John Mallinson

Links – Tuesday May 29, 2012 Review - San Francisco International Dance Festival, 12 companies: Aimee Tsao, DanceTabs Review - Marie Taglioni, La Sylphide: Queen Victoria, The Journals Hard times for Barcelona Ballet: Lola Ramirez, Ballet y más Benois de la Danse awards: Raymond Stults, Moscow Times Review - Festival TransAmériques, Guilherme Botelho, Sideways Rain, Montreal: Paula Citron, Globe and Mail News from Queensland & New Zealand: Valerie Lawson, Dancelines James Penberthy and Kira Bousloff, founders of West Australian Ballet: Ron Banks, The West Australian

This is a new forum to make it easier to post or find items for sale or wanted, along the lines of the Ticket Trade forum. I have transferred the previous Dancewear To Buy or Sell thread here but members may wish to repost their for sales or wanteds in this new forum so they can be more easily seen - there were 14 different items jumbled up in that previous thread!

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Links – Monday May 28, 2012 Review - Matthew Bourne, Early Adventures: 4 stars, Clement Crisp, Financial Times Review - DanceAfrica 2012 festival, New York: Brian Seibert, New York Times Jodee Nimerichter and the American Dance Festival: Claudia La Rocco, New York Times Interview - Ohad Naharin, Batsheva Dance Company: Zachary Whittenburg, movement research My Muse and Me - Lauren Cuthbertson & Christopher Wheeldon: Laura Barnett, The Guardian Review - Ayikodans (Hawaiian dance troupe), Miami: Jordan Levin, Miami Herald A Coppélia quiz: Rebecca Ritzel, Washington Post Answering back to the critics: Mark Shenton, The Stage

Well, Bournonville isn't MacMillan! and there always is a lot of narrative action in his ballets. I agree that the ascent to sylph heaven looks clumsy. (I assume it was in the original scenario, so is always done.) I think she is missing a baby sylph (sylphette?) at her head and feet. In the current revival, as Clement Crisp commented, she looks like "air-mailed laundry" which I am sure is not the intended effect.

Links – Sunday May 27, 2012 Review - Paris Opéra Ballet, Manon: Rachel Mann, DanceTabs Review - Paris Opéra Ballet, Roméo et Juliette: Rachel Mann, DanceTabs Review - The Royal Ballet, Ballo della Regina, La Sylphide: Luke Jennings, The Observer Jenny Gilbert, The Independent on Sunday Review - Matthew Bourne, Early Adventures: Luke Jennings, The Observer Jenny Gilbert, The Independent on Sunday Who's afraid of Pina Bausch? Peter Aspden talks to Alistair Spalding and Clement Crisp: (podcast) Financial Times Review - San Francisco International Arts Festival: Rita Felciano, DanceviewTimes Review - Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet: Deborah Jowitt, ArtsJournal Barcelona Ballet “technically bankrupt”: Carmen de Val, Roger Salas, El País (Google translation) 10 Dance Tweeters To Know Right Now: Huffington Post A Spacesuit Ballet - NASA Spacesuit Tests: (video) Geeks are Sexy Review - Northern Ballet, I Got Rhythm, Leeds: Charles Hutchinson, The Press

ROH marketing needs to have a big rethink. Louise Levene in today's Telegraph comments (about Sylphide): Despite such superlative casting, the lower house had a shocking number of empty seats on both Monday and Tuesday. If marketing a masterpiece is beyond the wit of the Opera House, they could at least try mass-texting their target audience (or even local office workers) with some last-minute deals.

Links – Saturday May 26, 2012 Review - The Royal Ballet, Ballo della Regina, La Sylphide: Jane Simpson, DanceTabs Louise Levene, The Telegraph Gerald Dowler, Classical Source Review - American Ballet Theatre, La Bayadère: Tobi Tobias, Arts Journal Slideshow - Three ABT Giselles (Osipova/Hallberg, Vishneva/Gomes, Cojocaru/Corella): New York Times Alexey Ratmanksy’s The Bright Stream: Marina Harss, Playbill Arts Review - New York City Ballet, Double Feature: Brian Seibert, New York Times NYCB documentary - Pas de deux, with added ballerina-cam: Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg, The Atlantic Whither Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal?: Laura Cappelle, Financial Times Review - Emio Greco | PC, Rocco: 3 stars, Sanjoy Roy, The Guardian Jeffrey Gordon Baker, LondonDance Review - Bolshoi Ballet, Boris Eifman’s Rodin: Karina Ivashko, The Voice of Russia Interview: Carlos Saura, flamenco filmmaker: James Woodall, The Arts Desk Review - Vera Tussing, You Ain’t Heard Nothing Yet: Misa Brzezicki, LondonDance Review - Atlantic Ballet Theatre of Canada, Ghosts of Violence, Toronto: Paula Citron, Globe and Mail Review - Andrew Dinwiddie, Farewell Tour; Michelle Elsworth, The Pythagodress: Gia Kourlas, New York Times Colin Peasley, Australian Ballet veteran: Louise Nunn, AdelaideNow Josh Barwick, dancer, Northern Ballet. (Documentary on BBC2 tonight at 8.15.): Huffington Post Review - Imperial Ice Stars, The Nutcracker on Ice, Auckland: Caris Bizzaca, New Zealand Herald What’s New (UK) - Mark Bruce Company; Flawless & ENB: Judith Mackrell, The Guardian

Links – Friday May 25, 2012 Review - American Ballet Theatre, La Bayadère: Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times & ArtsJournal Mary Cargill, DanceviewTimes Review - American Ballet Theatre, Giselle: Apollinaire Scherr, ArtsJournal Review - New York City Ballet, Liebeslieder Walzer, Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet: Leigh Witchel, New York Post Review - Bolshoi Ballet, Don Quixote: Nathalie Gauthier, Ottawa Citizen Review - Matthew Bourne, Early Adventures: Sarah Frater, The Stage Preview - Nicolo Fonte’s See(k) for Houston Ballet: Nancy Wozny, Houston CultureMap Preview - Paris Opéra Ballet in America: Pia Catton, Wall Street Journal Polina Semionova signs with ABT: Julie Bloom, New York Times Preview - Hubbard Street Dance, Forsythe’s Quintett: Matthew de la Peña, TimeOut Chicago Interview - Tan Yuanyuan (SFB), dancing Giselle in Hong Kong: Edmund Lee, TimeOut Hong Kong Benois de la Danse - video: NTD tv And what we’ve all been waiting for… The Ant Ballet: BBC News

Slava Samodurov was previously a principal dancer with the Royal Ballet (and before that with the Mariinsky) who left a couple of years ago. At the beginning of this year he took up the post of artistic director of the Ekaterinburg Ballet and Amore Buffo, his first choreographic work for them, and in fact his first full-length ballet, has just been staged. Here's a gallery of photos of the theatre and the production.

Yes, very derogatory, very silly. In dance it's anything created in Europe that doesn't appeal to some sort of prissy British sensibility.

Do we know when this was recorded or have any details of casting?

Benois de la Danse link.

Balanchine's Ballo della regina was first performed by the Royal Ballet in 2011, staged by Merrill Ashley on whom it was created. Johan Kobborg staged Bournonville's La Sylphide in 2005. In this revival the principal couples are Alina Cojocaru & Steven McRae, Tamara Rojo & Dawid Trzensimiech, Roberta Marquez & Steven McRae, Sarah Lamb & Johan Kobborg, Alina Cojocaru & Johan Kobborg, Sarah Lamb & Dawid Trzensimiech. La Sylphide: Alina Cojocaru as the Sylph, Steven McRae as James. Courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr ©Dave Morgan. Ballo della regina: Marianela Nuñez and Nehemiah Kish. Courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr ©Dave Morgan. More… Dave Morgan: Ballo della regina, La Sylphide - 27 photos Courtesy of DanceTabs / Flickr Discussion of this production is here.

No, it's the Neumeier version for POB.

They're performing in NY currently and there was a good and relevant preview piece in the NY Times last week. Sounds like a company that Luke Jennings might approve of!

That's a really crummy way of displaying the casting. This site has a very long way to go.

I guess it's the final collapse of copyright on the web. Most (but not all) of the pages that I've looked at are full of uncredited photos presumably 'borrowed' from other sites where they may or may not have been posted with the author's permission. I suppose this is an unstoppable tide but it seems sad that so little credit is usually given to the original photographers.

And, I should add, after dancing Sylphide in London on Monday she goes back to New York to appear as Nikiya on Thursday.

I think she's tougher than she looks!

Should be Monday's cast i.e. Nunez/Kish, Cojocaru/McRae.

Links – Thursday May 17, 2012 Review - American Ballet Theater, Giselle, NY: Claudia La Rocco, New York Times Review - Bolshoi Ballet, Swan Lake, Toronto: Michael Crabb, Toronto Star Dana Glassman, National Post Paula Citron, The Globe and Mail Review - Rambert Dance Company, Sub, The Art of Touch, L’Apres-midi d’un faune, Such Wild Ecstasy, London: 4 stars, Clement Crisp, Financial Times Ismene Brown, The Arts Desk 4 stars, Judith Mackrell, The Guardian Graham Watts, LondonDance 3 stars, Clifford Bishop, Evening Standard Sarah Frater, The Stage photo gallery, Dave Morgan, DanceTabs Recreating La Création du Monde: Kenneth Archer & Millicent Hodson, DanceTabs Review - American Ballet Theatre, opening gala: Tobi Tobias, ArtsJournal Review - Australian Ballet, Onegin, Sydney: Lloyd Bradford Syke, Crikey Review - Yvonne Rainer retrospective, NY: Claudia La Rocco, New York Times Interview - Devon Teuschar, dancing for ABT: Gia Kourlas, TimeOut New York Review - John Jasperse, Fort Blossom revisited, NY: Deborah Jowitt, ArtsJournal TV series: Breaking Pointe (Ballet West documentary): Scott D. Pierce, Salt Lake Tribune Artists are struggling to make ends meet: Susan Jones, The Guardian

Very glad to hear this from a new survey! More.

Looking again at the Amphi problem (not being able to see the whole plan without panning around) I realised of course that if you click the black button with the little corner symbols at the top right it expands the display to the full size of the window so you can indeed see the whole thing. One should always click everything in sight to see what happens!

Links – Wednesday May 16, 2012 Review - American Ballet Theatre, opening gala: Marina Harss, Faster Times (hilarious!) Alastair Macaulay, New York Times Leigh Witchel, New York Post …and some photos of the glad rags, Huffington Post Review - Boston Ballet, Barber Violin Concerto, Fancy Free, Etudes: Debra Cash, Boston Phoenix Review - Danza Contemporanea de Cuba, Edinburgh: Kelly Apter, Scotsman Preview - Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, NY: Roslyn Sulcas, New York Times Robert Johnson, The Star-Ledger Preview - Ruth Asawa School of the Arts, 30th anniversary dance concert, SF: Rita Felciano, San Francisco Bay Guardian Preview - Wah! Wah! Girls, London: Tanika Gupta, Evening Standard Book review - Charles Rosen, Freedom and the Arts: Essays on Music and Literature: Alastair Macaulay, New York Review of Books Atalanta Ballet’s New Choreographic Voices: Catherine L. Tully, Huffington Post