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    D37 £10 Message me if interested. Anna
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    After all that the Don Q standing are £14 ! Pleasantly surprised as I didn’t see the earlier posts.
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    This doesn’t fall strictly in the title of the thread but as it’s the summer ballet recess I have to get my fix from clips on youTube and Instagram. There’s a very exciting young (just 22) Georgian dancer (Giorgi Potskhishvili) that at Dutch National Ballet who’s recently been promoted to Soloist - one rank below principal. Only a matter of time before he hits the top slot. https://www.operaballet.nl/en/dancers/giorgi-potskhishvili He puts clips on his Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/reel/CuPDu8bIDVY/?igshid=Y2I2MzMwZWM3ZA==
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    Interesting what Reid Anderson said re Onegin and the Royal Ballet. Hopefully that means we can expect it in the 24/25 season. Fingers crossed.
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    I was wondering if anyone saw Lauretta Summerscales performance in Bayadere in Munich.
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    @Sim "perfectly pleasant" really sums up Wheeldon's choreography for Cinderella. I'd also add that I found pdd repetitive and full of unnecessarily complicated, awkward lifts. Such a pity because it just didn't enable the two fine dancers (Takahashi and Frola) to shine as brightly as they could have done.
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    Thank you, they did ! And I believe it's available for 2 weeks to re-watch at leisure
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    I have checked it and I have emailed them.
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    Hmm I have a zoom ticket but I haven't received my link .....
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    I think it would be amazing if Ratmansky were to create something on Vadim.
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    @JNC I found your review very interesting, thank you I've probably said this before somewhere on this forum but I feel it's our loss here in London that we do not get to see much Ratmansky in this country. I'm not thinking so much his reconstructions but the outstanding one act ballets for example: Concerto DSCH, Russian Seasons, Seven Sonatas, Pictures at an Exhibition, Serenade after Plato's Symposium. Ratmansky's work always has such a strong connection with the music and he seems to inspire dancers to produce their best performances, drawing on their classical training - although 24 Preludes for the Royal Ballet was not particularly well received, Rupert Pennefather was a revelation in it. By contrast, Wayne McGregor puts what is, to a significant degree, contemporary choreography on to classically trained bodies. The Royal Ballet dancers are outstanding classical dancers but maybe this hybrid style of McGregor does not show them off to their best advantage and vice versa.
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    it’s really not all so one way …. Crystal Pite created the outstanding Seasons Cannon (IMO way superior to Flight Pattern) and William Forsythe’s Blake Works 1 both of which I travelled to Paris to see. As for La Fille - we in London will have to go to Paris to see it next season since it has not been scheduled here for some years. And I can add to that Bayadere which I enjoyed at the Bastille last year. Balanchine seems to be revived more in Paris than London ….
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    I just don’t understand why you feel it necessary to make a comment like that. McGregor’s early work for the RB was thrilling and groundbreaking but for a number of years I have found most of his new work choreographically uninteresting. Nonetheless, as a huge dance fan I live in hope and of course I’d give a new MvGregor a go. Sadly, this latest work (which I only saw at the rehearsal) has done nothing to change my view that McGregor has run out of ideas for the RB and they both need to move on.
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    I could be wrong but I think I recall from an insight some time ago that McGregor doesn’t choreograph to the music. He creates the choreography in silence and the music is added later. It sounds odd but maybe explains why there’s no connection between the dance and the music in most of his work for the RB.
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    Selling D49 & D50 £9 each. Message me if interested.
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    @christine thank you so much for sharing your thoughts of the Manon performance. I very much regret not going. Some years ago a friend and I booked to see Friedemann Vogel and Alina Cojocaru in Manon in Bucharest at the time that Johan Kobborg was directing the Romanian Ballet. Sadly, there was a huge falling out between the management and JK shortly before the performance and the guests withdrew. We went anyway as it was too late to cancel flights and hotels. The Romanian Ballet company principals did their valiant best but we were left feeling "if only" ! After I saw the Jurgen Rose Mayerling redesign for Stuttgart Ballet it became my dream that Stuttgart would acquire Manon, Jurgen Rose would would weave his magic on the design and I would get to see Elisa Badenas and Friedemann Vogel in the lead roles. If only.
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    I am crying into my tea ...... I dithered about going and now it's too late Please tell us what Monday evening is like.
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    You express exactly how I feel about McGregor and Wheeldon. Their residencies have been at the RB for many years now and I feel it's time they were moved on.
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    I didn't think much of Corybantic Games when it premiered, I hate Anastasia and I find most McGregor more style than substance so I only have tickets for Morera's final performance and I am even dithering about that.
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    Hi Susan, thank you. I sent you a message.
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    Looking for a ticket for this if anyone has a spare, happy with a SCS. Anna
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    There are some performances of Manon in Stockholm over the next few weeks and I am wondering if anyone who reads this forum has plans to go and if so maybe they could post some words about it. I actually don't know the company at all, it came to my attention because Friedemann Vogel is guesting there as Des Grieux for 3 performances. His Manon is Sarah Erin Keaveney who is British and joined from the Royal Ballet School in 2018, so she is young. She's currently only a second soloist and this is a debut for her.
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    So so annoying last night that in the middle of Akane's wonderful Rose Adagio a woman opened the door to the stalls circle left side and marched noisily along in her heavy boots all the way to the back of the standing places. It was totally distracting and broke the spell. How does anyone think that is ok ? It was even worse than the person standing next to me during the live relay who spent more time on her phone than watching the stage and left in the middle of the grand pas. Not an usher in sight on either occasion.
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    I was really impressed with Sae Maeda beautifully dancing 2 soloist roles (Fairy of the Woodland Glade and Florestan's sister) in the Naghi/Ball Sleeping Beauty on 17th May. She's currently only a First Artist.
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    And he was memorable in The Invitation - I thought things would take off for him after that but they didn't really.
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