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  1. MargaretN7
    Kevin O'Hare did not say he had... He said he liked the idea of having one season where all the full length ballets were 21st century ones, but there'd still be triple bills of various earlier works.
  2. MargaretN7
    Not so much a favourite piece of music, but something that would make a real fun full length ballet, and just think of all the roles - Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado.
  3. MargaretN7
    Can you imagine the reactions of football aficionados if football on TV was treated like ballet/dance on TV is treated?
  4. MargaretN7
    Just discovered the performance of Frankenstein on the evening of Saturday 7th May is a special for student booking, whole auditorium, not just amphi.
  5. MargaretN7
    But I do remember myself having to cancel going to a performance because I had flu, it was a triple bill and not Fonteyn. Except it was Fonteyn, as a last minute replacement in Firebird, as my mother gleefully but sympathetically told me when she got home. Grrrrr!
  6. MargaretN7
    I enjoyed Carmen
  7. MargaretN7
    I seem to remember Kevin O'Hare saying that he'd like to have a season where all the full length ballets are recent ones (21st century or last ten years?), but that he'd not apply this to the triple bills.
  8. MargaretN7
    If the oak tree in Act 2 had a yellow ribbon round it, DaveM, it was tied in slow motion
  9. MargaretN7
    Am I the only one who can see the oak tree in Act 2? (In the novel the tree itself and the poem Orlando is writing about it feature throughout)
  10. MargaretN7
    And there's "Death comes to the Ballet Russe", the thirteenth Lord Francis Powerscourt detective novel by David Dickinson. These are written slightly tongue-in-cheek, I suspect. I find them enjoyable, and this one has every chapter headed by the description of an appropriate ballet step, and a number of well-known ballet personages caught up one way or another in the murder. The ballet Thamar ends with the queen stabbing the prince to death (makes a change!) and throws him in the river, but then life mirrors art when the dancer is found dead in the orchestra pit at Covent Garden. And did Fokine really keep shouting at the Corps de Ballet?
  11. MargaretN7
    What a wonderful Ashtonian dancer Laura Morera is. Bliss!
  12. MargaretN7
    Unless Peregrine has changed where he lives, it probably was him being led along Whitehall, in his walk from Vauxhall City Farm to Covent Garden. I believe he has special permission to walk across the bridge over the Thames. (And I thought his pawing the stage was him getting impatient for his sugarlump, or whatever it is he's given. He was more impatient in the evening than he was at the rehearsal earlier. He might start getting ideas about being given it on his first entrance, then more later.)
  13. MargaretN7
    I suspected you were a perennial student (of life?), John. Or were you referring to the Amphi slips area, which has always shown as available?
  14. MargaretN7
    Yes, I saw Saturday evening's performance, but the one that has stayed (and I'm sure will stay) in my memory is Thursday evening's one with Marianela Nunez and Carlos Acosta, and the flower throw at the end in acknowledgement of Acosta's last Swan Lake performance. And what a performance!
  15. MargaretN7
    Do you mean you'll take two stars, Dave?
  16. MargaretN7
    And that excellent 1st night show - not only wonderful performances from Marianela Nunez and Carlos Acosta, but the temperature was also raised in the black act by Ricardo Cervera and Laura Morera in the Neapolitan (and Laura had her Tatiana to do, so totally different, the next afternoon).
  17. MargaretN7
    In the current RB production, when the Prince runs on looking for Odette in the last act, the swans are all huddled in groups, and Odette is hidden in one of the groups, so he can't see her there, whatever she's wearing. Makes sense to me (and I love the costumes). He's not stupid!
  18. MargaretN7
    The trees misbehaved themselves on the 15th. All worked fine on the last performance on the 16th. And the slide en pointe is still there.
  19. MargaretN7
    Monday evening performance, Claire Calvert danced the Queen of the Dryads beautifully, and made those Italian fouettes look easy (which they're not), all on the same spot and lovely line.
  20. MargaretN7
    ROH have put out on Twitter that Alicia Markova was born on this day (1st Dec) 1910, and given a link to a charming youtube clip of her dancing a Giselle Act 1 solo.
  21. MargaretN7
    Sylvie Guillem was interviewed on the Today programme this morning (Thursday 27th). There's a clip of the interview on the Today page www.bbc.co.uk/today (or if you're listening to programme on iplayer, it's at 8.23am)
  22. MargaretN7
    Luke Jennings in the Observer reviewed two casts.
  23. MargaretN7
    Lovely to see Morera and Kish cast in Song of the Earth, but I can't quite see McCrae as the third one in that trio, perhaps he'll surprise me.
  24. MargaretN7
    I believe it's for student members, but is also going out online, for all those far-flung 'students' of all ages. (And Brian Cox is as nice a person in reality as he is on screen )
  25. MargaretN7
    Can't guarantee September performances. For instance 2012 start of season was 8th October. Others may be able to provide more information
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