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  1. alison
    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.
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    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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    Exactly. While watching Danses Concertantes I found myself thinking "I wish he'd done more of this sort of thing". Perhaps he did, but we just don't get to see it as much? Was it really his first work? It was hugely impressive as a response to the music.
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    I think it says something that you've focused on the woman rather than the man here, and perhaps reflects what I felt was wrong with last night's performance compared with those of the last run 15 years ago: I didn't feel as though it had completely come into focus last night. Hopefully next time ...
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    I'd somehow suspected that that might be the case. Best wishes to her and Nehemiah.
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    Blimey, Rob has already got his photos up and I'm not even home yet!
  12. alison
    At 18 quid, I'm not surprised. I remember people on here complaining when the price went up to £7! It may of course not be the same champagne.
  13. alison
    I can't comment on Different Drummer at all, so nothing re scenery: the last programme contained only articles on the music and on Büchner and Woyzeck
  14. alison
    This was a mid-morning train, so wasn't desperately busy. They'd just got in to the nearest carriage and not paid any attention to the signs.
  15. alison
    Presumably still on the top prices only?
  16. alison
    Hmm, just looked at the advertised running time of 2 hrs 45 minutes on the ROH website. If my maths isn't wonky, we're actually talking at rather nearer 3 hours.
  17. alison
    Let's hope it's healed by early April, then, when she has her first Swan Lake.
  18. alison
    Oh yes, the quiet carriage which people just ignore anyway (or did on my recent trip to Birmingham on Chiltern). Some people got on at Solihull or somewhere and just yakked all the way to Moor Street. Fortunately I'd given up trying to work by then anyway.
  19. alison
    Crystal Pite is on In Tune this evening at some point, talking about Assembly Hall, which will be performed at Sadler's Wells.
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    I don't remember her doing doubles in the performance I saw, though.
  21. alison
    BTW, I can't speak so much for the other ballets, but I meant to say that in my book Requiem benefits from being seen from a more elevated position so that you can see the patterns better.
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    Ticket has been returned.
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    My immediate reaction on seeing that was "Wow, that's clever, replacing two people in the same performance", but then I checked the casting I've no idea whether these are down to injury, illness (probably not, given the time span), performance clash or what, but I guess we'll find out sooner or later.
  24. alison
    Wow, those piqué turns! And doubles, too - I didn't know that was a possibility.
  25. alison
    Yep, it was happening in the Second Circle, too. I can understand that there might be the odd worried parent wondering how the babysitter is coping at home, but not that many, surely?
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