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  1. alison
    I should hope it *would* be, given how often it's performed
  2. alison
    Sounds like a good deal: http://www.travelzoo.com/uk/entertainment/london-southeast/-45-up-Verdi-s-Il-trovatore-in-London-Save-up-to-50--2398173/?utm_source=localdeal_uk&utm_medium=email&utm_content=2400963&utm_campaign=2400963_html_london_deal%3a2398173
  3. alison
    FWIW, here's the link to the information about screenings: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/12752-australian-ballet-in-cinemas/
  4. alison
    That's pretty amazing. Did anyone else go? I'd rather forgotten it was on until about an hour and a half beforehand, and I don't think any of my local cinemas cover it.
  5. alison
    It always seems to start off well, but somehow by the time I'm halfway through it's beginning to be quite disgusting. Don't know why I don't think I've ever managed to get completely through one.
  6. alison
    What on earth are they doing on Viagogo? It's a resale site, isn't it? Wonder if the ROH knows about this - they allegedly have the ability to invalidate the tickets.
  7. alison
    Well, that's a real surprise - but I'll look forward to it.
  8. alison
    Yet I've not as yet seen any offers, and the season starts on Friday.
  9. alison
    Heartbreaking. Just think how much effort must have gone into it. Let's hope it can be put to good effect in due course.
  10. alison
    Wow, modern choreography on tour
  11. alison
    I think that was actually tonight's Insight Evening, wasn't it? And very enjoyable it was, too. Thanks, Fjp, and welcome to the forum
  12. alison
    David, if we don't already have threads on the subjects you mention, please do feel free to start one. But this thread *is* about the WM triple bill, and so it's natural people would be discussing it here At least it does seem to have lifted out of the doldrums of a few days ago. And, Nina, I was thinking of "sideways" leaps rather than vertical ones: from WM to Nutcracker was a bit of a change of subject
  13. alison
    Well, that's a *very* big leap ...
  14. alison
    Just to remind people that the Royal Ballet performances of Sleeping Beauty - tomorrow's insight included - are starting at odd times because of the Open Up works, so do double-check the time on your tickets!
  15. alison

    Room 101

    alison replied to taxi4ballet's topic in Not Dance

    And landlords who go and cut the power to your PC while you're in the middle of working on it
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    Room 101

    alison replied to taxi4ballet's topic in Not Dance

    Supermarkets which throw away perfectly good bunches of flowers because they're past their sell-by date. These were carnations, so not exactly going to expire 24 hours after their date! Just think of those people who can't afford the luxury but would really have appreciated a bunch of flowers.
  17. alison
    I'd accept 1 in 3, although 1 in 2 would be even better
  18. alison
    Apologies if the title gives anyone a nasty turn, but I was very pleased to see from today's Links that Hallberg is due to return in mid-December: https://deborahjones.me/2016/11/20/david-hallberg-to-return-to-the-ballet-stage-in-the-australian-ballets-coppelia/ Long may he remain uninjured! EDIT: The original title referred to his ankle injury
  19. alison
    Well, this is fun - I think the forum software must regard every new vote as a new "post" to this thread, because it keeps marking it as unread.
  20. alison
    I'll admit to have been pretty put off by the prices for Will Tuckett's "immersive" Nutcracker, too.
  21. alison
    I would have thought this might well have been a problem at Sadler's Wells: it certainly was in the upper reaches of the Bristol Hipppodrome, where the viewing angle is very steep. That was my worry at the schools' matinee performance in Bristol: there seemed to be a lot of pretty young children in those groups. But I didn't see them afterwards, so really have no idea of the effect on them, because they were in a different part of the theatre from me.
  22. alison
    Thanks, Lynette. I definitely thought we'd had something up here: in fact, I have a feeling aileen may have posted about it, because I thanked someone for catching it when I'd forgotten to post it.
  23. alison
    Maybe it's "second-viewing syndrome"? In the same way my above reaction to Tuesday's performance was a lot stronger that the first time I'd seen it. Perhaps because, having seen it once before, you've decoded a lot of the important things - realised, for example, which one out of the throng is Albrecht, instead of wondering where he is for quite a bit of the first act - and once that's out of the way you can delve deeper into it? I mean, on Tuesday night all those niggling quibbles many of us have had with the piece, such as the lack of narrative clarity and so on, just seemed totally irrelevant, and I never thought I'd find myself saying that.
  24. alison
    Yes, but "watching and learning from" (thankfully) doesn't mean slavishly copying. I think (hope) that what young choreographers will gain from him is maybe more a way of thinking about and around what it is you're creating, exposing yourself to a variety of thoughts and influences outside the narrow confines of ballet, collaborating with musicians and artists, that sort of thing.
  25. alison
    Not exactly, Bill. The prices are noticeably higher than what the RB usually charges for "new works". And with that I'm going to bed, because this *thread* is what's giving me a headache.
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