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    clearly an event that most of the press regard as more important than Carlos' appointment at BRB.
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    I will be very interested to see if he keeps the Royal Ballet Sinfonia at its current size and level. If he decides to shrink it I think that will be a great loss to ballet in general.
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    May be we will get La Bayadere after all.
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    I agree. Iain and Maggie are building a real bastion for the Ashton rep and long may it continue.
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    this is exactly what I thought when I heard the news. I am sure he will be a total inspiration to the dancers and it will strengthen the belief that the Company has a more secure future than some of us feared. this is on the level of Simon Rattle taking over the CBSO. what a great result for BRB.
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    That's exactly what I was going to say. Was that the year the planned free dance was too intellectual for the judges to appreciate so it was replaced very speedily by the Ghost Dances number? Either way, that routine was not one of Christopher Dean's most original creations.
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    Lovely idea but who would mount it and would it be judged fairly by an audience with such a diet of Macmillan? The reason I ask who would revive it as so many of the details Ashton choreographed were abandoned by ENB practically before its first run had ended.
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    i would agree but there tends to be one knighthood and one damehood(?) a year for dance (if that ).
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    May I say that I yield to no one in my adoration for Lesley Collier but if you are talking of a ballerina who led her company throughout the UK and and around the world, ballet mistress, coach and assistant director it really should be Dame Marion Tait. Regrettably it won't be of course because non London based companies seem to figure less than those in the Capital.
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    I think I had nodded off by then!
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    Janet and I share a great love for the BRB production which remains my absolute favourite. Nothing comes close to it, including the sister production for the RB. Far too many angels for my taste but I would never deny the quality of the dancing. My very least favourite sank without trace about 30 years ago. Much as I admired Peter Schaufuss and many of his achievements with LFB/ENB his production of the Nutcracker was an utter stinker.
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    I have tried very hard to find this without success. However, as a very great fab of Celine I am pleased she has had some press coverage.
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    Very well done Linda and thank you very much for the lovely review. I really enjoyed reading it. If you are free in June try to make it to either the Hippodrome or Sadler's Wells for Hobson's Choice. Firstly it is an utter joy from start to finish and secondly it will be David Bintley's last hurrah. Who knows when we will have the chance to see it again.
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    Michael as Will Mossop was about as great a performance as you could wish with a number of Maggies, including Letitia Muller even though she was far too beautiful for the role. But I have enjoyed other great Wills, including Robert Parker, David Justin, and Alex Campbell. I am hugely looking forward to seeing Lachlan Monaghan and possibly Mathias Dingman in the Summer. Having said all of that there was something very special about Graham Lustig and no one else has ever quite brought off the change from downtrodden shop elf to respectable and prosperous business man as well as he did, in my opinion.
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    I missed Graham, both as a dancer and choreographer, with special admiration for Paramour. The 4 corps guys were all my great favourites, Vincent Redmon, both Brothers O 'Hare and Andrew Allen(Wilson). Like Janet, he was one of my all time favourite Will Mossops, especially dancing with Marion who was so 'right' as Maggie. One of my greatest memories was in Liverpool (I am sure Janet was there) for the very last performance of SWRB. In the big pas de deux in the third act both of them were dancing with tears streaming down their faces.
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    Indeed it is. Apparently Wolfgang told her later that Stephen Hawking was there as well.
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    Gosh, was it really that long ago. I remember it as I went down to host a talk with Monica Zamora who mention in passing that she turned down an offer to join the Paris Opéra Ballet school to go to The Royal Ballet school. The other reason I remember it so well is that I popped into the fish restaurant next door, Loch Fyne (?), and was so dazzled to be greeted by Wolfgang Stollwitzer that I nearly tripped and fell flat on my face in front of him. Very undignified but what a way to go! (Yes, Janet, I know I never saw him as Onegin but you did. You'll have to remind me of that story some time!)
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    Thank you both so much. I think the brain must have died around Christmas Eve. Either that or I was blanking out everything to do with The Archers do The Canterbury Tales. I lie awake at night worrying if David's barn will be ready in time.
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    I have just ploughed through 4 weeks of Radio Times but have been unsuccessful in finding An American in Paris. I may well be suffering from information overload so if anyone else spots it please let me know when it is due to appear.
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    All the other stuff makes you wonder how the BBC would cope without endless cookery programmes and their presenters. Not that much dance, but what there is is choice.
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    It is the Martin sky production with Tereshkina. Just watching it now.
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    I had to buy it as there is a photograph if her with a great friend of mine. That apart I cannot say I found it that interesting as a balletomane. Some stunning photos but most are posed rather than action shots.
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    My copy of Onegin arrived on Saturday and I spent a wonderful afternoon with a bowl of fruit luxuriating in seeing a proper copy of one of my very favourite ballets. OK, I have seen better casts over the years but Onegin himself at a distance was pretty reminiscent of Hugh Jackman which is always a plus. As a counterbalance Lensky reminded me of Nick Clegg. However, there was the unexpected bonus of seeing the greatest of all Tatianas, Marcia Haydee, appearing as her nurse. This rather added to the sense of the ghosts I have seen in the role but, what the heck, there is no such thing as a bad Onegin on my view! I do have a bootleg copy of Haydee from about 1975 which is an object lesson in how to play the role. She wasn't Cranko's muse for no reason. But any DVD of the ballet, even with a less than totally satisfactory cast, still offers many pleasures and it is great to have it, especially as we had all thought one would never appear.
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    That was exactly my experience to Pulchinella and remained unchanged until I left London for Birmingham. I was safe from him there as he had absolutely no interest in SWRB or BRB.
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    I do so agree Alison. In Birmingham there were separate programmes for each production. In my opinion a backward step from the much better product for the beginning of the 2017/18 season.
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