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    It was (or, as I like to think of it, The One With The Sliding Window): which is the other version? Ms Novikova was going into a lot of detail about how Act I was more the Coralli/Perrot part and Act II the Petipa.
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    And I got a couple of free tickets from Odeon when I complained about a very noisy IMAX film leaking in from next door during a previous live relay
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    BTW, here are links to our discussion of the 2014-15 season: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/8128-bolshoi-ballet-broadcasts-2014-15/?hl=broadcasts and the 2013-14 one: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/5117-bolshoi-cinema-broadcasts-2013-2014-feedback-thread/?hl=broadcasts Some of the repeats will have been discussed in those.
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    Along with the review of Naghdi/Ball in R&J, it sounds as though it might almost be worth buying.
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    Please use this thread to discuss the Bolshoi cinema broadcasts, starting with today's Giselle.
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    That reminds me: if they haven't already done so, they need to move the lecture scenes further in towards the centre of the stage - they were virtually invisible to many of those sitting on the left-hand side of the auditorium on the first night.
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    Amended It's a very good documentary - and has the bonus that you get to see major chunks of the original cast's performance.
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    Anyone got anything to say about, say, last night's Romeo & Juliet? We seem to have got rather off-track
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    I would agree with you there, with the exception of Requiem, I think.
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    Normally, I'd agree with you, Floss, given how much it has been cast from a variety of ranks, lower ones included, in recent years. But I'm also remembering the reservations expressed about the rather "hit-and-miss" casting of last year's performances.
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    Me too. A real pain, since it prevents me from watching Sky Arts, but there you are.
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    I'd love to see her in 2Ps - along with various other more junior members of the company.
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    My misunderstanding then - apologies.
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    Everything I've seen, plus previous experience, says it'll be 4 pm. I think I'm going Picturehouse - it's a much more pleasant experience than the Odeon (and it's cheaper with my free membership )
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    Glad to know you are at least in bed when you do your late-night prowls, Sim! I can't get a signal in my bedroom most of the time ...
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    I've been wondering that, too. I'd been hoping we were beyond that, but perhaps all this Misty Copeland kerfuffle is actually making other companies feel as though they're obliged to emphasise that they're not all-white, either?
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    Getting back to Penelope's original question, I don't think anyone mentioned The Winter's Tale, did they?
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    I think the reference was more to the fact that Acosta, Kobborg and Pennefather wouldn't be around. Whether any of the others mentioned make it to dancing the role by then is probably anyone's guess: they might do, or they might not.
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    But only if you register it, which some people object to on privacy grounds. I don't have much choice, as I have to use it for work-related things, and need evidence of where I've been.
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    Would you care to elaborate, Tony? I'd forgotten you'd said you were going.
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    I can see I flipped through it too fast in WH Smiths the other day - I hadn't even noticed the awards!
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    "not ... for a while". Implies that the role is still in his active repertoire, which is good
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    As others have mentioned, he's done Romeo - possibly more times than anyone else in the company at the moment, and with a number of Juliets. I think he said once he wouldn't have minded having a go at doing Siegfried. Personally, I would have been intrigued to see what he'd have made of the character - and for that matter of Florimund - although I can't visualise him doing the big pdd in either ballet. So would I, but don't imply that he doesn't do Ashton Apart from Monotones, off the top of my head he's also danced Oberon (last *seriously* good performance of The Dream that I saw from the RB), Palemon, Symphonic Variations, Troyte in Enigma Variations, Daphnis (shame that was never revived ) - not to mention being one of the side boys in Scènes de Ballet, back in the days when it was cast with First Soloists rather than First Artists. I was going to say I was expecting it back next year, but since you've mentioned the shortage of Rudolfs still around I'm starting to wonder. Certainly hope so ... He did say something fairly recently along the lines of "another couple of years" - I don't remember the exact quote. On the other hand, oddly age doesn't seem to be a major factor in terms of one's ability to dance Rudolf, given how many performances from dancers in their 40s we've already mentioned.
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    4) You're a BCF Moderator. Natch.
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