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this is very true, I think. In posts of this responsibility and overarching complexity, I think that some continuity is important to make a real impact eg commissioning of new works, nurturing of dancers etc - but the post also needs to be scrutinised regularly in-house and from the outside, as Emeralds does above. I think some of the runs of the classics are too long, even if I enjoyed them! would like to see even more variety of old works and new arrivals.

I'd love to find one standing ticket (SCS or Balcony) for the Monday 7.30pm of Elektra.

Thank you from me too. Had not realised it was today, and I am enjoying this Insight tremendously!

Thank you so much for steering this wonderful forum!

yes please will DM now

What I do is to remove then from either blister or their wrapper and put them in a little metallic box padded with kitchen paper. Yes, I know.

I had a very similar experience - perhaps same people and chicken wings?! they were two women. I also told them it was not allowed, but they just moved further to their left (!). It is the only time I've witnessed something so blatant, but too much water drinking sometimes...

An extraordinary array of dresses. I was totally bowled over by the complex simplicity of the designs, their obvious confort and timeless quality. You could imagine them inhabited by a body dancing (as indeed some were -the wonderfully wooly, state-of-the-art 1924 swimming costume for Le train bleu, for example). I missed the Bolshoi's Yuri Possokhov's Gabrielle Chanel and now regret it! Would love to hear what others thought of both - exhibition and ballet!

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I’m seeing it tomorrow, but when it opened, on second viewing it definitely made far more sense of the whole as a progression of distinct modes (of dancing, staging, music) and moods and I was in fact emotionally gripped. I liked my 1st experience and loved the second. I’m very excited to confront my memories with the actual new performance and performers.

I’d like it if still available. Tx

I'm interested. have just messaged you.

yes, please. would love to buy it.

I thought the same on rehearsal day! I was also humming. I do hope all fine for Saturday evening.

I am new to the site which I have very recently discovered and am enjoying reading the comments a lot. I liked the Our Voices programme a lot myself, and like many on this trail I particularly liked the variety of dancing styles and the profoundly beautiful music. The Balanchine is a beautiful ballet, but I think I missed on Thu evening some crispness of execution at times. Les Noces was an interesting new take on Stravinsky's extraordinary score but only the first half really caught my attention. Nijinska's choreography was of another other order - I cannot forget the first time I saw it in the 80s: it really left an indelible mark in my brain. That said, there was some wonderful images and dancing, perhaps too frenetic at times. I really rate Dawson's Four Last Songs. I was enthralled and particularly loved the slow, contained movements, which echoed the words and music of the songs so naturally. I cannot understand some critics (FT, ES) who found the choreography soulless. I definitely did not, and one particular dancer, Erina Takahashi?, I found breathtakingly moving. The lead male dancer (who seemed the embodiment of Summer in the second song) was wonderful too. A very good evening of dancing!