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    I would give my right hand and left leg to see it!
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    It looks like casting for all the performances has now been posted.
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    Agree wholeheartedly. And I don't think the corps has ever looked as good in Makariva's as it did in Nureyev's.
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    According to the Evening Standard, they will not appear live; thst's where the technology comes into play; their performance was filmed in a restaurant in Willesden.
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    I've seen a number of works over the years that I disliked intensely, but because I've never really liked a ballet when I disliked the music (the reverse does not necessarily hold true), I am going to award my booby prize to Variations pour une Porte et un Soupir, a work created by Balanchine in 1974 with a score I hated,choreography to match and featuring a dancer of whom I was not a fan. It has been revived a few times over the years, and I did go back once to see it again with a different cast, but it didn't help.
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    I wasn't able to attend the cinecast, and so did not see the trailer, but I believe that Yuri Possokhov's Hero of Our Time, which premiered last July to considerable acclaim, is slated for a cinecast next season; in the first section, "Bela," the ballerina wears harem pants--if it was Olga Smirnova in the trailer, that's probably what it was.
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    I'll answer my own question above. Alina has tweeted that because of the circumstances, she is unable to perform tomorrow.
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    A great relief. I assume that this will resolve the threatened dancers' strike, but if anyone knows whether the originally announced cast will perform Sunday's Manon, can you please post here? Thanks.
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    And older people may be watching with eyes informed by years of dancegoing...
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    I am away from home and don't have access to my program, but I believe Legris said that he cut Ali because he wanted to simplify the story and make it clear to the audience. Legris did not attempt to offer an accurate reconstruction of the 19th century French or Russian productions, but in fact Ali was a 20th century addition to the original Petipa versions; for that reason, he is not included in the Bolshoi reconstruction that is returning to London this summer.
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    My absolute Pantheon (again, East to West): V. Vasiliev, Soloviev (though I only saw him once), Legris, Nureyev, Dowell, Bruhn
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    I agree wholeheartedly with the comments above about artistry. As for Fonteyn's technique, no, she did not raise her leg to her ear (thankfully), but I believe it was Tereshkina (no slouch by today's technical standards) who said, after dancing Ashton's Sylvia (a role created on Fonteyn), that it was the hardest thing she had ever danced.
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    East to West, grouped in very rough chronological order (of my live viewing, not their debuts or age!) by company: Plisetskaya, Semenyaka, Maximova, Ananiashvili; Kolpakova, Terekhova, Kunakova, Assylmuratova, Tereshkina; Jeppesen, Schandorff, Bojesen; Haydee, Keil; Guerin; Fonteyn, Sibley, Cojocaru, Nunez; Tallchief, Adams, Kent, Farrell, McBride, Peck; Fracci.
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    That is horrifying news; the Burlaka-Medvedev Nutcracker is the most beautiful production of Nutcracker that I have ever seen. Email to Berlin to follow...
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    The 18th is Dupont's farewell and will be a very difficult ticket. The performance will be cinecast, though, so you can see it in a cinema over there.
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    Groupon today has an offer for this--50% discount.
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    Meunier, Sara Mearns (who has herself been out some) is scheduled to perform with NYC Ballet on the 28th and 29th, so it would have been a very very long shot...
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    I and all my friends who are Friends read the letter accompanying AtH as setting a maximum of 9 for the entire Bolshoi season, but the box office told me it was 9 per performance.
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    Any hints about the weekend casting? I made tentative plans based on what was originally posted on the NBoC website, which has now been pulled, leading me to think changes are in the works. I need to decide when to fly home.so it would be lovely to know the leads, if not the full roster, Fri-Sun.
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    There are hundreds of tickets unsold for many performances. One wonders about/hopes for some irresistible offers soon. There's a Groupon offer on today for the Duarte programs-- FROM 17.50 GBP.
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    For Stucha, I just saw this. Sergei Filin directed the Stanislavsky from 2008-11, and it was this period to which my post above referred. It was after he left to direct the Bolshoi that Zelensky acceded to the Stanislavsky directorship.
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    Thank you!
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    Does anyone know who will be dancing in the 19 January Onegin rehearsal? Thanks.
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    It's odd, as I've certainly been able to see casting on the Bolshoi website previously. In any case, thank you, Bluebird, tours and sonik.
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    I believe it's in anticipation; the Kavanagh article suggests it's been promised to him. Marguerite and Armand was added to the Stanislavsky rep in 2009, I think, after Sergei Filin became its director. Even before then, it was danced by Nina Ananiashvili (who is, by the way and totally off-topic, a magnificent Marguerite) with the Georgian State Ballet.
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