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  1. alison
    Wow, the cover of Dance Magazine! I never thought I'd see the day.
  2. alison
    ... *have* seen it again, I think. My grammar brain has obviously switched off for the night.
  3. alison
    Yep, I was afraid it was only going to be Picturehouses again. Pity. I'd've liked to see it again
  4. alison
    We have discussed on here before the reasons why flower throws are now discouraged at the ROH - but I can't remember what they are! It used to be the case that spring debuts in a major role were greeted with a throw of daffodils, usually, I think it was, which must have been particularly messy, given their sap, but now you mention it, that hasn't happened for a while. Farewells for principals, yes: Tamara Rojo's last Marguerite & Armand (guesting with the company) a couple of years ago, and I think the previous three were all Mayerlings: Cojocaru/Kobborg, Galeazzi and Benjamin. But I think I'm right in saying (and I'm sure that someone who has the DVD can confirm) that the last Watson Mayerling of the run which was filmed in 2009, I think it was, also had a flower throw. Or was it Different Drummer? It was something unexpected, I know that.
  5. alison
    Nice . Although I do wonder why they picked actresses to do the promo: how many fluent Dutch-speakers do they have among their principals these days?
  6. alison
    Yep. As I said, it was quite difficult to stomach that way. Very disorientating, I thought.
  7. alison
    This sounds familiar. I also had problems with the website when trying to book Sweeney Todd a few months ago. Can't remember what it was now, but something major - I had to ring the box office in the end to get a ticket.
  8. alison
    Hope you enjoy it, Lin.
  9. alison
    Another sad loss for the dance world
  10. alison
    Hi Frank. We had a funding drive I'd guess 15 months ago, and I assume we'll repeat it when it looks likely to be necessary again.
  11. alison
    Well, the only time I've seen Lady of the Camelias (is the title really in English?) was a few years back for the POB cinema relay (recorded). I found it rather indigestible, but suspect that was down to all 3 acts being run together, which I don't think helped its structure.
  12. alison
    Yes, I would have loved to have had another look at it. Does anyone know anything about who's showing La Bayadère next weekend, apart from Picturehouse? I could quite happily go to that, too.
  13. alison
    Really? And the supporters all tend to send identical ones?
  14. alison
    Again???!!! He's hardly the only one to give flowers
  15. alison
    ENB went through a period, maybe a decade or so ago, of presenting the male leads with a bottle of - something or other. I'm not sure why they stopped it. But this is a company, I think, where bouquets are from management rather than from supporters.
  16. alison
    Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear. I thought they'd generally got it working reasonably well?
  17. alison
    I trust they asked permission. That reminds me that, some years ago, I went to a performance of "Giselle" by one of the touring "Russian" companies - I think it was in Woking. When I read the synopsis in the programme, I thought "Hang on, something's a bit wrong here." The synopsis was clearly that of Derek Deane's "Giselle" for ENB. Fair enough, except that if you ever saw that one you'd know that it was set in the early 20thC, and featured a motor car on stage in Act I, which was referred to in the synopsis!
  18. alison
    Oh no. So sorry to hear it. And even more disappointed to see that Guillem's farewell performances are all sold out - even before Sadler's actually got around to sending out the booking brochures
  19. alison
    Hopefully just something along the lines of the now-legendary "baked potato in the microwave" incident?
  20. alison
    Really? That's interesting. And that reminds me of another question I was going to ask last night: where do you draw the line as to what is and isn't narrative? Are "balleticised" biographies of people "narrative", and if not, why not? The "narrative" in some ballets is so vague as to be barely there - maybe just, say, a relationship between a woman and a man, and something happens. And what about Balanchine's oft-repeated comment that when you put a man and a woman on stage there's already a story?
  21. alison
    Hello, jellyteaa, and welcome to the forum. Thanks for posting.
  22. alison
    Just discovered some very interesting musings (http://thirdcast.wordpress.com/2014/11/24/has-narrative-ballet-lost-the-plot/) by Luke Jennings on this subject in this week's Links (yes, I'm playing catch-up again, I'm afraid). Is he right? I can think of a number of "narrative" ballets (or other dance works, of course, although contemporary dance seems to cover narrative rather less frequently than ballet) where the narrative thread is pretty flimsy at best (is that perhaps a 21st-century thing?). He pretty much restricts himself to the Royal Ballet, but what about other companies who rely significantly more on narrative works? Northern Ballet would be a prime example, BRB to a lesser extent. How well do those work, structure-wise? Are they densely-structured or, like every ballet version of Alice in Wonderland I've seen, are they little more than a linear retelling of the story? And does it matter?
  23. alison
    I've always thought that Espada would probably be too much in love with himself to even notice the girls
  24. alison
    Didn't anybody go to this last night?! What did you think? Have there been any changes?
  25. alison
    I can answer the last bit: in La Dame aux Camelias there is a copy of Manon Lescaut (or l'Histoire de whatever it was) which Armand gives Marguerite (and sorry, I'm pretty certain they're not called that in the novel, but I can't remember their names )
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