Australian Ballet in Paris, July 2019

[Sophoife]

If anyone is interested in seeing live the Australian Ballet's production of Ronald Hynd's The Merry Widow, it is part of their July 2019 appearance in Les Étés de la Danse at La Seine Musicale. Performance dates 10-13 July.

 

From 3-6 July they will be performing David McAllister's production of The Sleeping Beauty.

[Bruce Wall]

Thanks for this, Sophoife.   Do you know what rep Hong Kong Ballet will be dancing during their appearance in next year's Les Etes de la Danse aside TAB?  In 2020 it is ENB (hopefully with some of the wonderful works they have recently created Broken Dreams, Dust, Khan's Giselle, etc., which have not been seen there) aside DNB which has a magnificent rep of late 20th/early 21st choreographic masterworks (e.g., Ratmansky's Shostakovitch Trilogy, Plato's Symposium, etc.).  [That said Paris audiences have seen many of those unlike London ones.]  DNB were stellar in yesterday's WBD broadcast.  

 

It is good that TAB are offering a much more commercial rep compared with that of this year's Robbins Festival and PNB offerings.  They presented a much more challenging rep from a commercial perspective and the large La Seine Musicale often had many available seats with whole swathes shut off.  (Advice - no need to book immediately.   There are like to be offers.  This year 2 for 1 deals abounded.)  That said I'm not sure even the TAB seemingly commercial outings will be vastly selling at the venue given that many of Paris' balletomanes would it seems prefer not to travel to Billancourt.  Silly really from my perspective.  It will be interesting to see if ENB suffers similarly with, say, their Friends coming to their stunning new facility in East London.  In time, of course, I'm sure both organisations will develop large audiences within the ever growing residents in their local environs as they themselves inevitably and quite rightfully expand.  

 

Note:  The ticket sales will not effect the companeis themselves as I'm certain they must be playing against guarantee.  

Edited October 3, 2018 by Bruce Wall

[Sophoife]

7 minutes ago, Bruce Wall said:

Do you know what rep Hong Kong Ballet will be dancing during their appearance in next year's Les Etes de la Danse aside TAB? 

 

No, sorry. The only reason I know the TAB programme is that my subscription brochure arrived today (only ten days late, yay!) and there's a fold-out-and-pull-out calendar for 2019 which shows the dates etc for the whole year, and it included the Paris trip.

 

Although I do hear from a (far more well-heeled) friend that there will be Special Patron and Subscriber Escorted Tours, in other words TAB lending its name to Renaissance Tours or someone (probably Renaissance though as a former long-serving company philanthropy staff member now works escorting Renaissance ballet tours), so at least there will be some people in the audience!

 

Luckily I am deep into planning #ballettourofEurope2019 and included two periods in Paris, one for the end of POB season and tennis and one for this.  Can't wait for A Month in the Country.

 

8 minutes ago, Bruce Wall said:

It is good that TAB are offering a much more commercial rep compared with that of this year's Robbins Festival and PNB offerings.  They presented a much more challenging rep from a commercial perspective

 

TBH I understand the commercial perspective, however as we haven't had any Robbins for 10 years, I would have loved to see the Robbins festival.  TAB are doing nothing for the centenary, however are apparently planning a tribute to Dame Margot Fonteyn, as she and Nureyev were so helpful to the company in its first 15 years, particularly by guesting on overseas tours in order to encourage venues/audiences.