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  1. Sim
    Fabulous review of this production from the NY Times in today’s links. I wish I could see it. Someone should have told the editor that the Bolshoi is in Moscow, not St Petersburg....🤦🏻‍♀️
  2. Sim
    I have never noticed Yasmine Naghdi’s pointe shoes being any different from anyone else’s (and I have been watching her feet for many years!). The only example I can think of as having noticeably large blocks is Alina Cojocaru, and only because of a large bunion.
  3. Sim
    Now THAT is how a prince should make an entrance!!
  4. Sim
    Thanks for that interesting post, Ingrid. 👍😀
  5. Sim
    And both in the same school year, so what's a few months here or there?!
  6. Sim
    Or told to eff off, as happened to a friend of mine standing in the Stalls circle recently.
  7. Sim
    It’s so sad what is happening to this country. 😢
  8. Sim
    Yes, that's rather annoying because we were made to feel that we had to make a mad dash for tickets on this date. My daughter very sweetly did, at considerable expense, and then dates at SW were announced that also include Q&A with some of the dancers. Very cheeky: make sure you sell out the cinemas first, then add the SW dates.
  9. Sim
    Not sure what Marianela Nunez or Natalia Osipova (or any of the other RB Principals) would say to FH being called 'the RB's principal dancer' !!
  10. Sim
    This from today’s Evening Standard:
  11. Sim
    As we would expect!!
  12. Sim
    Yes you are right.
  13. Sim
    I don't suppose we know yet whether Akane is dancing on Saturday night and if not, who will be replacing her?
  14. Sim
    Welcome to the forum, Tango Dancer. Again, you have written a really good post and I agree 100% with what you say.
  15. Sim
    Welcome to the forum, Sitter In, and thanks for your very well considered post, with which I wholeheartedly agree.
  16. Sim
    I think he will just end up having to stand outside the castle, in the foliage, shivering and damp, until she wakes up of her own accord because entering her bedroom without permission is a no-no too.... But I love Toria's beautiful explanation above and it should be shown to anyone who thinks that Aurora is being 'assaulted' by the prince. And I will state here in public that if Reece Clarke, Matthew Ball or Cesar Corrales ever fancy waking me up with a non-consensual kiss that is absolutely fine by me!
  17. Sim
    I can imagine a time in the not too distant future when Florimund is no longer allowed to awaken Aurora with a kiss because it’s non-consensual (duh...the girl is in a deep sleep!). He will have to shake her by the shoulders. Oops no, that would be a non-consensual touch. So he will either have to throw a bucket of water over her or grab one of the page’s bugles and blow it very loudly in her ear. 😀
  18. Sim
    I did waste my time and mine was removed too. Pathetic.
  19. Sim
    What a shame that someone writing in a supposedly erudite publication has to stoop to that level to get attention. Juvenile jokes, making fun of speech impediments, equating a fairytale kiss to sexual assault, reducing an art form about which she clearly knows nothing to comparisons with music hall and Strictly...it’s pitiful but I blame the arts editor for trying to pass this off as serious arts criticism. What an insult to their readers.
  20. Sim
    Yes. Let’s annoy all the elitists.
  21. Sim
    She seemingly missed any understanding whatsoever.
  22. Sim
    Tickets now spoken for. Thanks.
  23. Sim
    Well if this is the kind of thing the younger generation are being fed and reading the ROH is fighting a losing battle trying to entice younger people in to see ballet... I started reading Mr Crisp’s reviews when I was about 19-20. Back in the 80s I used to buy the Observer every week just so that I could read Jann Parry’s wonderful, beautifully written and informative reviews and articles on dance. That the same newspaper now thinks it’s fine to subject their readers to this level of writing and criticism shows how far it’s sunk. I can only hope it’s a one-off aberration.
  24. Sim
    Yes it is. What I meant was if you want to criticise something if you don’t like it that’s fine, but I don’t want to read a load of tosh from someone without portfolio in a national newspaper. Clement Crisp could hate something but he always explained why in a knowledgeable and intelligent way. I often disagreed with him but always enjoyed reading his reviews for that reason.
  25. Sim
    I got more and more irritated as I read this. Whoever this “critic’ is clearly has no knowledge of ballet nor its heritage, nor anything else to do with the art form. She even managed to get a #metoo barb in there. She would appear to be one of those people who thinks she is showing everyone how clever she is by ripping something to pieces. That’s fine if you’re Clement Crisp, but when you’re someone with scant knowledge or understanding it just makes you look silly.
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