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yes wonderful moderation as naomi wants now to stop posting here....

I don't agree at all !

I think that someone,  as a moderator,  should be glad that people are posting (from the other side of the world ) to give some news and not tell them how they should present their text.

But I stop losing my time to write about things that have absolutely no importance.

I think it would be better to say thank you to Jenny Taylor to give us some informations about a performance...

It is not difficult to understand who is being discussed with the complete text of NaomiM !

What an incredible chance for this talented young dancer !

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2019/7/19/1_1930

Highlights

Ratmansky trilogy - SFBallet @ Sadler's Wells

opening night of Swan Lake - ENB @ Coliseum

Matthew Ball in Mayerling

Beatrix Stix Brunell and Calvin Richardson in Within the Golden Hour

Downlights

Medusa (what a waste of talent)

Winter Dreams (after Judas Tree last season I start to consider MacMillan as an overrated choreographer...)

Hirano in Winter Dreams - how can you cast this type of dancer in a dramatic ballet ? 

Fumi Kaneko and Daniel Camargo in Don Quixote - where you can see that wonderful technique is not everything...

which means that, for you, Irmgard and Lizbie, line is the most important thing in choreography ?

The Defile should be performed twice 😂  It always seems far too short !

Why Corrales and not Sambé with Osipova ?  now that he is a principal...

With this news they should change their plans and announce the rest of the promotions today 😀

But the RB press department seems to be on holidays at the moment !

what a mess !  😊

congratulations to him

is it the end of the embargo policy ?

Just read these words from KOH in The Japan Times :

Ryoichi has taken on the mantle from Edward Watson as the dramatic dancer of the company. 

Is this a joke ? 😕

Melissa Hamilton should have stayed in Dresden !

Wonderful evening, beautiful company, Ratmansky is a master !

And Sofiane Sylve an exceptional dancer !

Well I agree with you Sim but I must say that, sadly, Paris Opera Ballet has been unable to maintain some parts of their repertoire (Lifar for instance). They even seem to be a second NDT at the moment by the way ! 

Nunez and Cojocaru from artists to first soloists ?

and Edward Watson is almost retired no ?

Fumi Kaneko is at the right position as a first soloist with The Royal Ballet. I don't see her as a principal.

No Jurgita Dronina ?

Yes I am sure it is good for company morale, we can definitely feel a positive energy !

That said I must mention I was a bit disappointed by those pas de deux, they were ok/good but not what I was expecting from those dancers. As if, sometimes,  the choice of what they were dancing was too ambitious for them. But it is maybe how one can progress !

Even McCormick and Velicu were very nervous,  with a major problem in the adagio. But how talented they are !

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Calvin Richardson was replaced by Leo Dixon in Within the Golden Hour, and by Paul Kay in Medusa.

What a shame !   Calvin Richardson was absolutely stunning in tuesday morning rehearsal !

According to the NYTimes Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui was busy working in Munich AND London at the same time and it shows !  

Medusa seems so unfinished and the dancers so lost that it is embarrassing for The Royal Ballet (and a waste of time for the audience).

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Possibly the second cast hadn't had enough rehearsal time

 I am afraid the first cast did not have enough rehearsal time either !

After Muntagirov and Corrales, Daniel McCormick seems ready for the Royal Ballet !

Kevin O'Hare can we have him ?  

Sumina Sasaki will be joining as Prix de Lausanne apprentice.

no sidi larbi cherkaoui ?