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  1. I believe it was quite something . Even on video the tension on stage is quite palpable. I saw also Polunin interpretation on youtube and it doesn't even come close (purely technically he is maybe better, but it all felt to me unnatural as emotion)
  2. You spoke for a exact person that you met in theater. How any article will prove that this person was paid? (an article on the topic is on the first page of the discussion which SwissBalletFan cited here, you don't need to dig)
  3. Yep, they are not the most behaved tourists. I know it well, they are quite frequent in Bulgaria. You know who we think equally unsurvivable- british tourists. Coming for cheap alcohol, aggresive when drunk and behaving like the world must bow to them. As a young and let's say exotic for western standarts girl I had many, many very unpleasant moments in clubs with drunken englishmen. But I don't form my opinion about the nation from them- I met a lot of incredible and amazingly clever british people, but in another environment
  4. Frankly, Joy, Russian audiences are some of the worst I have ever come across! When I was at the London Coliseum a couple of years ago for the Russian Icons Gala, my evening was ruined by an incredibly rude Russian man. The curtain had gone up after the interval, the orchestra was playing & this individual barged into the seat next to me without apology.He then preceded to film the performance on his phone, holding his arms in the air without consideration for the people sitting behind. He was wearing a lot of jewellery too which was clanking every time he moved. When the show ended he pushed past me again & trod on my foot. I complained to the manager & she was very sympathetic & I gather I wasn't the only one to complain! Susan It is a single person, you cannot make general conclusions from a single person. And what you described is different from the applause habbits in russian theaters- one is tradition, the other just lack of manners I usually read and listen very careful when in conversation. And measure my words before answering. So- I did read your comment and answered to it in (I think) clear way. To clarify more- as one of this people who have the habbit from childhood to show emotionally their support when on ballet performance, I find your comments deeply offensive and they ruined my day here. Should I call you low-life for this? Maybe this is the way to show good manners of an educated person, but I will pass and stay a low-life . With this I'm finishing my comments on the topic. It is quite enough, I think.
  5. And couldn't you just accept that people are just doing it there, Mr Boyd ? As I said they have habits and traditions, formed for centuries. Years ago I read a amazing biography of Pushkin and there was nicely described also which type of ballet fan he was. Dreadful, indeed- epitome of low-life, if using the terms from here
  6. MAB, you cannot call unknown people low-life, just because they show their emotion differently than you. Or you can but it speaks volumes about you too. Is it still unclear?
  7. Hmm, how I forgot to add Diana Vishneva to my list. Beautiful ballerina!
  8. O, Janet, it is so so easy to say "You're unpolite also" instead of thinking what is provoking such kind of reaction . Of course it will be me who is wrong here, not the one with similar to your opinion (who are continuing to use offensive language for public completely unknown for them). 'Low life', what next? SwissBalletFan, starts to look to me that it is not good idea to write here if you are just a common ballet fan, not part of the elite British public. Low-life, in other words. So sad... I was quite happy to find this forum, but it looks to me that I had to read more before to join .
  9. And how exactly do you know if it is fake? Some special algorithm for calculating other people emotions Also to judge how the russian dancers are feeling about their own public- wow, it amazes me! Janet, to have a tread discussing behavior of British public (from which you are part) is one thing, but to throw some low level comments about behavior and traditions for which most of you know next to nothing- completely another. And just one thing- Bolshoi is a russian theater, which performs first and most important for russian public. And this public has the complete and basic right to behave as they pleased and as common for the country; so all people watching it secondarily in cinemas must accept the traditions and habits of the theater. Or if it is so irritating, nobody puts a gun to nobody's head- watching cinema broadcast from russian theater is not obligatory. What is obligatory is some level of good manners in voicing one's opinion. "Ghasty" is not it, neither "fake" or "dreadful".
  10. It's all question of personal opinion in the end . From all the ballets in my list I could call just one really horrible (Carmen), the others are just not for my taste.
  11. It is quite insulting to call the way of people showing their appreciation "dreadful". I don't know what is OK for the british public, but we (the dreadful clapping people) usually don't comment the ways of others.
  12. I put one of his ballets in my 'Favorites' list, and I quite like Ondine, but in general his choreography is a little bit too ornamental for my taste.
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