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  1. Jeannette
    Exhibits A & B: two magnificent one-act ballet “discoveries” in one weekend: Exhibit A - PAB (Philadelphia) in Elo’s Trigger Touch Fade to Bach and Handel Exhibit B - DTHarlem (NY) in Lopez-Ochoa’s Balamouk to toe-tapping klezmer tunes, with gorgeous colorful costumes (as has the Elo, too) Both works have the ladies dancing in pointe shoes, too. The clincher for me! Two new gems discovered & added to my “collective memory cache” within the last 24 hours...ballets that I cannot wait to experience live in Philly & NY whenever we return to normal!
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    There just aren’t enough hours in the day. No disrespect to Perm or the others but if I have two hours at my disposal and given a choice to see either a mixed bill of new classical choreography or yet another Swan Lake, I go for the new. But...if I read that the Ural Ballet of Ekaterinburg will stream the Sergei Vikharev reconstruction of Petipa’s Fille Mal Gardee, I’ll turn it on in a NY minute because it would be new to these eyes.
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    BINGO! That’s precisely what’s happened with me. I’ve decided to concentrate on new choreography in the classical mode (the Arizona desert ballets, SFco Unbounds, Penn, ENB) or not-so-new titles that I have not seen (the Cranko rarities!). With a couple of exceptions, I’ve avoided what was my bread-and-butter in the past: full-evening classics. If I read another suggestion of a Russian provincial company in Swan Lake or Bayadere, I’ll scream! (Ha - just kidding...I won’t yell but I’ll avoid it. Truly.)
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    It’s been almost three months since the full-ballet streamings began. Is anyone else beginning to experience Stream Fatigue? How many hours in each day do we have? Not that I’m not grateful. Just sayin’. 😏
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    No but that’s a good one!😎
  6. Jeannette
    Oksana Maslova is a real beauty - dancing, face, arms, everything. I’ve enjoyed her in everything seen during this digital PAB season, not least of all her Giselle. Reminds me of Irina Dvorovenko.
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    Another not-to-miss recommendation: Pennsylvania Ballet in Jorma Elo’s Trigger Touch Fade, filmed at its World Premiere performance on May 8, 2019, in Philadelphia. Beautifully classical to the “n-th” degree, danced to glorious Bach and Handel. The high-flying finale will leave you breathless. Hands down, the best new choreography I’ve seen in this COVID streaming season & we’ve seen some winners from San Francisco and others during these past couple of months. Woohoo! Read this for information on free access via a simple email registration: http://paballet.org/2019-2020-season/front-row-festival/ You’ll be e-mailed a link and access-word to Vimeo. No need to get any special Vimeo app.
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    I thoroughly enjoyed & highly recommend Pacific NW Ballet’s current stream of Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream! Filmed in April 2019 during the dress rehearsal, it stars Laura Tisserand (Titania), Kyle Davis (Oberon) and Jonathan Porreta (Puck)...but I was most impressed by the sublimity of Lesley Rausch and Jerome Tisserand as the PDD Soloists in the Act II divertissement and the sharpness and musicality of Angelica Generosa as the Lead Butterfly. The kids were terrific, too! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg2Hy7mWhEs Doug Fullington’s preview talk is fascinating, as always: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_g02HNVwA2Y ...and don’t miss this interesting chat with the leads and A.D. Peter Boal. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yRky62CU020
  9. Jeannette
    Maybe he is mixing up NYCB and ABT? When founded, ABT had a “Negro Wing” along with “Russian Wing” and something else - can’t recall. I can’t believe that ABT even had that division. Shivers.
  10. Jeannette
    New York’s Ballet Hispanico has been hosting Wednesday Watch Parties for several weeks. Tonight’s offering, premiering @ 7pm EST, is one of Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s best-known works, Sombrerisimo. Details on accessibility dates, how to view, etc: https://www.ballethispanico.org/bunidos/watch-party
  11. Jeannette
    Fadeyechev was the father of Alexei, a Bolshoi Star in his own right, often the partner of Ananiashvili, creator of roles in some early Ratmansky ballets. The family leaves a legacy on a good swath of Bolshoi history. May he Rest In Peace.
  12. Jeannette
    Love it ❤️ 💕, especially...POPCORN! 🍿 To make this film happen, Garland selected footage from performances over the course of 20 years...from venues as diverse as Detroit Opera, Edinburgh Festival and it’s current home, Jazz at Lincoln Center.
  13. Jeannette
    Return is now up, via DTH’s website. As choreographer Robert Garland explains in the intro, there were technical glitches with Youtube, so they’ve posted it directly on their site. Sure to leave smiles on faces! https://www.dancetheatreofharlem.org/return/
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    After a couple of aborted attempts, my Vimeo was up and running. Ah... Vadim is his name; Beauty is his game! Vadim was born to dance Blessed Spirits. Thoroughly enjoyed the Mahler, too. Bravi!
  15. Jeannette
    Also streaming this weekend, another superb offering from Dance Theater of Harlem- Robert Garland’s Return, to the music of James Brown and Aretha Franklin. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY5gb-8rQWU6jGJIfe60DJg Begins streaming tomorrow, June 20.
  16. Jeannette
    Oh, I loved their Emeralds. Hope that I can still see their offerings.
  17. Jeannette
    San Francisco Ballet is reshuffling it’s previously-announced streaming Schedule. After Bjork Ballet ends this morning, they’ll go dark for a week. June 26: the postponed “Director’s Choice” program of Tomasson and Wheeldon works...in place of the JAN 2020 Spellbound Gala, which will be streamed later this summer, to be announced. https://www.sfballet.org/sf-ballet-home/ Also streaming this weekend, on Sunday, is another of Ib Andersen’s unique desert ballets for Ballet Arizona: Round. They’re usually up for only one day, usually on this Youtube site: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbW5ypYPG5v1rd-bukupmtA
  18. Jeannette
    Dear Kbarber, I’m referring to programs taped or dvd’d off our televisions...our collections. Like so many balletomanes, I’ve never met a DVD/DVR remote control stick I didn’t love. Yeah, I know, it’s now ancient technology. Guilty as charged, since purchasing my first SONY Betamax many moons ago...then VHS recorder...then DVD recorder...now computers and flash drives. Of course our “private collections” must exist - our treasures! 💝
  19. Jeannette
    I’m surprised but pleased to read this. The era of insensitivity has long passed, thank goodness.
  20. Jeannette
    More sighing, Bruce. I’m wondering if, by “more digital opportunities,” ABT will finally be streaming archived films of recent performances (past 5 or 6 years)? Performances at the Met (opera or guests like ABT) are filmed from a spot in grand tier center, I was informed by a NY-based friend who regularly attends shows there. We know about the digital facilities at the Koch, NYCB’s home, but not sure if visiting troupes automatically have their shows filmed. We’ll just have to wait and see what ABT can and will make available. So far it’s been only tiny rehearsal clips or stay-at-home montages from kitchens and basements from them.
  21. Jeannette
    Reminder...The Washington Ballet’s Center Stage Virtual Gala begins in about one hour. The Youtube photo with countdown is up!🥰
  22. Jeannette
    Sad news, Bruce. I’m wondering if other major “crowd seasonal events” in NYC will also be cancelled, such as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade or New Years Eve at Times Square? Not to mention possible cancellation of other Nutcrackers around the country...at least those in major cities on the two coasts. Sigh.
  23. Jeannette
    Ballet fans recorded it off their TVs, so it’s in most private collections. This particular show (the Balanchine 2003 gala) was a disappointment for most NYCB fans - especially “The Man I Love” number from Who Cares?, as the camera was fixated on trumpeter Wynton Marsalis in the pit, rather than focusing on the dancers...and Marsalis played his own improvised arrangement of the music. So you’re forewarned. Far from the glory days of ballet broadcasting. Shame that modern audiences won’t get the full Balanchine Coppelia but at least Act III is a gem with the full divertissements.
  24. Jeannette
    Streaming news from the Vienna State Ballet: According to accompanist Igor Zapravdin’s FB, the annual Nureyev Gala will go on, live-streamed on June 25 @ 2pm Central European time! A.D. Manuel Legris, seen in this photo, will preside: https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=3469725706389005&id=100000548291610
  25. Jeannette
    ENB’s stream of Macmillan’s Song of the Earth with Rojo, Caley and Cirio premiered today. Not to be missed! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=okIqz-jxssU I had not seen this since the Darcey Bussell farewell.
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