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    V disappointing
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    Only D33 for 23/11 is still available. Anna
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    Ticket now spoken for.
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    The tickets for 22/11 have gone. D32 & 33 for 23/11 are still available. Anna
  5. annamk
    22/11 7.30 SCS D5 & D6 23/11 7.30 SCS D32,33,34 All £6, all etickets Message me if interested. Anna
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    D36 £14 e-ticket message me if interested. Anna
  7. annamk
    Just had this Cast change for The Royal Ballet's The Nutcracker 12 December 2018 at 7.30pm and 15 December 2018 at 7pm Our records show that you are due to attend a performance of The Nutcracker. We are contacting you to let you know that due to injury, Kevin Jackson, who was due to perform as a guest artist with The Royal Ballet, will be replaced by Ryoichi Hirano as the Sugar Plum Prince.
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    I agree with much of Sim's report above. I thought Mayara Magri made a solid debut which promises well for the future. She did rush some of the confrontation scene probably due to nerves but I felt she showed a strong stage presence and acted convincingly. Technically the steps are no struggle for her although she didn't finish the fouettes tidily. I'm afraid for me this is just not a good role for Matthew Ball. It doesn't play to his strengths, demanding more technically in the solo dancing than he seems able to deliver but offering little opportunity to show off his acting ability beyond looking troubled and conflicted. I went to Berlin last weekend to see Ratmansky's new Bayadere & I think that it would be a perfect vehicle for him because the role of Solor has far more mime and acting and minimal virtuoso dancing. A shout out for the terrific corps, looking better than they have for years.
  9. annamk
    Ticket is spoken for.
  10. annamk
    It's an eticket. Message me if interested.
  11. annamk
    Is it definite that it has replaced the old style yearbook ? For last year I don't think it came out until December so I was still hoping .......
  12. annamk
    Luke Jennings isn't actually calling for it to be removed, the quote is only an extract and his review goes on to say .... "Personally, I can’t imagine anyone taking La Bayadèreat face value, and I think that it should stand. Not as a monument to Europe’s one-time dominion over the Indian subcontinent and its peoples, but as a reminder of the repeated failure of colonial powers to comprehend civilisations older and subtler than their own."
  13. annamk
    All tickets now spoken for.
  14. annamk
    D48 has been spoken for.
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    E tickets. Message me and post here to say you've done so. Anna
  16. annamk
    This ticket is still available.
  17. annamk
    Well one person's cloud is another's silver lining I hadn't focused on the fact that McRae had the Don Q broadcast (I wish they'd share them out a bit more) so I'm very happy someone else will get the opportunity - and that Akane Takada will have a different partner - she seems to be have been cast with McRae in most full lengths so far this season
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    yes it is I will pm you
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    Both tx spoken for.
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    E tickets, message me and please post on here to say you've done so. Anna
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    It's an e ticket message me if interested and post here to say you've done so. Anna
  22. annamk
    Takada was a dream of a Nikiya yesterday: meltingly fluid arms, sublime classical elegance, deeply expressive. The Solor's seem to have been given licence to compose their own versions of their final variation at the close of the shades scene in Act 2. McRae's choice looked to me more like it belonged in DonQ with some flashy but ugly, awkward looking jumps (Corrales did one also - I wish I knew the name) which seemed to cause McRae to run out of steam and deliver and a concluding manege of somewhat earth bound tours en l'air. Not a patch on Muntagirov's elegant and more appropriate grand assemble en tournant. I wasn't sure why McRae didn't leave the stage immediately before his variation. (Perhaps someone can correct me if I have the terminology wrong.)
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    So far I only saw the Nunez Nikiya cast at the rehearsal but on the basis of that I prefer the roles as danced this evening. It may be that's because the balance between the two ladies felt better to me rather than saying that one or the other danced better although I have to add that I found Nunez faultless this evening. As for Corrales, his performance would be commendable under any circumstances but considering he is only 22, he was making his RoH debut in a principal role, he was (I believe) making his debut as Solor and he was partnering two of the most senior ballerinas in the company, it was astonishingly good. He is clearly an assured young man and he obviously has a huge bag of tricks which for the most part this evening he quite sensibly held in check focusing his energies on partnering his ballerinas which he did with skill, care and respect. That's not meant to imply that his solo dancing was less than excellent. I personally think he's a great addition to the RoH male line up.
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    Surely charisma is subjective otherwise one would be able to define it in a way that everyone could agree on in any particular case. It is difficult sometimes to understand why other people don't respond as warmly to a dancer as one does oneself. Some years ago there was a particular RB dancer who was my absolute favourite - I wouldn't miss a performance of his. I assumed everyone else felt the same and some people certainly did but a number of people whose opinions I respected, absolutely did not. I was perplexed and disappointed at the time but the funny thing is now I can't stand him myself
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    What ? Why ? Surely people feel charisma differently. I find Muntagirov's dancing thrilling but myself well, I don't find him particularly charismatic ......
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