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  1. TSR101
    This seems like a huge amount - I imagine many ADs would be very jealous - but how does this compare to what say the RB have spent on new productions of things like Frankenstein, Cinderella, Like Water for Chocolate and the rubbish that McGregor continues to produce for us! I imagine given the limited production values of ENB's Raymonda it will offer a vastly different scale of opportunity for Tamara.
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    Matthew Ball is doing the R&J Balcony Pas de Deux with Lauren C.
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    To be honest, I have always considered RB's to be more early Victorian 1840s/1850s in style but I may misremembering the costumes! When I said Regency - I was thinking for 1810-1820 - more Jane Austen in design style.
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    I would actually expect the RB to do their Giselle next season. It was last on in 2018 and 2021. Very likely for 24/25 I would have thought.
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    Yes it needed scrapping from an artistic pov in 2010, the day after it premiered. It was a rushed job (as shown in the documentary A Year in the Life with the English Ballet' and it showed. It also had the ugliest Nutcracker doll known to man.
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    Hmmm it's a sweet shop visit, rather than a sweatshop - which doesn't sound too modern. I'd have preferred perhaps a regency setting to make a greater differentiation from the RB's version. I thought Watkin created a version for his old company - any details on what their version is like? I personally have never understood why companies schedule so many Nutcrackers after Christmas when its nowhere near as popular then - there are weeks of December unused but then 12 days after in this run which eats into having a proper January London ballet rather than four days of a repeat. So far I have to admit I am not much impressed with Watkin.
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    What a shockingly dull season. Two different Giselle's, one of which they only just performed this season, a triple (just trying to repeat the success of 2022 with another Forsythe programme) and then Nutcracker (admittedly it's about time they dispensed with that awful Eagling version). At least scrap the Giselle repeat and give us R&J or Corsaire! BRB has a much more interesting season.
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    Worth pointing out that the time article on Smirnova today - mostly discussing Dance for Ukraine II - confirms that Olga Smirnova will dancer with Tissi in this gala.
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    TBH I think if she was going to be cast in any I would have thought it was this one as I would have thought this suited to her. However, it is something that the Osipova hasn't been casting in any of the new full length RB ballets (either Wheeldon or Scarlett's Frankenstein).
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    Has Osipova ever taken a role in a Wheeldon full length? I couldn't see Winter's Tale, Alice or Chocolate on her repertoire?
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    Yes, she was Perdita in the last run.
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    Is this meant to read: a selection of short works performed by Sarasota Ballet comprising Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, Hamlet and Ophelia and The Walk to the Paradise Garden?
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    I found it more surprising from the angle of potential criticism from his own people that he, a Ukrainian fighting age male, is doing galas partnered with a Russian employee of a state company. Seems risky PR to me. It is from an artistic pov obvious why he would do it, Alena is a wonderful dancer and I personally am sad I won't see her dance.
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    Given the continued refusal of tennis players etc to shake Russian hands, It is surprising to see Alena Kovaleva at a gala in Italy (Teatro Petruzzelli) partnered by Vsevolod Maievskyi (a Ukrainian who left the Mariinsky at the outbreak of the war).
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    I mean we are really still awaiting a brilliant Carmen (ballet) even if many people keep trying to create one...
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    TBH I haven't attended this yet but skin tight, skin tone clothes can't surely be that revealing? It surely can't be more revealing than the unnecessarily see through Woolf Works costumes.
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    To be fair though Darcey was MacMillan's last muse and the last he created a full length on. So if anyone could talk about MacMillan from that perspective, even if it wasn't for this ballet, then it is Darcey.
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    As always great pictures - but particularly catching this funny moment!
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    So I was also at the performance tonight and there were certainly lots of Bolle fans there. I think they outweighed the Nunez fans by quite a margin and there were a lot of Italian voices in the stalls. The reaction I felt was over the top - particularly at the end. It was a very good performance of a masterpiece of a ballet but I have seen many better performances of it. Bolle did ok - excellent if you consider his age - but I never really bought his portrayal of Des Grieux. Marianela I thought was excellent, unlike the above poster I thought her characterisation was brilliant (I also prefer her in the classics). I was sitting middle of the stalls nearer the front and I found her general use of expressions to convey her emotions very powerful. I was however also disappointed in the chemistry between the leads, strange given they clearly have a close relationship. I think it's not helped by the fact he isn't a great actor (some people near me laughed right at the end with his crying over her death - give me Cope any day). Honestly, I don't know how you can be in anyway disappointed in Hirano. I think he put on a superstar performance tonight and tbh stole the male principal show (for any non Bolle fanatic). He plays Lescaut drunkeness superbly well. I would have preferred to see Magri or O'Sullivan but Mendizabal was her usual excellent self too imo (I have seen Mendizabal perform this role a lot!).
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    Whilst I appreciate your defence - the point of a forum is to share opinion. Both positive and negative.
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    I was excited about this opportunity - then I read Wayne McGregor!
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    They could also commission some artwork for it. Curious why you thought she was the obvious choice?
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    Slightly off topic - but would it perhaps be useful to have a folder with threads on specific dancers/choroegraphers etc (like this one) that can be updated for those who want to follow specific dancers? I know the Alina and Osipova ones are regularly added too. It might encourage posts where perhaps you wouldn't start an entire thread but you might add a post about them if you heard or knew something that might interest followers of that dancer.
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    In general I agree with you but tbh with Olga I don't think there are any British ballerinas who are her level at the moment. The first time I saw Olga I did not know who she was, but when I saw her dance I knew she was special.
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    Given ticket sales, not sure there is the audience demand for more shows. However, it will be interesting to see if casting does anything to shift tickets. Marianela's performances usually sell very well for example and she's in a few.
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