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  1. alison

    George Michael RIP

    alison replied to Anon2's topic in Not Dance

    I see the BBC is showing a recording of him at the Palais Garnier tomorrow night: I think it was BBC1, 10-11 pm.
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    Perhaps they simply meant that it was the first Classical principal role he danced after joining the RB? Because as I said earlier, it wasn't his debut.
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    Well, if it was said, it was wrong, so I hope it wasn't!
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    Getting back to the 1960 transmission for a minute, I was interested to see the corps dancers in Swan Lake were dancing in something approaching Romantic tutus, while Fonteyn was in a tutu. Considering the number of people who have complained about the Dowell/Sonnabend production contrasting tutu and long skirts, I found this quite surprising.
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    There may have been good reasons for one or both of the above Yes, the programme did seem to be being directed at the child audience as well. I'd assumed that was the situation, although Bruce Wall may also be right. I was half expecting the commentary to mention that the sleigh had broken down and the dancers had to wing it - that would have been a useful acknowledgement that it's live theatre and things can go wrong at times. I too felt the other debutante SPFs could at least have been interviewed/shown in rehearsal (I was dipping in and out of this one, but don't think we saw them), although I suppose that it would have been difficult to give them much coverage since their debuts would have been too late for this documentary. Yes, I was surprised: I know it's unusual, but Hayward and Campbell both dance the "other couple", and that might have been worth a mention too.
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    How can he be 30 already?!
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    George Michael RIP

    alison replied to Anon2's topic in Not Dance

    So sad - I've just heard it on the news: I suppose more information will be forthcoming in due course. My deepest sympathies to his family and friends, particularly given the date.
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    A Merry Christmas to everyone
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    Is this a new one, or a repeat of the one featuring David Hallberg?
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    I always really liked Bussell as the Lilac Fairy (as I was reminded when watching the programme on her just now) - I thought it suited her down to the ground (probably not harmed by my seeing her in it for the first time and thinking "My goodness, this girl's going to be a star"). Does anyone have any idea when she gave up dancing it?
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    Yes, I really enjoyed that one, having just caught up with it. I thought I'd pretty much watched everything the BBC had done on ballet since I got my first recorder back in around 1998, but clearly I'd missed out on quite a few things, because I don't remember much of that at all.
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    And just before Christmas, too. His poor family, friends and fans Status Quo were part of my, well, I won't say childhood, but certainly adolescence.
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    Incidentally, the continuity announcers keep referring to this being a "Joy of Dance" season. First I remember any mention of it - was there a press release or something? That's what they usually do when they're bigging up a series of programmes.
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    thewinelake: it was June 2007.
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    I guess the point was that this was the BBC raiding its archives, and they presumably wouldn't have had access to anything from NYCB? Plus I don't remember much of the RB's Balanchine output being screened.
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    I may well move the above posts to the discussion forum, but in the meantime: I picked up a copy of yesterday's Evening Standard today, and while flicking through it I spotted a photo of Margot Fonteyn in Firebird garb. It turns out that London Live (which I believe is channel 8 on Freeview) on Christmas Day has a programme of the Royal Ballet from 12.15 - 3 pm. It says it's Ondine, The Firebird and Swan Lake Act II, so presumably just a re-showing of the DVD which is available, but it's certainly worth it. I'm not sure how far across the country London Live coverage stretches, but you may be lucky. Does it tend to cover the arts fairly regularly, or is the ballet and opera only a festive thing? I've virtually totally managed to ignore its existence since it was launched, but have I been wrong to do so?
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    Please note there are no trains into Charing Cross and Waterloo East railway stations from now up to and including December 27th - bear in mind if you're trying for e.g. Nutcracker matinees later on today. Services diverted into other Southeastern stations, mainly Victoria. As if that wasn't bad enough, it looks as though Southeastern services on other routes into Victoria may be cut down to make space for the diverted trains which would normally be using Charing Cross! And then who knows whether any trains will be running on Southern ... Merry Christmas
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    Just got home from Sleeping Beauty and fast-forwarded through the "Bussell on the BBC" programme. This actually looks as though it might be worth recording, with some significant clips of her in performance. (But which stupid idiot went and scheduled the repeat of this against the repeat of her Fonteyn programme???!!! One on BBC2, one on BBC4)
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    Waitrose gingerbread muffins
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    Well, Bruce will know best, of course, but the original site dates from the mid-ish 1990s, and was certainly going by 1997. I know that because I set up an email address specially, and still have the odd message dating from 1997 in there! Edit: correction: 1998. So that probably means about 1997 for the site, I should think, and maybe earlier for the "toybox" site which preceded it?
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    As mentioned elsewhere, a repeat of the Bussell Fonteyn programme over the New Year's weekend, along with a repeat of Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty. Fuller details when I have time.
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    Sorry, but not surprised, to read this. She will indeed be missed.
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    Ah, right. So nobody needs to record the signed version
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    Wasn't a member setting up a company or something to source dancewear for males?
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    Not tonight - that's 7.00 pm.
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