tiltwithlips

Ticket rehomed.

£9 - will return to box office for my princely £5 credit towards another date if no takers by the end of today! Casts are Kaneko/Muntagirov (Les Rendezvous), Naghdi/Richardson (Dream), Hayward/Sambe (Rhapsody).

Young ROH is only for those 16-25 - you can be a Young Friend until you're 30, though (just checked as I would have quite happily gone again for £30 for a luxurious seat, but alas!)

I'm very interested in all the lower slips being one (very cheap!) price for MADDADAM - this makes me much likelier to try it. I don't get the sense this is common on here, but my budget means I often end up in the middle tier of the lower slips (roughly seats 96 - 102, which is where it stops being worth it for me) if I can't get SCS - you miss some of the stage, but very rarely key parts, and this means that I almost never spend more than £14 on the ballet at the ROH (which compares astonishingly well to the West End, where I also try to keep costs low but my average ticket is more like £30-40).

Looks like the Nunez/Ball cast for the general today (Yasmine Naghdi has posted that she’s dancing it), which I’m delighted about as I’m attending!

@hephaistion03 - you've already done a truly heroic amount of copytyping - is there any chance you'd consider sharing some opera info (possibly on Not Dance, since I do know it's off-topic...)? No worries at all if not - and thank you for what you've posted so far.

A quiet autumn for me too, but I'm very excited about Q1/Q2 next year!

If you're willing to sell them separately I'd be very interested in one!

The 2024 Company has been announced via the London City Ballet instagram and are now listed on their website here - I've booked a couple of BDP seats for the Sadlers' Wells run!

I love to dress up for a Saturday performance - but if the cast I want to see is on a weekday evening, I'll be coming straight from the office and would rather not have to change there and leave my normal clothes at work! It also feels more pleasurable to dress up if I have company, whereas if I'm alone - as I often am at the ROH - I don't really want to be in full evening dress. I also sometimes feel very self-conscious about being dressed up in the very cheap seats, as though people will think I had unrealistic expectations of the evening (a comment I've seen applied to people "overdressed" for the standing places before, whether accurately or not!). I ultimately don't think that, if accessibility and encouraging new audiences matters to the long-term survival of the art form, it's terribly useful to focus on what people are wearing (invisible once the house lights dim anyway) instead of how they conduct themselves.

£14, please DM if interested - I am now going to be out of London for this one, unfortunately!

First, a caveat - I slipped out at the second interval, missing Love Letter (on shuffle), due to a combination of a long day in the office and it being by far the piece on the programme that interested me least on paper. If I'd been less tired, I'd definitely have given it a chance - but I don't hugely regret not doing so and getting home earlier! Echoing a lot of the above, I liked Rotunda very much, loved Duo Concertant, and was actually underwhelmed by Gustave le Gray having expected to really like it - I've loved all the Tanowitz I've seen before (the RB bill last February and then Song of Songs at the Barbican in the autumn) and found all of those pieces deeply moving, but this one left me totally cold. Still, that felt like a good enough average for a £10 BDP seat with an exceptional view (first row of the second circle, a little to one side but not restricted at all), and the dancing itself was all wonderful.

I'm so looking forward to this run - as a very, very recent ballet convert (the RB Mayerling in late 2022 was my first foray, and I've tried to see as much as possible since then) it will be the first time I've ever seen it! I had booked as soon as tickets went onsale for Francesca/Will and Fumi/Vadim, but have now picked up return/resale tickets for the first two Fumi/Will performances as well - it seemed rude not to, having booked to see both of them separately because of how much I enjoyed their partnership in various things last year, and I think it will be interesting to compare nuances - so the 15th will be my first time. 

1 hour ago, Emeralds said:

A young relative who is now old enough to qualify for the Barclays Dance Pass tells me that the NYCB allocation of tickets for BDP (dictated by the company or impresario and not the bank) is pretty useless unless you're unemployed or loafing around because the allocation is only for Thursday afternoon, which is when BDP holders are at school, university/college or work, and cannot play truant just to attend a ballet. (Unless, coincidentally, you happen to have a very light university course timetable where you have a free Thursday afternoon in addition to the usual free Wednesday afternoon and your university just happens to be near Sadler's Wells so that you can get there right after lectures/tutorials.)  There are no BDP tickets for any of the evenings or the Saturday matinee. But PeterS is right that some tickets often come back or get released nearer the day of each show. 

There was definitely an initial allocation of BDP tickets for the evening and weekend shows - I have one for the Thursday night! I did book what feels like a lifetime ago though, probably around when they went onsale. Really looking forward to it. 

Still a couple of £140 seats showing up for me as we speak!

Have PMed you!