ferrylights

Loved the cinema relay so much, would love love a DVD but I imagine the chances of that are slim.

*edited for typo

17 minutes ago, alison said:

 

BRB's ending has Benno retrieving Siegfried's drowned body from the lake: I've already thought that the current ending is perhaps a bit too much like BRB's!

I'm definietley in the minority who really, really loves the ending of this ROH production. 😳 For me I found it brought a lot of closure to the production. 

1 hour ago, annamk said:

As far as the corps is concerned I feel the performances have generally been rather average which may be to do with a new production as demanding as this coming at the end of a long season but may also be to do with the diversity of styles required in the Royal Ballet repertoire meaning that classical technique isn't top of the list of priorities. Luke Jennings makes these interesting points in his review this  "the corps dancers struggle, with issues of line, placement and pull-up continually and dismayingly in evidence." and particularly his last paragraph which may be too long to quote here so here is the link https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/may/27/rambert-life-is-dream-kim-brandstrup-royal-ballet-swan-lake-liam-scarlett-review I wonder what other posters here think ? 

 

Oh wow, I really thought the corps were beyond excellent during the matinee yesterday. Always interesting how performances are interpreted by different people. 

Yasmine was an absolute dream, as expected. Would have loved to have seen her with Matthew Ball instead of Nehemiah. 

Hi there , will send you a PM about at least d14 &15. Thanks. 

Thank you all for your very kind responses, I've now found a ticket.

Really interested in a ticket for Manon Osipova/Shklyarov on 5th of April. Looking for something in stalls circle preferably (standing is fine). Just saw a few get posted and I missed them.

Thank you in advance for your help. 

Hi there, would love to have this ticket! Will PM you now. 

Unfortunately no longer able to go, so 2 stalls tickets available for the ENB 28 October matinee performance (2.30pm) of Akram Khan's Giselle at the Liverpool Empire.

2 tickets Row A (but apparently row 5 is the front row in the theatre, so these are about 5 rows back). 

Performance begins at 2.30pm.

Were £34.50 each full price but would take less, as I'd like for them to go to someone who will enjoy the performance. Please DM me if you'd like them. These are paper tickets and I can post them.  

Have PM’d you. 

Hi there, super interested will PM you. 

Here is a link to an article in the Guardian about it being indefinitely postponed. 

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2016/nov/21/will-tuckett-nutcracker-ballet-cancelled

Here is a small video of her curtain call and the flower throw on Twitter: https://twitter.com/morganbferry/status/790837340868575232

There was a discount code on Metro, 40 pounds for orchestra stall seats and 20 pounds for Amphiteatre seats on certain performances including first night.  Enter royalballetoffer on website or say it on phone.

Do you have a link by any chance, please?

I think it's now available for purchase from iTunes, as I was able to buy it yesterday. Not sure about countries/regions.

NYCB ballerina Megan Fairchild answered a question about stage door fans in her Ask Megan! show podcast a while back.

Can be listened to here at the top of the page: http://www.premierdancenetwork.com/ask-megan/page/3/

That's a shame, ferrylights. Couldn't you have asked to move? In my experience, the ushers are generally sympathetic.

Thanks Alison, maybe I will if it ever happens again. I just felt a bit awkward about asking the ushers, because the children were really doing their best (they were even shushing each other) and obviously enjoying it. I don't have many excuses regarding the people behind me with their phones. I guess I just wasn't able to get completely immersed in the ballet for various reasons, and after a long day at work decided to go home. It was the first time as a regular ballet attendee where I'd noticed any issues in the audience that were distracting. I also don't go to the Coliseum very often.   

Ended up leaving Cinderella last night at the Coliseum during the first interval to a combination of 4 very young children (approx. 6 years old) in the front row of the Upper Circle, directly in front of me. They were very sweet and did their best but just too much whispering, popcorn rustling and water bottle plastic popping to allow for me to get into the ballet. Combined with the 4 teenage girls behind me eating sweets and their mobiles vibrating throughout, I just couldn't get into the ballet and decided to cut my losses and go home.

Thank you Janet, will do! I'm so pleased you enjoyed reading about it; a truly special event. 

I was lucky enough to have a chance to attend this fantastic event. My friend and I wrote some of our thoughts about it on our blog, link here. http://pasdeblog.com/sliver-of-sky-by-ludovic-ondiviela-review/

We also got to conduct a short interview with Ludovic Ondiviela before the premier, if anyone is interested in reading it. http://pasdeblog.com/sliver-of-sky-by-ludovic-ondiviela/

Please let me know if it's not okay to post this here, I would be happy to delete if it doesn't follow the balletcoforum guidelines.

I just thought it was such a great event for a really touching cause, and the passion of the choreographer and dancers was so apparent throughout. A very inspiring evening.

The original cast was filmed in Rhapsody, on the first night I think, certainly seen it on video.  Time to get it transferred to DVD?

I found this on YouTube, a small low quality snippet. 

All of these comments have inspired me to book for next week. Really really looking forward to it! 

I really enjoyed last night's performance on opening night. It was my first Nutcracker ever and I feel like a walking cliche saying this but it really was magical. A non ballet friend went with me and was also enthralled. Iana and Steven were so technically perfect together, it was probably my favourite production I've seen them in together out of Swan Lake/Romeo/Tchai PDD. Alexander Campbell was such a star as well. Just a perfect lovely evening. 

I don't normally participate in the discussions of the ballets, but last night was a bit of a weird R&J for me. Did anyone else feel that way? I've only seen about 6 R&J pairings, but had high hopes for Marianela and Thiago. I wasn't really feeling it through Act I, but in Act II Valentino Zucchetti stole the show with his death scene as Mercutio, it was absolutely fantastic. Those tears when he hugged his harlot  (fabulous Helen Crawford) before he died...wonderful, so much feeling. On par with Alexander Campbell, who is my favourite in that role. Eric Underwood... to put it lightly didn't do a lot for me as Tybalt, especially after seeing Bennet Gartside and Gary Avis a few times this run. As already stated by others Thiago didn't seem as strong technically as some of the others on stage...but who knows, it could have been an off night for him? He just didn't seem very into it, maybe. I had quite close stalls seats, but it just fell flat for me mostly, minus Valentino and Marianela. Kristen McNally was a wonderful lead harlot as well. The corps de ballet seemed really on form.

I've never seen someone play the Act III PDD in the bedroom after the wedding night like Marianela did. She barely looked at her Romeo the entire time, just seemed tearful and desperate from that point onwards which carried on into the rest of the act.  Like she knew it was just doomed from that moment onwards. Very different from Sarah and Lauren. 

It was an interesting R&J, very up and down for me. But I'm fairly new to ballet, and no expert. 

Thank you Ian. I was aware of Vaziev going to the Bolshoi, but I was asking the effect that MAB thought this has on Osipova or the scheduling. I am surprised if MAB would think that there is a huge connection and/or 'no one had worked it out'. (No offence meant at all MAB)

 

I thought that maybe there was some second-order of connection to it, so I asked.

 

Vaziev is going to the Bolshoi, so Osipova is now appearing there as a guest, and in London.

 

She will also be taking over Zakharova's Don Q in March at La Scala. However Vaziev denied Osipova's wish of dancing with Polunin for Manon, neither is she dancing with him for Don Q, even though it would of course be a delightful event for (Polipova/ Ospinunin) There must be some Brangelina shortening now for this amazing, inspirational, notorious partnership.

 

It seems a bit of give and take, in terms of scheduling rather than special treatment for her, to me at least. Unless I am missing something, which is very much usually the case.

Posipova? 

Natalia being around 5'5" sounds right to me, as I had flats on when I met her once, and we are exactly the same height in the picture of both of us together.

I always forget that ballerinas gain many inches of extra height when they go en pointe. There is a recent Telegraph article about Francesca Hayward mentioning that though she is a petite 5'2", she is about 5'7" en pointe because her feet are so long.

(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/what-to-see/Francesca-Hayward-royal-ballet-as-Juliet/)