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  1. Jeannette
    From the Teatro Colon, a rare treasure: the version of Coppelia that is danced at ABT and throughout the Americas, by Enrique Martinez...yes, the version with the six Demi “friends” couples in the A3 Waltz, with each girl successively leaping onto her partner’s back, in “fish” position, carried off, running, into the wings...finally filmed! Storybook designs by Jose Varona. Filmed on June 15, 2018, with the first cast: Swanilda- Macarena Gimenez (a fave of mine since I saw her live in Aug 2015 debuting as Ashton’s Sylvia! Still in corps back then.) Frantz - Juan Pablo Ledo Dr. Coppelius - Tindaro Silvano A3 solo “Dawn” - Camila Bocca A3 solo “Prayer” - Paula Cassano Conductor, Martin West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BHatmSmpRk
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    The one-week Virtual 2020 Vail Dance Festival began last night. The initial show blended ballet and modern.tap offerings...with a heavy dose of Lil’ Buck in his white sneakers. Lil Buck & Tiler Peck feature in almost all four performance/excerpt shows. In last night’s opener, I especially loved seeing Tiler Peck & Robert Fairchild in Limon’s Suite from Mazurkas... performed back when they were a couple (either married or about to be). Our knowledge that they divorced soon after this film gives special pathos to their parting waves at the end of the ballet. Sigh. Carla Korbes in Balanchine’s 1982 Elegie was the other highlight for me. It’s a work never performed since 1982 until this Vail revival. So catch this rare Balanchine solo, to Stravinsky viola, while you can! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTmPWvm5mNynfYJYaq_dbRA
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    By the way, I’m assuming that Wu Siming is the guy because the name came second in the credits (!). If anybody can share the link of the troupe’s current roster, with names in English & photos, would be most grateful. The newest that I have is from a 2015 US tour, so not all of the gala’s featured dancers are listed.
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    Did anyone else see this? Beautifully put together. Loved it all, especially Praetorius & Kaas In Kermesse in Bruges pdd. It all ends with an extended live interview with Nikolai Hubbe, as he shelters at home; he is a lively hoot! It’s up only today & part of Saturday...until about 7pm London time on Aug 1. Complete program is about 1hr-28mins.
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    Thanks for the tip-off on this. I watched yesterday & it is a delightful retrospective on the history of this company. I especially loved the penultimate piece - pdd from Passions of Yimeng with two wonderful young Soloists, Huo Shuang and Wu Siming...the latter truly extraordinary in tech, line, and acting. Mr. Wu Siming is on my radar!
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    I guess that I’m rare, as my non-work travel is just to visit an opera/ballet theatre, e.g., I would never have vacationed in Berlin in 2018 were it not for Ratmansky’s Bayadere premiering there. Every now and then, travel for work and ballet coincide (crafty stop-overs in London or Paris on my way to certain “3rd world” destinations), but that’s rare, especially in these times where travel is no longer necessary to achieve results (teleconferences, research, etc)...not to mention COVID travel restrictions.
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    So did I, Adrian! Thanks for the opportunity. Fascinating project.
  8. Jeannette
    Stars of the Royal Danish Ballet at Jacob’s Pillow NY. https://www.jacobspillow.org/events/royal-danish-ballet-2/ only 48 hrs, starting Thursday, 30 July.
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    Gina Storm-Jensen is not only capable - lovely 3ple pirouette in the midst of the renverses - but has vavoom Ginger Rogers glamour. She reminds me of gorgeous Olga Yesina, ex-Mariinsky soloist, now Vienna Staatsballett principal. In all, a wonderful SB. Fumi Kaneko was born to dance Aurora! So glad to have had the chance to see her...to see everyone. Five stars! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️
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    p.s. Note that this is the older, more established ballet company in Almaty, former capital of Kazakhstan...not the relatively new troupe in the new capital of Nur-Sultan (formerly Astana)...the one affiliated with Assylmuratova. They both toured London last fall. Both companies are good and very well endowed.
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    Thanks, Alison. Quite a find! Premiering in the next 10 hours: Two-act national ballet, Legends of the Great Steppe by choreographer-librettist Gulzhan Tutkibayeva & music by no fewer than seven composers...wow! Almost as many composers as modern versions of Corsaire! Some of the featured dancers: Sultan - Kanat Karazhanov His daughter - Gulvira Kurbanova Young Batir - Farkhad Buriev Soul of the Steppe - Nailya Krebayeva Predvoditel - Azamat Askanov etc, etc.
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    Update on DTH’s Dougla stream: According to one of the preview bits on YouTube, TWO different films of Dougla will be streamed tomorrow: at 6pm Eastern, the 1977 PBS telecast filmed in Opryland Studios; at 8pm, the current company filmed during the 2018 revival at City Center NYC.
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    It’s Friday! Highlight among streams this weekend, DTHarlem’s spectacular and colorful Dougla by Geoffrey Holder (1974, reconstructed two years ago by his son and several former DTH dancers). I saw this “live” at the Cairo Opera House in 1990, during years working in Egypt. A real gem that I’ve been longing to watch in full since then. It depicts the wedding of a South Asian/Indian bride to an Afro-Caribbean groom on the island of Trinidad. Begins streaming tomorrow (Saturday) at 8pm Eastern. Watch the ballet and interesting extras on DTH’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY5gb-8rQWU6jGJIfe60DJg
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    FYI, Hynd’s The Merry Widow was (is still?) commercially available on DVD with the National Ballet of Canada, starring Karen Kain in the title role. Quite the spectacle! https://www.amazon.com/Lehar-Merry-National-Ballet-Canada/dp/B003G0E3U4
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    The initial Lake Tahoe program on American Classical Ballet, while sparse, turned out to have some lovely pieces, particularly NYCB’s Adrian Danchig-Waring dancing Apollo’s 2nd solo from his backyard in Long Island...on the grass...performing gorgeous entrechats in what appeared to be sneakers (rubber-soled shoes)! Good to see a bit of rare De Mille - just a short pdd from the 30-minute full ballet, The Other. The Lilac Garden bit (from a NY Theatre Ballet film) consisted of the first 4-5 minutes of the full ballet. Ashley Bouder once again a Queen of Nuance in the brief solo from Tchaikovsky pdd (filmed at the Bolshoi in 2014)...but spectacular in the film from Tahoe-2018 of an especially-commissioned jazzy solo, Red Spotted Purple (chor. Lovette). In all, about 20 minutes of actual dancing. Lots of talk....but worth watching. It’s on for another 12 hrs via https://www.laketahoedancecollective.org/laketahoedancefestival Catch it before it is replaced by the mid-century modern dance program.
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    Right. According to the above articles, also known as “The G Variation.”
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    So autumn might be “The D624G Season” in place of “The COVID Season”? 😥
  18. Jeannette
    The best dancers should be cast in leading and featured roles, period. For me that’s the big take-away of what we’re going through now. However, I hope that the great historical ballets of our art’s repertoire (incl the Petipas) are not watered down or substantially changed because of BLM and such...eg, it’s ok (right) to remove “blackface” makeup from the kids who accompany the Golden Idol in Bayadere...but, good grief, don’t turn Abderakhman into a non-Muslim character. The Crusades are at the heart of the ballet Raymonda. The scenario’s resolution restored by Vikharev for LaScala brings sense to the story (the “White Lady” Christian statue blinding Abderakhman with the mirror, causing his defeat). If one can’t deal with the story & the existence of religion in our world, don’t buy a ticket. The various religions are part of our humanity, whether we like them or not. Ditto what Hubbe has done with the Bournonvilles in Copenhagen - removing any reference to Christianity. (But I’m fine with removing the minstrel-like characters from Far from Denmark. Good riddance to them! Ditto how the Vaganova Academy removed the Afro-American minstrel number from Fairy Doll. I hope that never returns!)
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    Stucha, the Bolshoi Esmeralda recon was by Yuri Burlaka and Vadily Medvedev. Vikharev did Coppelia for the troupe, a bit earlier. I completely agree about Alexandrova’s performance. I’m only sorry that Burlaka and Medvedev chose to alter the 2nd act Grand Pas des Fleurs - setting it to music of Bluebeard - when the traditional steps/music exists in other versions of Esmeralda (!!!) in Russia.
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    There was quite a bit of ballet in that 1952 film, not just the extended Little Mermaid Ballet near the end. I just rewatched the DVD today...delightful!..”Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen!”
  21. Jeannette
    Back to my usual alerts on upcoming new streams of rarities: Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) - I think that’s the name 😉 - begins to stream a new title in its summer series: Nacho Duato’s Coming Together. As of 8pm EST today. Info: https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/dthondemandvirtualballetseries/ Link to DTH’s Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY5gb-8rQWU6jGJIfe60DJg (You might also still be able to catch, via this link, their 50th-Anniversary gala at the Guggenheim Museum....it was still up this morn.)
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    Ok, ok. Have fun! 😝
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    https://australianballet.com.au/ I may be missing a separate Australian company with “theatre” in its name.
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    American Ballet Theatre (ABT) dances McKenzie’s version...this must be the Australian Ballet, no?
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    Not sure if this was already reported earlier in this thread or elsewhere on Balletcoforum: The Mariinsky has reopened, as of 7 July, with an abbreviated Stars of the White Nights Festival... including concerts of large-scaled chorus-heavy operas like Il Trovatore. The first all-ballet programs will be three Stars concerts at the Mariinsky II (18-19July...next Sat/Sunday). Hoping that all goes well and the troupe & audiences stay healthy. https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/news1/2020/7/07_1/
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