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  1. bridiem
    Really regret not going now - I deprived them of the opportunity to photograph me in my dazzling jeans and endlessly comfy jumper. Ah well. Maybe next year.
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    Surely all the dancers there were, by the mere fact of being there, special achievers.
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    Hope that everyone going enjoys this! Will look forward to hearing about it afterwards.
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    I can't speak for @Geoff, but I understood 'non-idiomatic emotionalism' to mean that classical ballet as used by Petipa is a formal 'language' and so to imbue (or seek to imbue) every step with excessive personal emotion is inauthentic (and more of a 20th-/21st-century approach).
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    No, I don't think it can. It aims for emotion rather than transcendence (in spite of the music) and so for me doesn't fully achieve either. There's still a lot to admire, or even love, but it's not SL at its best.
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    Swan Lake at its best is not so much emotional as transcendent, which is ultimately even more powerful.
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    Interesting review of this by Alastair Macaulay in today's Links. I haven't seen this piece, but what Macaulay writes seems to me to be generally relevant to much of McGregor's work.
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    I haven't got the full cast sheet, but for the evening I saw it my abbreviated record lists the cast as 'Morera, Sasaki and company' in DC, Mukhamedov, Watson, Harvey and Galeazzi in Judas Tree, and Acosta, Tapper and Urlezaga in Gloria.
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    What a brilliant Insight! Watson and Bussell both terrific coaches, Sambé and Hamilton excellent, and a really interesting discussion between Eagling, Ferri, Bussell and Lady MacMillan. Very moving to see dancers who thrilled me in my early years of ballet-going talking and coaching so vividly. Has even made me look forward to Different Drummer (which I'm afraid I loathed on it première; I will go next week with an open mind...). I didn't catch the name of the presenter but she was very good too. Thank you to all concerned!
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    The last time I saw Danses concertantes was in 2003 when the bill was DC/The Judas Tree/Gloria. Clearly very similar thinking behind the programming this time!
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    What an amazing list of participants!
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    I'm sure that Alexander Campbell is far too mature, balanced and positive to have left in a 'fit of pique'; I imagine that he simply decided to accept a wonderful opportunity that was presented to him. Nevertheless, I think that members who wish to express dissatisfaction with casting decisions have every right to do so (and that does not amount to 'grumbling' let alone 'gossip' - there are serious issues at stake here! Well, serious if you love ballet, the RB and its dancers). But yes, I'm sure the RAD appointment will give him great opportunities, and that he will retain excellent connections with the RB and all the other organisations with which he has been associated.
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    I watched (online!) a class he gave in London last year, and some of his Zoom classes during lockdown/s. He's clearly an excellent, kind and intelligent teacher.
  14. bridiem
    This interesting article was in yesterday's Links, along with other reviews.
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    I hope it's OK to copy here what he has said on Instagram about Friday evening: 'Still can’t find the words to describe how it feels to have been through this experience of a ‘retirement’ show - but I can say that I couldn’t have asked for anything more. I was reminded that I have been surrounded by incredible people during my time here @royaloperahouse and that is an absolute gift that I will treasure for the rest of my life.'
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    Thank you for the wonderful review, @Jan McNulty! Can't wait to see this in London.
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    It may have been my imagination, but I did think that KOH sounded just a teeny bit sheepish/ embarrassed.
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    Just to mention that I think it's a good thing, even if sometimes inconvenient, to have a time limit for editing posts. People start reading and reacting to them very quickly, and if they're changed long after the event you'd never know if you were actually reading the final post. Typos etc don't matter in the whole scheme of things anyway; what matters is the essence of what's being said, which should not be changed after people start reading/reacting.
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    I think that when you start typing it, you then have to choose the name from the drop-down list that appears, rather than just typing it out. (Only realised this myself very recently!).
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    It was about 2.5 hours on Thurs night, inc 2 intervals and a pause.
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    Sublime.
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    I think that's about the only direction in which I didn't look! That's a pity. Yes, I hope next time @Richard LH 😊
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    Btw, I did go down to the Floral Hall at the first interval to see if I could find any Forumites, but the usual table wasn't there and I couldn't see anyone familiar. Apologies if there was a gathering and I didn't see it!
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    Thank you so much for uploading the video, @lady emily. It was such a special night. I found it more difficult than usual to concentrate on the story of the ballet because I was so aware of it being AC's last performance. But I was nevertheless aware of how excellent the performance was, and of how powerful the partnership was and always has been between Alexander Campbell and Francesca Hayward. The final moment of Des Grieux's grief was one not of abandonment but of stunned shock and disbelief. And that's rather how I felt at the prospect of never seeing AC dance again. The curtain calls/speeches were lovely; he is obviously held in such affection, and clearly deserves to be so. Wonderful that his family was there, and that they were the first people he thanked. I give thanks that I was able to witness so much of his career - so many superlative performances - and I wish him everything that's good for the future.
  25. bridiem
    I didn't feel I could because others were dancing. But I clapped (and sobbed) internally...
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