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  1. alison
    Given how difficult it is to get a Symphonic Variations cast right, I think I might be prepared to sacrifice certain other performers in other casts - for the time being - in order for that to be achieved. OTOH, The Dream does need good casting ...
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    Talking about Choe, with Christmas imminent I suspect many of us had other things on our minds, but I must record her lovely performance as Aurora a couple of days prior. And for those who were wondering at the time, no, it wasn't Hirano's debut as Florimund: he'd danced the role (with Choe!) last time around too.
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    Of course - I just haven't had time to look at the links this week, that's all!
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    Drat. It must have been in Tuesday's, and it's too late for me to pick one up now. Thanks for flagging it, anyway.
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    Okay, that's another one, then. What with RB booking this month as well, I don't think my credit card provider is going to be too happy!
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    "Musical imagination" - a great way of describing what it is I so appreciate about Cuthbertson in particular in "abstract" roles of this type.
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    Ah, that would explain it. I was thinking you'd got the dates wrong because it was on Channel 4 last night.
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    The Prix

    alison replied to pas de chat's topic in Doing Dance

    Is this the Prix de Lausanne, or something else I don't know about?
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    What?! My goodness. How will they cope? How many dancers are there in the whole company - less than 70?
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    Well, I've just caught up with Hans Christian Andersen - needed some light relief - which I don't think I've actually ever seen before, although I certainly seem to know the songs from somewhere. Fascinating to see Bruhn, Petit and Jeanmaire - I hadn't realised there was quite so much ballet shoehorned (no pun intended) into this film - but highly disconcerting to see the Little Mermaid ballet being danced to bits of Liszt I'm more used to hearing in relation to Mayerling
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    This is repeated tomorrow, Wednesday 4th January, at 11.15 pm on BBC2. Oh, and lookey, Channel 4 tomorrow night, 8 pm, Location, Location, Location: "Kirstie Allsopp searches northeast London for ballet dancer Nicol and his brother Harry, who're joining together in the hope of getting on the property ladder." I wonder who they can mean?
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    Hello, Shya100, and welcome to the forum. Yes, I agree they needed a focus, and why not pick Hayward and Campbell, especially given the back story. I haven't watched it properly yet, having been otherwise occupied for part of it, but my impression was rather that they focused on Sugar Plum to the detriment of Drosselmeyer, Clara and Hans-Peter, though (and they could have remarked that H & C were also dancing the other two roles). Perhaps I'll change my mind when I watch it properly.
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    The changes must have gone up just after I last looked: I was trying to do some Get Into London Theatre bookings about 1 1/2 hours ago! Sorry Khaniukova is out, but as I'd hoped, Rojo is in (and dancing with Parish, too)! Were there any other changes apart from that? Oh drat, Oliveira too. That's bad luck on the ballerina side. Let's hope no further changes. Anyone with any experience of Dronina's Giselle? Wondering if Rojo's links with NBC helped here.
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    I see Jane's beaten me to it. And having weekend matinees makes it easier for the half-amphi-full of Liverpudlians (or that's what it's felt like at Ball's previous debuts), I'm sure Hopefully they don't clash with BRB performances, either.
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    Wasn't there a modern version from the Lyon company, or am I imagining it?
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    I'd guess not for some considerable time yet. Your guess is probably as good as mine.
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    Oops, I'm obviously not really awake yet: when Angela said "no guests", I had visions of them performing to an empty theatre, and thought "?????!!!" Edit: Well, I've just read the schedule, and thought "Who?" for most of the dancers, so I'm not sure that "international renommierte Tänzer" really applies
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    We discussed this film here: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/5479-anna-pavlova-film/?hl=portici
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    Very sad. Not only did he create the numerous La Sylphides which Johan mentions, but of course he's also responsible for the current Royal Ballet Sleeping Beauty, along with many many other works.
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    Frankincense

    alison replied to Quintus's topic in Not Dance

    Ugh, is that the stuff they use in high churches as incense? I can't bear the stuff (I was so relieved when they didn't bother burning any incense in Act II of Anastasia this time around!)
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    Oh please, go ahead and deal with the musical side too, Geoff - I didn't mean that to be left out. I had problems with this one, I must admit - and probably standing for 4 1/2 hours doesn't help, but I've done that for Lohengrin before and been transfixed, so it is possible. But I have to admit that boredom set in in several places, and I hadn't expected that, because I usually love Strauss - but then I'd not even heard the opera all the way through before that. It certainly wasn't quite what I'd expected.
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    Oh yes, I'm always signed in (you can barely do anything without being signed in). Oddly enough, it happened again the other day (Links forum, as usual) when my browser crashed or summat, which I think meant rebooting the computer. As soon as I got back online, the Links forum was all greyed out. The others were as they always have been ...
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    I'm glad you spotted that, Ian: the paper had just "blown open" to that page on one of the copies I saw in the supermarket this morning
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    ^^ Caffe Nero's are just about as good ^^
  25. alison
    Conceivable, as ever, that she was offered something and turned it down ...
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