Vanartus

20 hours ago, Angela said:

In the presskit that came with the press release, they wrote MacMillan's name wrong (it was "Macmillan" twice) - I'm not so sure if they even remember him, to be honest.  😢

😿indeed...

6 hours ago, Angela said:

Next season at Staatsballett Berlin: Sasha Waltz and Johannes Öhman presented the program of the first season under their joint artistic directorship at the Staatsballett Berlin.

Premieres:

"Sleeping Beauty" by Marcia Haydée (her Stuttgart version from 1987, but with new décor by Jordi Roig, not the original one by Jürgen Rose)

"Plateau Effect" by Jefta van Dinther

Triple Bill Alexander Ekman (creation) | Sharon Eyal (creation) | "Sunny" by Emanuel Gat

Triple Bill -  Balanchine: "Theme and Variations", Forsythe: "Second Detail", Richard Siegal: "Oval" (creation)

Sasha Waltz will stage "SYMPHONIE MMXX", her first exclusive creation for the Staatsballett Berlin, with new music by Georg Friedrich Haas

 

repertoire:

"Giselle" by Patrice Bart

"Jewels"

"La Bayadère" by Alex Ratmansky

"Nutcracker" by Yuri Burlaka/Vasily Medvedev

 

New to the company: Aya Okumura, who comes from Het Nationale, as Soloist  - I'm sure there will be some more changes

 

https://www.staatsballett-berlin.de/en/spielplan/01-09-2019/

 

I think that’s a good mix...and they’ll be getting their money out their new (2018/19) productions. But, I’ll have to wait another year to see if they’ll ever celebrate the MacMillan era with a triple bill featuring Concerto and the original one-act Anastasia. I think they’d do My Brother, My Sisters well...failing that Elite Syncopations. I can but dream ...

I think Berlin should poach her 😉

I’m starting to feel a little guilty about not seeing it again, but the pull wasn’t strong enough to get me trek from Berlin. I also thought he would have pruned the start and beefed up the initial meeting with his creation. That disappointed me. Re marketing...I’m a basic (?!) Friend and have liked ROH on Facebook and I’ve never received any “buy this” marketing. All I get (and it’s interesting) are bits and bobs - some nice stuff re Woolf Works was the last one!

Wow - wonderful!

Oh how I would love to see this...

Still my all time fave!

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!!!

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...

On 24/05/2018 at 21:54, Lisa O`Brien said:

At first when I read the title I thought it meant Northern Ballet had been awarded a Royal Charter and were to be called Royal Northern Ballet.

Funnily enough this would have been the result of a merger between SWRB and Northern which was a possibility in the 80’s!

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?

1 hour ago, Angela said:

Guests for the Ballet week at Bavarian State Ballet:

Ashley Bouder from NYCB in Rubies/Jewels on 11. April

Natalia Osipova as Tatyana in Cranko’s Onegin on 13. April

Ivan Vasiliev as Petrucchio in Cranko’s Taming of the Shrew on 14. April

Anna Laudere and Edvin Revazov for Neumeier’s Lady of the Camellias (actually they will dance all performances, so no Munich couple will have danced in the main parts)

Booking starts on Monday 10.00 CET

Beg borrow or steal tickets for Osipova - her interpretation is thrilling and not  a little disturbing too. A very brave take on the role.

Damn - I was rather looking forward to seeing the leather harness jiggle dance again!!!

Heavens - he’s seriously messed up!

(...I wanted to use the f word but wasn’t sure...)

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...

Still no word who’s standing in for Osipova in the new work...

ROH emailed me to say Woolf Works  dvd on its way...

Sigh...”...ain’t no thing as bad publicity...” or however that old adage goes..

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...

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

4 minutes ago, alison said:

 

That was the doctor, wasn't it?

 

I'm not exactly surprised at this, I must admit - I did think that after his last performance in Winter Dreams he was very emotional at the curtain call, and I wondered then if something was on the cards.  After all, he hasn't been cast in a lot this year, and he has been developing other projects outside the RB. I'm glad he's staying as Guest Principal for now, though, but I wish him all the best for the future.

I think it was the captain/drum major (not sure of exact title)

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. 

He was my guilty pleasure. Loved him in Different Drummer and Winter’s Tale. In Onegin too. And any pdd with Nuñez. 

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.

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.