Silke H

Hi Peter, May I have this ticket, please? Thanks, Silke

Miss Magri has posted on her Instagram page today that she had the best time on stage last night and that she is looking forward to her next shows, so I presume she didn't get seriously injured.

Hi @Emeralds - try this link: NYCB Fall 2023

I will preclude that I have not watched Panorama (I don't own a TV or pay for TV license) However, I can't see the relation between stopping watching ballet companies and ballet school teachers changing their behaviour. Maybe the question should have been whether to financially stop supporting ballet schools? I must say, that during my active ballet days I also experienced weigh-ins every Monday morning and being told to lose weight. I certainly wasn't chubby, just athletic as opposed to scrawny like some of my fellow students. Did that affect my relationship with food? Absolutely. Did that make me feel rubbish? Of course. Did that diminish my love for ballet? Absolutely not. It made me persevere and stubbornly chase my dream even harder. I pushed through and graduated. The thing that had me stop dancing were my knees that had given out on me during my graduating year. My passion for ballet has remained high over the last three decades, albeit being a spectator rather than a dancer. I have also been bullied in my day job that has no connection to dance or the arts, so I would say bullying needs to be addressed in general. But I won't be denying myself of the pleasure of watching ballet and supporting ballet companies by purchasing tickets, merchandise, etc.

Norwegian Ballet might have had a spot to fill for Georgie Curreli-Rose who left Oslo just this week. Georgie is also a RBS graduate and I was wondering whether Georgie and Gina are swapping places.

TBH, I didn't feel the love for TAB's Jewels either and it's usually a ballet I really enjoy (all three different parts for different reasons), hence I sold my other two tickets and only returned for the gala which I rather liked for the most part (not Watermark or Little Atlas). I have questioned myself whether I was overly critical with TAB's Jewels or whether I just had an off-day last Thursday. But, for me it was lacking either the punchy, speedy attack NYCB has or the grace and cheekiness the RB brings to it. A friend of mine likened it to a school's performance and I think that hits the nail on the head, especially having just recently seen the RBS end of year performance. It was executed well but for me it was missing pizzazz. In Sunday's gala I particularly enjoyed I New Then and Everywhere We Go and also liked Harlequinade's and Don Q's excerpts a lot. I would really like to see TAB more often, with ballets that the company feels really comfortable in, and hope we don't have to wait so long again to welcome them back to London.

full pics offering here in the links Facebook album Instagram post

I had to select fit to printable page (or something like that) on the print selections. Do you have an option like that?

cast sheet for tomorrow's gala is up on the ROH website ROH - TAB Gala cast sheet Sunday 06-08-2023

ROH website run-time has been updated to 2 hrs 25 mins

Ticket has now been re-homed

links to my pics from last night Facebook Instagram

I have bought fewer tickets than before, partly due to lack of cast info (Nutcracker), partly because of ticket price increase and partly because I'm simply not interested in the ballet/s (Dante, Cellist) 4 Don Q 3 Anemoi (skipping The Cellist) - includes Friends Rehearsal 3 The Limit 6 Nutcracker 1 Insight (The Limit)

afternoon ticket now re-homed. evening ticket (separate post) is still up for grabs

Hi BeauxArts - let's move to private message for exchange of details. Thanks 🙂

Hi Alison - did you use the date drop down on TAB website for the different dates’ casts? It’s not immediately obvious and always reverts to opening night’s cast when returning from looking at a dancer’s profile

Hi @BeauxArts and @munchkin16 - I sent both of you private messages

Selling SCS D-25 for Australian Ballet’s Jewels Saturday 5th August 7:30pm £10 Cast as per AU Ballet website: Emeralds: Sharni Spencer, Allum Linnane, Rina Nemeto, Mason Lovegrove Rubies: Ako Kondo, Brett Chynoweth, Isobelle Dashwood Diamonds: Benedicte Bemet, Joseph Caley

Selling SCS D-26 for Australian Ballet’s Jewels Saturday 5th August 1:30pm £10 Cast as per AU Ballet website: Emeralds: Grace Carroll, Jarryd Madden, Imogen Chapman, Jake Mangakahia Rubies: Jill Ogai, Chengwu Guo, Belle Urwin Diamonds: Sharni Spencer, Allum Linnane

I left the auditorium tonight at 22:02 during the Diamonds red run. So again, nowhere near the advertised 2:17 runtime

a link to my bows photos of tonight (first and second part of the evening only) Instagram Facebook

Tom had posted that same photo on Instagram on 1st January this year so I should think it really is him on page 18

Some may recognise the Verdi Don Carlo piece from Balanchine's Ballo della Regina

Composers: Don Quixote - Ludwig Minkus Fast Blue - Elena Kats-Chernin (Fast Blue Village 2) Hora La Aninoasa - traditional Romanian Folk The Four Seasons - Guiseppe Verdi (Jérusalem, French adaption of Lombardi, Don Carlos) Sechs Tänze - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Sechs Deutsche Tänze, KV 571) Konservatoriet - Holger Simon Paulli Bold - Owen Belton Within the Golden Hour - Ezio Bosso, Antonio Vivaldi The Two Pigeons - André Messager Takademe - Sheila Chandra (speaking in Tongues II) Grand Défilé - Carl Czerny (Etudes no. 13 and no. 14)