Sarasota Ballet and San Francisco Ballet have cancelled the entire remainder of their seasons. Sarasota announced as follows:

"While this represents a potential financial loss to the Company of close to $800,000, we are committed to our dancers, and will continue to pay them through to the end of the Season.""

15 minutes ago, jm365 said:

Oh wonderful!  Made me laugh out loud for the first time for ages.

that was my intention!

8 minutes ago, Yrosered said:

With Sean Lake, Geisha and Dante tickets likely to be cancelled

"Sean Lake"

but geoblocked outside France, unless something has changed since yesterday

There are still a few glitches in Bavarian State Ballet website re next season (anything is forgiveable in the current circumstances): on the English page they say they are doing Swan Lake and Spartacus on the same day at the same time in the same theatre next April.... which would be interesting in a contrapuntal sort of way..

5 hours ago, assoluta said:

I actually "blame" them for playing gimmicks of this kind. They should refund the money automatically, without necessity for us to open those forms, reading them, filling them up, submitting, and so on.

Open. Read. Fill. Submit. Sooo onerous.

3 minutes ago, capybara said:

Whereas Paris did automatic refunds to the card used for payment, Berlin makes life more difficullt as they supply a pdf from to be filled in with bank details. Obviously, they are hoping that people will tick the voucher or the donation boxes. I am insisting that they refund my card.

"insisting" is a bit strong, isn't it? It's one of three options offered. All you have to do is tick the box, no insisting required. You can't blame them for offering the other two options.

6 minutes ago, Don Q Fan said:

Zurich Opera have now cancelled all shows until 30 April - they are supposed to be "crediting" client accounts with the ticket price value to be used indefinitely against future shows - cheeky.  They should be issuing proper refunds not a credit.  I am not happy about that.  If you want a refund you have to apply on a form - but no option to repay to the credit card you paid with as they ask for bank details. So out of touch/old fashioned.

Chemnitz is also offering only vouchers to be exchanged for another show. Not much good to me; when am I likely to be going to a performance in Chemnitz again?

Berlin is offering

refund

voucher

donate to the dancers' health fund

37 minutes ago, Angela said:

In Germany, Dresden Semperoper has closed until April 19th. They intended to stay open with a reduced audience, but no.

The only big opera/ballet house still open is Hamburg, all others are closed. I guess they will be following soon.

It's kind of ironic that I was supposed to be going to a performance there next week of a contemporary mixed program, and judging by the seating plan, the "reduced audience" had taken care of itself. By my guess not more than 300 tickets had been sold!

52 minutes ago, annamicro said:

 La Scala dancers at home 😊https://www.facebook.com/1617128171/posts/10219497139851941/

 

this is fabulous. Everyone, watch it!

14 minutes ago, Janite said:

REPEAT

Moulin Rouge: The Ballet

 A performance, based on the award-winning film Moulin Rouge, in which the nineteenth-century Paris comes back to life. Jorden Morris choreographs the ballet. 

Monday 23rd March on Sky Arts from 7:00pm to 9:00pm

This is the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. Pretty dreadful ballet in my opinion.

I just received an email from Berlin State Ballet (I have 26 tickets booked with them for the coming week) offering the following options:

 I would like a voucher for the value of the ticket(s).   
 I would like a refund:  

   I waive a refund and donate the purchase price to the health programme of the Staatsballett Berlin.

San Francisco Ballet is also asking patrons if they would consider donating the value of their ticket. Otherwise they will offer a credit for another SFB performance valid till May 2021. Not much good for people who might be travelling great distances to see the cancelled performances. I wonder if they can get away with not offering a refund.

Paris Opera Ballet is doing automatic refunds (they must have that process down pat by now!)

2 hours ago, Margaret said:

I tried this morning to book seats in the amphitheatre for the mixed bill on Sat 13th June only to find no seats on offer.  I discovered that this was now listed as a welcome performance, though there were no indications of this in the magazine or online. 

What is a "welcome performance"? Sounds very Orwellian if it means that we regular ballet fans are ... not welcome.

Seriously though, could someone explain what that means to me? I was planning to bring a group to that performance (although everything's on hold right now because of COVID)

This from the Canadian Public Health Agency:

Wearing masks

If you are a healthy individual, the use of a mask is not recommended for preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Wearing a mask when you are not ill may give a false sense of security. There is a potential risk of infection with improper mask use and disposal. They also need to be changed frequently.

However, your health care provider may recommend you wear a mask if you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 while you are seeking or waiting for care. In this instance, masks are an appropriate part of infection prevention and control measures. The mask acts as a barrier and helps stop the tiny droplets from spreading you when you cough or sneeze.

The problem with people using masks that don't need them is that it is creating a shortage for those who DO need them.

32 minutes ago, Sim said:

I work with doctors and pharmacists, and they say that the efficacity of masks, especially the simple paper ones you can buy over the counter, is debatable.  They said that the best thing they accomplish is to stop us touching our own mouths and noses after we've touched something potentially contaminated with virus.  So that's a good thing, I guess!

But other experts say they are worse than useless because the discomfort of wearing one makes people touch their faces more!

We are being told that the only people who should wear masks are those who are already sick (who shouldn't be out in public anyway)

Paris Opera is now closed. They have cancelled performances the day before yesterday, yesterday and today and will make an  announcement tomorrow concerning what is going to happen with upcoming performances.

@bangorballetboy @JohnS am I allowed to ask what booking is looking like for the following performances:

June 13 noon Monotones/Tombeaux/Symphonic

June 18 evening Queensland Ballet

(I'd be needing 20 tix best category)

14 hours ago, Sim said:

A shame she refers to ballet as “a guilty pleasure” though.  Speaking of newsreaders, Fiona Bruce was there tonight.  

YEs, and why did she have to start off by saying "It's not everybody's cup of tea". NOTHING is EVERYBODY's cup of tea.

3 hours ago, David said:

 

Did you have prior knowledge re casting for the NBC's Sleeping Beauty or were you having to book blind? I had been hoping that the casting would be listed on the website by now ie.  before the first tranche of booking opened.

Just to let you know, NBOC typically doesn't announce casting till 3 weeks before. I don't know if this will be any different because they are performing at the ROH.

I think the title of this thread should be 19/20 period 4, shouldn't it? Unless bbb is in some kind of superduper ultra early booking category?

On 15/02/2020 at 11:11, Geoff said:

Are any encore screenings of Swan Lake planned for the London area? I am completely stuck next Sunday so hope to find another screening later in the week or whatever. Help please!

this is the website I use.

https://www.bolshoiballetincinema.com/

there are some screenings that are not on the 23rd but the closest one I can find to London is in Dorking. Not very close!

I don't think we should expect companies to apologize for cast changes. And also I think it would look like a slur on the replacement cast, "Terribly sorry, you have to see Celine Gittens"

As for explanations, surely we can assume cast changes are due to injury or illness without it having to be spelled out for us. "Delia has a temperature of 102."