Jump to content

Vanartus

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    737

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by Vanartus

  1. Vanartus
    Saw the final performance (...and it will probably be the last outings for both apart from the pdd in both) and I really enjoyed Raven Girl. I know some of you will consider me either mad or masochistic, but after three viewings I really believe - and I'm not the only one - that this ballet has received a particularly raw deal from some of the critics. Repeated viewings and familiarisation of plot have revealed so much more detail in the dance. It's a great pity that it's not been filmed for TV. Anyway, audience reaction very positive at each showing. Good to hear it too!
  2. Vanartus
    Interesting. I rather like her. I thought she was great in Don Q, and I've always admired her in Berlin. I would like some closer exchanges with companies. I like the swaps with ABT and the RB. But take all points on board. And ...btw...am hoping Melissa is settling down in Dresden.
  3. Vanartus
    I saw this last night - amazing! Read FT review for a good summary. SV danced incredibly well - it was stunning. Ticket prices are very reasonable and either Düsseldorf or Cologne have cheap flight deals. You could fly there, overnight and see ballet for price of a top Covent Garden ticket (...well, almost!). Really worth the trip, the company is on top form and both the Forsythe and Van Manen are great.
  4. Vanartus
    And she's very good!
  5. Vanartus
    Aha! Good point...
  6. Vanartus
    Yes - he was wonderful in Requiem
  7. Vanartus
    I've greatly enjoyed reading this thread. Having started going to ROH in autumn 1976 when I moved to London (yes, Punk and Ballet mash-up!) I sense the lens of time in many of the comments. I tend to see the dancers of today refracted through the lens of my visual experience. It starts with the present - say Frankie Hayward - and I track back to Lyn Seymour (via Rojo, Ferri...) ...is Sarah Lamb the Jenny Penney of today - the Hitchcock blonde on pointe....is sweet Naghdi Lesley Collier? And so it goes, the inner smile of happy memories and the gentle shock of the new. Things change ...and yet the Amphitheatre sides right rows E-K act as an unchanging register of my own years.
  8. Vanartus
    And Winter's Tale shoild be back next year along with Woolf Works - so more for Ed!
  9. Vanartus
    Mayerling will definitely be revived in either 2017 or 18 to mark 40 years since its creation. So hang on in there Ed!
  10. Vanartus
    Saw second cast tonight. Really enjoyed Raven Girl - thought the changes helped a lot. Beatriz wonderful - as was all of cast. Really felt they believed in the ballet. Good audience reception. Connectome well danced and Sarah Lamb wonderful - and it looks good too - but it fizzles out.
  11. Vanartus
    Reece Clark - I was amazed by his performance in Symphonic Variations. But they seem to be "resting" him at the moment...
  12. Vanartus
    I really liked RG first time round - not just glorious final pdd - but it did need both streamlining and restructuring. I do like Wayne's world (!) , WW was the first ballet that has moved me so much since MacMillan. It makes me sad that so many people so actively and so aggressively dislike him as a choreographer. Clement Crisp is beyond cruel. Anyway will see it (by accident) Thursday and Saturday, and I'll squeeze in the second cast on 24th.
  13. Vanartus
    Am annoyed with myself I didn't book Naghdi and (later in the run) Hayward. New blood and new partnerships are key.
  14. Vanartus
    LOL - I think one of us ought to write a short review, otherwise we'll be told off for wasting virtual space and time ;-)
  15. Vanartus
    J'adore!
  16. Vanartus
    Well that made me feel a little bit less guilty...I left after Act 1 too! Agree totally - didn't really think they worked as R&J but how I wished I had seen them in Manon. His schoolboy charm and her ice-blond charm must have been amazing in that particle last ballet as they so fit the lead roles in M. But it was R&J and for me it didn't gel dramatically enough for me to stick it out. My loss (I hope) as I think his Romeo was the most stunningly elegant I've ever seen it danced, and yes her Juliet has grace in abundance. Anyway a lingering cold led me away, and I hope his reviews are good.
  17. Vanartus
  18. Vanartus
    Think they might have been better using Hayward rather than Lamb re Juliet...
  19. Vanartus
    I do like Lamb, but how I wish they had put in Hayward as a replacement. Ironically she had been rehearsing with Muntagirov owing to Golding's visa issues...
  20. Vanartus
    Such a pity - poor girl...she really has been unlucky of late, feel really sad for her.
  21. Vanartus
    All Osipova's performances cancelled this autumn due to injury - poor girl!
  22. Vanartus
    Sylvia is by Ashton in case you thought I thought in was MacM
  23. Vanartus
    Interesting article. I agree as well. Munich is better. Ballett am Rhein have a great premiere of Symphonic Variations, other companies are stronger. Berlin should at least revive the Macmillan heritage of Concerto and Anastasia (one act). They should revive Sylvia. Even Manon. They could have set up a good relationship with RB. Ah well - it'll be a good post for someone...
  24. Vanartus
  25. Vanartus
    Yep. Saw it. Like it.
×
×
  • Create New...