John Mallinson

Someone else has noticed… (Maybe scope for a new thread.)

We have never had a written guideline on the use of nicknames. Do we need one?. One can assume that nicknames are generally used in a friendly or affectionate way but there is always the implication of a closer relationship to the dancer than probably exists. There is also the matter of disrespecting or demeaning the dancer by referring to them publicly in this way. Maybe of relevance is that dancers, in the UK at least, are no longer referred to as girls and boys. This discussion began because of Janet's reasonable reminder that nicknames may be unknown to some or many of our users. This can give the unfortunate impression of the forum as having an in-group of ballet cognoscenti who can catch all the references versus those who don't, who may well feel that they are less important in some way. This then becomes a matter of respect between members. Dawnstar's use of surnames seems fine. We don't need to go so far as having to use Ms Osipva or Mr McRae!

Links – Saturday June 22, 2019 Reviews - Natalia Osipova, The Mother (Arthur Pita), London: Mark Monahan, The Telegraph Sarah Kirkup, Bachtrack Emma Byrne, Evening Standard Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian Zoë Anderson, The Independent David Mead, SeeingDance Feature - Carthage Dance festival, Tunis: Laura Cappelle, Financial Times Profile - ‘Hurricane’ Catherine Hurlin, American Ballet Theatre: Gia Kourlas, New York Times Review - Royal New Zealand Ballet, Black Swan, White Swan, Auckland: Jenny Stevenson, Theatreview Review - Robert Moses’ Kin, The Exceptionally Overweight Black Man Phoenix, SF: Rita Felciano, Danceviewtimes Review - AVA Dance Company (ORIGINS Festival) No Woman’s Land, London: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Review - Images Ballet Company, Interplay, Mirrors, On Lineage, Meadowdown, London: Deborah Weiss, DanceTabs Review - Pacific Dance Festival, Trip, Our Shadows, Melville Place, : Raewyn White, New Zealand Herald News - Closure of NHS dance injury clinic in London: Georgia Snow, The Stage Reviews - Neil & Katya Jones, Somnium, A Dancer’s Dream, London: Donald Hutera, The Times Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard International Preview - Dance Heginbotham, Common Fate: Susan B. Apel, The Arts Fuse

Links – Friday June 21, 2019 Review - National Ballet of Canada, The Merry Widow, and Xiao Nan Yu’s retirement, Toronto: Paula Citron, Ludwig Van Review/interview - Ebony Noelle Golden, 125th and Freedom, NY: Siobhan Burke, New York Times Review - Royal Danish Ballet, Summer tour, Fredriksborg Castle: Eva Kistrup, Copenhagen Report Review - Junior Ballett Zürich, Echo of Elements, Wounded, Submerge, London: Lynette Halewood, DanceTabs Review - Ballet BC, Bedroom Folk, To this day, Petite Cérémonie, Jacob’s Pillow: Tresca Weinstein, Albany Times Union Film reviews - Georgia Parris, Bobbi Jene Smith & Maxine Doyle, Mari: Deborah Weiss, DanceTabs Mike McCahill, The Guardian Review - Company of Elders, Dare I Speak, Natural 2019, London: Josephine Leask, DanceTabs #SpeakingInDance - José Xtravaganza: Gia Kourlas, New York Times Review - Gary Clarke, Wasteland, Glasgow: Kelly Apter, The Scotsman Feature - Cincinatti Ballet’s focus on female choreographers: David Lyman, cincinnati.com Profile/interview - Sean Dorsey, transgender director and choreographer: Jeryl Brunner, Forbes Diary - Three of the best shows coming up, UK: Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian

Links – Thursday June 20, 2019 Review - Dutch National Ballet, Pas/Parts 2018, Kleines Requiem, Ignite, Amsterdam: Lambrecht Wessels, Bachtrack Review - Ballet Black, The Suit, Ingoma, London: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Review - American Ballet Theatre, Le Corsaire, NY: Christina Pandolfi, Broadway World Feature - Brooklyn Mack guests with ABT in Le Corsaire: Sarah L. Kaufman, San Francisco Chronicle Review - Lost Dog, Juliet & Romeo, London: David Mead, SeeingDance Book preview - Bill Cooper, Swan Lake - Reimagining a Classic (The Royal Ballet’s new production): Broadway World Review - Birmingham Royal Ballet, Hobson’s Choice, Birmingham: Maria Cusine, Shropshire Star Review - Rosalind Masson, No Man’s Land, Glasgow: Mary Brennan, Herald Scotland

Links – Wednsesday June 19, 2019 Review - The Royal Ballet, Margot Fonteyn, A Celebration, London: Bruce Marriott, DanceTabs Feature - William Kentridge & Faustin Linyekula’s Holland Festival: Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times Review - Ballet Black, The Suit, Ingoma, London: David Mead, SeeingDance Reviews - Bangarra Dance Theatre, Unaipon, Stamping Ground, To make fire, Sydney: Deborah Jones, FollowSpot Chantal Nguyen, Bachtrack Feature - Scottish Ballet’s Digital Season, Edinburgh: Claire Sawyers, The List Review - Ballet Cymru, Romeo a Juliet, Newcastle: Anna Winter, The Guardian News - Misa Kuranaga & Sasha Mukhamedov joining San Francisco Ballet: Amy Brandt, Pointe Magazine News - San Francisco Ballet 2020 season promotions, new members: Broadway World News - Merce Cunningham Centennial programming for the remainder of 2019: Broadway World

Links – Friday June 14, 2019 Reviews - American Ballet Theatre, Le Corsaire, NY: Mary Cargill, Danceviewtimes Ivy Lin, Bachtrack Feature - Mark Morris and Pepperland: Victoria Looseleaf, Fjord Review Review - Boston Ballet, Rhapsody mixed bill, Boston: Merli V. Guerra, Fjord Review Review - San Francisco Ballet, Bespoke, Hummingbird, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, London: Sara Veale, Fjord Review Interview - Jean-Christophe Maillot, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo: Stephanie Bunbury, Brisbane Times Preview - Edinburgh Festival 2019, dance shows to be seen (amongst other things): Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian News - Eight dance performances this weekend, NYC: Gia Kourlas, New York Times News - Three of the best dance shows, UK: Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian News - What’s happening at Jacob’s Pillow this Summer: Tresca Weinstein, Albany Times Union Jeffrey Borak, The Berkshire Eagle News - London Mayor petitioned to end ROH’s BP Big Screens in Trafalgar Square: Marianne Brooker, The Ecologist

Links – Thursday June 13, 2019 Review - New York City Ballet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, NY: Robert Gottlieb, Observer Review - National Ballet of Canada, The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, Approximate Sonata, The Second Detail, Toronto: Denise Sum, Danceviewtimes Review - San Francisco Ballet, Your flesh shall be a great poem, Bound To, Anima Animus, London: Neil Norman, The Stage Feature - The Shifting Fortunes of Manon: Alastair Macaulay, New York Times Review - English National Ballet, Cinderella, London: Joy Sable, The Jewish Chronicle Feature - Five women pushing dance forward: Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian Interview - Kenneth Tindall, choreographer: Bruce Marriott, DanceTabs News - Nehemiah Kish, RB Principal, to retire: Matthew Hemley, The Stage Review - School of American Ballet, workshop performance, NY: David Mead, SeeingDance Review - Moana, 5 short works, Auckland: Nicole Wilkie, Theatreview

Foteini Christofilopoulou was at the The Firebird, A Month in the Country and Symphony in C photocall...  Itziar Mendizabal in The Firebird. ©Foteini Christofilopoulou/ROH, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Marianela Nuñez and Matthew Ball in A Month in the Country. ©Foteini Christofilopoulou/ROH, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Sarah Lamb and Nicol Edmonds in Symphony in C. ©Foteini Christofilopoulou/ROH, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr More… Foteini Christofilopoulou - 12 photos By courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Discussion of this programme is here

Try the Picturehouses

Foteini Christofilopoulou was at the Margot Fonteyn Celebration photocall, if sadly Darcey Bussell wasn't... Francesca Hayward in Ondine. Photo ©Foteini Christofilopoulou/ROH, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Natalia Osipova in Romeo and Juliet. Photo ©Foteini Christofilopoulou/ROH, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Lauren Cuthbertson in Apparitions. Photo ©Foteini Christofilopoulou/ROH, by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr More… Foteini Christofilopoulou - 16 photos by courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Discussion of this event is here

Links – Thursday June 6, 2019 Reviews - The Royal Ballet, The Firebird, A Month in the Country, Symphony in C, London: Graham Watts, Bachtrack Debra Craine, The Times Mark Monahan, The Telegraph Joy Sable, The Jewish Chronicle Anna Winter, The Stage G.J. Dowler, Classical Source Reviews - American Ballet Theatre, Jane Eyre, NY: Gia Kourlas, New York Times Ivy Lin, Bachtrack Michael Popkin, Danceviewtimes Review - American Ballet Theatre, Tharp programme: Brahms-Haydn Variations, Deuce Coupe, In the Upper Room, NY: Ivy Lin, Bachtrack Review - New York City Ballet, Bartók Ballet, Bright, Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3, NY: Susan Yung, The Brooklyn Rail Review - Merce Cunningham, Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event, NY: Leigh Witchel, dancelog.nyc Feature - William Forsythe rehearses Enemy in the Figure with Ballet British Columbia: Janet Smith, Georgia Straight Feature - Bangarra Dance Theatre and Jiri Kilián’s Stamping Ground: Valerie Lawson, Sydney Morning Herald Feature - Brendan Fernandes, The Master and Form, Whitney Museum of American Art, Chicago: Avichal Scher, Dance Magazine News - Northern Ballet, 50th Anniversary schedule: Bruce Marriott, DanceTabs Feature - Fernando Montaño of the Royal Ballet dances underwater against plastics pollution: Laura Harding, The Sunday Post Review - Jonathan González, Lucifer Landing II, NY: Dillon Heyck, The Brooklyn Rail Review - Tatyana Tenebaum & Jasmine Hearn, collective terrain/s, NY: Rennie McDougall, The Brooklyn Rail Review - Peter DiMuro, Significant Others: Dances for Family, Friends and Lovers, Boston: Jessica Lockhart, The Arts Fuse Review - Tuatara Collective & Manuaku Institute of Technology, Over My Dead Body: Little Black Bitch, Wellington: Grace Ahipene Hoel, Theatreview

No. The 40 minutes came from the RB cast list. However…

Tweet from Alastair Macaulay about the running time of Symphony in C

Links – Wednesday June 5, 2019 Review - American Ballet Theatre, On the Dnieper, Sons of Bukovina, The Seasons, NY: Leigh Witchel, dancelog.nyc Feature - Cathy Marston’s Jane Eyre at ABT: Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times Review - San Francisco Ballet, The Infinite Ocean, Snowblind, Björk Ballet, London: Anna Winter, The Stage Feature - The Royal Ballet’s forthcoming tour to Japan: Kris Kosaka, Japan Times Interview - Lauren Cuthbertson, Royal Ballet Principal: Anna Winter, The Stage Q & A - Meaghan Grace Hinkis, RB Soloist: Bruce Marriott, DanceTabs Review - Oakland Ballet Company, Rajastra: The King’s Cloth, Hamsa, Jangala, Oakland CA: Rita Felciano, Danceviewtimes Essay - Kimerer LaMothe, The Dancing Species: Aeon Art reviews - Natalia Goncharova, Tate Modern, London: Jonathan Jones, The Guardian Rachel Campbell-Johnson, The Times News - The Evening Standard ‘loses’ two of it’s drama critics: Giverny Masso, The Stage Review - Modern Table Dance Company, Sok-do (Velocity), London: Maryam Philpott, The Reviews Hub