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  1. Vanartus
    Still my all time fave!
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    Well “Friends’ Booking” opens tomorrow, and there is still nothing up on the website. Well this friend is feeling more like a fiend, and I’m not sure whether membership is worth it after all. I wouldn’t mind if they billed it as a gala of surprises...I seem to remember way back when the jubilee programme or queen mum or Princess Margaret or someone was marketed as such. But surely they know the what’s and who’s by now?! It’s just 3 months away!!!
  3. Vanartus
    Yeah - my fault got my 80’s and 70’s mixed up...didn’t know about the LFB possibility...in fact I think NBT was Northern Dance Theatre back then...
  4. Vanartus
    Funnily enough this would have been the result of a merger between SWRB and Northern which was a possibility in the 80’s!
  5. Vanartus
    Just checked ROH website today for updates as I received a reminder re various levels of Friends booking dates. At the moment I can’t find any more information. Does anyone know anything re content?
  6. Vanartus
    Beg borrow or steal tickets for Osipova - her interpretation is thrilling and not a little disturbing too. A very brave take on the role.
  7. Vanartus
    Damn - I was rather looking forward to seeing the leather harness jiggle dance again!!!
  8. Vanartus
    Heavens - he’s seriously messed up! (...I wanted to use the f word but wasn’t sure...)
  9. Vanartus
    I’ve gone into full zen/cut-off-nose-spite face mode. I’ll just watch live relay in Berlin. I’ve bought great seats for San Francisco Ballet instead and will use my R&J allocation to try and get a crow’s nest view at Margot fest. Or I might buy a meal. Or...
  10. Vanartus
    Still no word who’s standing in for Osipova in the new work...
  11. Vanartus
    ROH emailed me to say Woolf Works dvd on its way...
  12. Vanartus
    Sigh...”...ain’t no thing as bad publicity...” or however that old adage goes..
  13. Vanartus
    I’m starting to be almost as disappointed with Zelensky as I am with Polunin. Even if he wants to remain loyal to him and still feels sorry for him, allowing him to dance is indulging him. I’m not sure how much he’s distanced himself and by association the company from Polunin’s views, or condemned them in the latest press release, but it’s not good. And I was shocked that the Times describes Zelensky as a friend of Putin which is depressing. Sigh...
  14. Vanartus
    I notice that The Times UK has picked up on the story: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/cheers-for-return-of-sergei-polunin-ballet-s-bad-boy-fsrfhl98l
  15. Vanartus
    I think it was the captain/drum major (not sure of exact title)
  16. Vanartus
    Well. Even allowing for Google translate, he comes over as an arrogant tosser. Sorry. And using his ballerina as a quasi-human shield. I’m due to see the MacGregor triple bill in February, but after that I’ll give Munich a rest if he continues to dance. It won’t hurt Munich or Polunin, but it’ll make me feel better.
  17. Vanartus
    He was my guilty pleasure. Loved him in Different Drummer and Winter’s Tale. In Onegin too. And any pdd with Nuñez.
  18. Vanartus
    Funnily enough if I’d seen his Carmen done by his own company or Rambert or NB in a venue the size of Sadlers Wells I would have cut him far more slack. It just didn’t work for me in the context of RB and Covent Garden.
  19. Vanartus
    I agree that his choreography is a possible issue, but he will have far bigger issues and challenges. I’m glad he’s name checked Ashton and MacMillan, and he’s right to look at those choreographers which are new and homegrown talent too. Good to see the pointer to women in dance. If he gets all of this done, then why not let him try a crowd pleaser one-act work (heavens that’s come over very patronising- sorry!) which he can do well ...I didn’t like his Carmen although Tierney Heap was amazing in the role and almost saved it, but it just wasn’t right for the RB nor Covent Garden. But I think he learnt a lot from the experience.
  20. Vanartus
    Wow!!!!!!
  21. Vanartus
    I posted my views on the Munich Ballet website...was verrrrry polite and restrained
  22. Vanartus
    Perhaps my mind is addled but I was talking about the Pite triple bill...
  23. Vanartus
    It’s a mess. And it is so annoying. In the end I booked for the first night just to be sure even though it wasn’t my first choice. I remember the weird thing that at one time it showed the live broadcast without Osipova which I thought could not be the case!
  24. Vanartus
    It’s a good point. I had been thinking some time ago to check out their Raymonda, but timings not good. Anyway I wouldn’t touch him with a barge pole as ‘twere. Will keep happy memories of him at the RB and when he first left. And I hope Osipova keeps her distance. What a mess he is. Re Zelensky, since he brought Polunin to his senses before, perhaps he can do it again. But how? Tough love?
  25. Vanartus
    Just caught up with the film today. I had forgotten how good he was. Feel bad I never got round to seeing his show in London. Really like the Jarre piece too. Sad though...
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