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  1. Colman
    I struggle to get me to do stretching at home.
  2. Colman
    Just wrong: she based it on a mistranslation at the time I think, and corrected shortly after.
  3. Colman
    Excellent: Live relays of The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand and Woolf Works.
  4. Colman
    Well, the ballets. Though he was talking about some of his productions as musicals. Maybe it'll be a classical ballet inside a contemporary ballet? :-)
  5. Colman
    It seems pretty clear he thinks it's a ballet: "It has been fascinating to discover how much of this music lends itself to storytelling through dance and this production will, I believe, be the first full length ballet to celebrate his unique music.” Also, from twitter:
  6. Colman
    Education policy is mostly about fiefdoms political biases and a nice leavening of work for friendly consultants. It doesn't have to make sense.
  7. Colman
    Does the school have a library of DVDs? Binge watching those sounds like your best plan for the next few weeks? :-)
  8. Colman
    Pilates to keep your strength up is all I can think of. I'd ask at the school what your teachers recommend: they must have some sort of protocol for this sort of thing, surely?
  9. Colman
    From my history reading it seems that pretty much all the "greats" created plenty of works that did one run and were dropped or extensively reworked. We see the ones that survived - and some of those may have languished for decades before being revived.
  10. Colman
    Not just ballet … transgender friend of mine had a very bad experience with the bellydancing community, had to give up after she transitioned because she simply wasn't welcome in too many places - some teachers can have very strange ideas about dance, gender and related matters.
  11. Colman
    Out of curiosity, does anyone know where her flat was?
  12. Colman
    My primary degree is in Pure Mathematics. Twenty five years later very few of us are in careers that directly follow from that (even most IT careers are pretty tangential to a pure maths degree). Enjoy the trip, and work it out the details later - given the pace of change in pretty much everything these days it's hard to tell what jobs will be available in ten years anyway. How long before the accounting profession is decimated by automation for instance?
  13. Colman
    Yup, report it to the school. Entirely inappropriate behaviour. And on no account should she talk to a doctor or school nurse unless she independently thinks there's a problem: going to the authorities because of what some idiot kids have said is just going to validate their bullying.
  14. Colman
    Living in the distant imperial provinces, most of the exposure we get is via DVD and she's been a pretty much constant presence on those! Certainly will be missed, sad I didn't get to see her in person.
  15. Colman
    Some advice: would this sound appropriate for an adult who's just done grade II, has been dancing for about three years and does about four-five hours a week including following along an Intermediate class as best she can? It might make a good birthday present for someone … (I'll ask organisers too, just wondered what people here thought.)
  16. Colman
    [This seems like best place to put this, shout if I'm wrong!] So, I'm scheduled to do my grade 1 ISTD Classical Ballet exam in May - I'm apparently seven years of age. Our teacher has sent me a video of the most appropriate boys set dance - "Collecting Conkers" -and I am crying with laughter. The curriculum notes include "swaggering" in the instructions and watching the boy in the video I'm thinking I may be best off with a pirate costume. Now to figure out how to keep my face reasonably straight and dance it in a way that doesn't make me look like an over-the-top impression of Jack Sparrow.
  17. Colman
    I fear you'll find that's a transient thing, linked to the dance programme thingies. I've seen the ebb and flow of beginners in martial arts linked to the release of movies several times - it's all MMA at the moment, which is appalling, but what can you do? Whenever there's an big samurai movie out I can guarantee we'll get an uptick in beginners in Iaido. They seldom last.
  18. Colman
    Thanks.
  19. Colman
    Watching her perform or also seeing boys his own age perform? Any idea?
  20. Colman
    After a remark from someone senior in Ireland's ballet world, I'm curious how the boys find their way into ballet class. How do they make contact with that world? In our case, my wife decided she'd start adult classes about three years ago and after seeing what see was doing and watching some ballets on TV the boys and I followed her in.
  21. Colman
    Can you give back your bonus? If it's a small employer they might be able to sort something out.
  22. Colman
    I'm sort of pleased to hear you complaining about this: I just thought the kids and parents in our school were weird. Even a lot of the adult students don't seem to watch ballet. I was totally freaked out when briefly discussing the plot of Coppelia with our teacher during a class and realising that almost none of the other dozen or so adult students had any idea what we were talking about. They'll go to the Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Beauty and maybe Giselle and maybe the annual trip to whatever Ballet Ireland are touring locally and that's it. There's two ladies we regularly see at the cinema broadcasts and that's about it. The idea of popping in a DVD from the RB of an evening is alien to them. The more I think about this the more depressing it is. Where do you get your audience if even the students won't go?
  23. Colman
    Not if you're standing properly. If you lock your knees back, yes, but you shouldn't be doing that.
  24. Colman
    Wouldn't that only show badly managed swaybacks? If you're standing in parallel surely you should have hips, knees, ankles lined up, swaybacks or not.
  25. Colman
    We've been having this discussion for about 300 years too.
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