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  1. Jeannette
    Hey, Bruce, at this point, I’m grateful for whatever crumbs are thrown our way. i didn’t watch last night’s initial Fall program because it conflicted with the live political event “Fight of the Clowns” a.k.a. “Harlequinade Pas de Deux”! Looking forward to watching NYCB today.
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    Not a digital season per se, but American Ballet Theatre will be streaming a couple of archived performances for people who donate by 15 October to the ABT Crisis Relief Fund: https://support.abt.org/ABTCrisisReliefFund Links to streams of two historic performances will be sent as Thank You gifts. 1. As reported earlier, one of these is a Ferri/Bolle/ Cornejo/Murphy Manon ca 2007 that was first offered to donors a couple of months ago. Available soon after donation is made. 2. As of 21 Oct, available for one week: the complete “ABT at Vail” program of 27 July 2019, including: New American Romance (Whiteside/Debussy) world premiere, danced by Mmes Teuscher, Hurlin, K. Williams, S. Williams, Loyola and Messrs Ahn, Bell and Royal III Sinatra Suite (Tharp/Sinatra) L. Paris & H. Cornejo Don Quixote pdd (Petipa and Gorsky/Minkus) C. Hurlin & A. Bell Jardin aux Lilas (Tudor/Chausson) D. Teuscher & C. Stearns (and other featured dancers whose names I was not given...) These streaming gifts were confirmed to me in an acknowledgement email from ABT’s Membership Director, Grey C. Johnson...the Manon available now & Vail on 21 Oct.
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    Lovely report and photos, Jan!
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    Sarasota...extracts & short ballets/pdd. 😉 Hey, grateful, nonetheless.
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    Clarification: Tomorrow’s Kennedy Center Opera House concert will be performed by the two singers and a pianist...not the orchestra. The TV spot said “orchestra will sit above the pit” but the description on the KC website states “pianist.” I still bought the ticket for virtual access. Supporting my local ballet venue.
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    Not exactly ballet but a venue that often presents major ballet tours: Washington DC’s Kennedy Center Opera House will cautiously reopen to live performances tomorrow night, 26 Sept, with a by-invitation-only concert starring vocalists Renee Fleming and Vanessa Williams, plus full KC Opera House orchestra. Online access to this and future concerts through 31 December can be purchased for $15. https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on A local TV station just showed a piece about this reopening. It will be in the large opera house but there will be about 50 audience members seated on the stage, facing the auditorium. Orchestra and singers will be on a specially-built platform above the orchestra pit and the first 10 rows of stall seats... Audience will enter the stage through the loading-dock doors, where temperatures will be checked.
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    Bruce, now I’m wondering if the ABT summer 2021 season at the Met may be in jeopardy? ABT’s season usually follows immediately after the opera season ends, in early May.
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    Thanks for the long and well thought-out answer, Bruce. Oh, I’ll watch but it’s frustrating. It’s been company after company (PNB, Wash Ballet) offering mostly a bundle of excerpts as their digital seasons. At least NYCB’s are free. Many other companies in the US have not even announced excerpts. Look at how long we’ve been waiting for the Sarasota digital offerings. I’d prefer to read a book than the Readers Digest magazine...but if Readers Digest is all available, I’ll pick it up.
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    Sorry to be Debbie Downer here but I’m not crazy about mish-mash excerpts programs. I realize that it’s free but I wish that NYCB would also be offering a paid option to see large (20+ minute long) complete ballets. Theyre all archival films, after all. The full films exist.
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    The week has come & gone without word from Sarasota on a digital season’s offerings. Negotiating with unions and choreographers foundations (rights holders)?
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    Nebrada’s Nuestros Valses to be filmed professionally! 💗
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    Hubbe’s new (back-to-tradition?) La Sylphide, opening 24 October, through 25 November, is sold-out. The tiny drawing of the A2 design, accompanying this article, looks promising. https://kglteater.dk/en/whats-on/season-20202021/ballet/la-sylphide/ Hubbe’s 2003 version (w/ Anne-Marie Schluter) for RDB - the one that we saw at the 2005 Bournonville Festival - was lovely & traditional. Then came his stark black/white version a few years later. I’m hoping that this 3rd version will be closer to the first and to Bournonville’s conception.
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    This is PNB, not Sarasota, jmhopton. Sarasota is “hoping” to finalize and announce its schedule by the end of next week. They pulled whatever Bruce received but we can hope that they’ll present some of their archival films of Ashton ballets danced in past seasons, such as Birthday Offering listed in Bruce’s message. Due to corona, R&J and Dante Sonata never made it to the stage...so not filmed, unless there’s some rehearsal footage.
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    I’ve just received my old fashioned hard-copy brochure from PNB. So clear and spot-on in its presentation on digital offerings, with easy-to-read calendar. We know exactly what we’re getting. Bravo! I’m subscribing.
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    Thanks. What Bruce quoted seems to have been for a live season, as it mentions specific venues. The Ashtons (Dante, R&J) & the Bintley were never performed by this company. Maybe rehearsals, in costumes, were filmed last spring and can be streamed? We’ll see. I’ll hope for the best and will contribute, regardless.
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    I’ve just received an answer about programming from Sarasota. Alas, the digital offerings are not yet ready to be announced & tickets cannot yet be purchased. (Perhaps the info from Bruce & Jmhopton was from an early mailing to subscribers in hopes of having a live autumn season?) Answer to my query (via the company’s Facebook), today, 11 Sept: Hi, Jeannette, ...We appreciate your patience with us as we finalize programming for our Digital Fall Season.By the end of next week [by 18 Sept] we should be announcing details regarding our ballet line-up for the Digital Fall Season, along with digital single tickets and subscription packages. I remain in Patience Mode.
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    Hhmm... maybe now is the time for single friends (who know each other ahead of time, of course) to form trusted groups for this purpose? One can be the purchaser & the other(s) reimburse...agreed ahead of time. We all have friends who’ve met at intermissions to chat about the show.
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    Thanks, jmhopton. That’s much more than I could find following the link on their website or Facebook. They haven’t even sent me an acknowledgment email in response to my having completed the form that you see in the link that I posted above (first, last names, etc). That was three weeks ago. re Wash Ballet: The Swan Lake at the Kennedy Center in May is not a typo. It’s definitely being advertised as the big return to a live stage.
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    Here’s an odd one: Sarasota Ballet (Florida, USA) announced a virtual season & are selling subscriptions/taking names...but have not yet announced the exact ballets to streamed (oh, details, details). https://www.sarasotaballet.org/fall-digital-season I gave my name...but not yet credit card info. I’m really hoping to see the titles of a few complete films of Ashton rarities before opening the purse. Washington Ballet is a bit more substantial, offering a mix of virtual autumn/winter— including a virtual “Nutcracker Experience” — before a (hopeful) return to the live stage in May 2021 with Swan Lake: https://www.washingtonballet.org/seasons/2020-21-season/
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    Streaming news from my dear neighbors to the north: The National Ballet of Canada begins its ‘20/21 Virtual season today, with “Expansive Dances” - films of three specially-made ballets...including one featuring my special favorite, NBC prima Heather Ogden, choreographed by her husband (also NBC principal) Guillaume Cote. Could it be that I last saw Ogden as Aurora at the Kennedy Center, just seven months ago? It seems like years ago! https://national.ballet.ca/Productions/Expansive-Dances?fbclid=IwAR143JH1qG3z-yRZP3N-c20b26WXFGe8te2xu7tUOx6XZlD33rPwn7Y66Es
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    Thank you. I thoroughly enjoyed this, especially the extended views of Hubbe & Dina Bjorn’s new ballet for an all-male cast, August 2.0.
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    Which is precisely why I thought that the Fairy Violente/finger variation in most Royal Ballet productions of Sleeping Beauty was Ashton’s doing...extra frilly/extra fussy/extra hyper! (No offense intended...I love her.)
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    Positive news, as Cairo Ballet returns to full-company performing on 13 Sept, at the outdoor venue of the opera house. https://www.facebook.com/CairoOperaHouse/ Just happened to be checking because this is where I’m supposed to be living/working the entire month of November. Restrictions being eased. Flights not cancelled (yet).
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    Happy Friday, all! End of summer - not much streaming. Shall I share my secret? Those lamenting the dearth of new online ballet streams may want to check-out Chilean ballerina Sara Nieto’s amazing Youtube site. Search “Sara Nieto Ballet”...and enjoy some uber-rare full-length classical titles. Nieto herself is a total delight in these films...fabulous technique and sparkling personality!
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    I love the “bubbles” idea for household units and one friend! Is everyone preparing his/her “bubble”?
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