annamicro

Hi,

If anybody has a spare ticket for Swan Lake on June 9, please contact me.

Thank you

 

Anna

Casting has been announced for the Bausch/Forsythe/Van Manen Triple Bill at Sadler's Wells:

 

In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated 

 

Thursday 23 March 2017

Laurretta Summerscales, James Streeter, Tiffany Hedman,

TBC, Cesar Corrales, Crystal Costa, Isaac Hernández

Madison Keesler, Sarah Kundi.  

 

Friday 24 March 2017 

Laurretta Summerscales, James Streeter, Tiffany Hedman,

TBC, Cesar Corrales, Crystal Costa, Isaac Hernández

Madison Keesler, Sarah Kundi.   

 

Saturday 25 March 2017 

Tiffany Hedman, Isaac Hernández, Alison McWhinney

Laurretta Summerscales, Fernando Bufalá, Rina Kanehara, Barry Drummond

Anjuli Hudson, Jung ah Choi.

 

Sunday 26 March 2017 (4pm) 

Tiffany Hedman, Isaac Hernández, Alison McWhinney

Precious Adams, Cesar Corrales, Madison Keesler, Fernando Bufalá

Anjuli Hudson, Jung ah Choi.

 

Tuesday 28 March 2017 

Laurretta Summerscales, James Streeter, Tiffany Hedman

Precious Adams, Cesar Corrales, Madison Keesler, Fernando Bufalá

Anjuli Hudson, Jung ah Choi.  

 

Wednesday 29 March 2017 

Tiffany Hedman, Isaac Hernández, Alison McWhinney

Laurretta Summerscales, Fernando Bufalá, Rina Kanehara, Barry Drummond

Amber Hunt, Sarah Kundi.

 

Thursday 30 March 2017 

Laurretta Summerscales, James Streeter, Alison McWhinney

Precious Adams, Cesar Corrales, Crystal Costa, Barry Drummond

Madison Keesler, Sarah Kundi.

 

Friday 31 March 2017 

Tiffany Hedman, Isaac Hernández, Alison McWhinney

Precious Adams, Cesar Corrales, Rina Kanehara, Fernando Bufalá

Amber Hunt, Sarah Kundi.

 

Saturday 1 April 2017 

Laurretta Summerscales, James Streeter, Tiffany Hedman

TBC, Cesar Corrales, Crystal Costa, Barry Drummond

Madison Keesler, Sarah Kundi.

 

 

Adagio Hammerklavier 

 

Thursday 23 March 2017 (Press night)

Fernanda Oliveira and James Forbat

Laurretta Summerscales and Fabian Reimair

Tamara Rojo and Isaac Hernández

 

Friday 24 March 2017 

Fernanda Oliveira and James Forbat

Laurretta Summerscales and Fabian Reimair

Tamara Rojo and Isaac Hernández

 

Saturday 25 March 2017

Katja Khaniukova and Fernando Bufalá

Alison McWhinney and Aitor Arrieta

Laurretta Summerscales and Emilio Pavan

 

Sunday 26 March 2017 

Katja Khaniukova and Fernando Bufalá

Alison McWhinney and Aitor Arrieta

Laurretta Summerscales and Emilio Pavan

 

Tuesday 28 March 2017 

Fernanda Oliveira and James Forbat

Laurretta Summerscales and Fabian Reimair

Tamara Rojo and Isaac Hernández

 

Wednesday 29 March 2017 

Katja Khaniukova and Fernando Bufalá

Senri Kou and Ken Saruhashi

Laurretta Summerscales and Emilio Pavan

 

Thursday 30 March 2017 

Tiffany Hedman and Cesar Corrales

Alison McWhinney and Aitor Arrieta

Laurretta Summerscales and Emilio Pavan

 

Friday 31 March 2017 

Fernanda Oliveira and James Forbat

Laurretta Summerscales and Fabian Reimair

Tamara Rojo and Isaac Hernández

 

Saturday 1 April 2017 

Fernanda Oliveira and James Forbat

Laurretta Summerscales and Fabian Reimair

Tamara Rojo and Isaac Hernández

 

 

Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring) 

 

TBC  

 

 

http://www.ballet.org.uk/whats-on/bausch-forsythe-van-manen/

 

The Chosen One for Le Sacre first night is Francesca Velicu

Presumably not for Sacre, though?

 

I heard there is a tradition in Bausch Sacre to choose "the Chosen one" on the day of the performance (among few already chosen of course)

May I ask the UK based members if there was any discussion of Carlos Acosta's race when he first started dancing? I ask because it seems that Misty Copeland has really promoted her race and has spun lots of stories and promotional campaigns from it.

I assume that there was not very much talk about it, but thought to ask.

 

Also, just in thinking about past British Dancers, I was surprised also that noone has mentioned Wayne Sleep, as he seemed to be on television also very often, as a proponent of overcoming the views of shorter dancers, and of course being a world record holder for Entre Chats.

 

wasn't Josè Carreno in UK before Acosta?

I saw Carreno dancing several times in Italy (with La Scala and other companies) and I don't remember anybody mentioning his skin color. His dancing was more relevant than that, I suppose.

http://www.danceeurope.net/gallery/russian-icons-gala-2017

 

Some piccies from the gala on Sunday including one of the very bendy Italian lady..

 

Do you mean Lucia Lacarra? I would be proud to say that this wonderful ballerina is Italian, but she is from Spain (a school mate of Tamara Rojo and Angel Corella); her partner (and husband) Marlon Dino is Albanian.

To be honest, I think that's an incredibly small set of people.

 

I don't know where they arrived from (it took me 20 minutes by bike :-D ), but when he danced in La Scala, at stage door there was a crowd that Bolle has never seen...

Yesterday Tamara said again that they cannot afford it, because it's too costly: they have to pay rights to everybody involved and also the theatre, having not their own. What a pity: the release of Leeds Corsaire looks even more a miracle...

I made the same comparison, Sim - this magnificent, passionate, fantastically imaginative work of dance/theatre, compared to the sterile, inward-looking, self-conscious tosh at the ROH last week. Not just a difference of style but of substance.

 

In Manchester I asked Tamara Rojo why they scheduled so few shows in London and she replied: "We couldn't run the risk to have more shows: we weren't sure of how it would have been received"

To have to be sure to produce something of value to survive having no money to waste, probably stimulates thinking and evaluation, and care and attention in the creative process. A leader as Rojo and a choreographer a Khan also help of course.

I would need Alina Cojocaru as Giselle and Cesar Corrales as Hilarion which is a combination not being fielded at SW, although it was (to powerful effect) on tour.

 

and James Streeter as Albrecht, another combination not available in London: he is the one making the greater difference, IMO

If you have a friend or a child crazy for ballet, consider bidding for Alina Cojocaru's signed point shoes: the auction is open until 01DEC on BalletNews and includes also 4 ENB Nutcracker tickets.

The shoes will be consigned to the "winner" personally by Alina.

 

Here the page and the link to send your bid

 

http://balletnews.co.uk/alina-cojocaru-auctions-signed-pointe-shoes-4-nutcracker-tickets/

 

The auction is in favor of Hospice of Hope and its project in Copaceni, Romania.

http://www.hospicesofhope.co.uk/campaign-for-copaceni/

 

As already reported in Afternoon Tea event post, Alina has supported Hospice of Hope over the years, especially with successful ballet galas: the funds raised at those events helped to build the Hospice Casa Sperantei in Bucharest, as it can be seen in this video

 

Support to Hospice of Hope expands now also to an auction (via BalletNews): you can bid for Alina's signed point shoes and tickets for ENB Nutcracker

 

http://balletnews.co.uk/alina-cojocaru-auctions-signed-pointe-shoes-4-nutcracker-tickets/

On The 20th of November (15:00-17:00), Alina Cojocaru invites you for an afternoon tea at the Millenium Hotel Mayfair.

 

In this charity event, she will talk of her life as a ballerina.

What a great Christmas present, just a little bit in advance, can this be for a ballet lover and for those thinking to donate to a charity organization at Christmas time!

 

The event has been organized by Hospice of Hope and will raise fund in support of a new hospice in the nearby of Bucharest, Romania.

 

http://www.hospicesofhope.co.uk/afternoon-tea-alina/

http://www.hospicesofhope.co.uk/campaign-for-copaceni/

 

Alina has been supporting Hospice of Hope for several years, organizing ballet galas in London: the funds raised gave an great help in building Hospice Casa Sperantei  in Bucharest.

Here a video with Alina filmed by Johan Kobborg visiting the building site and patients and the final result

 

 

http://www.alinacojocaru.com/page9.htm

As I said earlier up the thread it took me 3 viewings to notice several moves that enhanced the story. I am fortunate that I was able to see it 3 times, most people don't have that luxury.

You were also fortunate to see James Streeter as Albrecht: he enhances the story more than the 3 viewings, IMO.

Streeter is my reason to fly to Southampton: I want to see Cojocaru dancing with him.

Both Cojocaru and Rojo are wonderful, very different of course and even more interesting for this reason.

The same can be said for Corrales and Chacon.

Casting for Hamburg Ballet's tour to Baden-Baden with Neumeier's Romeo:

14. October Cojocaru-Revazov

15. October Bouchet-Trusch

16. October Mazon-Bellussi

 

I would love one day to see Cojocaru-Bellussi...

Re Giselle death: at a second view and from the circle, it's evident that when she lies behind the Landlord and between the two attendants, Hilarion is called to do the dirty job. Obviously they don't want the rebel and her bastard around.

 

Another interesting point: when Giselle and Albrecht are Alne for the first time, he mimes the hat but she has already moved to another direction and doesn't notice it. So he tried to tell her, but too blandly

Thanks for this heads up Naomi M - I certainly hadn't seen it coming. I'm assuming this is the 2015 Gala with our Melissa dancing the Manon Act 1, Scene 2 pas de deux with Claudio Coviello and have been looking for reviews with little success. I can't remember any comment on the forum - can I ask please if anyone was there or has any advice to offer? Would it be a worthwhile buy? 

In my opinion, no.

I think Manon pdd was particularly bad (but not the worst), in a modest gala overall. I think there are some clips of the gala on youtube: maybe you can try to check there if it's the case to buy it for your collection.

Rather following the trend of other companies, only two new graduates are joining the company - plus Rina Kanehara following her Prix de Lausanne apprenticeship.

Congratulations to everyone.

Francesca Velicu (18) is a new graduate too. She was already dancing with the company in Bucharest (she danced Kitri and Theme & Variations leading role), but as a student: she graduated from the ballet school just few weeks ago.

 It's obvious he had not much knowledge about the ballet at Munich when he took the job.

 

Probably it's a habit: he was not having much knowledge of Schaufuss Midnight Express too when he threw himself and Polunin into it, just to leave the boy alone in the mud when they both found out they were not keen at all to dance it.

Shiori Kase has just been named ENB principal dancer on Opera Garnier stage. Congratulations!

 

By the way, did I once see Marianela Nunez substitute something else for the fouettes, or am I confusing it with something else?

 

I really hope not! It would be just crazy.

As it was quite crazy to have Nunez dancing the solo parts in Dances at a Gathering in the show that resulted to be the last one of Alina Cojocaru for nearly a whole year: there were two shows that Saturday and probably there was not time to make a full cast change, so Alina danced the partnered parts and Nunez the solos.

Marcia Haydée. Alessandra Ferri. Alina Cojocaru. How could you forget them???

I don't know, they are the 3 names popping out in my head when I hear "dance actress".

I would just add Silvia Azzoni and Tamara Rojo (when she want) among the contemporary dancers.

Mr.Mola has Alina's photos on his house and admires JK work. However, he has a different perspective. Maybe because he loves ONB.

But claims to not have info. Only one way judgments. Odd position indeed.

I agree. Please shut it down.

...also because the title is a little out of date...

I see that Mr Mola agrees and again I'm not surprised.

Among the other things said: prime minister Dacian Ciolos writes and recommends to those who made such a bad performance at ONB to look at Bucharest handball team winning the Europa League. According to him they are the example to follow L. And the trainer is a Dane.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015457298491555&substory_index=0&id=107543802616247

 

Yes, truth hurts and also blatant mediocrity and lack of reasons, poor Mola & C.

Truth hurts. Sometimes is much better to admire an artist for his performance and not extend his artistry to his personality. I would say going public to this extend, JK has done too much harm to be welcomed to ONB. Trying to go even further using political intervention is absolutely outrageous. There are 52 ballet dancers from his department saying he is not wanted, what else to be said?

You know perfectly what else has to be said and ehas been said and you know perfectly who signed that fake press release (not present on ONB web site but published in the nationalistic xenophobic media already used by Soare and Iordachescu and in protesters own blog - linked here) and who didn't.

The level of the protests listed speaks clearly of the authors.

 

 

Btw, it seems that Act 1 Birbanto solo doesn't exists.

 

Here three Romanian ballet dancers interviewed today, they are among the 30 who signed in favour of Kobborg (30 other signed aganist- the rest of the oppositors is people waiting for a never coming retirement: the full list is on the xenophobic site, you know where to search)

http://m.adevarul.ro/cultura/arte/balerinii-onb-bianca-stoicheciu-diana-tudor-razvan-cacoveanu-adevarul-live-8_573065935ab6550cb8b1834c/index.html

 

I see that your level of information remains surprising low. Or maybe not surprising.