Colman

Performance culture is a living thing and changes in every time and place - for example, I can't imagine many forumites being happy if crowds at the opera house still ate, flirted, wandered around and cat-called the performers as they did in the early years of Italian opera. 

You haven't met our four-year old. He'd be very happy.

And let's not revisit the teenagers chomping pop-corn during Romeo and Juliet's balcony scene, shall we? 

Excellent. I know what we'll be watching in the office tomorrow morning then!

Do they normally archive these to their YouTube channel? 7:15 tonight is in the middle of classes for us!

This looks good: http://www.tringbrewery.co.uk 

Just around the corner. 

Oh, I'm not being flippant: that's literally true. Many more people will be killed by stairs or cars than terrorists this year, almost certainly.

There are always trade-offs on security - long queues are themselves potential targets, and there's no real way of stopping committed attackers anyway. I'm sure the security checks at Stade de France that foiled the two suicide bombers there were similarly cursory. Increased vigilance and bag checks forces security staff to interact with people, which is the main thing - remember that even the security checks at US airports still miss most weapons that are presented, so deeper inspection doesn't necessarily help as much as you'd think. 

The ROH approach seems sensible enough. 

Or blow themselves up in the nice big crowd waiting outside queueing for the security checks. Or go hit a softer target down the street.

Much more important to make sure you look both ways crossing the street and don't play at the top of the stairs.

Pilates is the obvious one. If you need ballet's brain work, a good tai chi class might fit the bill. You'd be suprised how often my tai chi and ballet teachers are saying the same things about posture.

You won't lose skills quickly, but you will start to lose strength. Occasional ballet classes plus other stuff to maintain strength will pretty much hold you together until circumstances improve.

Good grief, the last thing I would have called that is confusing. If anything, I would have said it was overdrawn.

Saw this in Dublin last night in an almost empty cinema as a family of four relatively new-to-dance dancers, ranging from 4 years old to 44. 

Viscera was fun to watch technically, but between the annoying camera work and some local distractions I didn't really connect with it. To have Liam Scarlett talking about the dancers moving as a pack in the interview before and then to have the camera completely obscure that part of the choreography a lot of the time was maddening. I liked Morera in it, would have liked to have seen it either in person or with a fixed camera view. 

Faun was beautiful. For a quiet piece like that to hold the attention of four and seven year old boys is quite something. 

The Tchaikovsky pas de deux was just fun: the seven year old literally had his mouth hanging open watching McRae, so I'm not going to fault it! I like his dancing (wish I could be that good when I grow up :-) ), but McRae's grin always grates slightly. 

Carmen was the most Carlos Acosta thing ever. Big and brash and over energetic, bundling all his influences together. It reminded us in a weird way of Soviet stuff like Ivan the Terrible only decadent, crossed with some sort of Spanish/Cuban festival. Some of the party scenes were a bit flabby, but I often think that about the filler scenes in the traditional classics. Seemed a deeply personal piece of work (if you've read "No way home" it fits perfectly into his own story/myth), if a bit over indulgent. We all enjoyed it greatly. 

It was good to see his lovely send-off too - he's a great favourite of the seven year old, who is precisely the child who needs to be told that it's ok to make mistakes … 

LinM, I found a version of the programme, including the ballet, on YouTube.