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  1. Having seen the programme, which apparently is not for sharing just yet (although I wasn't told that in the e-mail I got), it looks fabulous. It's also long - 15 pieces.
  2. Friday's Snow Maiden in Northampton did go ahead - I was there. But today's Nutcracker has been cancelled by the theatre. Given there are Ukrainian dancers in the company, it must be very difficult for them, to say the least.
  3. Teacher training is part online, part in-person. It is very much not simply CPD. It is a new approach to training and assessing ballet learning, that Affiliate teachers may or may not decide to also run traditional exams alongside. While it is new to the UK, it is the way much of the rest of the (non-English heritage) world works, where centralised exams are rather less common. The new programme has similiarities with ABT's successful programme in the US in particular. Here's a link to a chat I had with Mark Annear at the Royal Ballet School prior to today's announcement: https://www.seeingdance.com/royal-ballet-school-affiliate-training-and-assessment-programme-220124
  4. Except that the classics no longer fill the Hippodrome either. Some shows in the last run of Fille only managed around 25%. Even Nutcracker no longer sells right out like it used to. Ballet has moved on. The problem as always is balancing new, contemporary (as in of today) works - and there are plenty around that are do not have dark subjects, are moody and dimly lit - with heritage. The last thing ballet or BRB should be is a museum - and it had become rather staid in recent years. Incidentally, looking at annual reports, it seems a lot of other shows don't fill the Hippodrome either these days. It relies enormously on its massive panto (and even that doesn't sell like it used to). A personal view is that the theatre is simply too big and should have been reduced in capacity (with say a 400-seat rather than 250-seat Patrick Centre) when it was refurbed. Maybe triple bills or new programmes at the REP and big ballets at the Hippo is the way forward. Plenty of foreign companies split between theatres like that quite happily (as indeed do ENB with the Wells/Coliseum).
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