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  1. alison
    Unfortunately, it seems to be something of a fact of life at the Coliseum for dance productions these days. But I suppose that on the first night it's rather obvious that you can't have bought a programme previously.
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    That would be good. I did wonder why ENB's season was starting so late.
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    And pangolins: they are particularly endangered, I gather. Another case of Oriental medicine being to blame?
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    I'm very much looking forward to this, not only because it's 30 years since I last saw the production live, but also because after 2 months without any ballet I'm suffering severe withdrawal symptoms! Edit: Correction: almost no ballet. I forgot the Ardani gala.
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    I noticed when looking through my mini Proms guide at the weekend that CWM seem to be appearing at the late-night BBC Radio 6 Prom on 5th August at 10.15 pm http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/empxj5, although I can't find any information about this. Anyway, the performance, whatever it may be, is viewable via the Radio 6 website and the Red Button, for those readers in the UK, at least.
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    Thanks, Bruce. I can't see any indication that anyone else RB apart from McRae will be dancing, though.
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    Thanks, Lynette. I was rather hazy about the details, so hoped someone else would be able to fill in the blanks. I think the first time it was scheduled they couldn't get hold of the score, or something, but danced it later?
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    Yes, I'd agree with that. She always was one of my favourites.
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    Not impressed. Do we know where, and in what price bands?
  10. alison
    I know: I keep the Translate function on my Chromebook switched on just for the entertainment value!
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    I was rather disappointed to see that they only had the one public performance *and* the sole (Saturday?) matinee in the run. I have no objection to junior casts making their debuts out of the public eye, so to speak, but would have appreciated a chance to see them at some other time. The combination of a single public performance and a Saturday matinee (which always sell out, especially for something as popular as R&J) meant that this one was always going to sell fast, regardless of cast, which is why it was second on my shopping list after the Osipova/Muntagirov ones.
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    Here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0639jpj Thanks, Ann.
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    Well, it's about time that was admitted. I had visions of her being on her knees by the end of the (extended) run. It's just a shame that her name featured so highly in the publicity.
  14. alison
    You mean that Kolesnikova isn't dancing every performance?!
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    Oh yes, the Talisman pdd. I remember when Irek Mukhamedov was supposed to be dancing that at the ROH ...
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    No indication of whether it's the new version: I would tend to assume so, except that, it being Sadler's Wells, there's no Monday performance, so it certainly can't be live.
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    I just had to copy this bit over from Luke Jennings' Observer review of the Ardani Dance Gala: "Set to fado music, played live onstage by Frank Moon, Facada is a riotously entertaining slice of choreography. It certainly seemed to speak to the woman sitting next to me. When Osipova danced maniacally over Vasiliev’s corpse, she looked up from her texting and nodded with profound fellow-feeling." http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/jul/26/ardani-25-dance-gala-review-coliseum-natalia-osipova-ivan-vasiiev-edward-watson?CMP=share_btn_tw
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    Room 101

    alison replied to taxi4ballet's topic in Not Dance

    Ridiculous, isn't it? I was just saying, it's a good job it wasn't like this last weekend, or we'd never have got the Davis Cup tie finished. (At least Wimbledon could be played under the roof). If I haven't already put them there, I'd like to add the people sitting in window seats on public transport who seem to think it's perfectly acceptable these days not to say "excuse me" when they want to get out, but just get up and expect you to move for them regardless. I'm happy for them to say it in their native language if they don't speak English: it would just be courteous to acknowledge the person next to you, wouldn't it?
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    I've read something else recently where someone was bemoaning the trend towards sweeter apples, but I think that may have been more because of the sharper types becoming less available, rather than health issues. Apples are *supposed* to have a bit of a bite! I don't much like Pink Ladies, find Royal Gala dead boring, and as for Golden "Delicious" - well, at least the French don't break their version of the Trade Descriptions Act, simply calling them "les Golden" . Still, it should be time for Discoveries very shortly, and then the British apple season will be really under way. *And* they seem to be pretty low in salt, too. Nice! Lisa, I don't know how I didn't manage to spot that you'd updated this, but I'm fully caught up now!
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    Perhaps it was only local - whereabouts do you live, BFP?
  21. alison
    Ooh. Hope the local library hasn't chucked that bit thinking it's just advertising.
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    Definitely not ...
  23. alison
    Oh yes, 4 Temps and La Sylphide would definitely be something I'd be going for were I on the other side of the pond!
  24. alison
    I had a friend at university who used to rave about it, too. I was surprised, as he didn't seem to have any obvious interest in ballet: then I heard the score
  25. alison
    It does, doesn't it? Can you imagine someone taking over a factory, or a company or something, deciding they didn't like half the staff, getting rid of them and replacing them with new people? In the UK, I think the redundancy laws would prevent it, for a start.
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