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  1. RuthE
    And as for those fouettes - she nails them to the spot in a way that I haven't seen anyone do in the last couple of RB runs except Marianela Nunez.
  2. RuthE
    She guested at Korea National Ballet as Odette/Odile in 2011; there's a substantial amount of video footage of it on YouTube if you wish to form an opinion. Edited to add White pdd : https://youtu.be/IaTA-1KMAg0 And Black pdd: https://youtu.be/Kx-hO852FM4 (Substantially different version to the one that's standard at the RB, but even so...)
  3. RuthE
    This came as quite a surprise to me recently when it was played during the signing of the registers at a wedding! I wasn't familiar with the Classical Symphony so wasn't expecting a gavotte which I recognised from something else. Edited to add: ...and it's reprised during the guests-leaving-the-ball scene, isn't it? So alison's memory is correct.
  4. RuthE
    Sadly at the matinee the ending was spoiled by a lighting error - the blackout happened a few seconds too early, so you never saw the dancer (Benjamin Ella in that cast, I think?) throw himself off the back. Somebody on the technical crew must have been kicking themself hard...
  5. RuthE
    Ah yes, for some reason it had slipped my mind that Rupert Pennefather's departure was so recent.
  6. RuthE
    Along with Leanne Cope, Genesia Rosato, Roberta Marquez (I think - has she formally left yet to return as a guest for Fille, or is she technically still with the company at the moment?) and I imagine a couple of others I've missed. As I said earlier in the thread, my feeling is that *somebody* has recently handed in their notice but for whatever reason they or the company don't want it announced just yet (perhaps until they get back from tour?) so they're holding off on the leavers' announcement until that's finalised. It's not that I have any suspicions about who that might be, and speculation wouldn't be appropriate, but let's wait a couple of weeks and see if I'm right. It's just a hunch.
  7. RuthE
    Sorry, realised after typing the above post that the comment to which Tony's remark was in reference to the past year only. I think the fact that Calvert has had relatively few performances this side of a long-term injury shouldn't necessarily be an impediment to the career progression of a dancer in which the management clearly has considerable faith.
  8. RuthE
    As well as Gamzatti, Lilac Fairy etc.
  9. RuthE
    First Soloist, and has been for eight years.
  10. RuthE
    I consider myself quite new to ballet, but not THAT New - I've been attending the RB regularly since late 2011 - and the fact that this is the first time in the WHOLE time I've been attending the RB that there has been even *one* promotion to principal (rather than outside recruitment) is pretty shocking to me, considering the number who have left in the same space of time.
  11. RuthE
    I can't help wondering whether that means they know somebody high-profile has decided to retire (or move on) quietly, but haven't publicly announced it yet.
  12. RuthE
    I was thinking just the same thing!
  13. RuthE
    I have never been a fan of Akane Takada other than for her lightness and technical efficiency, and I stopped booking for her, but the things I've heard about her Young Girl (in Two Pigeons) and Giselle, neither of which I saw, suggest to me that she has matured considerably in her interpretations in the past year. I suspect the company's decision in this case is quite astute and that I need to give her another chance. I fear Hirano lacks star quality, but he is a terrific partner, and there are other longer-standing principals who don't have that edge of star quality either. I have no idea why Yuhui Choe has remained so sidelined by the company.
  14. RuthE
    It was Sarah Crompton.
  15. RuthE
    If you are specifically referring to the sequence of arm movements that is shared between Leontes and Hermione right at the beginning, and then again at other points including when Hermione expresses her forgiveness in the final scene, then I do know the answer to this from the most reliable of sources. As zxDaveM stated, it is a statement of their wedding vows. When a studio performance of the Act 3 pas de deux was streamed online as part of the Shakespeare 400 day in April, I messaged Lauren Cuthbertson on Twitter to ask what it meant. Her response was that Ed Watson had nicknamed it the "port de marriage". (This conversation was public on Twitter rather than by DM, but I think she may have deleted it since as I can't find it in her feed to link to.)
  16. RuthE
    I'd have been disinclined to back a horse named after a character who drops dead really near the beginning!
  17. RuthE
    Maybe he's in the onstage band...
  18. RuthE
    Having just posted the above, I think I may yet be persuaded to see next Saturday's matinee, which I hadn't noticed I was free for. I've not seen the second cast of either of the modern pieces yet (having seen second cast of The Invitation at the dress rehearsal).
  19. RuthE
    As much as I like Within The Golden Hour, I've seen it enough, I think. On Friday, having already seen that cast of it, I went home after The Invitation. This for me is the biggest problem in the RB's recent habit of putting the same piece in more than one mixed bill in quick succession. If I'd seen any more performances of Rhapsody I dare say I'd have stopped staying for Two Pigeons, too...
  20. RuthE
    You may be pleased or possibly disappointed to hear that the theatre's facilities have been upgraded considerably since then; in 2007(?) the seating capacity was significantly increased, the seats made much more comfortable, and the canopy extended such that it's much more difficult for birds to get in and you no longer get rained on if you're on the end of a row!
  21. RuthE
    Yes, I just saw that! Listings still haven't changed though. Must be handy to have your sister on hand and conveniently able to dep for you!
  22. RuthE
    I wonder whether Sophie Bevan is still singing in tonight's concert... she pulled out of yesterday's Oedipe at the ROH due to illness, but is currently still listed on the Wigmore Hall website.
  23. RuthE
    The Twitter statement said injury. Nothing serious, I hope (I would have thought that the fact that she's dropped out of one performance rather than all three is an indication that she thinks there's a chance it won't last long).
  24. RuthE
    For what it's worth, the term coryphée is also used in French opera to denote singers in a semichorus, for example in the opening chorus of Act 3 of Berlioz's Les Troyens, which is a full chorus led by a semichorus.
  25. RuthE
    I find it considerably *more* disturbing in the knowledge that it's based on real events...
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