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  1. Geoff
    I thought the same (and ditto Mary, cliches!) But maybe there will be something extra, which was left out of this rehearsal (the arrival of an outside character or whatever)? Am eagerly looking forward to finding out when we see the show.
  2. Geoff
    You beat my personal record! This was after an astonishing performance of Electra in Vienna in the 1970s: we students had queued all night for a ticket, then stood for the performance, and then cheered afterwards for almost half the running time of the show, some 45 minutes. A glorious memory.
  3. Geoff
    I may not know much about ballet but have some professional experience of the making of documentaries, for the BBC and others. I watched Dark Knight: might one suggest to Lady MacMillan that her influence, if that is the right word, does not always achieve the best result?
  4. Geoff
    Just sent you a PM
  5. Geoff
    May I bid for the 12 May Bill? I will send you a PM.
  6. Geoff
    My eyes are old and tired but nowhere on this press release do I see the name Petipa mentioned, never mind the fact that this year is the 200th anniversary of his birth. It does mention the (I suppose in some people's eyes) far more important "anniversary of MacMillan's death", 26 years ago this October. Can't help feeling a bit disappointed.
  7. Geoff
    As Netrebko has just done her first Tosca now (last night at the Met), here are some comments on that performance by way of comparison: http://slippedisc.com/2018/04/so-how-was-anna-netrebkos-first-tosca http://parterre.com/2018/04/22/quantum-leap/
  8. Geoff
    This is unlikely to be the reason for "The Black Swan" production being shot on a small stage. 1960s tv cameras did indeed use a limited number of lenses, but that would not apply to a 1952 film shot on 35mm. I suspect the reason is more likely to be a severely limited production budget (a smaller stage is usually cheaper than a larger one, and would also need less scenery to be built).
  9. Geoff
    Some more details:
  10. Geoff
    Do you mean you feel the film might be speeded up, LinMM? Although this copy is in murky black and white, don't be misled: this is nothing like a handcranked silent film from the 1920s (where there often used to be issues with speed, now usually corrected in modern copies). A quick check with an electronic stopwatch against the film's in-vision time-code shows this to be an accurate recording (as I think it would have to be, given the 3D set up). They are dancing faster than we are sometimes used to these days, which happens to be something I really like!
  11. Geoff
    Incidentally, on the issue of 3D, Peter Brinson, in a lecture to the RSA in 1989, claimed "The Black Swan" (some 13 minutes in total, another listing shows) is the only stereoscopic ballet film to have been made in western Europe. Presumably someone somewhere has researched this subject.
  12. Geoff
    Perhaps I was too hasty in taking the Huntley Archives dating of "1940s" at face value. A search of British films reveals a production, enticingly "stereoscopic" (ie 3D), released in May 1952 under the name "The Black Swan". Starring Grey and Field it is the work of Peter Brinson. It is briefly discussed in Dance Research Journal (Spring issue, 1996): https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S014976770001634X
  13. Geoff
    As a postscript to the recent discussion on 32 fouettés, here is a clip of Beryl Grey, probably while still a teenager, doing Black Swan/Odile with John Field (the reference in the Huntley archive says the film has sound but this poor quality YouTube sample is silent) More information would be welcome.
  14. Geoff
    My ticket for the Saturday matinee has also gone back to the box office.
  15. Geoff
    And - one more ticket for the Saturday matinee available from me as well! Row AA.
  16. Geoff
    Bumping this up for today
  17. Geoff
    Gutted. Booked a perfect ticket (Amphi, row D, £11) for this coming Thursday's matinee but now working. So will sell to good home. There are plenty of seats still for sale but none this good at this price. Eticket so easy to get it to you. If interested please PM as well as posting here.
  18. Geoff
    Just been reading through the online comments on the ROH site and was amused to find this one (particularly as "wobble" features in some criticisms of Netrebko):-
  19. Geoff
    Ah, thank you John. I will try this when I am next at the desktop (most of what I do balletwise is by IPad).
  20. Geoff
    So, on reflection, do you have any advice for the time I have a photo I would like to attach (I mean a picture I have taken myself, not something online with a URL)? Your new 1kb limit - thank you again! - is still not going to make that possible so how do people manage their endless curtain call snaps (for example)?
  21. Geoff
    Oh sorry aliceinwoolfland, finally sorted my attachment at the same time as you were writing. Admins please feel free to make sense of the multiple postings, apologies everyone.
  22. Geoff
    I carry no brief for this Twitter person (and have no idea who they are) but I just searched for your reference and that is not quite what was said:
  23. Geoff
    Ah, thank you. And also for the warning: I am beginning to understand how this works!
  24. Geoff
    I have got myself into a muddle this morning with attaching small snapshots. I found the page My Attachments but there doesn't seem to be a facility to delete old attachments (which I had previously not realised were stored). What does one do to get the attachment allowance back to full size?
  25. Geoff
    I carry no brief for this Twitter person (and have no idea who they are) but I just searched for your reference and that is not quite what was said: (APOLOGIES - SUDDENLY HAVING TROUBLE POSTING THE SNAPSHOT OF THE TWEET, TECHNICAL HELP WELCOME, THE ISSUE SEEMS TO BE VERY RESTRICTIVE FILE SIZE, WHICH CAN't RIGHT GIVEN THE GORGEOUS PHOTOS UPLOADED)
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