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  1. bridiem
    It would seem a bit strange to make a vaccine 'passport' compulsory since that hasn't been stated as a requirement when booking tickets. I'm double jabbed and could easily prove that, but how could you make it a requirement retrospectively?
  2. bridiem
    Brilliant!
  3. bridiem
    Interesting. I wonder how many of these are new positions (haven't looked at all of them). Or have a lot of people left? The ROH doesn't appear to be holding back on recruitment in spite of the financial situation created by the pandemic.
  4. bridiem
    Just to say that he's written in detail about his sister's death, so he's brought that part of his private life into the public eye. But I also don't know much else about him.
  5. bridiem
    I've sat near the front of the orchestra stalls a (very!) few times and have had heads blocking my view quite badly (and I'm 5' 9"). Further back may be more reliable - I don't know.
  6. bridiem
    Yes, my JA vouchers were invaluable. (But they made tickets cheap enough to be able to go to multiple performances - even when I was still at school and the only money I had came from a Saturday job - which is unlikely to be the case with £25.)
  7. bridiem
    Seat view didn't work at all for me (which meant I couldn't depart from my usual choices in case the view was worse than anticipated).
  8. bridiem
    🤣 🤣 Enough to fund quite a few ballet tickets, I should think!
  9. bridiem
    I've never booked so many performances in one go, or spent as much on tickets in one go, as I did this morning. I persuaded myself it was justified after so long without performances, and because I still had some of the gift certificate from last season, and because it's my only extravagance. And really, what was I supposed to do, with all those enticing casts and débuts?! I ask you. 😉
  10. bridiem
    Beat you - I know three!! 😊 (Dan Walker, Adam Peaty and Greg Wise. Though to be honest, I probably wouldn't know Greg Wise if he wasn't married to Emma Thompson. And I might even have struggled with Adam Peaty if we hadn't just had the Olympics.) The word 'celebrity' clearly now just means anyone who has ever been involved in any capacity whatsoever in any sort of public activity, including social media. Perhaps we should put forward a BalletcoForum candidate next year. Any volunteers?! I stopped watching when Darcey Bussell left (since she was the only reason I ever started watching). Not sure if I'll return since I can't really cope with the hysteria that accompanies it. But I would quite like to see how Dan Walker gets on so who knows.
  11. bridiem
    Thank you for mentioning that, FionaE - it hadn't occurred to me! I abandoned package booking this morning because it didn't include the 1st night of Dante Project, but I've now booked one including the last night instead. Exciting to be booking tickets again!
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    Olympics "2020"

    bridiem replied to alison's topic in Not Dance

    It's been wonderful! I've loved watching so many sports some of which I hardly ever see outside of the Olympics. I've especially enjoyed diving, equestrian, triathlon, swimming, gymnastics and now track and field. It's amazing how caught up you can get in something when you basically know nothing about it... (e.g. taekwondo). It's been a real display of the indomitable human spirit in the face of the pandemic.
  13. bridiem
    It sounds amazing, Chris! I am a former choral singer but the mere thought of moving as well as singing (or indeed singing without a score) fills me with horror! It must have been an incredible experience and thank you so much for writing about it so vividly.
  14. bridiem
    I've never used packages before, and I don't quite understand what I can see at the moment about the total ballet Amphi package, which is supposed to offer a 10% discount. If I check the seats/prices for the seats I would normally aim to buy, I can see a potential discount of about 10% for R&J (£43 down to £38.75) as part of such a package, a discount of about 5% on Nutcracker, and no discount on Giselle or Dante Project for the same seats. Do packages vary as to which seats get included for which productions? Sorry if this info is on the website but my head is now spinning about all this. And if you have to book more expensive seats for some of the productions in order to make use of the package, it would just make it all more not less expensive! Or is the seating plan maybe not up to date yet?
  15. bridiem
    I agree. Otherwise they become more of a way of getting into the final 'pose' rather than the whole move/movement mattering.
  16. bridiem
    Fascinating! Fonteyn and Blair are so exciting - fast, light, flowing, musical, and with an air of otherworldliness that tells us this is a fairy tale, a fantasy; almost as if they're oblivious of the audience and dancing purely in their world. All their dancing is a means to an end not an end in itself. Terrific.
  17. bridiem
    Well I loved Akram Khan's Giselle, as one example; if reimaginings are done well they can be thrilling. And it would very sad if no new ballet scores were ever commissioned. But I do now tend to hear these phrases with a high degree of wariness, I'm afraid.
  18. bridiem
    I didn't know whether to laugh or cry when reading your post, Rina. Funny, clever and all too horribly plausible.
  19. bridiem
    Me too!
  20. bridiem
    But I would have thought that raising ticket prices so that they're (even more) unaffordable for a lot of people would be a funding no-no too. (And if it isn't already, it should be.)
  21. bridiem
    No, I don't think it is.
  22. bridiem

    Room 101

    bridiem replied to taxi4ballet's topic in Not Dance

    Well to borrow the sentiment of the late, great Bill Shankly: ''Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.' I know he was exaggerating for effect (or was he?!) but for millions of people football is not just sport. Of course that doesn't justify hooliganism, but it explains why the whole range of human behaviour is evident within the context of football. And why I find last night's defeat unbearable and will happily consign it to Room 101.
  23. bridiem
    Well she looks fine in the Nutcracker wig, which reflects the idea of the glittering light of the Kingdom of Sweets. And the source material for these works is after all the product of European imagination. I personally have no problem with seeing dancers of any colour in light-coloured wigs if it suits the story/ballet. I associate them with the character being portrayed, not the real life dancer wearing them.
  24. bridiem
    Actually I'm not sorry. And I'm not disgruntled, I'm angry. If the Royal Ballet management doesn't believe in ballet and doesn't believe it can sell it to the public, we might as well all go home. I love some contemporary dance but if I want to watch contemporary dance I go to Sadler's Wells or wherever and watch it performed by contemporary-trained dancers. I have no interest in hip hop at any venue. There's a very good article by Gerald Dowler in this month's Dancing Times, in which he says that he fears for the future of ballet. So do I, now.
  25. bridiem
    A hip hop choreographer being mentored by a contemporary choreographer at the Royal Ballet. I suppose it was too much to hope that the Royal Ballet's emerging choreographer would be a ballet choreographer. Silly me. Maybe the name should be changed to the Royal Dance Company and contemporary and hip hop dancers should be recruited to the ranks. Sorry. Feeling disgrunted.
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