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the latest in my series. Goats are involved. http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/09/history-of-word-cabriole.html

Oh lucky you! Matthew is great (also looks amazingly like Brad Pitt, which will please the ladies on balletcoforum). He's from Saskatchewan (Canada) originally, trained at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School then at the Kirov Academy in Washington DC. A YAGP first prize winner. Was with ABT's junior company, then I think Angel Corella's company before joining DNB. Has had quite a meteoric career and can be seen on both DNB's Don Q and Nutcracker DVDs. A beautiful turner. Enjoy!

Alys Shee is from the Toronto area. She trained with Nadia Veselova Tencer (who with her husband Solomon Tencer produces the Stars of the 21st Century galas) at the Academy of Ballet and Jazz in Richmond Hill (suburb of Toronto). Alys also received a lot of coaching from Evelyn Hart. She won the gold medal in the junior women's category at this year's Helsinki competition.

With the current recession, and the general public wanting to put funding for the arts at the very bottom of the list of public spending, I think this is absolutely the right thing for the Royal to be doing.

 

When Arts organisations are looking for public funding they really must also be doing all they can to raise as much money as they can themselves.

I agree this is a good idea, but there is a danger in it. When arts organizations start raising money from other sources, the government funders do have a tendency, instead of saying, "Bravo, we'll match that", to say "well, you're getting money elsewhere, so now we'll cut back", so the arts organizations don't find themselves any further ahead.

Sylph Ekaterina Krysanova James Vyacheslav Lopatin Madge, witch Irina Zibrova Effie, James' fiancee Anna Rebetskaya Gurn Denis Savin Anna, James' mother Irina Semirechenskaya Two Friends Alexander Vorobiyov

Alexander Voytyuk Pas de six Ivan Alexeyev

Xenia Kern

Maria Prorvich

Anna Proskurnina

Igor Tsvirko

Klim Yefimov Old Musician Andrei Sitnikov The First Sylph Anna Tikhomirova Two Sylphs Olga Kishnyova

Victoria Yakusheva

sorry this didn't come out in nice columns. You can see it in a tidier format here: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/09/bolshoi-live-broadcast-la-sylphide_5.html

The next in my series of ballet term etymologies: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/09/history-of-word-bourree.html

intriguing! I'd love to see the "Tantrum Fairy"!

I loved them all, Anjuli!

We've seen 2 duets at Symphony Hall and they were pretty wonderful!

 

Will you be seeing it somewhere Katherine?

I wish!!! but unfortunately haven't been able to persuade anyone to go to England with me to see it. I thought it would make a nice February break with RB's all Ashton and Apollo/Wheeldon/Ratmansky programs in February.

I saw a video of Aladdin in the archives of the New National Theatre of Japan last summer and really enjoyed it, especially the "Aladdin's Cave" divertissements.

ok it's insisting on embedding it! paste this into the YT search window: Fantastik! Super! 2012Year 1-Part ballet.Ekz.7-A.Class Vaganova.

Anjuli, try this youtube link:

Chi Cao, eh, Janet?

Giselle in both cases. But they weren't dancing it together!

That's pretty much standard at Sadler's Wells if you buy more than one programme. Most useful, though.

about time that someone mentioned the Sadler's Wells discount on the forum, in that case! Sometimes really useful info like this fails to get mentioned simply because people think everyone knows already. But they don't necessarily. Are there other discounts that are "pretty much standard" that it would be worth posting about?

Just noticed Sadler's Wells is offering 20% off if you book 2 performances of SFB. Here's the link: http://www.sadlerswells.com/page/whats-on-multibuy

... and if so ...

WHY????

Find out in my ongoing series of word histories of ballet terms : http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/08/between-cats-history-of-word-entrechat.html

Paris Opera Ballet has just announced its season of 3 live broadcasts. For details, click here.

as we North Americans like to say... doctorate schmoctorate!

cookies (biscuits) will definitely be ok for a couple of days but they're more time consuming to make than cakes are. Carrot cake keeps really well. Here's my recipe (in North American style, using cups rather than weights, sorry). It has half the fat of regular carrot cake recipes but is just as good! Also more fibre if you use whole wheat flour, and I swear people will never know.

3 eggs

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup (4 oz) oil

1/2 cup plain yogourt

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1/2 cups (200 g) flour (all whole wheat, or half and half whole wheat and white)

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 1/2 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

2 cups finely grated carrots.

Beat eggs and sugar together till light and fluffy, beat in oil and yogourt and vanilla. Beat in dry ingredients just till blended then stir in carrots. Add 1/2 cup walnuts and/or 1/2 cup raisins if liked. If it's looking too runny you might need to add some flour (carrots can vary quite a bit in moisture content).

Bake at 350 degrees in a 9 inch square pan for 45 minutes or until done. Or you can put it in muffin tins and call it muffins.

For a time when you have way more time on your hands and you need something ballet-themed, check out my pointe shoe cookie recipe: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/08/pointe-shoe-cookie-recipe-how-to.html

One thing definitely not to bake in advance is scones, because they're really only good on the day they're made.

Second post in my "etymology of ballet terms" series: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2012/08/history-of-word-fouette.html

Oh, sorry. I intended to write it in the topic title. John Cranko.

I believe Finnish National Ballet uses the designs created for the National Ballet of Canada's last production of Cranko's Romeo (before it switched to Ratmansky's new version last autumn). Sets and costumes are by Susan Benson. Is that correct, Willie?

also, Making Ballet with Karen Kain documents the creation of James Kudelka's The Actress.

Bringing Balanchine Back, about NYCB's 2004 tour to Russia, is also good. Includes footage of Robbins' Glass Pieces which isn't available on video.

And another thing on the music front. I would think that a lot of adults taking up ballet are people who are ballet fans and so know it from the audience viewpoint. As a result,I always find it particularly inspiring when the music is something I recognize from a ballet: plies to the Shades entrance, grands battements to the Dance of the Knights from R&J etc etc. In my head I see those beautiful images or pretend I'm Juliet or whatever and I find that I work harder without it feeling like work.