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  1. Suffolkgal
    I remember seeing David Bintley in the title role ... must have been a SWRB tour of Rake’s Progress at Norwich. Pineapple Poll and Flower Festival at Genzano on same bill. Don’t ask me how I remember this stuff!
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    I remember Wayne Eagling getting a laugh when indicating with an airy gesture that it was just a whim, playing at being a peasant! Which makes more sense as that and the hand kissing of Bathilde sends Giselle right over the edge
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    Just picking up on DD I did in fact see a number of the performances in the original run of this piece with original lead Wayne Eagling - utterly gut wrenching and depressing and set to Verklarte Nacht. He was great in it but from memory it was in a programme with Song of the Earth! Depending on who is it might be a swerve! The bath drowning - anyone else remember that? Xxx
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    We need a fabulous house only for ballet and dance would be my observation! Recent generations have not equalled preceding ones in ambitious and creative building of theatres ..
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    Isn’t it wonderful we have so many dancers we love and yearn to see in partnership? Whatever our individual likes and not like quite so much ...
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    Yes I could do without Don Q. And Coppelia. And Sylvia... but of course would go and see. I’d love to see Pineapple Poll again! Gloria, Requiem and Fin du Jour...
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    Just remembering a few partnerships from the past - Collier right at the end of her performing days finding a new glow with a big hunky Tartar! He was then destined for Bussell but then started dancing with Durante ... miraculous. Anyone remember Park/Eagling? They were wonderful too
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    I’d love to see Hayward and Bracewell in Fille and Manon and Giselle .. Fumi of course - they just sing - but there is something about the soft lyricism of Hayward/Bracewell...And agreed, he does always get warm responses on social from his partners ..
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    Apropos of not much I remember Wayne eagling coming out of the stage door where our faithful posse was waiting, after Rhapsody, and saying with a weary sigh: Fred is so difficult! He wasn’t moaning just acknowledging... I just hope they keep the chain of experience going from those who worked with him to the younger generation. Many of those who created great roles are gone now
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    Absolutely... I like Vadim of course as a dancer but never engage with him emotionally whereas Bracewell gets me every time
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    I think the mice become horses and there are lizards for footmen and a frog for the coachman but that may be the slipper and the rose which has a load of RB people- Coleman, Collier etc
  12. Suffolkgal
    I just felt there was pure joy in the House tonight. There is something about that pair, an unalloyed pleasure and trust, and a shared ability to transmit feeling way beyond the stage. Actual gasps from the audience at times, but great warmth. up in row m of the amphi the effects are lovely. Hilarious that no one wonders why four enormous mice are pulling the carriage. Don’t understand the mini flower fairies at all and to me the wee ones looked a bit discomfited. I like the score but it is challenging and jerky but beautifully played. I don’t think I’ve ever heard the orchestra receive such a reception. I missed most of the curtain calls as half the people around me got up to leave and stood there rather than hauling their derrieres down the stairs. but a lovely show - one final thought. This really isn’t a spring ballet. So much of it is pure Christmas! Worth the schlepp up from the wilds - I’m not home yet!
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    I just hope the RB and ROH sometimes appreciate how far people will travel and how much we will spend for the joys of performance... it’s our choice but I feel it’s the backbone of the regular audience and also part of the handing on of the traditions
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    I’ve always fancied singing along with those opening chords in the dance of the knights!
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    Me too! What larks
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    I’ve got a Manon one - irek and viviana - in a final scene swooping lift, one of irek being all soulful in Mayerling and one of Eagling’s Frankenstein- all on my walls ...
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    I really feel, given she created so many ballets in the RB rep from so many choreographers, there should be a Seymour event/programme/season. I'd actually love to see the Invitation and the Burrow - early MacMillan.
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    I did see her a few times on stage and her biography remains such a favourite. What an extraordinary talent and passionate soul. When you look at what she created! A long life and a unique one. She also led the way on women dancers having children and coming back to perform. All things considered - brava bellissima!
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    Remembering those soaring lifts in the vision scene on Saturday afternoon (I know Fumi is tiny but she did look as if she might go into flight!) i think a very assured and sensitive partner is the sine qua non. (Takes moment to remember Irek and those lifts in Manon and tossing Stephanie around like a doll in Mayerling!)
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    this is sort of a non sequitur but my father, aged 20, broke the news of her death to the world - just before he went into the army (from the Home Guard). He was a reporter on the local Sussex paper, and was alerted to it by local contacts. Wartime being what it was he was up all night doing lineage for agencies all over the world. Hers was such an extraordinary life - and ballet such an extraordinary way to portray it. (he went back to the paper after five years of active service on the same wages!)
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    It is interesting how partnerships develop. I’ve also loved Hayward/Bracewell and of course he was amazing with Lauren Cutbertson and Nunez seems to enjoy working with him too. He’s a natural partner but he and Fumi seem to share a musicality and intuitive response to the steps. I’m not sure it’s always ideal to partner real life partners. Casting can be months in advance and it can go horribly wrong in the interim!
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    The smile is just lovely. I’ve got one on camera from the stage door too!
  23. Suffolkgal
    It really was - hello MaddieRose we will know each other next time! And maybe will feel brave enough to approach others like Matty Ball! Mind you we did share a moment with Zenaida Yanowsky and she was obviously delighted with them! I do think this is an absolutely sumptuous production and it’s all so silly I think it needs that gloss. The RB does rise to that sort of treatment. Incredible to think they are all doing Woolf Works this week too! Daft moments when you must suspend any critical thought include: you’re 16 love, choose one of these crazy dudes. And we are in the woods hunting but let’s have a stately minuet. And gosh I’ve just woken up and he looks jolly nice so I’m going to marry him, ok?
  24. Suffolkgal
    That was just exquisite - joyful. Also on train home but from kings cross. Two lovely ladies I chatted to at the stage door. Very happy my calendar is signed! Very gracious at the stage door - william kept saying thank you so much for coming to everyone which I thought charming. Am very very happy
  25. Suffolkgal
    I was in row M in the amphi- I think the children left after second interval which left me free fully to appreciate the sublime partnership that is ... mind you Fumi was so breathtaking in her first scenes that by then I felt no pain! Lots of very bronchial coughing though- would you not reckon people might at least cover their mouths?
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