bangorballetboy

Indeedy!

??? Bonelli is married to Hikaru Kobayashi.

Connect as in connect and ome as in home.

Here we go, to quote from the ROH obituary for Gailene Stock: "In 1999 she took over from Merle Park as Director of The Royal Ballet School. Her many developments to the curriculum included ... introducing a third year into the Upper School to allow students to manage their studies with overseas auditions, furthering the School's touring opportunities, expanding the choreographic course and re-introducing a teachers’ course for professional dancers and a teacher exchange programme."

??? Where there does it say the upper school course was 3 years long, rather than 2 years as I said?

Pretty sure the upper school was only 2 years pre-1990 or so.

Bruce, the Coliseum page yesterday mentioned Petit's Carmen and BSJ. I wonder why it no longer does.

Natalia Osipova and Ivan Vasiliev are doing at show called Solo for Two at the London Coliseum from 6 to 9 August 2014. Details here.

As it didn't make it into Today's Links, here's a link to a short article (filled with the usual mistakes) about yesterday's wedding: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2619711/The-Nutcracker-Bride-Its-suite-story-handsome-prince-slipped-Will-marry-note-beautiful-ballerina-pirouetted-Tchaikovskys-classic-And-yesterday-did.html Some nice pictures.

Sounds to me like colloquial terminology that could apply to many things. Neither term is one I've come across in any standard ballet teaching method (though there will always be movements which are not covered by those methods and their terminology) and so I'd say it's probably up to the teacher and his/her description of a position. Any differences are likely to be in the degree of widening of the arms and the straightening of the oval.

R&J is normally just under 3 hours, including 2 intervals. I haven't seen the ENB one yet though.

In my opinion, that makes for lazy dancers. Part of the class should be teaching the brain to receive, engage and remember the enchainement. That's why the teacher calls the enchainement in rhythm. I've never taken any form of dance class where anything was recorded, other than in one-to-one private coaching for competitive ballroom dancing and that was to fine-tune a completed routine. We (the collected masses) managed to learn and perform routines perfectly well before mobile 'phones with video!

I'm not surprised at all, as both Don Q and Alice are back next season.

It was a slip.

It's the term often used these days (I'm a young 'un after all) for those plays that are part tragedy and part comedy, such as The Winter's Tale.

It's usually categorised as a "romance".

Actually, the casting for the actual show has not been publicly confirmed so you are breaking confidences. Leanne Cope workshopped the role and I'm hoping she will be dancing in the real show.

I actually thought it rather effective (and it's getting better). Having someone in a bear costume would ellicit giggles and so would be completely inappropriate given Antigones is about to die. The use of the silks also gives rise to the possibility that the appearance of the bear is in Antigones' mind and he actually drowns in the stormy sea (or runs off to start a new life...).

Let's not speculate on matters like that. There are a myriad of reasons (good, bad, indifferent...) why someone may take a sabbatical, most of which will never be known by anyone other than the person themselves, close friends and family and their employer (which, IMHO, is as it should be).

Yes, but IMHO the acceptable use policy forbids discussion of that here.

Some further cast changes for the Serenade/SV/DGV mixed bill announced here

Probably because they are teenagers! Perdita is 16.

Agreed!

Booking here: http://www.atgtickets.com/shows/english-national-ballets-emerging-dancer-competition/lyceum-theatre/

YES!