John Mallinson

Which booklet is it that I don't have!? The period 4 About the House stilled listed Polunin and the website has tbc.

And who is 'George Lamb' anyway? (was stunned when he had to ask who 'this Kenneth MacMillan' was!).

Ann, I think George Lamb represented the Man on the Clapham Omnibus (that dates me!) I'm sure he knew the answer but had to pose it for the many watchers who might not. As for the re-runs all we can do is

RBLive: 16 minutes of class

Any feedback on Beatriz Stix-Brunell's debut as Alice this afternoon? There were some enthusiastic tweets including this from bangorballetboy: "Absolutely gorgeous debut from Beatriz Stix-Brunell. Bravissima! #AliceinTwitterland"

More and longer please!

The full segment showing Liam Scarlett rehearsing his new ballet is

Fiona, I've moved your query into a new topic as it deserves one to itself!

You are right on both counts. There doesn't seem to be a built-in print function here. I use a Mac but I assume that Windows is similar in that if you hit Print you will print out the whole sequence of postings. The simplest workaround is to just to drag over the text with your mouse to highlight it, then do Copy, and then Paste the text into whatever word processor or text editor you normally use. From there you can save it or print it. I'm afraid that will have to do for the moment.

Got it!

The edited version of yesterday's bonanza will be here: ROH YouTube

Welcome to Fonteyn22, our newest member. (Have there been another 21 incarnations?)

Did anyone make a mental note of how many watchers there were at any one time? I watched on and off via ROH YouTube and as far as I remember there were usually about 3,500. Although the potential coverage would be billions presumably the real figure would be in the thousands.

Thanks Dave (and DanceTabs). How nice to see some photos back on the walls - they brighten up the place no end!

Links – Saturday March 23, 2012

Review - English National Ballet, Beyond Ballets Russes I:

Review - Cage and Cunningham at the Baryshnikov Arts Center: Alastair Macaulay, New York Times

Review - American Ballet Theater, Giselle, Chicago: Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

Review - San Francisco Ballet, triple bill:

Alexei Ratmansky and Firebird: Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times

Review - Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, NY: Leigh Witchel, New York Post

Wayne McGregor’s Chroma in full on the Guardian website

Review - Mad Shak, NY: Gia Kourlas, New York Times

Review - Platform 2012: Parallels, NY: Claudia La Rocco, New York Times

Interview - David Hallberg: Zachary Whittenburg, Time Out Chicago

Jean Paul Gaultier and Preljocaj’s Snow White: Sarah Kaufman, Washington Post

Interview - Maria Pagés (she talks to Loewe creative director Stuart Vevers: Financial Times

Preview - Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire: Lindsey Johnstone, Scotsman

This week’s new dance (London) - ENB, New Dance Commissions: Judith Mackrell, The Guardian

Review - Men in Motion, London: 3 stars, Neil Norman, The Express

Review - Balletomanes awed by Russian danzatori (now that’s a word!): R. Anton Montalban-Anderssen, examiner.com

For dance enthusiasts this was a fascinating day. I'd love to know what people who don't normally watch ballet made of it. Was it interesting? Was it comprehensible? Was it inspiring?

Yes that I have had that quite often. The editor does sometimes have a mind of its own.

Never seen this though sometimes there's a delay of a second or two before a message gets posted. On the whole the system seems remarkably sturdy.

Title says it all really. Here's a little piece from EdinburghGuide. Here's the programme.

Links – Friday March 23, 2012

Royal Ballet Live: Judith Mackrell, The Guardian, schedule, ask Wayne

Review - English National Ballet, Firebird and The Rite of Spring, London: Ismene Brown, TheArtsDesk

Review - Paul Taylor Dance Company, mixed bill, NY:

Review - San Francisco Ballet, Symphonic Dances and Glass Pieces: Mary Ellen Hunt, San Francisco Chronicle

Review - National Ballet of Canada, Neumeier’s The Seagull, Toronto: Michael Crabb, Toronto Star

Review - Martha Graham Dance Company, mixed bill, NY: Deoborah Jowitt, ArtsJournal

Preview - Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird for ABT: Paul Hodgins, Orange County Register

Misty Copeland, poster girl for ABT’s Firebird: Vicki Smith Paluch, DailyBreeze

Wayne McGregor’s Chroma analysed: Luke Jennings, The Guardian

Interview - Hofesh Schechter, choreographer: Patricia Boccadoro, Culturekiosque

Review - The Royal Ballet, Alice’s Advetures in Wonderland: David Ladds, Tottenham & Wood Green Journal

Review - Nrityagram Ensemble, New York: Apollinaire Scherr, Financial Times

Film review - Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake in 3D: Carrie Seidan, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

I've started a new topic in Performances seen for the live event.

Starting soon so this seems the place for ongoing comments.

The link for ROH YouTube

It's being heavily covered in the Guardian - this is a link to their search page with several articles.

A reminder of the schedule:

10.30 Daily Class - including interviews with Jonathan Cope and Kristen McNally

11.35 Wayne McGregor interview

12.00 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland rehearsal

12.30 Dancers interview

13.05 Monica Mason interview

13:20 Prince of the Pagodas rehearsal

13.50 Marianela Nuñez interview

13.55 Barry Wordsworth and Rob Clark interview

14.00 Polyphonia rehearsal

14.30 Dancers interview

15.15 Street Stories - education project with East London dance students

16.10 Romeo and Juliet rehearsal

16.50 Dancers Interview

17.00 New Liam Scarlett ballet rehearsal

17.30 Liam Scarlett interview

18.30 Carbon Life - including interviews with Wayne McGregor and Mark Ronson (Insights Public Event)

Looks as if we've been spared an increase in the cheaper tickets - can't comment on the posh ones!

Flickr

There's this tweet from ROH earlier today which suggests that it will be available so you can watch it all night!

RoyalOperaHouse

If you're overseas and the timing of #RBlive means you can't watch live, never fear - we'll be streaming it in again directly afterwards!

TinEye is very clever, didn't know about it. Thanks. It doesn't return anything on that image.

You may have noticed that the menu bar has been simplified by the removal of various items that we haven't as yet been using (Calendar, Blogs, Pages, Chat). Think of it as Spring Cleaning!

Something I've added which may or may not be useful is the Popular Tags panel on the right. If posts are tagged (e.g. Royal Ballet for any RB-related new topics) then clicking the Royal Ballet tag in the panel will bring up a list of all such postings. This is potentially very useful, but obviously only if people use them and that's just one more thing to have to do, albeit in a public-spirited kind of way.

I would propose leaving the panel there for a while and encouraging people to use tags and then we can discuss further and see if it's worth retaining - all of these things can be switched on and off.

Links – Thursday March 22, 2012

Review - New York City Ballet, mixed bills, Germany: Horst Koegler, DanceviewTimes

Royal Ballet Live: Wayne McGregor on dance, the White Stripes and the web: Laura Barnett, The Guardian

David Hallberg and the Bolshoi: Hedy Weiss, Chicago Sun-Times

Review - Paul Taylor Dance Company, mixed bill, NY: Debra Levine, Huffington Post

Review - Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, mixed bill, SF: Paul Parish, Bay Area Reporter

Review - ODC/SF, mixed bill, SF: Paul Parish, Bay Area Reporter

Preview - San Francisco Ballet, Ashley Page’s Guide to Strange Places: AlanUlrich, San Francisco Chronicle

Review - Nrityagram Dance Ensemble, Sanhara, NY: Brian Seibert, New York Times

Film review - Tanja Liedtke, Life in Movement (opening in Australia next month): Jordan Beth Vincent, Talkingpointes blog

Preview - Scottish Ballet, A Streetcar Named Desire: Kirstin Innes, The List

Review - Northern Ballet, Beauty and the Beast, Sheffield: Laura Connor, What's On Stage

Preview - Ballet Austin, Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project: Lisa Traiger, Forward

Interview - Stephen Mills, Creative Director of Ballet Austin: Culturemap Austin

Review - Monica Loughman Ballet, La Sylphide, Dublin: Christie Taylor Seaver, Irish Times

Review - Russian State Ballet of Siberia, La Fille mal gardée (Gorsky version), UK: David Bellan, Oxford Times

Review - Malgorzata Nowacka, The Calm Before…, Toronto: Paula Citron, Globe and Mail

Review - Compos Mentis, mixed bill, Seattle: Michael Upchurch, Seattle Times

Review - Fleur Darkin Company, Experience, London: 2 stars, Sanjoy Roy, The Guardian

10.30 Daily Class - including interviews with Jonathan Cope and Kristen McNally

11.35 Wayne McGregor interview

12.00 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland rehearsal

12.30 Dancers interview

13.05 Monica Mason interview

13:20 Prince of the Pagodas rehearsal

13.50 Marianela Nuñez interview

13.55 Barry Wordsworth and Rob Clark interview

14.00 Polyphonia rehearsal

14.30 Dancers interview

15.15 Street Stories - education project with East London dance students

16.10 Romeo and Juliet rehearsal

16.50 Dancers Interview

17.00 New Liam Scarlett ballet rehearsal

17.30 Liam Scarlett interview

18.30 Carbon Life - including interviews with Wayne McGregor and Mark Ronson (Insights Public Event)