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I really think the Emeralds ladies should have green skirts though. The white skirts just don't do it for me. I think the all-green contributes to the vapourousness of Emeralds.

The original Karinska tutus for Diamonds, New York City Ballet version, are not pancake tutus either. Even the soloist, who has a short tutu, doesn't really have a pancake tutu. See this pic: http://www.nycballet.com/ballets/d/diamonds-%28from-jewels%29.aspx These are the same designs used by the Royal Ballet. except the RB soloist tutu skirt is a bit bigger.

well apparently the livestream link will be released on Monday, which is a bit late to get the word out to people if you ask me. ENB will update http://www.ballet.org.uk/whats-on/emerging-dancer-2016/ with the details.

I have read the announcement of the live stream over and over again but for the life of me cannot find information regarding the link required for watching the livestream. They tell you just about everything else except this essential piece of info! I'm guessing it's ENB's Youtube channel, but does anyone know?

I Mia Stensgaard does a better job on the costumes for Giselle than she did for Manon. (too bad there's not a "blech" icon...)

Stuttgart Ballet dancer Robert Robinson announces: Time: 7.30pm Prices: Standard: £12 Concession: £8 Dates: Tuesday 26th July, Wednesday 27th July BalletWorks is a charity event of high cultural calibre. With its diverse repertoire and international cast, the project seeks to bring the most exciting European developments to local theaters. We want to show that Ballet-Works. Over the past two seasons we have raised over £9000 for the Earl Mountbatten Hospice on the Isle of Wight. We want to continue helping various worthy causes. It is important for us to venture to other venues across England. This way we can bring BalletWorks to new audiences, bringing in new repertoire each year. This year's BalletWorks features dancers from Stuttgart Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Staatsballet Berlin and Ballet Augsburg. It also showcases commissions from great young choreographers, Louis Stiens and Richard Chappell. So go book your tickets now. Or visit our facebook page for more information. https://www.facebook.com/BalletWorks-1480811645469376/ Chisenhale Dance Space 64-84 Chisenhale Road London E3 5QZ Tel: 020 8981 6617 Where Chisenhale Dance Space - 64-84 Chisenhale Road, London, E3 5QZ, United Kingdom - View Map to buy tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/balletworks-tickets-24889511198 Yes you read that right, TWELVE POUNDS!!! to support a worthy cause, too.

annoying music though.

didn't they use to do two different programs in their autumn season and again in their February season? This season sounds definitely like retrenchment.

this Friday at 10 European time. http://video.kglteater.dk/live I attended one of these "Breakfast with Bournonville" performances live a couple of years ago and it was great fun. The whole performance is conceived by the students.

Stuttgart goes later than just about any other company. End of July is a bit of a wasteland everywhere for dance.

Just preparing my master calendar of all the major European companies, and when that is done I will see if a trip to Zurich would work well. If I absolutely HAD to see Alex Jones as part of that, well I'd just grin and bear it.

If you go to this page, where all the dancers are listed, watch what happens when you hover over (don't click) each picture with your mouse and then move to another one: http://www.opernhaus.ch/spielplan/ballett/ballett-home/

A reminder that NYCB will be in Paris in June. A great opportunity to soak up some Balanchine (and Robbins and others). There are some absolutely fab dancers in NYCB at the moment (Tiler Peck, Sara Mearns, Chase Finlay...)

Jerome Robbins used the music for Glass Pieces, which is also very stirring. Seize any chance to see it (you may have o go to New York!)

I am glad so many people liked this. It's the Royal Swedish Ballet we should thank! I just stumbled across it and thought I'd share it.

great video from Royal Swedish Ballet. 17 hours of tutu-making in 4 minutes.

I still find it shocking that of 11 ballets, 9 date from before 1980, and the remaining two are not new creations.

and I can see no mention of a work by Wayne McGregor, nor of a new creation for Munich.

that is not correct. It is Grigorovich's Spartacus according to the season brochure (if brochure is the correct word for a 328 page document!)

I wonder if this repertoire suggests that Zelensky is bringing Polunin with him. Alice: role of Knave created on him.... Spartacus: spectacular male role, etc. Munich is a shorter flight to London and La Belle Natalia than Moscow is...

Nothing too innovative in Munich! Wheeldon's Alice Fille La Bayadere R&J Symphony in C/In the Night/Adam Is (Aszure barton) Spartacus Giselle A Midsummer Night's Dream (Neumeier) Stanislavsky guesting with Mayerling

Tsiskaridze's personality does not seem to improve.

hahahahaha: "Look at these older girls, Some are slim, some are not". hahahahaha. Not slim, eh????

also a reminder that Elite syncopations and Manon, among others, were both trashed by the critics when they opened, as was Mayerling when the RB took it to the US.

Well this thread has wandered way off the topic of Mayerling ticket sales now being open in Vienna, but as for Cranko, it's hard to say he's underappreciated because in any given year at least 5 or 6 major companies are doing Onegin, others are doing his R&J, and yet others Taming of the Shrew.