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    Many thanks, Lynette. We shall certainly investigate the Palacio de Bellas Artes.
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    Hello, I’m not sure this is the right place for this post : dear Moderators, please move it if necessary... We are travelling and have reached South America... I wonder if anyone has any thoughts or tips about Ballet or contemporary dance that we might see? We are in Santiago at present, but will be leaving before the next performances, it seems. In Buenos Aires we have tickets for a Gala and for Corsaire in the Colon (twice), and in Montevideo for a Bolshoi Giselle in the cinema and for the Sodre’s Sleeping Beauty (twice). As I don’t speak Spanish and only read it at a snail’s pace these bookings have been agonising! Mexico in May has so far defeated me : Monterrey? Mexico City? Help! Finally, if anyone reading this lives in any of these cities and would like to meet us for a coffee, we would love to have contact to fellow dance lovers! Many optimistic thanks! Simon
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    Ian and Linda.... Zenaida + Carlos = Elizabeth?
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    We had a wonderful evening of ballet in the cinema, and I shall not comment further on the dancing, as others have so eloquently said all I would have done. However, re the two presenters... My tuppence worth is this : one was enthusiastic, likeable, professional, male and black, which in these days of outreach and the absolute necessity of bringing ballet, and all that it can do for us, to a wide public is ticking all the right boxes. The other is enthusiastic but makes mistakes in her parsing and reading which render some of the sentences gobbledygook and others just odd. Changeling = challenging? Astaire = Ashton? New worlds of possibilities open up, but this is not how the Royal Ballet should be presenting (yes, presenting) itself to the world. Rant over, until, I fear, next time.
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    Thank you Katherine - lots to think about there. We were in Pyongyang in August 2008 : you are quite right about the weather. I'm guessing the air conditioning might be a bit more efficient in Seoul, though!
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    We are leaving the UK, on the first stage of a year travelling, in mid July and would very much welcome advice on seeing dance on our travels. It will be, in this hemisphere at least, the summer ballet gap, but we shall be in Moscow 17th to 21st July (and have booked Eifman) then Perm, Omsk, Ulaan Ade, Khabarovsk - with a final few days (5th to 8th August) in Vladivostok. We shall then be in Seoul until 20th August before heading to Tokyo for two months. The Russian and South Korean legs in particular are proving a challenge - does anyone have tips about dance, or culture generally - museums?, galleries?music venues? - that we should look out for? Any ideas, however apparently random, would be very gratefully received! Thank you in advance! Simon.
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    Yes, Sim, I will! She was fragile, fearless, sensual, and above all young .... The Act 3 pdd was very moving indeed - that sounds too English... trying again : it was wild and emotional, and I had something in my eye for most of it. On another note, who was the very first Bratfisch? I keep thinking Michael Coleman, but I am sure the dates don't work. Anyone help?
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    Anyone? The tickets will go back to the box office on Friday eve.
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    2 seats in Stalls Circle (B24 B25). Will sell separately or together. £44.00 each. Please pm or email simonbfisher@aol.com if interested. Cast : Emeralds Yasmine Naghdi Itziar Mendizabal Matthew Ball Nicol Edmonds Rubies Tierney Heap Akane Takada Alexander Campbell Diamonds Lauren Cuthbertson Vadim Muntagirov
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    Yes, Mab, it was. I was in the SCS and the noise was incredible. A few seconds in I tried a fairly loud "ssshhh" but just got stared at incredulously..... the house lights should NOT go up at all.
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    Although one of the attractions of ballet (for me) is that it is non-verbal, I have to say that Miss Akane was writing poetry in the air with her feet in the Bluebird variation - and Mr Campbell's feet were just a blur .... Superb!
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    How about : That dancer is a real heel - he is never in-step, and even when he gives it some welly there is just no sole..... load of cobblers if you ask me.
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    Cf : Alicia Alonso, Prima Ballerina Assoluta de Cuba.
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    Drat! I wish I had known about this earlier - sounds excellent! Well spotted, though, Katherine!
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    "Presumably that is Deniz Ozaydin in video..." Yes, LinMM I think so! I have sent him a link to this thread and an explanation (via Facebook). I am certainly very pleased to be able to put a name to the chap we see every day on our landing wall, and who knows, maybe we shall see him dancing one day! Jacqueline - I do not know any more than what is on here! But certainly Istanbul has gone up a few places in the "must (re)visit" list!
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    As a postscript (and if I am allowed to do this?) - a charming video :
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    I don't know what to think about this afternoon's incident .... We went to the Odeon in Basingstoke to see the Bolshoi S B - and very fine it was too. But unlike our normal pleasant and attentive audiences, this one seemed to consist largely of a group outing from the local Home for the Bewildered. Seats could not be found, tickets were misplaced, sweets were sought, drinks were balanced and then knocked over, updates on the plot were "whispered" helpfully to friends in adjoining rows (not seats, rows) ... you get the picture. As Act 2 started I asked, very politely, if a lady near me could please stop talking as we were finding her commentary very distracting. She did fall silent, more or less, but at the end of the performance marched up to me and said that she supposed that when she died of cancer I would be pleased! How would my fellow Balletco-ers have responded to THAT?
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    The mystery is, I think, solved. Mr Okurer has very helpfully named the the mystery man as Deniz Özaydin, a colleague of his at the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet, and something of a choreographer as well. All that now remains is to contact Mr Özaydin directly and thank him for gracing the walls of our staircase for the last couple of years! I do hope he won't mind!
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    Again thank you for the responses... LinMM : I have contacted Mr Okurer and asked him if these pictures are indeed of him. There is at the very least a strong resemblance, I think. I shall keep you posted!
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    I am sneakily bumping this up (hope that is OK, moderators) in case the one person who can help hasn't seen this plea!
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    My hunch is probably about 10 years old .... A friend of mine who knew Lar Lubovitch has pointed out a resemblance but if the chap here is max 30 that would make the photos very old - and I don't think they are.
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    I bought some lovely prints from the DeviantArt website some time ago and have been unable to contact the photographer to help me identify this chap. The only clue I have is that she (the photographer) is possibly Turkish. Does anyone recognise him?. .
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    Wow - it worked using the Méthode Mallinson! Now to see if I can do it for real in the right bit of the Forum. Thank you everyone for your help - it is very much appreciated. And Janet, I certainly didn't mind you "liking" my whimperings ....! One of the things I really miss about teaching is the ready access to Sixth Formers to sort put my tech problems!
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    Hello - I'd be grateful for your help : I have 5 pictures of an unknown (to me) dancer who I should love to have identified by the knowledgeable folk on here. The photos are on the Photos app on my iMac and, as of this evening, on Photobucket. But I can drag and drop as much as I like from either place and they will not let themselves be shown in a new Post on here. What do I do next, please? Sorry to be pathetic ....!
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    I agree with everything that Nina G writes above, and would add that Bennet Gartside was a superb Drosselmeyer - he was charismatic (without overshadowing the work going on around him as we have occasionally seen with A N Other Drosselmeyer), energetic, humourous at times, on top of his magic, and showed as usual his ability to project right out into the auditorium. A really excellent performance.
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