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  1. alison
    Well, occasionally maybe, but probably not that frequently.
  2. alison
    Given that she is getting to the stage where she will be giving up dancing, might it not make sense to concentrate on developing potential partnerships among the company's dancers? And of course she wasn't originally supposed to be dancing Giselle at all, but only stepped in to another ballerina's scheduled performance (with a guest), whereupon said guest was apparently injured and replaced by Xander Parish.
  3. alison
    It's quite likely nobody will know until the day - and even then, it might change I'd guess you might get something being rehearsed up to a month ahead of schedule, so it could be Mayerling, part of the "Tarantella" triple bill or anything. It's pot luck, unless specified otherwise. What it probably *won't* be is anything which is being specifically covered in an insight evening. I did some time ago start a thread asking people to record what turned out to be covered in the insights and rehearsals in an attempt to make an educated guess at the future schedule, but it was never kept up.
  4. alison
    The "babysitting" aspect also applies, I find, when you have one child who is old enough to attend performances and behave reasonably, and they have a younger sibling who isn't yet. So you take the younger one along as well because it's the line of least resistance ...
  5. alison
    Let's not divert the thread into politics. We have enough of that everywhere else at the moment
  6. alison
    I think some people do that at the ROH It clearly states on the tickets for Giselle that "Children under 5 WILL NOT be admitted EXCEPT to Family Friendly performances". OTOH, it also says that if you leave your seat there will be no readmittance, yet there were at least 2 people last night who went out and were allowed back in.
  7. alison
    B and C were lower priced last time I sat there for the Nutcracker, which was probably 3 years ago or so. I sat in Row H the other night: from my view there, I'd guess that it's probably the first row from which there is no interference by the rail - at least in the centre blocks.
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    But there is surely an argument to be made as to how worthwhile it is to have dancers guest simply to perform for what, a maximum of 15 minutes in a standalone number? (And I'm not having a go at Salenko: I said the same thing when they brought in Cory Stearns "merely" to dance the Sugar Plum's cavalier/prince, or whatever his title is). It's another matter entirely if the Prince is involved in the story from when the Nutcracker is brought to life, or if Clara/Marie/Masha turns into the Sugar Plum, because then they are fully involved in the ballet.
  9. alison
    What's Jane Shilling doing reviewing ballet in the Telegraph?
  10. alison
    Except that I thought Parish had made it pretty clear somewhere that his future is with the Mariinsky now (albeit that he wouldn't mind returning to the UK to guest)?
  11. alison
    Ah, LoveFilm. I really used to like them, until Amazon took them over and seemingly couldn't be bothered with them. My main reason for signing up with them in the first place was because of all the ballet DVDs I could get hold of - plus the odd box set of a TV series I was very keen on. Blockbuster never had either. I don't have the bandwidth to make Amazon Prime an option, unfortunately
  12. alison
    Having not been taken by ENO's version, which I think is the only one I've ever seen, I was wondering whether I should give this one a go. Thoughts on the production and the scheduled casts would be most welcome.
  13. alison
    Well, unfortunately I ended up only seeing two casts for this production, so am probably not the best placed to pass judgement, but having seen both ex-RB Giselles I felt there was something missing in their performances, based on what I'd seen before at the RB. Since that was such a consistent impression, though, I do wonder whether it's something in the Skeaping production which has that effect rather than the individual performances.
  14. alison
    I've done that before, too. Went to a performance of Eugene Onegin at the Coli some years ago and had, I think, a front Upper Circle ticket, probably courtesy of the half-price place in Leicester Square, and was blown away. So much so that I decided to see it again and take a friend with me. From our rear Upper Circle seats it seemed a lot less impressive
  15. alison
    So was I.
  16. alison
    OR the tax breaks?
  17. alison
    Oh really? The one time I tried it, I thought I went in via the event page.
  18. alison
    One would certainly hope so ... And it must surely be possible to put together an Ashton mixed bill which doesn't actually require the same type of dancers throughout: there must surely be enough variety in his (regularly performed?) works to allow that - there are enough of them, after all. After all, it's not exactly as if it's McGregor using and re-using the usual suspects for much of the time.
  19. alison
    Possibly because the "wonderful, tall, young candidates" are being considered (or have been cast) for other roles? That is the trouble with these "all-[choreographer]" bills, regardless of who [choreographer] is: if you have dancers who are particularly good at that choreographer's works, or are frequently cast in them in the case of still-living choreographers, you have to make compromises in terms of which works you cast them in, as generally it's impractical/impossible to get them to appear in each piece, even if it's split between different performances. At the Royal Ballet, it used to be that you would have A-cast and B-cast performances, and that a leading dancer would dance a role in one part of the programme for the A-cast and another role for the B-cast (I seem to remember Yoshida and Cojocaru swapping between Daphnis and Chloe and Scenes de Ballet about 12 years ago), but in recent years it seems that management has become a lot more cautious about doubling-up, whether it's due to scheduling or to worries about potential injury - both Edward Watson and Leanne Benjamin, in their last run together of The Dream/Song of the Earth reported being given an "either/or" option only, and as we've noticed in recent all-Ashton bills leading dancers have usually only initially been assigned a role in one of the "bigger" ballets. As a result, we may end up getting less-than-optimum casting in some works.
  20. alison
    They seem to be "optional" in several versions.
  21. alison
    Wish I'd seen it ... BTW, reduced-price tickets for both performances tomorrow in Leicester Square.
  22. alison
    Can't wait to see TBC as Oberon
  23. alison
    I really hope it's not going to be a letdown ... (but boy it's a shame American in Paris hasn't generated the same sort of buzz)
  24. alison
    Okay, will try it on another machine, and with a different browser. Thanks.
  25. alison
    Oh, and I'd like to thank everyone for their performance posts: having had to miss most of the showings through no fault of my own, I'm having to live vicariously off third-party reports
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