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  1. alison
    I imagine it was an exception. After all, both dancers might have had other plans for a Saturday night.
  2. alison
    Just for clarification, it was bad enough as it was, but I don't think anyone actually mentioned a *fight*.
  3. alison
    Probably less than a week to go to apply, but check with your local council.
  4. alison
    That's not so uncommon, actually, to some extent or other.
  5. alison
    So, since people have asked what happened tonight: - announcement that Ashley Dean was being replaced by Meaghan Grace Hinkis in Danses Concertantes and by Isabella Gasparini in Requiem (this is showing in the cast sheet currently on the ROH website anyway, but I guess it must have been a late enough replacement that an earlier sheet had already been posted); - Kevin O'Hare appears front of curtain to explain that Reece Clarke has been taken ill and advised not to dance, and that because of the complexity of the choreography this has entailed knock-on casting changes for the dancers' safety (in particular since it presumably involved Serrano changing from dancing Andres to being the Drum Major, and therefore Benjamin Ella needing to step in as Andres). I was disappointed not to see Osipova and Donnelly, but in fact I think this may have been the best performance that Sambé and Hayward gave (although I must admit to getting distracted by extraneous events). - Ah, yes, those extraneous events. During Different Drummer, it sounded like some glass smashing somewhere amphitheatre right, then several bouts of loud shouting - unclear, but including a few f-bombs - during the later part of the ballet. I suspect it was loud enough to be heard on stage. I gather someone else fainted down in the Stalls Circle as well. - and then Hirano's injury during Requiem Not a good evening
  6. alison
    I believe he'd pulled out in order to have surgery on whatever it is that has been causing him problems, so presumably thought he was still able to do Requiem? He actually had a problem just before those jumps, I think - I noticed he took longer to get into position in the previous pose than the other dancers with him. Such a shame, especially after the duet was so good. But yes, kudos to the company for managing to adjust well to his absence - it's not as if they had much time offstage in which they could discuss how to compensate. Matthew Ball managed to do the final lift with Lamb so well that you'd never have known that it wasn't choreographed that way - I'd expected they might just do something with her bourrée-ing backwards and him doing what his role normally requires, but no. I hope Kevin O'Hare had some spare bottles of champagne, because they would have been deserved. (And, RobS, I love the expression on Francesca's face in particular when she's handed the bottle!)
  7. alison
    Really? I haven't in the Dowell production (haven't seen any earlier ones). Obviously it will depend on where you sit what background the legs are merging with, but I certainly had trouble with Siegfried in his Act I/II dark blue costume (and there was one live relay, I think to Big Screens, so notoriously dark anyway, with Carlos Acosta in the lead and you could barely see him at all). A similar problem with Onegin (Kobborg, I think?) in the mirror scene. But Act III in the Dowell production often gave me problems.
  8. alison
    Will report when I'm on a functioning computer. If nobody else does in the meantime.
  9. alison
    Kudos to the whole company tonight for having to perform under some extremely difficult conditions. What professionals! And best wishes to Ryo Hirano for a full recovery.
  10. alison
    I think that's not infrequently the case, from what I see elsewhere. "Salary commensurate with age and experience" is something I not infrequently see.
  11. alison
    Glad to hear it, for Sophoife's sake.
  12. alison
    Me too, pretty much. And that reminds me - with all the complaints about the absence of New York City Ballet from these shores, it must be even longer now since the Paul Taylor company has been here. They used to come here what felt like every couple of years or so - I wonder what changed?
  13. alison
    I suppose it depends on what you mean by "contemporary ballet" - some of those places suggested sound more like contemporary dance to me. Welcome to the forum, BTW, davy jones.
  14. alison
    My reaction on the first night was: have they replaced Vadim without announcing it? Who was second cast?!
  15. alison
    I tried it once, for Don Quixote back in the Stretton era. Never again! I had to leave after 5 to 10 minutes ☹️
  16. alison
    Interesting you should say that: at the Royal Opera broadcast of Madama Butterfly last month, there was a whole piece on how the stage lighting at the ROH is being changed - I can't off-hand remember whether the change to LEDs was mentioned there or elsewhere, though. It may well be online on YouTube somewhere now, I suppose.
  17. alison
    Oh, they certainly were, although my local-est Odeon seems to have given up doing Encore showings. Possibly it will deign to do one for something as popular as Swan Lake, though.
  18. alison
    That's a point. I have a friend who almost drools at the very mention of Petroc - perhaps I should try to persuade her to come along to these cinema relays. Might even make a convert!
  19. alison
    Clapham and East Dulwich Picturehouses Monday daytime, for a start ... It's so difficult to tell from the horrible new webpage, though.
  20. alison
    Ah, in that case I think we got a rather worse version than you? I'd say 2 x about 1 minute, or at least long enough for me to put up with it, then start considering whether I should get up and go and find someone to report it. And then it stopped, so I didn't.
  21. alison
    I'm really sorry to hear that, Lynette. Can you make an Encore performance (down my way, perhaps?). They aren't normally all on the following Sunday. Sometimes they can be: at others they most certainly aren't. I've had some really poor experiences from them (and when I saw Swan Lake from one the other day it was rather worse than I would have expected) as well as some good ones. It's just so hit and miss where the seats are in relation to the people in front of you.
  22. alison
    Which version of Acosta's Don Q? I think BRB's is generally better. Haven't seen the Nureyev since the RB did it in 2001, so it's difficult to comment.
  23. alison
    Yes, I arrived late, and also got back late after the first interval, so missed some of the talking, but thought some more explanation could have been given about the plot - such as it is - of Different Drummer, just to put it into context. After all, you can't really expect your audience to have read the play - or even seen the opera - especially in this day and age. Did I miss something? Or does the company seem to be as reluctant to talk about it as it does in its printed programmes?
  24. alison
    Good luck, Sophoife. Of course, different company, different venue, different country - it might be different.
  25. alison
    I can There have of course been dancers guesting from other companies apart from the RB.
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