Rob S

Some interesting Monday morning reading https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/jul/16/dance-ballet-metoo-culture-bullying

It's a shame to see Leticia go but she'll continue to perform for the RB for ever more in blu ray form

I presume he meant Michael Portillo 😂

la fille by Rob Sallnow, on Flickr I went to the Saturday matinee, sadly I didn't get a pic of the flower giving by Nao's daughter as I'd already been told off by the stewardess at that point but her bow just before the curtain hit the floor was so sweet

Yeah a very well behaved audience except for the person that got told off by the stewardess for taking this shot at the end It would've been a pic of the dancers taking applause if I hadn't waited for people beside me to depart just before this one was taken la fille by Rob Sallnow, on Flickr

Yay, was able to hear the second goal during the interval 🙂

Thanks to intervals we can still listen to the first twenty minutes of the first half and about the first 15 minutes of the second

I'll be exactly the same, I'm watching La Fille in Bristol while our quarter final is being played!!

Oh no, an undiluted flounce? 😱

*slaps forehead* Of course, I did know that was in the pipeline, thank you 🙂

I know it’s off topic but what’s going on in Budapest at the moment? A lot of RB dancer social media posts indicate quite a few are there currently.

And some pics from Claire Calvert

Yay for 💕 Yuhui💕!!! I’m now off to jump in to a lake of my own tears 😫🤣

I'm loving all the photos and little videos of the corps with their flowers on social media 😊

Maybe Von Rothbart is really Geoffrey Munn from the Antiques Roadshow, if he thinks it might be Faberge he'll have it 😆

I just found his Act 1 face really odd and off putting at times

He was better than Thomas Whitehead...at least in the facial expression department

Wow, do you think it's only done by people in the cheap seats?

I much preferred the OP's villager based Act I to the NP's military affair, although the latter does mean you can get away from the 'ballet villager' look of the outfits with something a bit more authentic. the OP's Queen outfit is also a lot more practical for walking out and about and Benno looks like he belongs to the same regiment as his friends instead of sticking out like a sore thumb. The pas de trois outfits are extremely easy to forgive when it's Yuhui and Francesca wearing them, their eyes and smiles make up for the jackets. The chap's outfit is worse than pretty horrible, however. The tutor gets on my nerves (but thankfully the DVD/blu ray editors keep the worst of his antics in check) I love the kids I just wish they were strong enough to propel him in to the orchestra pit. Act 2 The NP has tutus....and the return of traditional headdress doesn't seem to get much of a mention. Again, I love the inclusion of the ballet school students in the OP's I love the transformation from Act 1 to 2 in the NP The NP's Act 3 is far superior to the OP's, it looks like it's taking place in a real building space rather than a vast, non specific area with a strange red background and loads of freestanding structures and miles of silly string dangling all over the place. The OP also measures high on the annoyance Richter Scale for having a dozen or more people wearing a cross between a hair salon bonnet hairdryer and a beekeepers outfit. I HATE the skull things, OP's Act 3 costumes are better in a few areas, the OP Spanish dress is far better than the overly long one used in the NP which is an accident waiting to happen. I adore the NP Czardas headdresses though they look a bit Russian to my non-expert eyes, the NP Mazurka outfits make me overheat just looking at them, I think I hate all Neapolitan fashion .....the NP princess dresses look beautiful but I prefer the OP's long dresses that look borrowed from the V&A or Bath fashion museum rather than ballet outfits even if for some reason all six princess borrowed the same one. I love the black swans of the NP, I also love that the Odette vision is placed subtly in a window frame rather than resorting to the centrally placed limited edition oval BP Big Screen of the OP. The OP has some seriously annoying party guests. Act 4, the owners of the grounds immediately in front of the OP lake need to fence off those steps that lead to nowhere except certain death, the NP looks like it takes some doing to get to the summit, it's a more realistic rock. The OP's ending is far better with the death of Siegfried as well, in the NP he's just lying there far too long, then suddenly gets up but also takes a confusingly long time in the darkness and then comes back with a woman's body leading to up to 2256 conversations about whether the body Siegfried comes out with should be wearing a tutu or whether the vision should. For me the vision should be woman Odette, the dead body should be in the tutu. Maybe he took so long fishing her out of the lake the tutu simply decomposed. The OP's apotheosis maybe a corny moment but it fits the music and is highly emotional (despite the pedalo draggers taking a breather halfway through in the 2015 version, 2009 is a far smoother trip to heaven for everyone).

Maybe they really hated Siegfried being in it at all (being complete Bennomanes) so not being able to see him easily is a compromise

Impress them in to giving you a refund by turning up with a small group of dancers in local dress 😀

Don't worry, I've got my eye on last night's Neopolitan princess dress 😀

Of course the answer to that is that the ticket states it starts at 1915, so regardless of what is actually on the screen at that time it should be lights off....unless of course there has been an announced delay as the pianist has been indisposed and if she doesn’t turn up in the next thirty minutes the piano parts will be replaced by a harp

I’m sure it will have been mentioned here before as obviously this isn’t the ROH’s first attempt at a cinema live screening but the fact that the image is projected on to a screen means any picture will be darker than when it’s emitted from a tv screen ie a BP big screen or the dvd at home. When something dark like Act IV of Swan Lake’s being shown you know things are going to be very dim. I suggest if they ever screen it in 3D you’ll hardly see anything at all given the 30% light loss that introduces.

We had the occasional two second break in sound, one of which was right after Francesca’s tiny heartstopper. The ending looked far too dark on screen but I thoroughly enjoyed my first live screening. I loved the likely dvd extras during the intervals, very informative.