loveclassics Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Today's Telegraph quotes an airline industry consultant talking about the current situation at Heathrow: "Customers and from the airline's point of view - manpower, dealing with the backlog of aircraft out of position, parking spaces for the aircraft - it's a challenge and a choreographic nightmare." Now there's a good plot for a ballet! Linda 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninamargaret Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 I've often thought that some of the more complex manoeuvres in rugby union look like something that has been, or should be, choreographed! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 Roger Federer must employ a truly divine choreographer. And Rafa Nadal too. Like watching Ashton vs MacMillan. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 (edited) Federer! Absolutely! Not only on court but also in real life he moves with such grace: Photographs here. Edited May 29, 2017 by Jan McNulty edited to make link look tidier 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 28, 2017 Share Posted May 28, 2017 6 hours ago, bridiem said: Roger Federer must employ a truly divine choreographer. And Rafa Nadal too. Like watching Ashton vs MacMillan. Federer, I grant you. But Nadal?! And I think Amelia was really after this oldie by Ismene Brown: http://www.theartsdesk.com/dance/gods-grace-when-sport-beautiful (I only wish I'd saved it before the post-Olympics edit ) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMC Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Tennis and ballet are two of my passions and Federer is where they meet, but sorry can't agree on Nadal being graceful. All that grunting and ugly double-handed backhand! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 Agree BMC. As a teenager I used to think MacEnroe's serve was like dance in a way. Interesting to read others have also thought this. Federer-what a loss to the dance world, he should have been a Siegfried. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted May 29, 2017 Share Posted May 29, 2017 7 hours ago, alison said: Federer, I grant you. But Nadal?! And I think Amelia was really after this oldie by Ismene Brown: http://www.theartsdesk.com/dance/gods-grace-when-sport-beautiful (I only wish I'd saved it before the post-Olympics edit ) Oh thanks Alison- yes Olga Korbut- what an absolute joy to watch she was, another loss to ballet. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fiz Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Olga Korbut did do ballet when she was training. She's on Twitter so I asked her some years ago. She said that she had done a lot and so had all the Russian team at that time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Ah- no surprise Fiz. Do they still, I wonder? Actually of course Federer should have been an Apollo..... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Many years ago I was at an event at a BAe Systems site. The Red Arrows were there while performing at the Southport Air Show down the road. I had never realised that their taxi-ing on the runway was also choreographed. It was fascinating to watch... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 On 29/05/2017 at 06:16, BMC said: Tennis and ballet are two of my passions and Federer is where they meet, but sorry can't agree on Nadal being graceful. All that grunting and ugly double-handed backhand! I think he's like a panther and his power has a kind of grace. Besides which MacMillan is hardly beautiful at times! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMC Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Sorry, birdiem, we're going to have to agree to disagree on the Nadal question - but great champion of course. As you may have gathered, I have a bit of a blinkered approach to double-handed backhands - they seem to me to preclude grace by their very nature. So it will come as no surprise that my sleep, time favourites are Federer, Edberg and Justine Henin. Wandering off the balletic connection a bit, wonder what the upcoming Borg / McEnroe film will be like. I seem to remember the film Wimbledon bring a bit of a dud. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Quite agree about the double-handed backhand: it's no coincidence that most of my favourites are single-handers. But this is getting very much off-topic: there's a tennis thread in Not Dance if we want to continue this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BMC Posted May 30, 2017 Share Posted May 30, 2017 Absolutely right - so, back to topic. Has Madame Bovary ever been done as a ballet? Some great pas de deux opportunities. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trog Posted May 31, 2017 Share Posted May 31, 2017 A quick google shows that Madame Bovary was done as a ballet in 1996 by Indiana University Ballet Theatre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assoluta Posted June 16, 2017 Share Posted June 16, 2017 On 5/28/2017 at 18:30, loveclassics said: Today's Telegraph quotes an airline industry consultant talking about the current situation at Heathrow: "Customers and from the airline's point of view - manpower, dealing with the backlog of aircraft out of position, parking spaces for the aircraft - it's a challenge and a choreographic nightmare." Now there's a good plot for a ballet! Linda As much as I like your post, "a choreographic nightmare" doesn't sound to me very promising. Last night I saw 4 new ballets and two of them surely were "choreographic nightmares". 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now