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About a month away!

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Hello Themeowingbiologist and welcome to the Forum!

Thank you for the warm welcome Janet McNulty!

...and what a fabulous username!

Thank you! 

Of course Leanne Cope also left during the season. I should have mentioned her departure as well, although I was not intending to produce a comprehensive list of everyone who has left the company recently. I was merely seeking to indicate that I thought that it was possible that the people that I had named might represent the sum total of leavers this season.I do not intend to speculate on the identity of the dancer who may be in process of leaving the company. We shall find out whether or not someone else is leaving when everyone involved is good and ready. to announce the departure. 

 

One thing that strikes me is that at least two of the dancers recently promoted to First Soloist who have been cast as SPF this year are likely candidates to dance Aurora in 2017. If they make successful debuts in these two taxing roles then, given the other successful work that they have done, I should think that they will be in the running for promotion to Principal. If that happens I wonder what becomes of Hamilton? I think that she made a  sensible choice in obtaining leave of absence  to go to work in Dresden because the works listed here this last season and next would not have given her a great deal of opportunity to expand her repertory or the number of performances that she dances. At this stage in her career she needs to dance in order to develop as an artist. From my observation of her in performance I would say that she is much better in MacMillan, Balanchine and more contemporary choreography than she is in the classics or in Ashton. She does not look as good dancing roles like Lilac Fairy, Queen of the Dryads or dancing in Symphonic Variations as she does in Manon for example.

 

I wonder which is easier for a director to have a very limited pool of talent from which to draw his company's leading dancers  or to be overwhelmed with talent at every level in the company?  Do you fill  the senior positions as the current post holders leave or do you leave room for the likes of Ball, Clarke,Heap, O'Sullivan and Katsura to get to the top? It will be interesting to see what Kevin does next.

I think if Hamilton gets offered a contract in Dresden, it would seem like a viable option for her to take it. For Choe, I think she'll wait it out and see if she gets cast in more dramatic principal roles or receives a promotion. 

'The evening of the 30th was both a début for Stella Abrera, a company stalwart elevated to principal last year, and an anniversary party marking Abrera’s twentieth season with the company. (She is also the company’s first Filipino-American principal.) Abrera’s assumption of her new rank has been both natural and, in a way, astonishing. After spending almost fourteen years in the trenches as a soloist, she has stepped into one leading role after another with little fanfare, as if she had been born dancing them.'

 

- a quote from Dance Tabs/Marina Harss' review of the Ratmansky Sleeping Beauty. There is hope for Yuhui Choe yet!

We can only hope ... *sigh* 

How come there are no leavers posted this year?