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Looking forward to the conversation with Xander tonight!

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Bump and new price of £25 for the ticket and programme voucher or nearest offer!

I still have the ticket available and this will be Ed Watson's last performance with the RB. I'll accept £39 or nearest offer, I can't go to the performance so would like to see the ticket go to a good home https://www.gramilano.com/2021/10/edward-watson-retires/

Selling 1 x Amphitheatre ticket & programme voucher for The Dante Project on Saturday 30th October at 11.30am (Watson, Lamb) Seat H-58 £39.00.

Hi everyone! Oh my, it's been so long since I last posted 😂 I actually have a RB summer school related question to ask on behalf of some friends. My English student here in Budapest has been accepted onto the Covent Garden SI from 16th to 27th July (she's a beauty!) so she'll be travelling to London with her mum. They're looking for somewhere to stay for the duration, ideally as close to Covent Garden as possible - does anyone have any recommendations? Please reply or drop me a PM if you do, and thank you all in advance! Mods - Please feel free to move this post, I wasn't 100% sure if this was the best place 😉

Here in Budapest there's quite a growing contemporary/contemporary ballet scene. Here's a review/piece on one company that I've gotten to know, Inversedance founded by Zoltan Fodor. They have a broad rep that includes adult peformances and kids shows (this article is on the latter). I've been really impressed with them, and not just because I train with them either, so I encourage you to check them out and give this a read http://jelterps.blogspot.hu/2016/05/Inversedance.html

It was a great premier, every member of the company on stage that night danced their hearts out for us and I am SO glad I was there to see it Couple of my thoughts: - The ambiguity of Big Brother's existence didn't translate well, one thing that has always struck me when reading the novel and watching the John Hurt movie (which I unashamedly love!) was just how terrifying an idea can be. In this case the idea of Big Brother, its not actually conveyed whether he really exists but this adaptation didn't appear to take that into account. It was just a given that BB existed, it wasn't questioned at all. - I found the PDDs a little tedious and a bit too MacMillan in their movement vocab, sweepy and romantic if tinged with urgency, but tedious all the same. Since I know the source material very well I just felt that these scenes jarred with my interpretation of the relationship between Winston and Julia and they pulled me out of the piece and into mind chatter. Their union was not a political act in this ballet and for me the movement vocab for Julia was just too elegant and dignified... - Javier Torres and Hiro Takahashi were superb in their respective roles of O'Brien & Charrington. Javier was as menacing as a classic Bond villain (Bond ballet anyone?) and Charrington's isolation and other worldliness was brilliantly conveyed by Hiro, his reveal chilled me the most even though I knew it was coming! - I thought there was a nice distinction between the movement for the Proles and the party members, the Proles were more intimate and softer in their bodies. And Vicky Sibson was sublime in her role of Prole Woman (I thought her solos were just vulgar enough) - Room 101 and the resulting brainwashing of Winston Smith were perfectly pitched. Simple but dramatically effective theater! - There was a nice little motif in the score when Julia first appeared on stage at the start of act 1, and I kept an ear out for it afterwards but didn't hear it again. Like the PDDs some elements of the score just felt out of place and overall it was disappointing! I think some nice use of silence would've been more effective for certain scenes. I'm looking forward to seeing how the production transposes onto the Lyceum stage!

I received an email from GBWR today. They require the full footage of the attempt to verify it I still don't have the full footage. Feels like such a wasted effort...

It's no secret to forum members that I'm a big fan of Kenneth Tindall!! I got the chance to interview him last week for DanceMuse and this article is the result! http://dancemuse.org/2014/09/03/kenneth-tindalls-brave-new-world/ Hope you enjoy reading

Thank you so much everyone for your support! My friends have really rallied 'round me today and I'm so grateful to them and to you for sharing my outrage and exasperation!! The individual concerned has stated on Facebook that he is leaving the enterprise, and I have alerted quite a few prominent Sheffield folk to his behaviour. Right now I'm waiting for Guinness to get back to me and let me know if the footage and witness statements I have will be enough to verify the attempt. Even though the video starts halfway through it is clear from my physical condition that I had been doing the grand battements for a while, and at times one of my witnesses does shout out the numbers of how many I am doing. I will keep you all posted when I hear more from GBWR! x

I'm feeling pretty exasperated and very low right now! The full footage of my world record break has been lost and today I've been mocked online by one of the persons who lost it. Here's a Google+ post explaining more https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MelWSkydancer/posts/WmrFXn1bRj5 I have the last 15 minutes of footage recorded on a mobile phone and statements from official witnesses who were there at the attempt but I don't know if this will be enough to get it verified.

Happy for your Fiz that you are back at the barre Congratulations to your former teacher! Both my ballet and contemporary teachers had babies this year, in fact Emily (ballet) brought her little girl to my record attempt and she was actually spellbound watching me...so cute!!

I'm in the same corner as you, drdance! Watching 'Duplic8' was the movement equivalent of listening to a good violinist play some scales. Yes, they obviously have the facility to move, but to me their act was far from 'dancing'. I would've found more to engage with watching a yoga class than I did watching their 'performance'. Where was the soul????