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  1. Vanartus
    I disagree. And I regard your tone as not being particularly pleasant but I can live with it...
  2. Vanartus
    The ones which make constructive comments (including my own!) are not negative. I refer to those - and there are both short and tediously long examples - where the ballet has been simply trashed.
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    Perhaps the Royal should keep a trad Swan Lake in the wings (so to speak!) allowing Liam a free range to do a radical vision. If his is the only one he may end up with a compromise that pleases no one...
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    It's a pity there not bringing back Mata Hari next season, but I'm def going to make the trip to see the company in one of the Dutch programmes.
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    This is brilliant - love the idea of two contrasting Giselles. And great triple bill too!
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    Excellent!
  8. Vanartus
    I agree!
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    I'll be brief. A triple bill of any one choreographer is a big ask, and to a large extent Wheeldon pulled it off with a good mix of two imported abstracts and one home-grown narrative. I'll focus on Strapless. Most of the constructive criticism was justified. The snide stuff not. Music was far better than I expected after reading such condescending comments. Ballet started and finished with strength - Osipova both reticent and superb, and the key PDD and PDT amazingly danced and well constructed. Total commitment from all. I liked the set and the figures in black on black were strong images. In fact for me it worked as a tight symbolic "dark" work looking at the folly of vanity from a voyeuristic view point. It fell down when Wheeldon tried to extend this by adding a bit of light entertainment - the cancan bar scene, and even the husband/wife characters. Get rid of those, and you'd have a brittle, superficial dark jewel of a piece (cf the taut structure of Moor's Pavane) which would need to explain less (btw the plot is not THAT difficult!) and would show a lot more.
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    Re CC in the FT: praised by faint damnation ????
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    Thanks to both of you - Irmgard and LinMM - for raising my spirits in letting me read a review and subsequent comments which combine criticism with generosity of spirit, and informed experience with a feel for the past and present. And yes - the answer is in a judicious mix of old and new.
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    Thanks Angela. Am a big fan of Ballett am Rhein and hope they continue their current direction.
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    Please can we be less "suburban" about Osipova and Polunin. I'd welcome him back as a guest to RB! Fabulous star quality! And bravo to Hayward, Hay, Ball, Naghdi et al. It's all in the mix!
  14. Vanartus
    Oh - sorry got my Maths wrong - Symphonic Variations will be 70 not 50. Gulp...Which makes me how old???
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    It will be interesting to see which Ashton ballets have been selected for 16/17. Since the program comes out in March (?) I reckon it's all done 'n dusted. Perhaps the "Two Pigeons" effect might not hit until 17/18. My money would be probably on Sylvia as an Osipova vehicle, but possibly Daphnis and Chloe as the timing's right - original costume revival too. And I think Month will re-appear as it was such a success. Symphonic will be 50 too so...
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    Re the corps work in Rhapsody - wonderful in both performances I saw, so good in fact on the matinee that they received spontaneous applause after their first "number". They were exceptional- I never had such a buzz before and showed how great that particular group was.
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    Have been mulling over the Hayward/Hay partnership in Rhapsody. The only comment I'd make is that it was safe, whereas the bravura nature of this particular piece is that it's both Ashtonian and not. Ballerina yes, male sort of no. So I liked (for I was there!) the original contrast of temperament/background/training of Collier and Barishnykov and Osipova and Macrae. So in a perversely (to some) ideal world, I'd have loved to see Hayward with Polunin (he danced it dangerously recently) and Hay with someone older such as Nuñez. I feel there needs to be a contrast, a dangerous edge in the partnership. But what a ballet - I loved in it 1980 and love it now.
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    Finally say Francesca Hayward - truly wonderful. Ashtonian, light, flexible, pliant yet exotic and other-worldly. Stunning.
  19. Vanartus
    Fab
  20. Vanartus
    Have a Google re sets. I remember they were fairly simple portico/arches. I just remember the over elaborate gold hair pieces for the men - an OTT variant on the far more subtle one in Symphonic V.
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    BTW I'm pleased the old sets and costumes are back, and the men's costumes have been simplified which is good as Chappell did go overboard on the gold. Well it was the 80's!
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    Just bought a matinee ticket in amphi for Rhapsody. - am looking forward to appx 30 minutes of sheer bliss...
  23. Vanartus
    Damn - wish I'd got a ticket. Just forgot and now sold out.
  24. Vanartus
    Excellent - my compliments as well!
  25. Vanartus
    I really sympathise - it's the heady mix of annoyance, understanding, frustration, resignation and powerlessness.
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