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  1. 14 hours ago, Tango Dancer said:

    Lovely pictures.  Vadim's costume is a lot more golden than it looks at a distance.  Also Reese Clarke is really tall and I wish he and Yasmin had better costumes. Thanks for sharing.  

    It's the lighting made it look more yellow in the photo it was definitely paler more of an oyster/beige I would say. 

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  2. I have some photos from the curtain call which you may like to see, I got most dancers except any decent shots of Gareth haw and Sangeun Lee!

    So I'll start with my favourites of the night - Antonio Casalinho and Margarita Fernandes - Margarita danced in the Don Q finale hence the white tutu, rather than her green Esmerelda tutu.  This couple are a joy to watch.

    Photo shows 2 young dancers from Bavarian State Ballet Antonio Casalinho and Margarita Fernandes both are watching the awards being presented and both have a red rose which they received after the show.

     

    Here we can see Francesca Hayward, Olga Smirnova, Vadim Muntagirov and Fumi Kaneko (L to R)

    Photo shows ballet dancers watching awards being given - here we see (left to right) Francesca Hayward, Olga Smirnova, Vadim Muntagirov and Fumi Kaneko.  Olga and Fumi are wearing white tutus.

     

    Group shot of dancers applauding Lucia Lacarra as he received her award.

    Matthew Golding, Melissa Hamilton, Roberto Bolle, Sklyar Brandt, Herman Cornejo, Yasmine Naghdi, Reece Clarke, Evelina Godunova and Motomi Kiyota

    Group photo shows ballet stars (left to right)  Matthew Golding, Melissa Hamilton, Roberto Bolle, Skylar Brandt, Herman Cornejo, Yasmine Naghdi, Reece Clarke, Evelina Godunova, Motomi Kiyota

    Lucia Lacarra with her award

    Photo shows Lucia Lacarra after receiving her award a Ballet Icons Gala she is wearing a short strapless effect red dress, is carrying a red rose and the glass award she was given.  Her right arm is outstretched to accept applause from the audience

     

    Giorgi Potskhishvili and Natalia Osipova

    Dancers Natalia Ospiova and Giorgi Potskhishvili after dancing Don Quixote grand pas de deux, Natalia wears a red tutu  and Giorgi has a black bolero jacket with gold embellishments, black tights.

     

    Sergio Bernal, Eleonora Abbagnato, Julian MacKay, Bleuenn Battistoni, Constantine Allen and Rhio Sakamoto

    Dancers (left to right) Sergio Bernal, Eleonora Abbagnato, Julian MacKay, Bleuenn Battistoni, Costa Allen and Rhio Sakamoto

     

    Camila Bocca and Osiel Gouneo 

    Dancers Camila Bocca and Osiel Gouneo take a bow. Camila is wearing a green and white striped mid length period costume/dress with puffed sleeves and Osiel wears a loose blouson type orange top and white mens' ballet tights

     

    Travis Clausen-Knight and James Pett

     

    Dancers Travis Clausen-Knight and James Pett  in white shirts black trousers holding hands as they take a bow.

    The best pic I got of Gareth Haw and Sangeun Lee (at the back with Camila Bocca and Osiel Gouneo in front of them and Graham Watts to their right)

    At the back you can see ENB dancers Gareth Haw and Sangeun Lee in dark teal leotards, with Camila Bocca and Osiel Gouneo in front of them . Graham Watts is in the tuxedo suit and the show promoter Olga Bakaleets is in the bottom left corner and the conductor Maria Seletskaja is in front of Camila and Osiel

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  3. 48 minutes ago, Missfrankiecat said:

    Skylar Brandt did not do the full fouetté sequence - she replaced part of the music with chaine turns.  Misty Copeland gets roasted when she does that sort of thing.

    Yes but I felt it was  because she lost her flow with the fouettes, saved herself from "falling out" of them so she did about 28 fouettes then made the rest up with the turns as you say. Fumin Kaneko also lost her flow in hers on the Grand Pas which was a pity, but it's no mean fear for even experienced dancers to do the fiendish full 32! We did get 35 off Goudanova I think it was though! (I include doubles and triples)  My favourite move for difficulty is the Italian Fouette but none were in the choreography last night. Done right they are wonderful! 

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  4. I have to say I was surprised Bolle came but then when he got his award at the end I thought 'aha is that why he came?'. He was quite off with fans at stage door he just pushed past everyone to meet his friends and left not a wave or pose for a photo nothing. Rather disappointing from him as usually he's quite amiable with fans. All the other dancers were very obliging. 

     

    If I had to pick out dancers I would have to say Osiel Gouneo is one of the most charming in my book, every time I have met him he is charm personified. Also his colleagues Antonio Casalinho and Julian Mackay. Must be something in the air at Munich maybe?! Sergio Bernal is lovely too, but really they all are and all are very appreciative of fans' comments/praise for their work. 

     

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  5. 4 hours ago, Missfrankiecat said:

     

    She is often at Covent Garden - I've seen her multiple times for one production.  She is still a very pretty woman and obviously a huge ballet fan.  I love the novels of Anthony Trollope and always visualise her as Lady Glencora from the Palliser series (who she played in the BBC adaptation).

    I met her at ROH once and said I liked her in The Pallisers too! 

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  6. 4 hours ago, Fonty said:

     

    It isn't just dance that suffers like this.  Why, why, why is it necessary to have everything SO LOUD?  I went to a performance of Rocky Horror last year, and my friend and I sat there with our fingers stuffed in our ears all night.  And she is hard of hearing!  It was so loud, it was impossible to make out any of the words when they were singing.  Nobody else seemed the slightest bit bothered, which was even more startling.  .   

    Exactly what I think too! 

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  7. Gift them to a ballet school perhaps?

    If no charity wants them you can use the ziffit app and you get a little cash for them. World of Books are behind ziffit I think, and are on a mission to stop books being read only once and thrown, they resell at reasonable prices. I buy a lot of 2nd books from wob as there's no p&p! With ziffit you need min. 10 books to box up and then take to a local drop off point for free post to them. 

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  8. Absolutely delighted for Alexander and his new appointment just wow! I'll be very sorry not seeing him dance again. As others have already said, I always felt he was underused at RB, his Bratfisch was brilliant and that arm hat roll was perfection! I've always thoroughly enjoyed every show that I've seen  Alexander dance, whether with RB or Birmingham RB. A thoroughly charming decent young man and no one could deserve this opportunity more than him. Congratulations to Alexander. Commiserations to us on our loss! 

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  9. I liked Raymonda. Hated the Miller Les Noces absolutely dreadful piece in every way. Seems I was right to give Creature a wide berth!! 

    As for noise I don't know why everything has to be so loud everywhere, I usually have earplugs on me just in case! In fact I often get a much nicer rounded sound with ear plugs in!

    I once had to complain at the Barbican about the level of noise for Dust, I think it was(there was a triple bill for the WW1 centenary) . I said it should have come with a noise warning and that any child would  particularly potentially suffer damage. The theatre staff didn't seem bothered! 

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  10. I was very disappointed with ENBs 24/5 offerings. At least Liverpool is back on as a venue but only for Giselle. I'd have rather seen the new Nutcracker. I reckon the "in the round" will likely be R&J assuming there is one. 

    Very sorry not to see a revival of Raymonda or  Broken Wings and no more Balanchine. In the far past ENB did perform Cranko's Onegin. Now that would be good to see them tackle again. 

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