alison Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Well, I think he said in an interview last year that he might only have a couple of years left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penelopesimpson Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Has Edward Watson intimated that this is a possibility? I certainly hope not although I intend to book for every one of his Mayerling's. Didn't Yanowsky dance Elizabeth with him last time around? I seem to remember her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) You know that a dancer is getting on when their mini biography in the programme suddenly becomes coy about when and where they trained ,the date they joined their current company, their career progression in that company and where they worked before they joined it. It is a sad fact that Watson, Yanowsky and Morera have all had filleted mini biographies for some time and that Bonelli now does too. Edited June 21, 2016 by FLOSS 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 You know that a dancer is getting on when their mini biography in the programme suddenly becomes coy about when and where they trained ,the date they joined their current company, their career progression in that company and where they worked before they joined it. It is a sad fact that Watson, Yanowsky and Morera have all had filleted mini biographies for some time and that Bonelli now does too. Yes, very noticeable and rather poignant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 I haven't noticed that but I wouldn't read those bios in that way. These are all principal dancers - and so they have made it to the top - and surely details of when they joined the company, got their promotions etc become a bit irrelevant if these things happened years ago. Morera and Watson haven't danced anywhere else (have they?) and so nothing can be put down about their previous companies. I think that all three dancers are very fortunate to have had such long careers, with interesting roles to dance and even works created on them on the later part of their careers. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 You know that a dancer is getting on when their mini biography in the programme suddenly becomes coy about when and where they trained ,the date they joined their current company, their career progression in that company and where they worked before they joined it. It is a sad fact that Watson, Yanowsky and Morera have all had filleted mini biographies for some time and that Bonelli now does too. FLOSS, you make an interesting point, and, having had at look at my 2014 Winter's Tale and 2016 Wheeldon bill programmes, I was going to agree with you, but I don't think it's actually that straightforward. If it were, Steven McRae would be approaching retirement too! It's seemed to be accepted practice for some years now that you cut out the intermediate ranks between the dancer's joining date and their promotion to their current rank. Yanowsky, Watson and Bonelli all have details of their training given, plus previous companies where applicable. I guess the "filleting" is actually more of a concertina-ing: as a dancer's career progresses, some things have to be squeezed out to fit the details into the available space, and it would seem that created roles are seen as more important than other roles, so that a dancer's "inherited" roles may have to be reduced to "classical/dramatic/contemporary" or "works by MacMillan/Scarlett/Tetley/Cranko etc." (Indeed, I suspect you will have noted the glaring omission in Watson's CV as regards choreographers: Daphnis, Monotones, Symphonic Variations, Oberon and Palemon are some of the roles which come to mind). Even Muntagirov's bio is slightly compressed from where it was 2 years ago, shortly after he'd joined: a little less coverage is given to his ENB career, whereas the roles he's danced since joining the RB are listed. That will surely be compressed even more if he continues to go through the RB repertory at the current rate. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billboyd Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Natalia Osipova showed yet again - at Sadler's Wells - just what a terrific dance actor she is! Was there any doubt? Ditto - Sergei Polunin. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 Natalia Osipova showed yet again - at Sadler's Wells - just what a terrific dance actor she is! Was there any doubt? Ditto - Sergei Polunin. I agree Bill, she lit up the stage. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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