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  1. CHazell2
    Thanks for your reply, I am sorry if I have gained the wrong impression of how you would react, you certainly didn't make a very good impression in your earlier posts but my point still stands about how to respond to different opinions. Case in point, the above post about whining and throwing toys from prams - I happen to find that incredibly patronising, we are all adults here and to say that sort of thing, makes you sound holier than thou and those sort of people really gets my goat. I would prefer it if you refrained from that sort of behaviour in the future - if you would be so kind
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    I would like to welcome you to the forum, godots_arrived - and I would like to ask you to keep your snide comments to yourself. There is a time and place for intellectual debate and indeed what I like the most about this forum is the many knowledgeable people on here, I may disagree with what they say but I would never make personal remarks about them. I was always told if you have nothing nice to say about people then don't say anything. For your information, I am greatly looking forward to seeing Le Corsaire on Friday night, it may not be Swan Lake or The Sleeping Beauty and it may have a hodge-potch score but it is a fun ballet that tells a story in the old fashioned Hollywood way and it has great set pieces. I intend to thoroughly enjoy myself. For your information, life is not all about being intellectual, we are allowed to have fun too. Let's all agree to disagree and respect each other's opinion.
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    Thank you very much David.
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    Hi, I don't know whether this is the right place to ask this but what are the programmes like, do they cover the whole season or just specific productions, Also how much are they? I am going to see Le Corsaire on the 12th of August - greatly looking forward to it. Thanks.
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    Me too. I love reconstructions and The Sleeping Beauty is my favourite ballet.
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    What Third Principal?
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    How about Galina Ulanova - she was reputed to be the greatest dance-actress of her day. I can certainly see why whilst I am watching her Juliet.
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    I am sorry that you feel like that MAB. Personally I loved the Winter's Tale because it was a very powerful ballet and dealt with some serious themes and I thought the acting in the broadcast was superb. I also quite liked Alice but I think that it didn't quite hold together as a ballet. I think that the ending was not the right one - I believe that Alice in the ballet was meant to be the real Alice Liddell and so I think that the ending set in the present day didn't quite work.
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    Me too, I love that film - one of my firm favourites.
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    Hear hear
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    Will there be an encore screening as I missed it yesterday. Would dearly love to see it. Or is there a DVD to come.
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    And Zurich has already filmed their previous production of Swan Lake in 2009.
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    As it happens I agree with you about ABT and Zurich but I also think that La Scala does have some good dancers. Besides La Scala may choose to film them. I can't see ABT filming as they haven't done any since Swan Lake in 2004.
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    I am hoping to go myself. Never been to Italy before. Have you been to La Scala?
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    Besides there is still time for ticket sales to pick up. How do you know the Milanese aren't interested?
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    It is horses for courses. We just have to agree to disagree.
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    Also Carla Fracci
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    Roberto Bollo, Nicoletta Manni, Marta Romagna, Claudio Coviello, Massino Murru and the great Alessandra Ferri herself came from La Scala.
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    But Zurich doesn't have the Ratmansky SB, and I think that La Scala has some great dancers.
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    It might be a possibility that it might be the ballerinas themselves who make it a tedious exercise rather than Isabelle Fokine, she was a dancer herself and she studied the ballets for 15 years with her father, who was a restager himself. Here is a link to two very interesting interviews in which Miss Fokine discusses her role and the reaction that she receives. http://dancetabs.com/2014/07/the-work-of-mikhail-fokine-qa-with-isabelle-fokine/ http://qporit.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/isabelle-fokine-interview-and.html
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    I understand that but would you think the same of the Ratmansky reconstructions of Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake using the Stepanov notebooks? Do you think that they are anaemic and boring too?
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    Can you just elaborate on that - I know that Isabelle Fokine has come in for a lot of stick because people think that she changes her grandfather's ballets willy-nilly. However Miss Fokine herself has stated that her grandfather himself sometimes changed his ballets and he left notations of his ballets to her. So I am at a loss to understand why some people insist that Beriosoff's version of Petrushka, for instance, is better than Miss Fokine's own staging. I am not arguing that she is the right person but I just want to know what people consider to be the most authentic versions of Fokine's ballets?
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    Just read it and just let's say that Miss Brown is not afraid to say what she thinks. Personally I like Deborah Bull, she was a good presenter on The BBC when they broadcast Coppelia back in 2000, and I like the documentary that she did that is up on youtube.
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    Why is there so much resistance? How would they teach the rep to the ballet dancers of the future if they don't use the experience of former stars. It's how ballets have survived from generation to generation.
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    Seconded. I love Hobson's Choice and Nutcracker Sweeties is such a fun ballet.
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