Romanian National Ballet mixed bill DSCH (Ratmansky) + The Dream (Ashton)

[annamicro]

Romanian National Ballet has announced the cast for DSCH/The Dream mixed bill: on the 5th of December Titania and Oberon will be danced by Alina Cojocaru and Dawid Trzensimiech; on the 6th of December Oberon will be the 2914 Royal Ballett graduated Barnaby Bishop.

 

http://www.operanb.ro/spectacol/dsch-the-dream-stagiunea2015-2016/2015-12-05

[Bruce Wall]

Oh, I am so pleased.  I am in Bucharest that weekend as I am doing a project for work and have long had tickets for both  

[alison]

And I'm left reflecting once again on how frequently Rude Mechanicals graduate to dancing Oberon.

[annamicro]

And I'm left reflecting once again on how frequently Rude Mechanicals graduate to dancing Oberon.

Who and what are you referring to?

[Jan McNulty]

Bottom and his fellow players are known as the Rude Mechanicals.

[annamicro]

Bottom and his fellow players are known as the Rude Mechanicals.

I know, Janet. But still Alison post is not clear to me.

[alison]

I've just commented over the years how many of the Royal Ballet's Oberons have graduated from performing one of the Rude Mechanicals, that's all.  Okay, he's not a member of the company any more, but he was when he was dancing RMs.

[annamicro]

I've just commented over the years how many of the Royal Ballet's Oberons have graduated from performing one of the Rude Mechanicals, that's all.  Okay, he's not a member of the company any more, but he was when he was dancing RMs.

Do you mean Trzensimiech? I didn't remember he was one of them...I would expect them to be more demi-carachter type dancers, so clearly not his case: maybe it was just a gap to fill.

I remember somebody (Kobborg?) saying that in RDB, in Napoli, a dancer starts as a child on the bridge and ends decades later as a on old citizen, dancing every role in the between: maybe The Dream is the RB version of that

[capybara]

Dawid Trzensimiech was definitely one of the group as described. All types of dancer get cast in those roles and seem to have a whale of a time.

[alison]

It does help if they're on the tall side, of course - better for hiding Bottom's costume change.

[FLOSS]

Most of the Rude Mechanicals over the last twenty plus years have had far too much of a good time in those roles. They come so far forward that you would think that their mothers were in the front row of the stalls and they fail to perform their primary function of distracting the audience and masking Bottom's transformation.But as no one responsible for staging revivals bothers to go up into the Amphi no one notices.

Edited November 27, 2015 by FLOSS

[Don Q Fan]

Oh, I am so pleased.  I am in Bucharest that weekend as I am doing a project for work and have long had tickets for both

That was really lucky!!! I hope you will report back it sounds great!  Enjoy:-)

[annamicro]

A clip with short fragments of the premiere