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Ha ha that made me laugh, like I have some vendetta against the ENB. Yeah Glastonbury is the most iconic and I wish I could afford to go. My comment was in response to Alison's about Latitude, and I was just pointing out that all festivals have dance companies performing, often ballet, so it isn't exactly unusual for a classical company to be performing at a festival. Good for them to be on the pyramid stage and I hope it brings them to a wider audience.

Yeah I don't think it's that new. Latitude has had ballet for ages. I remember Alex Whitley did a piece there a few years ago, and they did a Swan lake thing last year. I'm sure i've seen ballet at the big chill as well, and bestival often has different dance groups. It's great that they managed to get on the main stage, but it's not exactly groundbreaking.

Ah I love Glastonbury.

He doesn't strike me asthe most obvious choice for Don Q, so it will be interesting to see what he is like.

Only two Symphonic Variations for Hamilton and Muntagirov but five for Nunez and Golding?

Twitter has changed now and you have to click 'replies' or whatever it says, to see all posts. Otherwise you just see new tweets and not replies to other tweets. I hope that makes sense.

Harrod & McRae are expecting a baby (congratulations to them) so obviously she will most likely be out of the 2014/15 season. I also understand Sabina Westcombe is leaving too.

Thanks. Manon, R&J and DonQ in a coupleof weeks is a huge undertaking for those dancers dancing leads in all 3. Guess this means Mendizabal, Kish and Pennefather are still injured. Hope to see them back in their roles by September.

Oh ok, cheers. Don't really follow the ENB schedule.

Thank you. Had kind of assumed Muntagirov would be performing at the Bolshoi.

Yeah I thought about that. And i'm sure the RB have toured to places in the past where the LGBT community is as persecuted as they are in Russia. Such a difficult one. I admire anyone who takes a stand, but I think it's impossible to be 100% consistent all the time. You'd never leave the house.

Details of the Russia tour here: http://www.russianartandculture.com/news-the-royal-ballet-announces-2014-international-tour-to-russia-16-22-june/

Yeah i thought that. That was also a period when loads of people were off injured too, if I remember correctly.

Ha ha you really are very judgmental aren't you?

So people who don't feel satisfied with the length of Giselle are not true ballet lovers? Lovely

Disagree.

I agree MAB, they are such an odd bunch to put together. I sort of think Sweet Violets might be a good ballet to put after a performance of Giselle, which always seems like quite a short evening to me, or maybe it could be fleshed out and turned in to a full length. it just seemed jarring being in between Serenade and DGV.

I don't think anyone is saying he isn't entitled to say it, it's just that it is an odd thing to say; ballet doesn't bring you fame or fortune, so it would be a surprise if that was the overriding motivation for young ballet dancers. There isn't one ballet dancer today that is really famous (in the UK, don't know about other countries) and I doubt any of them are rich. As Melody pointed out, if you want fame or fortune, you wouldn't try and become a ballet dancer.

Yeah I didn't get that either. Very weird observation.

Good luck to her.

Didn't realise Underwood had been around so long. Just checked his ROH page and I assumed he was younger than I guess he is.

Do the Robbins people exercise a large degree of control over castings and stagings?

Oh yeah I do remember reading that when Manon was on. Don't Watson and Pennefather both have twin sister's too? Sure I remember reading that somewhere too.

ha ha happy birthday. You'd make a fantastic Manon i'm sure!

Interesting. Who else has their birthday in May, other than Rojo, Osipova and Alina?