repertoires Guillaume Côté – National Ballet of Canada Heather Ogden – National Ballet of Canada Misty Copeland – American Ballet Theatre Blaine Hoven - American Ballet Theatre Nehemiah Kish – The Royal Ballet Yuhui Choe – The Royal Ballet Anne Plamondon - Independent artist more dancers TBA Optional performance Louise Lecavalier and Frédéric Tavernini in So Blue October 14 -16 New York New York City Ballet New Lovette, New Peck 1, New Walker, New Lopez Ochoa, Everywhere We Go (Peck) Dances at a Gathering (Robbins), Firebird (Balanchine) Glass Pieces (Robbins), Thou Swell (Martins), Stars and Stripes (Balanchine) THIS WILL BE OUR ONLY NEW YORK TRIP IN 2016-17 2017 January 23 - February 2 (11 days) Budapest and Vienna Hungarian National Ballet Onegin (Cranko) Vienna State Ballet La Fille mal Gardée (Ashton) Cinderella (Malandain) Carmina Burana (Orlic), Bolero (Lukacs), Afternoon of a Faun (Nebyla) Ballet of the National Theatre of Brno Black and White (Radacovsky) BOOKING OCTOBER 2016 February 3 - 5 San Francisco San Francisco Ballet HAFFNER SYMPHONY (Tomasson), JIŘÍ BUBENÍČEK WORLD PREMIERE, IN THE COUNTENANCE OF KINGS (Peck) SEVEN SONATAS (Ratmansky), YURI POSSOKHOV WORLD PREMIERE, PAS/PARTS 2016 (Forsythe) BOOKING NOVEMBER 2016 February 24 - March 5 (10 days) Berlin and Dresden (day trip to Leipzig) Berlin State Ballet Onegin (Cranko) Castrati (Duato), Petite Mort (Kylian), Secus (Naharin) Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness (Duato) Dresden Semperoper Ballet Swan Lake Leipzig Ballet Van Gogh (Schroder) March 8-12 (5 days) Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale Sarasota Ballet Scènes de ballet (American premiere), The Two Pigeons (both Ashton) Miami City Ballet The Fairy’s Kiss (Ratmansky), Walpurgisnacht Ballet (Balanchine), Polyphonia (Wheeldon) April 1 - 12 (12 days) Zurich and Munich Zurich Ballet Junior Company Un Ballo (Kylian), new Favre, new TBA Zurich Ballet Swan Lake (reconstruction of the original Petipa version by Alexei Ratmansky) Stanislavsky Ballet Mayerling (MacMillan) Bavarian State Ballet Spartacus (Grigorovich) Symphony in C (Balanchine), In the Night (Robbins), Adam Is (Barton) Romeo and Juliet (Cranko) La Fille mal Gardée (Ashton) Bavarian State Ballet Junior Company Mixed Program BOOKING JANUARY 2017 mid April Toulouse and Bordeaux Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse Don Quixote Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux TBA April 30 - May 10 (11 days) Amsterdam and Paris Dutch National Ballet Junior Company Mixed program Dutch National Ballet All Balanchine: Theme and Variations, Tarantella, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Apollo Paris Opera Ballet In G (Robbins), La Valse (Balanchine), Bolero (Cherkaoui) BOOKING AUGUST 2016 May 11 -19 (9 days) London An American in Paris (Wheeldon) Royal Ballet Mayerling (MacMillan) The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (Forsythe), Tarantella (Balanchine), Strapless (Wheeldon), new Scarlett Northern Ballet Casanova (Tindall) plus possible other performances by other companies TBA BOOKING JANUARY 2017

Dear God that sounds awful

52 pounds + 12.5% tip? It would have to be REALLY special... I would hope the food and service should be fabulous!