Ian Macmillan

Fiona: No - it isn't, no button of any kind - and, if the comments below the screen are any guide, many others have found the same thing. There is "an issue" out there somewhere over this. But, as I've said, probably best if I leave the matter alone for a bit.

Santos: Welcome to the Forum - a pity that your first post should have to be about the less successful aspects of last night. I've had no problems at all over getting the ROH output on my Mac, but it's located in a corner, very convenient for my normal purposes, but not at all convenient for viewing by others, particularly over an extended time. The prospect of streaming on to our large TV at the other end of the house seemed most appealing but has simply not emerged as feasible at this address. And I think I've banged on about this quite enough now.

Saodan: I regret to say that it's not "working fine now," certainly not here. As before, I can login on our Panasonic TV browser and all that's there is a blank black screen, as has been the case in my testing for at least a week now. And there's no mobile device involved, phone or tablet - just a Mac desktop separated by most of the length of the house from a Panasonic smart TV acquired earlier this year.

I'm pleased for those who managed to see the show. I did not, despite having purchased a ticket some time ago. Having failed to get a TV connection from my desktop at home - buying a Chromecast device was of no use - we went to my wife's son's house where there's an Apple TV thing and tried there. No good either, just a continual buffering icon. We gave up around 8pm, put on a DVD of West Side Story and reminded ourselves what some real Robbins dancing looked like. I imagine the ROH will put up a robust defence of its technical decisions regarding streaming, but they have lost me as regards further purchases until a different system is introduced. And from looking about on Twitter and their own Comments stream, I doubt I'll be alone in that.

I won't rehearse the trouble I've gone to to see this show - but all has failed and I can see that I'm far from alone in this. Frankly, it's a technical disgrace that the ROH has become embroiled with and there is no chance of my buying any further tickets until a new system is created.

Large but possibly disgruntled? I have a ticket, a new stream account, and the Bach test piece works fine on my desktop. But despite the long page of instructions and a specially acquired Chromecast device, I'm damned if I can get anything beyond a blank screen on our so-called smart TV. And comments on the ROH page suggest I'm far from alone. Why the ROH has chosen this apparently complex streaming system is beyond me. It has also defeated millennial grandchildren who were confident they could make it work!

Saturday 3 October, 2020 Features: The Royal Ballet’s Cesar Corrales and Francesca Hayward: the real Romeo and Juliet: Ben Machell, The Times ‘Everything Crossed Over’: Michael Clark’s Cheeky World of Dance: Roslyn Sulcas, NY Times Culture in lockdown: Akram Khan – 'Art makes the invisible visible – we need to approach the invisible now': Fergus Morgan, The Stage Stream Reviews – Ben Duke/Lost Dog, The empty stage: In A Nutshell: Charlotte Kasner, SeeingDance Neil Norman, The Stage Book Reviews: Soar: A Life Freed by Dance, by David McAllister: Valerie Lawson, DanceTabs Ballet in the Cold War, by Anne Searcy: Joel Lobenthal, Wall St Journal News: Dutch National Opera & Ballet Announces New Online Season: Staff, BWW NL Birmingham Royal Ballet, Solos and Pas de Deux: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper Quebec announces $50-million bailout plan for theatres & other venues: Brendan Kelly, Montreal Gazette

Over the years doing Links, I have wondered how Google gets at such pieces that are not publicly online, as appeared to be the case late last night - although I see that The Times released it via Twitter this morning.

Friday 2 October, 2020 Features: A Christmas gift (and more) from the Royal Ballet: Sarah Crompton, Sunday Times (a little early!) Akram Khan Company, The Silent Burn Project: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper News: Joffrey Ballet cancels ‘Of Mice and Men,’ ‘Little Mermaid’ into 2021: Darel Jevens, Chicago Sun-Times Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune BRB to get share of £2.5M from Clore Duffield Foundation: Staff, Express & Star Emma Gladstone to leave Dance Umbrella as festival goes online for 2020: Georgia Snow, The Stage A new creative home for Motionhouse in the heart of Leamington Spa: David Mead, SeeingDance October around Oregon: Jamuna Chiarini, Oregon Artswatch Stream Reviews: 2020 English National Ballet Emerging Dancer Competition – performance and results: Jann Parry, DanceTabs Oguri, Flower of the Season: Victoria Looseleaf, Fjord Review And: Indian dance classes on Zoom lifted the heaviness I’d been carrying: Sejal Shah, Guardian

Thursday 1 October, 2020 Feature – Dance Theatre of Harlem celebrated Arthur Mitchell’s legacy: Zita Allen, NY Amsterdam News News: Tokyo’s performing arts scene slowly returning to life: Paul McInnes, Fjord Review Boston Ballet dancers return to the studio: Karen Campbell, Boston Globe India's classical music and dance 'guru' system hit by abuse allegations: Amrit Dhillon, Guardian Stream Reviews: Hidden Talents at ABT and ways to keep moving: Brian Seibert, NY Times NYCB Digital Fall Season week 1: All-Balanchine: David Mead, SeeingDance Jordan James Bridge/Danial de Andrade/Gay Clarke & Dancers, Locked down, Locked in, But living: Vera Liber, BTG Event2 for Jasper Johns: Debora Jowitt, Arts Journal

Bruce: I fear it will be a digital season - see today's Link from NY Times.

Wednesday 30 September, 2020 Interviews - 'He came out of the womb dancing!' Stars relive wild times with Michael Clark: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian Feature – Calvin Royal, ABT Principal - Home Doubles as a Studio: Joanne Kaufman, NY Times News: This Year, the Fall for Dance Festival Is Digital: Mariel Wamsley, NY Times Bay Area/West Coast Roundup: Jim Provenzano, Bay Area Reporter Live concerts, theatre & dance performances resuming in Hong Kong next week: Enid Tsui, SCMP Stream Review - Jordan James Bridge/Daniel de Andrade/Gary Clarke & Dancers, Locked Down, Locked In, But Living: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian Film Review – Lake of Red: Shamel Pitts Asks Important Questions of Dance’s Elite Institutions: Wana Udobang, NY Observer Book Reviews: Soar, A life freed by dance: David McAllister: Karen Van Ulzen, Dance Australia Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange: Anne Searcy: Peter Kelley, UW News Dance Diary – September 2020: Michelle Potter, ... on dancing

Tuesday 29 September, 2020 Feature – Adam Cooper, ‘The Red Shoes,’ and lots more: Debra Craine, The Times News - NYCB Dropped From a Woman’s Photo-Sharing Lawsuit: Julia Jacobs, NY TImes Priscilla DeGregory, NY Post Stream Reviews: Rambert, Draw from Within: Maggie Foyer, SeeingDance Anna Winter, The Stage BalletX, Beyond – 4 New Works; Camille Bacon-Smith, Broad Street Review Outdoor Reviews: Lori Belilove & Isadora Dance Company, Yonkers, NY: Tom Phillips, Danceviewtimes Eiko Otake, A Body in a Cemetery, Brooklyn: Siobhan Burke, NY Times Preview/Video Link– Dana Burgess/Christin Arthur, Ave Maria – Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg: George Jackson, Danceviewtimes Feature - How Dancers Are Navigating Guidelines to Create Under COVID: Charlotte Barnett, NY Observer Q & A – Misty Copeland chats about her new kids book, 'Bunheads': AP via LA Times Film Feature - ‘Beau Travail’ Finds the Rhythm of Life (and Dances Away the Pain): Gia Kourlas, NY Times

Monday 28 September, 2020 Feature/News - On pointe: how Covent Garden saved Christmas: Neil Fisher, The Times Stream Reviews - Rambert, Draw from Within: Brian Seibert, NY Times Debra Craine, The Times John O’Dwyer, Seen and Heard Stream Review - Dimitris Papaioannou, Ink, Turin: Valentina Bonelli, Fjord Review News - National Ballet of China brings classics to Shanghai: Ma Yue, Shine

Sunday 27 September, 2020 Live Review – Hamburg Ballet, Ghost Light – A Ballet in the Time of Corona, Hamburg: Jenny Gilbert, Arts Desk Stream Review – English National Ballet, Emerging Dancer Competition 2020: Maggie Foyer, SeeingDance Stream Review - BalletX, Beyond Premieres (4 New Works): Sigrid Payne Da Veiga, Critical Dance News: The best bets for Miami dance - live and digital: Sean Erwin, Miami Herald Vancouver International Dance Festival 2020 resumes online: Craig Takeuchi, Straight.com AFL under fire over use of volunteer performers at grand final: Nathanael Cooper, Brisbane Times

Those Travel Cases have not changed appreciably in 60 years - 2 similar are sitting in our garage.

All the same here on Chrome, Firefox and Safari - really Quite strange. If I concentrate hard on a capital Q, I can see there's a tiny speck in the bottom right corner but, for all practical purposes, I'm reading it as O. (No - Os, Mon Repos - and having reached this point, let there be no more on the topic!)

In passing, something appears to have happened to our capital q letter, possibly in the last update. Q O - from two different keys. Which is which? Or is this just something on my screen?

When I put this in Links yesterday, I was intrigued by that assertion that Reece (and his brothers before him) had been supported by the Bartlett company which, I see, established a HQ in Airdrie some years ago. (As I grew up just outside Glasgow a year or seventy ago, Airdrie was a good 30 minutes further out, at the end of the Nos 15 and 23 tram lines, and would probably not have been seen as a likely home for a brood of ballet dancers.)

Saturday 19 September, 2020 Feature - American Ballet Theatre: Six Promotions, and One Puzzlement: Jerry Hochman, Critical Dance RB Snippets: Royal Ballet gets Doncaster Dancing in online film featuring community groups: Julia Armstrong, Doncaster Free Press DistDancing outdoor ballet is back at London’s Hoxton Docks: Alexandra Sims, TimeOut London Reece Clarke: Airdrie ballet star showcased in new video: Ian Bunting, Daily Record Book Reviews Alston Nash: A Visual History of the Richard Alston Dance Company: Vera Liber, BTG Kristian Fredrikson: Designer by Michelle Potter: Dr Ian Lochhead, Theatreview

Friday 18 September, 2020 News - Baryshnikov Arts Center to Commission New Online Works: Peter Libbey, NY TImes News – English National’s new HQ wins Building of the Year award: Rob Wilson, Architects Journal Feature – Tony Yap: dancing around Melbourne during lockdown: Nick Miller, The Age Stream Review – Jody Sperling/Time Lapse Dance, 20th Anniversary Virtual Season: Susanna Sloat, DanceTabs And: Step Into the World of Dance With These 14 Streaming Documentaries: Dan Mayer, Playbill

Thursday 17 September, 2020 Report – Bolshoi Ballet, Four Characters in Search of a Plot: Moscow: Oksana Khadarina, Fjord Review Feature - Watching a Choreographer Build: Trisha Brown’s Unusual Archive: Siobhan Burke, NY Times Interview – Choreographer Gary Clarke, dancing to the rhythm of life: Helen Barrett, Financial Times News - Rambert to premiere dance work on new digital platform: Georgia Snow, The Stage Preview - Alvin Erasga Tolentino’s new work, Offering, Vancouver: Carlito Pablo, Straight.com Drive-In Report - Ballet Folklórico, Fullerton, CA: Laura Zornosa, LA Times Stream Review – Philly Fringe 2020/David Gordon, The Philadelphia Matter—1972/2020: Robert Greskovic, Wall St Journal Stream Preview – Anandavalli, Pancha Nadai: Jill Sykes, The Age

Wednesday 16 September, 2020 Features: Ballet’s New Mandate: Change or Die: Lou Fancher, SF Classical Voice Tara Gower of Bangarra Dance Theatre thinks post-Covid: Elissa Blake, Guardian (Scroll down) News: Boston Ballet plans a virtual ‘Nutcracker’ while aiming to return to the stage by May: Karen Campbell, Boston Globe Brazil slum ballet school taps resilience to survive pandemic: AFP via Global Times Stream Reviews: Philly Fringe 2020/David Gordon, The Philadelphia Matter - 1972/2020: Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey, Broad Street Review Philly Fringe 2020/OhOk Performance Group, Do mirrors burn?: Corey Qureshi, Broad Street Review Stream Previews: Our Labyrinth - A Meditative Pas de Deux at the Met: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Shaun Parker & Company, In the Zone: Jo Litson, Limelight Book Preview - Alston Nash: A Visual History of the Richard Alston Dance Company: David Mead, SeeingDance And Renaissance dance classes in New Zealand: Stuff.co

Tuesday 15 September, 2020 Live Review – West Australian Ballet, Dracula, Perth: Alana Kildea, Dance Australia Live Review – Karul Projects, Silence, Brisbane: Denise Richardson, Dance Australia Live Review – Restless Dance Theatre, Seeing through Darkness, Adelaide: Maggie Tonkin, Dance Australia Live Preview – Chris Emile & dancers, Amend, Los Angeles: Makeda Easter, LA Times News – Jim Pettigrew, new chairman at Scottish Ballet: Hayley Murden, Daily Business News - Elmhurst Ballet School’s Full Return To Academics And Dance: Staff, BWW UK Regional

Monday 14 September, 2020 Live Review – BalletCollective (NYCB & Graham dancers), Natural History, Pine Plains, NY: Brian Seibert, NY Times Feature - Chunky Move reveals plans to flex its choreographic muscle: Stephen A. Russell, Sydney Morning Herald Stream Review - Paris Opera Ballet, Giselle: Oksana Khadarina, Fjord Review Stream Preview – Lost Dog/Place Online, In a Nutshell: Teresa Guerreiro, Culture Whisper DVD Review – Matthew Bourne/New Adventures, Swan Lake: Philip Fisher, BTG