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Doesn't Darcey Bussell say in her autobiography of the late 1990s that she got a Pass Plus (in the days when it went pass, pass plus, commended, highly commended, distinction) in her first RAD vocational exam? And look at her now! 

I did a Cecchetti major in my late 20s after having trained and been examined before that almost entirely in RAD (apart from some teachers when I was at university who may have had other influences). I did that because I'd been taking classes in the Cecchetti method and wanted to learn more about it - and the reason I was taking those classes is that, where I was living at the time (Newcastle) the adult ballet community was based around Cecchetti teachers - they were the ones who took adult students the most seriously and offered advanced adult classes and more than once a week. My advice to you would be to find an inspirational teacher and learn whatever method they use - it's all ballet, after all, and it's good to understand the differences between the methodologies. 

7 hours ago, bridiem said:

 

You shouldn't publish changes without checking your OWN work too. They're not updating a private database - it matters that what is entered is correct. Cross-checking by colleagues should only pick up (if anything) minor typos, or editorial queries. Not whopping great howlers.

I think perhaps the ROH website is using some kind of API that pulls data automatically from another system integrated with it - and that a lot of the problems we are seeing are perhaps because this integration is flawed. 

Hi! Is this imperial or Cecchetti? Maureen Christie teaches Cecchetti in Glasgow. 

9 hours ago, capybara said:

 

 The Coli bag searches this afternoon took between 5 and 10 minutes of queueing.

I think at 2.30pm most people will have had their bags searched and be in their seats - so I wouldn't anticipate a queue. 

I'm not expecting to get there in time but will make a dash for it in the hope that I do. My seat is a £10 one and if I don't make act 1 I'll content myself with 2 and 3. 

5 hours ago, alison said:

Manon matinee at the Coliseum at 2.30   - or not.  I haven't decided yet, but quite possibly.

Sure there will be a few of us attempting it!

Thank you Don Q Fan! My contact at ENB told me the Fridaty matinee would be added to the Last Minute.com offer, but I've given up waiting and booked under this one instead, the peace of mind outweighing the few extra pounds I could have saved with the other offer!

36 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said:

Interesting - my notes and the website say that this date is earmarked for the Firebird mixed bill, both matinee and evening. Sounds like the penny dropped after the season announcement!

I think initially there was going to be an R&J on the Friday night (or perhaps it was the afternoon) and it became a triple bill matinee. I'm a little confused...just to get this straight, there is no matinee at ROH on 8 June? Lizbie1 is right that it is listed here https://www.roh.org.uk/mixed-programmes/the-firebird-a-month-in-the-country-symphony-in-c. But, it's not on the calendar and the entry in 'what's on' yields no dates at all: https://www.roh.org.uk/productions/symphony-in-c-by-george-balanchine. 

I have a weekend planned which did involve the RB triple on Friday at 12pm, San Francisco Ballet on Friday evening and Saturday evening, and ENB's Cinderella on Sunday afternoon. I will very delightedly swap my Saturday evening San Fran ticket for one for the matinee on the same day so that I can join the scrum for a ticket for the Fonteyn celebration that evening - but it would be good to know that the Friday matinee of the triple will definitely go ahead and that I'm not missing a Saturday matinee of the same bill!

Does it say when booking will open?

And yet the Sunday matinee was.

6 hours ago, yumiko said:

Sorry to hear the technical issue.

When I sootted this offer, I already purchased my tickets through Coli Box Office. 

Therefore I wasn’t aware of the issue.

Hope it has been sorted and got your wished tickets.

 

Thank you Yumiko - I'd been checking this site daily for the last couple of weeks knowing someone would kindly alert us if there was an offer! 

2 hours ago, Don Q Fan said:

Did you manage to get the Friday matinee?

I've emailed ENB about the Friday matinee as I think it's an oversight and I imagine they want to fill it the same as the other performances. They're normally really good at getting back to me. I'll let you know what they say. 

Thank you Yumiko! I've been looking out for this. It took me over an hour to book a pair of tickets though as the website caused two PCs to go crazy. 

I wonder why the offer isn't available on the Friday matinee although it is available on the Saturday matinee - I didn't think the Friday matinee was selling particularly well. 

4 minutes ago, Douglas Allen said:

 Take care! Thursday is the 17th. I'd hate to see such determination spoiled by a mix-up with tickets for trains and theatres.

Gosh you're right. Luckily my error was with my typing in my post rather than my booking! Thank you.

I've just paid to switch my train tickets to London for Friday 17 Jan so I can make it in time for the matinee. My itinerary is Manon Friday afternoon, 2 Pigs bill Friday evening and 12 noon on Saturday followed by acts two and three of the Manon matinee (in a £10 seat) followed by Nine Night at Trafalgar Studios on Saturday night and then Manon on Sunday afternoon. Six (well, five and two-thirds) shows for two nights in a hotel is good going! 

I did that and it was a success - thank you! 

In the scrum of public booking I placed two tickets in my basket for this performance but only wanted one. The site wouldn't let me release just one at the basket stage - wanted me to release both - and as the performance was so heavily sold I didn't dare release them for fear of them both being snapped up by someone else before I put them back in my basket. 

The ticket I'm selling is Amphi left row K  towards the side at £19. I will be there on the night to hand it over outside the House or am at Bayadere on 10, 16 and 17 November. You won't be sitting next to me as my other ticket was in a different row. I haven't had my confirmation yet but will update when I do as to exactly which seat it is!

15 hours ago, Richard LH said:

Yes and now the calendar for 7th June matinee is not listed as R&J but The Firebird etc. triple bill. Is this all starting to make some sense at last?

Yes! 

LNER have recently doubled the train prices suddenly - it's now easily £60 each way to London even when booked twelve weeks ahead - the day the tickets go on-sale. I can no longer whizz down for matinees so wanted to combine with San Francisco Ballet and ENB's Cinderella and this one was part of my plan! The triple bill will do just as nicely.   

15 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said:

 

It seems highly unlikely to me that Osipova/Hallberg would be dancing in a non-Bank Holiday Friday matinee.

I thought I read that the 1 June mat was Naghdi/Ball? Must have misread it! 

Edited to add: hadn't properly read Bluebird's post before I wrote that - although still not sure I've got my head around it! 

Does that mean the casting for 7 June mat is as for 1 June mat, do you think?

Thank you FLOSS!

Hi,

I'm looking for a recording of Massine's ballet La Boutique Fantasque. YouTube leads me to some recordings of The Fairy Doll, with the same music - does anyone know whether these are with Massine's choreography?

Thank you!

I'm sure in previous years there was one continuous stream and you didn't have to keep navigating to different feeds!

Well I've taken the day off work as usual but there doesn't seem to be one stream like there usually is, on either YouTube or Facebook? I guess I'll just settle for watching the RB from 12pm and catching up with the rest once I work out what they're doing... 

7 hours ago, alison said:

So, what would happen if loads of seats remained unsold?  Would they not be able to reduce the price?

With dynamic pricing you've got to be pretty confident that demand is high! 

Of course, when airlines, hotels, train companies etc do it, they put prices up and down as they wish. Theatres COULD do this - they just generally don't because it would encourage a pattern of late booking, which is the opposite of what they want.   

In theatres, dynamic pricing is generally used to enable venues to put prices UP to maximise high demand.