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  1. Vanartus
    I don’t think she’ll be back for two pigeons...
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    ...just don’t want to lose her yet!
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    Money, plus so many opportunities- international profile, a new medium, Hollywood....it’s a fabulous chance!
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    It’s a great opportunity for her (Hayward) but I don’t want her to disappear and do a Leslie Caron! ...mind you, Gigi the Ballet! Now there’s a thought - speed dial Wheeldon? 😉
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    Oh no!
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    Noooooooooooooooooo!!!!! It must happen....
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    https://www.operaballet.be/nl/programma/2018-2019/giselle
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    Don’t forget it’s being done by the Royal Ballet of Flanders - I’m seeing it on November 7th in Antwerp.
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    For me Bonelli is a supreme dancer/actor. MacGregor always got this aspect of him. He brought a very special quality to his role in Raven Girl, and his quality in Woolf Works was luminous. Sadly I reckon I’ll not get the chance to see him as Rudolf...
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    ...btw I didn’t mean a pdd for them both! (...why not? I hear you cry...)
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    I’d like a choreographer to create a strong narrative piece both for Campbell and Muntagirov. Not bright or sunny either. I’d like to see them as a Hamlet...Pip in Great Expectations...a Cathy Marston piece....
  12. Vanartus
    ...and even a monstrous Corrales won’t get me to Frankenstein again!
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    ...yes - really don’t like the idea of two-timing Romeos when there’s enough male talent to go round! Well since I’m Berlin based, I’ll see Naghdi and Ball in the cinema, I’ll go for Osipova and Hallberg because I’m a sad groupie, but if if I can I’ll use air miles or a cheapo Ryanair to grab a Hayward and Corrales. It’d be rude not too...
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    Tedious question I know but does anyone know about when the London casts will be announced?
  15. Vanartus
    ...I’m glad you went too - and all the best with chemo, you’ve got guts!
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    Wonderful performances tonight. Hirano completely surprised me. Far better than I could have ever expected after the lacklustre reviews. I thought his solos were frightening and tormented- the panic attack of the second act so convincing. Images of suffocation started in act one and continued throughout. For me the theme of addiction and destruction ran throughout and not just in the character of the Crown Prince. Of course Rudolf is addicted to drugs and to an unattainable image of himself as a progressive royal rebel. But Mary is equally addicted to a morbid fantasy of death, power and love. Marie Larisch is obsessed with the past and lost love, and all other characters are trapped in the past, failed relationships or delusions of grandeur. When Mary takes possession of Rudolf at the end of act two it is a act of monstrous emotion. Their final pas de deux of act three is not one of true love, but rather, when danced tonight by Hirano and Osipova, ugly, cruel, despairing, and an act of ultimate self harm. There is no redemption just desperation. I was stunned by the brutal physicality of the dancing - as I was in the pdd with Hayward too. It was an evening of extremes, unsettling but I was glad to have seen it.
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    I echo above - when I saw the Shostakovich triple in Amsterdam it blew me away!
  18. Vanartus
    Wahay- my credit card will heave a sigh of relief - a trip to London “easier” than SF!!!
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    Just back from showing in Berlin. Delphi Palast am Zoo - fab old cinema from 30’s which somehow survived bombing. I’m hooked on ballet in cinema. Sekt, snacks, take in, people eat silently, relax, armchair seating, more (reasonably priced) Sekt in intervals, audience super quiet, spontaneous applause at end. Happy people! Alll cast good, my faves were Magri as Mitzi Caspar and Hay as Bratfisch- they surprised me by their subtle excellence!
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    I thought Judith Mackrell was en route to NYT...Or have I dreamt that?
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    I’ll be seeing it from Berlin!
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    That’s such a poignant review - those last two points very true. I’m seeing it on 19th and I’m going to approach Hirano’s Rudolf with the idea that his interpretation as Rudolf as essentially weak and malleable. I think that works, but alters the balance of the piece. I just don’t want to see him as the weak link in the show - he’s a great dancer and it can’t be easy!
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    I know Sleeping Beauty is way different from Mayerling but Hirano and Osipova did look good with each other. It’ll be interesting to see if sparks will fly. Plus Hamilton is an experienced Mary V so can help Matthew Ball settle into the role. Perhaps a “Giselle 2.0” wasn’t desirable...who can say?...
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    God, I love Edward Watson!
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    https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de/en/spielplan/celis-eyal/29-09-2018/779 ...before reading this click on the trailer. Well, the grumpy old “why has the Berlin Staatsballett ignored the MacMillan legacy” me, has been - albeit temporarily- laid to rest with/by a double bill of such surprising intensity that I left the theatre realising that things can change for the better. The first piece was good, very good in parts, and looked/felt both new for the company, and yet there was a line traceable to varied modern dance movements -on a personal memory level I had fleeting memory shots of NDT, Alston, Bausch all wrapped up in something that was as non-Duato as you can get. So far, so good, time for interval drink. Then it came - one of those OMG, I’m here at the right time, the piece is danced at the right time, done by the right company at the right time in the right city with exactly the right choreography to the right music. Although it was originally done for the Royal Swedish Ballet, it could have been tailor made for/on the Berlin Staatsballett. If you wanted, you could even call the piece “The Berghain Requiem”, but I have never seen such an amazing marriage of Haute Techno and appropriate choreography. For me last night, I saw a company reset, reenergised and renewed by a piece that was pure Berlin. The complaint made against Shechter that he didn’t take advantage of the RB dancers couldn’t be made here. Only ballet dancers could do what they did with/in/to this piece - Half Life. Eyal is a wonderful find for me - was completely off my radar! Amazing. This double bill will be performed around 4 more times, then Half Life comes back with a different opener later on in the season. I should add that the standing ovation happened immediately on curtain down. And the 70 year olds next to me were cheering!
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