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10 hours ago, Don Q Fan said:

It's just such a shame this triple is not being filmed for a cinema really as its such a lovely mix.

I was thinking the exact same thing.
I suspect the Pite/Wheeldon/Cherkaoui triple bill was chosen instead as the other five relays this season are either 19th-century or MacMillan ballets, and no cinema season other than the very first has ever failed to showcase a contemporary ballet. Last season three of the six relays were of contemporary work, and most of it was Wheeldon's (Alice, Winter's Tale, Corybantic Games). 
It's a shame as I'd much, much rather see the company in Fokine, Ashton and Balanchine.

1 minute ago, alison said:

 

It's actually the second time, although I think the first (with Watson) was a recording rather than a live relay.

I didn't know it had been shown in cinemas (presumably just in the UK?) before - was the recording the same as the 2009 one that was issued on DVD?

Sorry for the repetition, I seem to have posted at the same time as Geoff managed to upload the screenshot.

I believe this is the tweet:

And I was looking back at the older tweets and found the remark on Hayward aliceinwoolfland refers to:

Interestingly, this was the tweeter's reaction to Osipova as Giselle:

The bluntness seems part of his/her style, but I think the perspective is valid. 

Shklyarov - he seems to pronounce it as 'Sh-clear-off' himself:

19 hours ago, Erica said:

The only fact in these libels is that Tamara and Isaac are togethre, the rest are opinions sent from the cowardice of anonymity and, therefore, whoever publishes them without verifying the opinion of those denounced is doing tendentious and sensationalist journalism or pursuing shameful spurious goals.

3 hours ago, li tai po said:

These are not just opinions sent from the cowardice of anonymity, as Lizbie1 would have us believe.  I am sure that present dancers would step forward and speak openly to an independent investigation. way.

I believe you've confused Lizbie1 with Erica.

Juliet, the daughter of Capulet    -  Ekaterina Krysanova
Romeo, the son of Montague    - Vladislav Lantratov
Mercutio, Romeo’s friend    - Igor Tsvirko
Benvolio, Montague’s nephew and Romeo’s friend    -  Dmitry Dorokhov
Tybalt, Lady Capulet’s nephew    - Vitaly Biktimirov

The full cast list can be found here:

https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/4008/roles/#20180121180000

Juliet, the daughter of Capulet    -  Ekaterina Krysanova
Romeo, the son of Montague    - Vladislav Lantratov
Mercutio, Romeo’s friend    - Igor Tsvirko
Benvolio, Montague’s nephew and Romeo’s friend    -  Dmitry Dorokhov
Tybalt, Lady Capulet’s nephew    - Vitaly Biktimirov

The full cast list can be found here:

https://www.bolshoi.ru/en/performances/4008/roles/#20180121180000

9 hours ago, capybara said:

 

But isn't Liam Scarlett saying that he is focusing on Siegfried?

Because he said "We follow him and see his point of view"?

Insofar as Siegfried's attention is on Odette, the ballet could still be focused on her, don't you think?

I do wonder how it will be possible to see the whole story from his point of view though, if that's what the quote means.

Now that we've been told that Odette is also von Rothbart's "creation", we already know more than Siegfried presumably will!

10 hours ago, cavycapers said:

Back to an earlier discussion, my problem with the romantic style tutus for the corps in the current RB Swan Lake is that Siegfried is  frequently searching for Odette amongst all the swans, and it makes a lot more sense that he is confused if she is wearing the same as the corps apart from a little crown! 

Yes!

Especially when the other swans in their long, greyish skirts look more like ostriches...

The snowflakes in the RB's Nutcracker look perfect in their long, jagged-edged skirts though - I get a sense of flurrying snow that I don't with shorter, stiffer tutus.

Thank you!

I hope this post is not too late, but I have a question about the 2005 DVD.

Could anyone tell me the name of the dancer in the role of Persephone? She dances with Gartside as Pluto in Act III.

She's also one of the woodland creatures in the opening scene and the camera lingers on her quite a bit, as if she were a rising star. Is she still with the company?

(Incidentally, it was interesting to see Cuthbertson, Lamb, McRae and Liam Scarlett in supporting parts. And I thought Martin Harvey was perfect as Eros - handsome, haughty and mischievous at the same time).

I've noticed that in last year's cinema relay and again in this year's that Hans-Peter/the Nutracker's hair isn't golden anymore.

All the previous dancers I'd seen, speaking just in terms of the three or four relays before 2016 and the 2000 DVD, had had their hair sprayed gold (or were they wigs?),

so I'd understood the colour to be a significant detail, something that marked Hans-Peter out as a fairytale prince, a romantic, idealized figure of a young girl's dream, in contrast to the boy next door, Clara's partner at the party.

Would anyone know why this detail is no longer deemed important by the stagers?

6 hours ago, Jan McNulty said:

Hello Grey and welcome out of the lurking shadows!

Thank you, Janet (Ballet keeps me sane too!).

3 hours ago, alison said:

12 hours ago, grey said:

On 12/4/2017 at 21:13, alison said:

So, Steven McRae gets to dance the Prince for, what, the 3rd? 4th? time on a relay?  I know someone was complaining about getting the same SPFs over again and not ringing the changes, but what about the Prince?

 

Did McRae dance the Prince in any relays before the 2012 one?

 

In 2013, the Prince was Bonelli, in 2015, Kish, and in 2016, Bonelli again.

 

He did 2 with Yoshida, I think possibly also one with Marquez ...?  Not sure of the years.

Thank you. I remember now - he did dance in the 2009 relay, with Yoshida (with Iohna Loots as a charmingly feisty Clara). In 2012, it was with Marquez.

It would have been refreshing to have a different Prince (Muntagirov?), but we do get a different Sugar Plum Fairy - it just so happens that Lamb is partnered with McRae in this run - so I can't complain.

At the moment what I'd love to know is if they dispense with the golden hair dye for the Nutcracker again this year...

12 hours ago, alison said:

So, Steven McRae gets to dance the Prince for, what, the 3rd? 4th? time on a relay?  I know someone was complaining about getting the same SPFs over again and not ringing the changes, but what about the Prince?

Did McRae dance the Prince in any relays before the 2012 one?

In 2013, the Prince was Bonelli, in 2015, Kish, and in 2016, Bonelli again.