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From @Angela and free to watch (at least in UK) on the link she provides: The new filming of John Cranko's "The Taming of the Shrew" will be on arte tv in the night from 18th to 19 December at 00.10 CET, and available online until 16th January. https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/104474-000-A/the-taming-of-the-shrew/ Cast: Elisa Badenes Jason Reilly Veronika Verterich Martí Fernández Paixá Alessandro Giaquinto Fabio Adorisio The DVD should be available now also.

Yes we can! mine is now playing.

And dry ice unfortunately condenses on the stage flooring. I don’t know the mechanics of how they avoid that … must be a specific heat needed to ‘dry’ it?

@Balletbloke you can use the @ function to tag a person you wish to reply to, instead of using the quote function. Start typing their forum name after the @

Is the class available online? Sometime they are 🤔

A review of Iana in RB Swan Lake in 2015 (previous version) https://theoperatunist.wordpress.com/2015/03/21/swan-lake-salenko-mcrae-gartside-gruzin-march-21st-2015-matinee/ and an ROH video

According to the ROH collections database, Iana partnered Steven McRae 29 (!) times from October 2013 through April 2017 … in Don Q, R&J, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Two Pigeons, Giselle, Jewels, Tchai pdd and Swan Lake https://www.rohcollections.org.uk/SearchResults.aspx?searchtype=performance&page=0&person=Salenko

@Angela I do hope we can get that in UK.

I’m told that the Radio Times posts a picture of Misty Copeland and Sergei Polunin to advertise ‘The Nutcracker and The Four Realms’ movie … BBC1 at 5.25pm on Christmas Eve I recall that the choreographer for this movie was Liam Scarlett. According to imdb Max Westwell, Harris Bell, Julia Conway, Kristen McGarrity and Katharina Nikelski are also in this movie .. amongst other dancers.

I am thrilled that Iana Salenko has been brought in to partner Gabriele Frola … he really deserves someone of her elite calibre. I have rushed to buy tickets for her first show. It is a coup for ENB to secure her. You may remember that Iana was a regular guest at RB to partner Steven McRae back when there were not suitable small dancers for him. She has the most incredibly secure and beautiful technique .. her adagio and her fouettés are a thing of wonder. And she is always the star choice for the final piece at the annual Ballet Icons gala. (Often partnered by Daniel Simkin). In the Nureyev gala she performed the Bayadere pdd (partnered by Xander Parish) with extraordinary poise and controlled movement which bode well for an exquisite Odette. She is Steven McRae’s regular partner on the annual outdoor summer galas ‘Verdensballetten’ that he arranges in Denmark. Here they are rehearsing for summer 2022 … https://www.instagram.com/reel/CfEdM-KlaBs/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y= She is a whole level above any other ballerina at ENB. I hope you can still get tickets. Do anything to get one! You will regret it if you miss out on seeing her in the UK.

I too wish the grandparents were played by mature / retired dancers or else that part changed.

I take it as a quick cost cutting exercise by the new management team. Maybe the new AD has his own ideas for something to encourage emerging dancers, which can’t be implemented until he is fully on board.

Many highly talented dancers do not participate … - travel costs - they are at elite schools already (it’s rare to see students from RB, Paris, Dutch, La Scala schools participating) - they get selected out in pre-selection. It’s subjective choice and inevitable. I’d like to believe there is no money changing hands to influence selection processes.

The cost of travel alone is prohibitive. I remember (many moons ago) helping with fundraising for 3 candidates and chaperones to travel from Cape Town.

Firstly , the gala is new and it is of professional dancers only. It is separate to the competition. It includes many principals from elite companies including from the UK. I should think balletcoforum members who aren’t following the ‘Doing Dance’ thread would be interested to discuss the dancers and programme. Too many to list again here .. please read the original post. Secondly, the jury are also of interest to non-dancing forum members as it included the director of the RB School Christopher Powney, RB choreographer Christopher Wheeldon plus former RB principal Tetsuya Kumakawa. And many other luminaries of professional ballet.

@Jan McNultyCould you unlock the other thread please ?

It’s not Christoper Carr

I did think the announcement of this gala which is a first for the PdL did deserve its own thread. As other galas do.

!!! you can always rely on PdL for accuracy

The 2023 competition dates are Sunday 29 January through Saturday 4 February (finals), with the Anniversary Gala on Sunday 5 February. More details here https://www.prixdelausanne.org/50th-anniversary/

GALA on Sunday 5 February 2023 at 4.30pm https://www.prixdelausanne.org/artists-of-the-gala-stars/ To celebrate its anniversary edition in style, the Prix de Lausanne has set up an exceptional gala, that will gather professional dancers who are mostly former Prize Winners, or candidates of the competition and who are now evolving at an international level. Our twenty-three Guest Artists are: Precious Adams Soloist, the English National Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2014 Alejandro Azorín First Soloist, the Dresden Semperoper Ballet Candidate, Prix de Lausanne 2011 António Casalinho Soloist, the Bayerisches Staatsballett Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2021 Victor Caixeta First Soloist, the Dutch National Ballet Candidate, Prix de Lausanne 2015 Elisa Badenes Principal Dancer, the Stuttgart Ballet Candidate, Prix de Lausanne 2008 Matthew Ball Principal Dancer, the Royal Ballet Mackenzie Brown Soloist, the Stuttgart Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2019 Alina Cojocaru Former Principal Dancer, the Royal Ballet & the English National Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1997 Laura Fernandez Principal Dancer, the State Ballet of Georgia Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2016 Margarita Fernandez Soloist, Bavarian State Ballet Marcelo Gomes Ballet Master and Principal Dancer, the Semperoper Ballett Dresden Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1996 Maria Kochetkova Freelance Principal Dancer, Curator and Producer Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2002 Julian Mackay Principal Dancer, Bavarian State Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2015 Mayara Magri Principal Dancer, the Royal Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2016 Steven McRae Principal Dancer, the Royal Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2003 Vadim Muntagirov Principal Dancer, the Royal Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2006 Xander Parish Principal Dancer, the Norwegian National Ballet Dancer, Interlude Prix de Lausanne 2018 Marcelino Sambé Principal Dancer, the Royal Ballet Finalist, Prix de Lausanne 2010 Olga Smirnova Principal Dancer, the Dutch National Ballet Eric Snyder Artist, the English National Ballet Finalist, Prix de Lausanne 2018 Candidate, Prix de Lausanne 2020 Mizuka Ueno Principal Dancer, the Tokyo Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1993 Friedemann Vogel Principal Dancer, the Stuttgart Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1997 Madison Young Principal Dancer, Bavarian State Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 2016 They will be dancing solos, pas de deux or original choreographies on the stage at the Beaulieu Theatre, on Sunday, 5 February 2023 at 4.30pm. Tickets for the Gala will be on sale online from 15 December.

JURY https://www.prixdelausanne.org/jury-2023/?fbclid=IwAR3h_kH4aWZRgv3Fuju-d4YfflGgvpPCsFrvTaf4XVphnmNUmnkMrosyuYU For an extraordinary edition an exceptional jury! This year, on the occasion of the Prix de Lausanne’s 50-year anniversary, the jury panel will be composed of 10 world-renowned dance personalities. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts for donating their time to our competition, and we are looking forward to welcoming them to Lausanne. The ten members of the jury 2023 Jean-Christophe Maillot – Jury President Choreographer & Director, Ballets de Monte-Carlo Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1977 Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award 2018 Diana Vishneva – Jury Vice President Prima ballerina, Mariinsky Ballet Former Principal Dancer, American Ballet Theatre Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1994 (Gold Medal) Sylviane Bayard Former Artistic Director, Deutsche Oper Ballett Berlin Etoile, Stuttgart Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1973 Julie Kent Artistic Director, The Washington Ballet Former Principal Dancer, American Ballet Theatre Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1986 Tetsuya Kumakawa Artistic Director, K-Ballet Company Former Principal, the Royal Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1989 (Gold Medal) Endalyn T. Outlaw Dean of Dance, UNCSA School of Dance Former Principal Dancer, Dance Theatre of Harlem Melanie Person Co-Director, The Ailey School Christopher Powney Artistic Director and CEO, The Royal Ballet School Martin Schläpfer Director & Chief Choreographer, Wiener Staatsballett Artistic Director, Ballettakademie Wiener Staatsoper Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1977 Christopher Wheeldon Director & Choreographer, The Royal Ballet Prize Winner, Prix de Lausanne 1991 (Gold Medal)

Returning to the cinema performance, I was a bit disappointed with William Bracewell’s Prince (I probably had my expectations unrealistically ramped up by Darcey’s glowing intro). He couldn’t get fully round on any of the double saut de basques. Everything looks too staged and careful and unspontaneous for me. Fumi sparkled throughout with a fun twinkle in her eyes. She has a super technique and it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a RB ballerina with a controlled and high développé à la seconde like she has 👏👏👏 (when she runs to her partner and has her back to the audience). Fabulous supported spiralling legs from Joonhyuk Jun in the Chinese dance. I notice Taisuke Nakao’s back wasn’t as low which may have restricted the height of his spirals.

I wonder if there is any additional cost to streaming a ballet that has previously been shown in the cinema?