Jeannette

Sarasota Ballet at the ROH: a People’s Command Performance!  
In addition to some of the upcoming season’s works, they could add the recent revival of Apparitions - the highlight of my last trip to Sarasota, about three years ago.

Additionally, they’re bringing back Ashton’s Varii Capricci for the tour to NYC in August,   before the main season begins. 🎉 

Sarasota just announced its upcoming season. Good news for Ashton lovers…incl the company premiere of Dante Sonata after the originally-planned showing was canceled due to COVID. Also Rhapsody, Facade, etc. I’ll be traveling there again after a year of saving money. 🥳 

https://www.sarasotaballet.org/2022-–-2023-season-overview

Having pre-ordered this expensive tome, I now received an email from Amazon that publication is delayed, without providing a new date. So I checked   amazon.com and saw this:

This title will be released on  August 16, 2022.  Oh, phooey!

Happy that Ashton’s Cinderella will return. Sorry about the trend towards modern.  That’s supposed to save ballet?

Following-up on the above:

As TODAY (4 April 2022) marks Pierre Lacotte’s 90th birthday anniversary, what better way to celebrate than to watch his ballet reconstructions (informed revivals), such as NATHALIE? In addition to searching through the above list, here’s a direct link to NATHALIE starring Maximova & Isaev: 

https://www.culture.ru/live/movies/1921/natali-ili-shveicarskaya-molochnica

(in two parts - серия1 серия2 113 minutes total)

I’m not sure if this is the right thread in which to post this news but here we go!

Very recently, many Russian archival films of a cultural nature have been made available, for free,  on the “Sovetskoye Televidie Gosteleradiofond” YouTube channel. These include many rare treasures of dance/ballet, among them the complete 1970s CREATION OF THE WORLD (aka ADAM AND EVE) by Kasatkina/Vasiliov to Andrei Petrov’s score, danced by Moscow Classical Ballet, starring Maximova & Isaev:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmlPgPX8Ey8

There’s also Vladimir Vasiliev’s MOZART SYMPHONY 40; Lacotte’s NATHALIE (also starring Maximova & Isaev); a rare Bolshoi SLEEPING BEAUTY w/ Semenyaka as Lilac; etc.

 Happy hunting in this  performing arts sub-channel (playlist) within Sovetskoye Televidie Gosteleradiofond:

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL40OiiJw6-ge3-1A-gBPUlRwjEhIaB3dD
 

This happens a lot at ABT. Most of Ratmansky’s works at that troupe are co-productions, e.g., Harlequinade with Australia, The Seasons with San Francisco, Sleeping Beauty with La Scala.

It rarely happens, if ever, at NYCB.

There goes my federal income-tax refund!

I remember that Wiley’s previous tomes were almost as expensive, for 1980s and ‘90s pricing. They’re real treasures, however.

ROTFL!!! 😂 

The third of the Joffrey Academy streams just went online - Derick McCoy’s Road to Flames -

https://m.youtube.com/c/TheJoffreyBallet

The fourth (final) one - Audrey Baran’s Porcelain, should come tomorrow.

The Joffrey Ballet is releasing, on its YouTube channel, four new works performed by its trainees from the Joffrey Academy of Dance-Chicago. Two were released last week and two others this coming Thursday & Friday…so bookmark the Joffrey’s YouTube channel to not miss these.

Direct links to the two new ballets already released on this Winning Works 2022 series:

Edson Barbosa’s On the Same Boat

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AV1HulSj-z8

Taylor Carrasco’s Not Now, But Now

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CYhxlWE4dtw

Information on all four ballets:

https://joffrey.org/behind-the-scenes/stream-the-joffrey-s-2022-winning-works-program/

19 hours ago, Angela said:

Ballet Zurich's next season, the last by director Christian Spuck who will move on to Staatsballett Berlin in 2023.

They have Cathy Marston's "The Cellist", many revivals by Spuck et. al. and creations by Marcos Morau, Shaked Heller, Samantha Lynch, Louis Stiens and Spuck.

 

https://www.opernhaus.ch/en/spielplan/ballett-2122/#103512

Thanks. An entire program consisting of only The Cellist? Maybe it’ll be a new expanded version.

5 hours ago, Naomi M said:

Prima ballerina Olga Smirnova and soloist Victor Caixeta make the move to Dutch National Ballet

 

On Wednesday 16 March, Russian prima ballerina Olga Smirnova and Brazilian soloist Victor Caixeta have decided to join Dutch National Ballet – where they will start immediately and be welcomed with open arms.

 

https://www.operaballet.nl/en/news/prima-ballerina-olga-smirnova-and-soloist-victor-caixeta-make-move-dutch-national-ballet

DNB so fortunate to have them. Great news!

On 27/02/2022 at 06:49, oncnp said:

Out April 1 in UK with Daniel Camargo, Sasha Mukhamedov, Vito Mazzeo and Irek Mukhamedov.

 

Social media is an unkind space, Darcey Bussell warns teens | Darcey Bussell | The Guardian

 

Coppelia film

Shame that the female star of the film, Michaela De Prince, isn’t even named!   Wow. That smacks of r*****. ..but I’ll shush up for the sake of peace.

Very sad news! May he Rest In Peace.

Related -

Has the premiere of Ratmansky’s recon of Petipa’s Pharaoh’s Daughter (at Mariinsky) also been cancelled? No opening date was ever announced, although I last heard that it would premiere during summer 2022 White Nights. Guess not? 😢 

On 21/02/2022 at 16:25, ChrisG said:

 

I thought he did! I just checked my blu-ray collection and I've recordings of the following Neumeier ballets - Beethoven Project, La Dame aux Camélias, Ghost Light, A Midsummer NIght's Dream, Nijinsky, and Tatiana. At least two of those I think have been released in the last year!

Precisely. That’s why I asked about Liliom.

Livestream, please!  

So sorry to read of Mr. Danton’s passing. May he Rest In Peace. 

On 11/02/2022 at 17:16, bridiem said:

What seems ridiculous is that the test in question was done on Christmas Day but apparently the result only came a few days ago. Surely the results of tests should be available more quickly, and especially with top sportspeople and above all BEFORE big competitions not in the middle of them.

Veteran US sports journalist, Phil Hersh, may have expressed it best during an interview on the Peacock Streaming Network’s show Olympic Ice:

Was Valieva’s sample purposely transported to Stockholm by an old Russian sleigh, moving across the Baltic Sea?

Hersh also quipped: Going by these methods, we should learn the results of the figure skating Team Event by 2036.

11 minutes ago, JohnS said:

Many thanks Jeannette for highlighting this. All new to me and fabulous to see. I’m sure I’ll watch it again in the next couple of days (and I’ll fast forward the interval).

Just watched it live. Wasn’t it sublime? Lovely performance, so well filmed.…e.g., knowing when to employ close-ups, medium or far distance. All three works are delights. How lucky can we be?
 

p.s. Childs’ Concerto is new to me…packing a punch in 10 minutes.

On 29/12/2021 at 14:52, Jeannette said:

Some excitement in the new year!

 

Jan 14 @ 19:30 (CET) - 18:30 UK/13:30 eastern USA:

 

Vienna State Ballet’s livestream of a triple bill that includes the rarely-seen Liebeslieder Walzer by Balanchine/Brahms; Robbins’ Other Dances; and L. Child’s’ Concerto:

 

https://play.wiener-staatsoper.at/event/0a2c4bf1-21f0-4992-8635-fe0489d76e31

These are usually available for 24 hrs. after the initial stream. Free.

Today’s the day! Just a reminder of the free livestream from Vienna. Link in the above post. Enjoy.

Les Rendezvous at the ROH with the previous “gates” set & costumes. 

Reprograming some of the works “lost” due to the spring/summer 2020 cancellations, such as Ratmansky/Chopin Preludes.

Same thing here…I immediately deleted it. Thanks for keeping us safe.