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@MJW it was Martin Diaz and he caught my eye too. Great control. 

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14 minutes ago, capybara said:

Although some of the established ones are wonderful, I’m not in favour of ‘fixed’ partnerships. I think that ‘mixing things up a bit’ can bring out difference aspects of dancers, which I like. Take, for example, the Naghdi/Corrales combo in Like Water for Chocolate. The list at the top of this thread feels stale to me by comparison.

 

I agree with the exception of the Kaneko/Bracewell partnership.  They move me in a way no partnership has since Cojocaru/Kobborg. I will cry if they are not cast together in Manon and everything else.

Thank you @Bruce Wall and @bridiem for your glorious reviews. 

It was my second and last Cinderella of this run and such a different experience from the first for all the reasons you both articulate so beautifully.

If this cast were dancing again I'd go in a heartbeat. Act 2 was sublime - I confess that I left at that point on a high. I enjoyed the sisters immensely this time for exactly the reasons you both described.

As for the divine Fumi Kaneko and Will Bracewell: they are so special, individually and above all together. 

YAY ! FANTASTIC NEWS !

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Unusual for a company to have to cancel a run of performances due to the number of injuries ...... 

https://kglteater.dk/en/whats-on/season-20222023/ballet/jewels

On 05/04/2023 at 15:25, TSR101 said:

 

Does anyone know how easily it is to pick up tickets to the DNB at short notice? I am quite keen to see specific dancers in specific roles but I think they are another company that only announces the cast two weeks before (we don't give the Royal Ballet enough credit for planning this out well in advance!)

There is a resale site you can try. I used it to sell some tickets recently myself. 

https://www.operaballet.nl/en/your-visit/visitor-information/ticket-exchange

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I am waiting for someone to confirm. I don't know the cast.

6 hours ago, Finnbarr said:

Fonty- are you Alistair McCauley in disguise?

 

You didn't enjoy this new production of Cinderella, we get it. But is is really necessary to be quite so destructive in your criticism ?

 

I read this forum to see reviews of the casts that are not reviewed by the papers and which I haven't seen.

 

Could we go back to that please?

Sorry but I think your post @Finnbarr is completely unreasonable. 

People are entitled to comment on any cast they've seen, this forum has never been about only commenting on the casts that are not reviewed by the papers.  Anyway as far as I can see Fonty has written mainly about the Lamb/McRae cast. 

Nor would I call Fonty's comments about the production destructive..... 

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17 hours ago, Sim said:

If neither ballet appears in the season announcement I will be writing to Alex Beard and Kevin O’Hare to ask why.  

I went to Turandot at the RoH last night.

It's many years since I've seen it and I was really struck by what seems to be the difference in attitudes towards cultural sensitivities within the opera and ballet senior management ranks of the RoH.

For reasons of cultural sensitivity 1) the Chinese dance in the Nutcracker was re choreographed and 2) rumours circulating for some time now suggest that the Royal Ballet will no longer perform La Bayadere. And yet there on the RoH stage in all it's cultural appropriation and orientalist fantasy over the top grandeur is Turandot, complete even with yellow faces ........ 

I feel depressed that I find myself increasingly at odds with why some things are apparently ok to show on stage and others are not. 

Manon, which is expected to be performed features a horrific and deeply uncomfortable to watch rape scene. I know the argument goes that these things happen but does that make it necessary for us to watch it on stage ?

When someone mentioned Maddaddam as a probable for 23/24 season further up the thread I looked it up and checked out the reviews. I was dismayed to read in The Globe and Mail review that the ballet "features one of the more horrific scenes you will ever see onstage, and it defies a call for choreographers (most of whom are men) to stop staging gang rape in ballet."  

How can these depictions of violence towards women be OK and yet the character of Alain in Fille is somehow unacceptable ?

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I’m baffled as to why the Royal Ballet chose to spend what was presumably a significant amount of money reviving this. It is so so much less than Fille - I could weep. The score is difficult, the story is not well told, the choreography is less appealing than other Ashton ballets and the stepsisters are appallingly unfunny - someone should tell them it’s the 21st century, not the 1950s. 

2 hours ago, Sim said:

 This was a special gala night, and Marianela Nunez is a famous, world-class ballerina and is currently the prima at the Royal Ballet.  This, and the fact that she has danced the role before, ensured that people would get something special (reliable?) for their financial outlays.  The other thing that I object to is the implied (meant or not) damning of the other hard-working dancers who will also dance the role.  No matter how good Hayward might be at other Ashton roles, I can't comment on her interpretation of this one until I've seen it.  As I know from experience, I never just assume that because a dancer is good at something or a certain type of choreography that that will always be the case with every role and I don't think that Monahan, as a professional critic, should either.  But that's just my own view.  

I agree with all this and it's not only Nunez but her partnership with Muntagirov.  Together they are the top draw for many people in classical ballet - you only have to look at the ticket sales for their performances - theirs are the only sold out ones without any offers. I think Monahan makes himself look ridiculous by suggesting Hayward and presumably "the always interesting Alexander Campbell" should have been first night cast. 

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29 minutes ago, Sim said:

Ditto.  A friend sent me the FT interview with Carlos Acosta....appropriately, nothing is free with the FT so I can never access any of their articles.  This friend subscribes so is allowed a certain amount of 'shared articles' per month.

I've found that if I google the headline of the FT article I can nearly always get behind the paywall.