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  1. alison
    Dances at a Gathering is Robbins
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    It ... glows 😀
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    I see - entirely by accident, because I'm pretty certain I haven't received the email - this is on in the cinema tomorrow. Worth going?
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    Just wondering, has anyone tried getting through the cinema showings to anything but the cinema closest to you? I'm struggling.
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    Well, I'm assuming that, as a general member of the public, either seats will be available to me or they'll be hidden unless you belong to a specified other category. So I can't see any particular point in my logging in - although in fact it turns out that I am logged in here, and still can't see any seats.
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    Johan Inger will be talking about his production of Carmen for ENB later on today.
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    Well, again, they weren't showing up on the performances I looked at, hence my choice of the word "allegedly", because I didn't want to get people's hopes up too much.
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    I booked on Saturday. I wasn't even asked for my Membership number first, although that would obviously have come up when they took my personal details.
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    There are currently (allegedly) a few cheap-ish tickets available for many of the May dates of the Spring run, in case anyone's interested.
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    Oops, I'd totally forgotten that I'd already asked for this year!
  11. alison
    Just make sure it's not when you're standing - the Stalls Circle is cramped enough at times as it is! Talking about comps, something I'd heard recently rather suggested that they were generally a thing of the past, certainly for the sort of programmes which would be expected to sell out.
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    I saw Parma in a matinee in Birmingham a few weeks ago: I don't know whether she danced it again, and/or whether it was indeed her debut, but she certainly impressed me.
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    BTW, I appreciated the "not a frat party" comment Influencers do get a lot of stuff given them for free. Actually, I'd have thought that a 3-figure stalls ticket for Swan Lake would actually represent a good investment in terms of returns. Certainly more than actually paying someone to do some serious publicity. As for Different Drummer not being "fun", I'd say that to judge by the audience reaction it was particularly the younger audience members who appreciated it.
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    The ROH, as ever, is caught between a rock and a hard place. It has to position itself as a glamorous and exclusive venue while at the same time being accessible. Not an easy thing to do. Unfortunately - and probably as a result of the current financial climate - it seems to be leaning too far towards exclusive at present.
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    I'm pretty certain that a Russian touring ballet company I saw touring to the Fairfield Halls had a half-black, half-white tutu for Odile.
  16. alison
    Aren't claquettes tap shoes, or am I imagining it?
  17. alison
    Just wondering whether anyone had seen this and could report back? Featuring a cut-down version of MacMillan's Isadora, Martha Graham's Errand into the Maze and others.
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    Drat. I'd forgotten all about it
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    Well, that's hardly unusual: many times these "off-public" performances have been used for lower-stress main-role debuts. Darcey Bussell's Odette/Odile was one such, I believe.
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    Not to mention that the sets and costumes have to be borrowed, don't they? Unless the company has their own, which the RB doesn't, I believe.
  21. alison
    So he did. It was in late 1993, still early in my ROH-going days. I wonder why I missed it? There's no way from the performance database you can work out what the other elements of a mixed bill were, is there? EDIT: Looks like Herman Schmerman and a couple of new works, unspecified in what I could find out. Can see that I might not have bothered with it.
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    Incidentally, I got into the office this afternoon to find I'd missed a Radio 3 broadcast of Transfigured Night, the "second part" of Different Drummer. Considering that Radio 3 has for weeks been advertising that they'll be playing the Fauré Requiem on Palm Sunday, I'm wondering whether Danses Concertantes is going to show up at some point as well! It's worth noting, for classical music lovers, that this bill is also a feast of good music
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    I think you must be confusing dates, Vanartus: Watson (and Putrov) definitely did the "tightrope walk" along the railway line at the end, so it must be a previous run you're thinking of. I don't remember Cooper being in the ballet, but I could simply have missed it. I think there may have been something in my 2008 programme about the ending having been changed, unless it was in the current one which I had a glimpse of last night.
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    Thank you, lizbie. It's good to get more coverage of the POB.
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    I should perhaps point out that unless the rules have changed dancers, along with footballers, in the UK are allowed to draw a pension from the age of 35. (How many dancers can afford to is another matter). But there's a large gulf between being able to retire at that age and being forcibly retired 7 years later. We've commented many times on here on dancers giving excellent performances way beyond 42 - I think Bonelli was over 42 when he took over as AD of Northern Ballet? - and people like Miyako Yoshida, Leanne Benjamin and of course Alessandra Ferri are just a few examples.
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