Ian Macmillan

Putting aside the provenance of this remark about Nuñez and Muntagirov, and on the evidence of regularly trawling all over for our daily Links, I will happily rush to the defence of Hanna Weibye as possibly the most cogent, erudite, and capable emerging writer on dance. (As to the remark, as a professional historian, I would be surprised if she made it up and its genesis may lie in the casting changes beaten to death elsewhere.)

Almost as good a story as that of the Celtic team drawn from a radius of some 25 miles from Parkhead in Glasgow's East End that won the European Cup in Lisbon in May 1967, beating Inter Milan. In two years, manager Jock Stein had transformed a struggling team and, if I recall correctly, he had only brought in one new player. The cautionary bit for Leicester is that Celtic have not repeated the feat in the intervening 49 years! (Unlike BBB, I was unable to watch that Lisbon game on TV, what with being posted to Aden at the time and there not being any TV. However, having just landed after a flight from Bahrain that evening, I repaired to the Jungle Bar, the outside bar of the Officers' Mess at RAF Khormaksar, where it was film night - one of the Michael Caine le Carre films, I think - knowing that the barman, Cpl Mulholland, a chap of a similar persuasion to myself, was listening to a match commentary on the BBC World Service. At a film reel change, the news was not good, Inter had scored with a penalty and were ahead. I sat oblivious to the second reel, thinking "So near and yet so far!" When the film was over, I returned to the bar and an ecstatic Cpl Mulholland - "We've won, surr, we've won!!" And so we had, the Lisbon Lions had put two goals through the posts in the second half, and Celtic had become the first British club to win the European Cup. A long time ago.)

My cup runneth over! Possibly her third ballet for that company?

Jane: Excellent news, and that's a story in which Cathy should be able to set some very interesting PDDs! As you infer, this commission probably arises from the one-act pieces that she has created for recent Copenhagen summer festivals. (I know I should leave it alone, that it was all 10+ years ago and that things have probably worked out for the best, but it's hard not to keep remembering that those years in-residence at the ROH resulted in not a step for the main stage.)

Links – Wednesday, 27 April, 2016 Preview – Alexander Ekman, Cacti, and Sydney Dance Company: Michelle Potter, Brisbane Times Review – Miami City Ballet, Symphony in 3 Movements, Sweet Fields, Symphonic Dances, NY: Leigh Witchel, Danceviewtimes Preview – Miami City Ballet, Two Programs, Chicago: Laura Molzahn, Chicago Tribune Features – Pablo Bronstein, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, London, Tate Britain: Jann Parry, DanceTabs Malcolm Cossons, Financial Times Staff, Artlyst Carmel Smith, Londondance Review – Australian Ballet, In the Middle.., Forgotten Land, DGV, Sydney: Jill Sykes, Brisbane Times Review – Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Shostakovich, Sand, SF: Rita Felciano, Danceviewtimes Review – BalletBoyz, Rabbit, Fiction, London: Gerald Dowler, Classical Source Review – Ballet Preljocaj, Empty Moves, NY: Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, Bachtrack Slideshow – New York City Ballet dancers offstage: Rebecca Milzoff/Peter Lindbergh, New York Magazine Interview – Dusty Button’s Swan Lake debut: Mary Hierholzer, New Boston Post Feature – Misty Copeland … and Prince: Jessica Schladebeck, NY Daily News Feature – Eiko: Mourning becomes exhilarating: Wendy Perron, Blog Feature – Sarasota Ballet 2016-17 Season: Kay Kipling, Sarasota Review – The Kirov Collaborative, Introspection, DC: George Jackson, Danceviewtimes Interview – Duwane Taylor, Back Into The Hoods: Carmel Smith, Londondance Preview – Sao Paulo Companhia de Danca, The Seasons, Ottawa, Montreal: Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail Interview – Heather Thomson, Ballet Kelowna: Grace Smith, Dance Current Feature – Graham Technique, Learning to Learn: Mikaela Orford, Dance Current

Today's picture is of four BRB dancers posed on a barre, in what looks like Swan Lake rig ...... and bright yellow RNLI wellies. All part of a RNLI funding appeal!

Two Pigeons: I think I've just fixed things as you intended.

Links – Tuesday, 26 April, 2016 Review – Scottish Ballet, Swan Lake (Dawson), Glasgow: Lorna Irvine, Fjord Review Review – Miami City Ballet, Symphony in 3 Movements, Sweet Fields, Symphonic Dances, NY: Oksana Khadarina, Fjord Review News – Cojocaru & Kobborg now banned from Bucharest stage: Staff, Romania Insider News – ABT Spring Season Casting Announced: Staff, BWW News – Royal Ballet’s Gary Avis & Friends, Dance for Suffolk Gala, Ipswich: Staff, DanceTabs Andrew Clarke, Ipswich Star Review – Ballet Preljocaj, Empty Moves (Parts I, II & III), NY: Rose Marija, BWW Feature – Sono Osato, the last survivor from the De Basil Troupe? Valerie Lawson, Dancelines Gallery/Feature – A Day in the Life of Tiler Peck: Seunghee Suh & Nils Ericson, WSJ (Scroll Down to move laterally!) Reviews – Protein Dance, May Contain Food, London: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Rachel Elderkin, Exeunt Sarah Kent, Londondance Reviews – Mythili Prakash & Sanjukta Wagh, Dancing the Gods Festival, NY: Marina Harss, DanceTabs Siobhan Burke, NY Times Review – Pennsylvania Ballet, Keep, The Accidental, Grace Action, NY: Marianne Adams, Danceviewtimes News – Near 40% churn in Penn Ballet dancers for next season: Ellen Dunkel, Philly.com Review – Pablo Bronstein, Historical Dances in an Antique Setting, London (Tate Britain): Adrian Searle, Guardian - also – Mark Brown, Guardian Feature – How to teach …. Dance: Zofa Niemtus, Guardian News – Christopher Marney to be AD at Ballet Central: Carmel Smith, Londondance Feature – School students practice with Alvin Ailey dancers: Brittany Britto, Baltimore Sun

Apparently confirmed here: http://www.romania-insider.com/alina-cojocaru-johan-kobborg-banned-bucharest-national-opera/169395/

Surely it's the dancers who are emerging, not the bursaries?

Links – Monday, 25 April, 2016 Reviews – New York City Ballet, 21st Century & Other Bills, NY: Marina Harss, DanceTabs Siobhan Burke, NY Times Review – Scottish Ballet, Swan Lake (Dawson), Glasgow: Bruce Marriott, DanceTabs News – Johann Kobborg and the continuing saga in Bucharest: Staff, Romania-Insider Interview – Antoinette Sibley on dancing The Dream: Lyndsey Winship, Guardian Reviews – Nederlands Dans Theater 2, Some Other Time, Sad Case, Mutual Comfort, Solo, Cacti, Edinburgh: Kelly Apter, Scotsman Mary Brennan, Herald Review – Dresden Semperoper Ballett, Tanzsuite, Im anderen Raum, Cacti, St Petersburg, Financial Times Review – BalletBoyz, Rabbit, Fiction, London: Anna Winter, Exeunt Review – L.A. Dance Project, Changeling, Suite for Five, Springweather Duet, LA: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Review – Martha Graham Dance Company, Night Journey, AXE, Inner Resources, Cave of the Heart, NY: Leigh Witchel, Danceviewtimes Feature – Lindsay Kemp, Dancer Mime Artist and more: Tim Lewis, Guardian Reviews – Hubbard Street Dance, Out of Keeping, N.N.N.N., A Picture of You Falling, Solo Echo, Boston: Kristen Giddings, Boston Herald Merli V. Guerra, Arts Fuse Review – An Evening with Deborah Kay: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Review – Petr Zuska & Jen Shyu, Prague – New York Effects, DC: George Jackson, Danceviewtimes Review – Jen Rosenblit, Clap Hands, NY: Martha Sherman, Danceviewtimes

An English-language account of that night's events: http://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-employees-strike-cancels-shows-at-the-bucharest-national-opera/169281/

Lisa: You can delete a vote - and then vote again. I've just tried it!

Links – Sunday, 24 April, 2016 Review – Royal Ballet, The Winter’s Tale (Calvert, Soares), London: Luke Jennings, Observer Feature – Limitations affecting Sarasota Ballet’s success: Carrie Seidman, Herald-Tribune Review – Martha Graham Dance Company, Cave of the Heart, Rust, Inner Resources, Chronicle, NY: Deborah Jowitt, Arts Journal/DanceBeat Tour Preview – Rosie Kay Dance Company, 5 Soldiers: Kelly Apter, Scotsman Review – D A Hoskins, Jackie Burroughs Is Dead.., Toronto: Emma Doran, Dance Current Review – Australian Ballet, Storytime Ballet – The Sleeping Beauty, Sydney: Emily Shaddick, Australian Stage News – Hong Kong Dance Awards: Kevin Kwong, SCMP Review – James Sewell Ballet, Band It, Seasons, Chopin Studies, Minneapolis: Sheila Regan, Star Tribune

I doubt there will be a better show on TV at any time this year.

Links – Saturday, 23 April, 2016 Review – New York City Ballet, Estancia, Pictures at an Exhibition, Everywhere We Go, NY: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Review – Scottish Ballet, Swan Lake (Dawson), Glasgow: Kelly Apter, Scotsman Reviews – BalletBoyz, Rabbit, Fiction, London: Hanna Weibye, Arts Desk Siobhan Murphy, DanceTabs Josephine Leask, Londondance Preview – Cloud Gate Dance Theatre, Songs of the Wanderers, London: Nicholas Wroe, Guardian Feature – Prince loved ballet, and ballet loved him back: Sarah L Kaufman, Washington Post Feature – Washington Ballet (& ENB) Soloist, Brooklyn Mack: Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post Preview – Conductor Barry Wordsworth & Sarasota Ballet, A Wedding Bouquet, Sarasota: Carrie Seidman, Herald-Tribune Feature – The Royal Ballet’s Solomon Golding and his notable brothers: Eleanor Steafel, Telegraph Review – English National Ballet, She Said, London: Sara Veale, Fjord Review Feature – Irina Kolesnikova to set Carmen in refugee camp: Alistair Foster, Evening Standard Review – San Francisco Ballet, Prism, Seven Sonatas, Rush, SF: Pamela Feinsilber, Examiner.com Preview – Rosie Kay, 5 Soldiers, Glasgow: Mary Brennan, Herald Reviews – Protein Dance, May Contain Food, London: Judith Mackrell, Guardian Neil Norman, The Stage Lyndsey Winship, Evening Standard Preview – Choreographer/Dancer Santee Smith, Re-Quickening, Toronto: Martha Schabas, Globe and Mail Review – Alonzo King/Lines Ballet, Shostakovich, Sand, SF: Allan Ulrich, SF Chronicle Review – Pacific Northwest Ballet, Coppelia (Balanchine), Seattle: Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times Review – Vicky Shick and Dancers, Another Spell, NY: Leigh Witchel, Danceviewtimes Review – The Dance Centre, 12 Minutes Max Quad Bill, Vancouver: Brittany Duggan, Straight.com Next Week – Inverness & London: Judith Mackrell, Guardian

Tabitha: See this morning's LInks!!!

Today's ballet picture in The Times shows Northern Ballet's Hannah Bateman and Javier Torres, in costume as Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester, in advance of next month's premiere of Cathy Marston's "Jane Eyre" for the company.

Sim: I can get it so it's not on Facebook - it looks like an Italian news site.

And, via Twitter, I see there's also this one, something of an Intro to the one above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4_PXO5SUyQ&feature=youtu.be

Today's Sunday Times has a News feature on RB dancer, Solomon Golding and his brother, awarded the Sword of Honour at a Sandhurst Graduation Parade on Friday. Two remarkable young men.

John: It's delightful, so many thanks for posting it. Safely bookmarked for occasional future viewing of that expressive and intelligent face! (And his is OK, too.)

Links – Tuesday, 12 April, 2016 Review – Royal Ballet, Giselle (Takada, Soares, Muntagirov), London: Clement Crisp, Financial Times Reviews – Dance Theatre of Harlem, Divertimento, When Love, Change, Coming Together, Return, NY: Marina Harss, DanceTabs Robert Gottlieb, NY Observer Robert Greskovic, Wall St Journal Reviews – San Francisco Ballet, Continuum, In the Countenance of Kings, Theme and Variations, SF: Janice Berman, SF Classical Voice Leslie Katz, SF Examiner Review – Pennsylvania Ballet, Keep, The Accidental, Grace Action, NY: Robert Gottlieb, NY Observer Review – Sarasota Ballet, Enigma Variations, Stars and Stripes, NY: Anna Dearing, YourObserver.com Reviews – Alexander Whitley Dance Company, Pattern Recognition, London: Louise Levene, Financial Times Judith Mackrell, Guardian Previews – Joffrey Ballet, The Nutcracker (Wheeldon +++), Chicago: Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune Review – Joffrey Ballet & Cleveland Orchestra, The Miraculous Mandarin, Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, Cleveland: Timothy Robson, Bachtrack Review – Ballet Hispanico, Flabbergast, Bury Me Standing, Club Havana, NY: Joel Benjamin, TheaterScene Reviews – Boy Blue Entertainment, A Night with Boy Blue, London: Siobhan Murphy, DanceTabs Ruth Mattock, Londondance Review – Motionhouse, Broken, London: Graham Watts, Londondance Review – a canary torsi, Court/Garden, Boston: Marcia B. Siegel, Arts Fuse Preview – Toronto Dance Theatre, Singular Bodies, Toronto: Michael Crabb, The Star Festival Report – Cinedans, Amsterdam: Philip Szporer, Dance Current Student Reporter Project 2015/16: - Hand in Hand, Emerging Artists Creating Together: Joshua Murphy, Dance Current - Perspectives & Possibilities in Dance at University: Isabelle Gagnon, Dance Current ..and a Press Release: Bolshoi London Season This Summer: DanceTabs

I've found this English-language piece from what appears to be a Romanian source. Despite the dateline I doubt that it's up-to-date: http://www.romania-insider.com/famous-danish-choreographer-resigns-from-the-romanian-national-ballet-company-after-management-scandal/168591/

I'm afraid so. Three others, I think, none of them names with which I'm familiar. Short insets, I'd say, but in markedly different styles.