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  1. Colman
    I imagine roughly the same as my seven year old creating a sundae: “More raspberry syrup, more chocolate syrup, more meringue, more cherries, do we have any of that weird green syrup”.
  2. Colman
    Having spent a good chunk of yesterday in the ROH I think the criticisms of their security are naive. Seemed to me that there was a pretty professional security presence. There’s lots of CCTV, a good number of staff on the floor and bigger bags being checked. One guy started being half interested in why my boots weren’t properly done up after the class when I headed to the bathrooms, so they’re awake too. Big queues are targets. They’re not a sign of good security, especially since most recent attacks I can think of wouldn’t be disrupted by bag checks at all, you’d have to do airport style security (and then they’d just attack the queue).
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    I’m afraid I think you’ll need to bring the emotional charge with you. At least Infra (which I hadn’t seen and hadn’t read about) made sense, was more affecting and was technically interesting.
  4. Colman
    I’m afraid Unknown Soldier is a big “Huh?” from me - and I haven’t seen Gloria. Completely failed to connect emotionally for me. I wonder to what extent that is due to my being connected neither to the myth of WW1 - the Irish relationship with that war is complicated, despite up to 50,000 dead - nor to the myth of an afterlife. I did learn that the afterlife is an Ancient Greek gymnasium though.
  5. Colman
    No, we did one of the “Dance with the Royal Ballet” classes for a bit of fun. A bit of barre and the party dance from nutcracker. I promise to stay in my seat quietly tonight.
  6. Colman
    The greatest danger in the next hour or so is being exposed to my “dancing”.
  7. Colman
    <walks into ROH> <bag checked> <visible security in at least two places> 🤷🏻‍♂️
  8. Colman
    When you’re used to power, other people asserting theirs feels like oppression. 🤷🏻‍♂️
  9. Colman
    You are paranoid.
  10. Colman
    PantoCoForum is behind you. Probably a better place to find that discussion. I’m fascinated at how uncomfortable and defensive discussing this makes some of you.
  11. Colman
    It seems to me that the question to be asked about any piece of art is, roughly, "Is this reinforcing racist attitudes?" I'd argue La Bayadere is too ridiculous to do that, but I wouldn't do so very strongly. 🙄
  12. Colman
    I'd guess that whoever configured/installed it didn't think of people going to multiple shows. Or it's just broken. Either way, complain or they'll never notice.
  13. Colman
    Incidentally, the Royal Academy of Dance - which I think is the biggest examining body - uniform rules say: “Candidates may wear a headscarf or hijab, provided that this does not obscure the line of the head and neck, and may wear long-sleeved leotards, provided this does not obscure the line of the arm.”
  14. Colman
    @Nadya have fun.
  15. Colman
    @Picturesinthefirelight Can I suggest that a general discussion of those issues be moved to a separate thread rather than turning Nadya’s thread into debate?
  16. Colman
    I think if you turned up at our school - which doesn't really have a class at your age group for various reasons - you'd probably be directed towards the adult class, where the uniform wouldn't be an issue. Talk to the teacher, is, as very often, the only useful advice here. Hijab + reasonably closely fitting leggings/top with a mid-thigh to knee length skirt should be ok, though I have no idea how you'll survive a hard class in that without melting! As Alison says, searches throw up images of covered dancers and this coverage in particular: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/worlds-first-hijabi-ballerina-is-forging-a-path-fo/ and this lady: https://www.instagram.com/engyelshazlyy/?hl=en
  17. Colman
    I have this problem with her performance on the Fille recording with Acosta. “Why is there a royal princess living as a peasant?” To be fair, without the closeups from recording/broadcast this might not be an issue.
  18. Colman
    Propaganda works. I mean, *obviously* everyone on this site is *far* too sophisticated to be influenced by (for example) repeated exposure to images of violent criminal "gypsies" that reinforce most of the rest of the cultural message about them, goes without saying, but it's possible there are ordinary mortals who might not have such well developed defences. Thinking is not the point. We're bad at thinking. Most often we use it to justify what we feel, and ballet and its portrayals speak directly to that. Which is why this stuff is potentially dangerous and needs to be thought about more carefully.
  19. Colman
    To be honest, I pretty much stop listening after any invocation of "PC". I seldom learn anything after that point, other than that the poster wants to be free to be rude without consequence.
  20. Colman
    No, we won't. It is not true to say that that position isn't a viable sitting position. I'd agree Le Corsaire is potentially dangerous, in a "propaganda works" sort of way. I'm just not sure that La Bayadère is closely enough related to reality to be very dangerous.
  21. Colman
    I think La Bayadère is so laughably and obviously not related to anything that ever really existed on the Indian subcontinent that it says nothing about the place. It tells us a lot about European attitudes though: it's set in a European fantasy world, not India. The whole thing is a opium dream by a European. I'd argue Le Corsaire is rather worse for being less fantastic. Huh? That position is easy. I often meditate in that sort of position for much longer than ten minutes. In fact, the position the idol assumes on the temple steps in that recording constitutes a comfortable long term sitting position.
  22. Colman
    ISTD 3 before the summer I think. (Teacher just gone on maternity leave, so we’ll see how that works out! Always possible she’ll come back insane and throw me in to the RAD Grade 5 exam, but not likely.)
  23. Colman
    It was delightful: really charming. The first act was a little hesitant maybe, though that could have just been me winding down from the stress of running around a strange city on a tight schedule. We had Karla Doorbar as Lise, Tzu-Chao Chou as Colas and Kit Holder as Alain. Michael O’Hare as the Widow. I don’t know the company at all, so they’re all new to me.
  24. Colman
    Made it to the Saturday matinee in Belfast, running straight over from an RBS insight day. What a pretty little opera house! I’d never been up to it before.
  25. Colman
    Since you can get a decent DVD/Blu-ray player for £60 or so now I’d be inclined to wait for UHD players to drop in price. Certainly that’s the calculation I did replacing my disc player as part of a system upgrade.
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