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  1. I am, as my username reveals, new to the world of ballet and live in London, so I have gravitated towards the RB too. While I'm keen to see as many different ballets as I can, I would probably first look for the production itself - for instance I've just booked for the triple bill including Rite of Spring for the ballet not the dancers.

    However I actually find I'm almost more interested in the 'anonymous' corps de ballet than in the principals dancing the lead roles- I mean that the cast lists never tell you who specifically is dancing what in the corps on any given night. As I don't know enough to be able to tell good from bad in the dancing, I sort of assume that all the principals are automatically amazing, and I'm more interested in watching and identifying those in the background, and tracing their careers as they move up through the company. Often it's one of those dancers who really catches my eye - I saw Claudia Dean in the corps a while ago and couldn't take my eyes off her, so I've booked to see her in the Rite of Spring. But likewise when I saw ENB I couldn't stop watching Nancy Osbaldeston and I'm hoping to be able to go and see her soon too.

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  2. I LOVE knitting and especially knitting useful things - I spend a lot of time in libraries and archives (historian...) and they are always very cold, so I knitted fingerless 'Fagin' gloves and have worn them to death. Your instructions made me chuckle a lot, definitely knit them up into a book!

     

    Porthesia I envy your proximity to Hobbycraft...though I would be permanently broke if let loose in there regularly ;-)

  3. My washing machine steals socks too. Maybe one day I'll turn the tap on and they'll come out of there instead- like a plumbing conspiracy...!

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  4. Ah! Thanks for the info - then it was Takahiro Tamagawa I was particularly blown away by though the other two were also incredible.

     

    One of the Yr 11 girls writes a public blog called 'all4ballet' and has put up a post today about Sunday's performance - apparently two girls who had performed in the Youth Concerto throughout the Linbury week had to withdraw from Sunday due to injury, and two Yr 11 'covers' replaced them, one of whom was the author of this blog post. So I guess it wasn't designed in the first place to showcase only those who had got into Upper School. I'm sure they all have fantastic futures in dance regardless :)

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  5. I was there too on Sunday and it was amazing!!! My favourite piece was Canon in D which seems to have been the case for many people. I was blown away by (I think) Esteban Hernandez - was he the one out first? Absolutely phenomenal. I also really enjoyed the Seven Greek Dances.

    I have to say, though that I'm in agreement with those above who found La Destinee slightly dull - the dancers were themselves wonderful but the narrative didn't seem to go anywhere much. It did work well to showcase every single dancer though. It's very interesting that no one has yet mentioned the Sonata for Six (dancers in red!) as this goes along with my impression too, it was pleasant to watch but not memorable. More to do with the choreography than the dancers.

     

    The first piece, the Youth Concerto, was lovely to watch even from very high up in the Upper Amphitheatre although such a shame for the girl in the solo pair who took a tumble - the sympathy from the audience was palpable. I'm afraid I don't know her name, I think she was year 6.1, but aside from that she was beautiful to watch. I had thought that all the year 11 girls in this piece had got into Upper School but I may well be wrong there - anyone know? It also looked to me like the year 10 girls got quite a lot of semi-solo bits but again from so far away it was difficult to know.

     

    The defile was breathtaking, that's the first time I've seen it and I am SO going again next year, it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up! The little year 7s were so small, but such amazing dancers, which was the overall impression I was left with - as others have said, it was so easy to forget how young they are because they were so good!

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