FionaM Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 The show is listed on the Teatro Arcimboldi website as being in August/September 2023. No specific date(s) yet. https://www.teatroarcimboldi.it/fat-event/la-strada/ When originally listed they had Alban Lendorf (former Royal Danish and ABT principal) as Zampanò … now changed to former La Scala principal Mick Zeni. The choreographer has also changed … was originally Otto’s twin brother Jiri Bubeniček. Now it is Natalia Horecna. There were initial creation/rehearsal clips with this revised cast shared in November 2022. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 There have been other stagings of this story …. 2018 by Marco Goecke for Gaertnerplatztheatre https://youtu.be/lfKSPRZZYRw 2005 at La Scala (originally choreographed in 1966 by Mario Pistoni) (google for possible unofficial recording in 3 parts) 2017 for Tbilisi State Ballet starring Nina Ananiashvili … she looks perfect in this. Choreography by Gianluca Schiavoni. https://youtu.be/BU9_UypDXvg Probably others too. I can’t help feeling the story is similar to Liliom (aka Carousel) created at Hamburg by Neumeier on Alina … a character treated badly by men, with a circus themed background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut68 Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 Likely to come to UK I wonder? Hope so! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 Casting for Liliom in Hamburg is up: Alina performs the role of Julie on 12 and 13 April, alongside Karen Azatyan in the title role. There are still some tickets available (not many). Highly recommend if you like narrative ballets.https://www.hamburgballett.de/en/schedule/play–repertoire.php?SNr=610 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Alina will perform the dual role of Hippolyta/Titania in John Neumeier’s full length version of A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with Hamburg Ballet … on 20 and 24 April 2023. Both shows are sold out. Alina features in these roles in this trailer from the 2019/2020 season partnered (then and now) by Christopher Evans as Theseus/Oberon. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted April 16, 2023 Share Posted April 16, 2023 Whoops .. her shows are 20th and 23rd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 Alina is likely to perform the lead role created for her in The Glass Menagerie in Hamburg in all their upcoming performances this season. 30 May, 1 & 2 June, 1 July 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) Alina performed Neumeier’s The Glass Menagerie last night as part of the Hamburg Ballet days (a festival of ballet which lasts a month). It’s an extraordinary dramatic ballet of Tennessee William’s memory play. The story is heartbreaking throughout and the ending rips your heart out as she snuffs out each candle on a candlestick holder one-by-one … to end in darkness. Alina gets to dance with a modified shoe over one pointe shoe for much of the ballet. Super movement creation to depict her character’s disability and her emotional journey. Edited July 2, 2023 by FionaE 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 (edited) The Glass Menagerie is next on stage in Hamburg in May 2024 Casting is not usually announced in Hamburg until a few weeks in advance. https://www.hamburgballett.de/en/schedule/event.php?AuffNr=196297 A review by Maggie Foyer from the premiere in December 2019 https://www.seeingdance.com/hamburg-ballet-glass-menagerie-17122019/ Edited July 2, 2023 by FionaE Add review 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 Alina has a full schedule this next couple of months (info from Alina Cojocaru fan group on Facebook): 🩰 1 July - THE GLASS MENAGERIE in Hamburg 🩰5 July - GISELLE in Tbilisi Ballet Festival, partnered by Royal Ballet principal Reece Clarke 🩰 7 July - LILIOM in Hamburg 🩰 9 July - NIJINSKY GALA XLVIII in Hamburg. Alina performs an excerpt from Third Symphony of Gustav Mahler, with Edvin Revazov. 🩰 13 July - PAST FORWARD gala with Jacopo Tissi in Vicenza 🩰 14 or 15 July - MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM in Granada. Dates and full cast TBA 🩰 16 July - PAST FORWARD gala with Jacopo Tissi in Civitanova 🩰 17 August - PAST FORWARD gala with Jacopo Tissi in Taormina 🩰 22, 26, 27 August - BALLET INTERNATIONAL GALAS in Australia. Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne. Rose Adagio from Sleeping Beauty. 🩰 August/September - new creation LA STRADA with own company at Teatro Arcimboldi, Milan 4 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnstar Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 7 hours ago, FionaE said: 🩰5 July - GISELLE in Tbilisi Ballet Festival, partnered by Royal Ballet principal Reece Clarke Gosh, that will be quite the height difference between the partners! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peanut68 Posted July 2, 2023 Share Posted July 2, 2023 But believable in the ‘real world’…. Who wouldn’t fall for tall handsome him??!! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted July 3, 2023 Share Posted July 3, 2023 Alina is dancing mostly with very tall men this coming month … Reece Clarke in Georgia, Edvin Revazov in Hamburg, Jacopo Tissi in Italy !!! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine0308 Posted August 15, 2023 Share Posted August 15, 2023 (edited) No Info on the date of performance, but apparently the gala "Alina Cojocaru and friends" is happening again this year in a new huge performing arts center NEW BUND 31 in China, scroll down: https://www.citynewsservice.cn/news/79orenvl0emj5zw4 Edited August 15, 2023 by Sabine0308 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted September 4, 2023 Share Posted September 4, 2023 Alina will perform Titania in Ashton’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with Semperoper Ballet in Dresden on 12 and 15 October 2023. The programme includes David Dawson’s The Four Seasons. Alessandra Ferri is coaching. According to Instagram story posts by both these dancers and also by Marcelo Gomes, Artistic Advisor 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oncnp Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 (edited) A little more info on what @Sabine0308 noted above from acworkroom, Cojocaru's production company's IG. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxmzoh3tjYA/ Edited September 25, 2023 by oncnp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 Alina will dance Aurora in Neumeier's Sleeping Beauty with Hamburg Ballet at Festspielhaus Baden-Baden: Oct 6 and 8, both with Alexander Trusch 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine0308 Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 5 hours ago, oncnp said: A little more info on what @Sabine0308 noted above from acworkroom, Cojocaru's production company's IG. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cxmzoh3tjYA/ Thank you!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 Alina’s galas in China are a tour of two weeks or so, encompassing Shanghai and Beijing and other cities yet to be announced. Info from instagram stories of Johan Kobborg and Wentao Li, principal dancer in Beijing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheilaC Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 I'm not sure that anyone has posted that Alina will be dancing at the end of January and beginning of February in England- in Bath. Partnered by Matthew Ball. and with Kristen McNally and Tommy Franzen. It's a contemporary double bill of pieces by Kim Brandstrup. Jonathan Goddard is in the other work, Minotaur, which was shown at the Edinburgh Festival. The dates have been modified- the performances I initially booked got cancelled!- but it runs 29 January to 10 February, at the Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal (one matinee, Saturday 10 February) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabine0308 Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 This seems to be a 2 days Gala, 4.-5. November 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 44 minutes ago, SheilaC said: I'm not sure that anyone has posted that Alina will be dancing at the end of January and beginning of February in England- in Bath. Partnered by Matthew Ball. and with Kristen McNally and Tommy Franzen. It's a contemporary double bill of pieces by Kim Brandstrup. Jonathan Goddard is in the other work, Minotaur, which was shown at the Edinburgh Festival. The dates have been modified- the performances I initially booked got cancelled!- but it runs 29 January to 10 February, at the Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal (one matinee, Saturday 10 February) Jonathan Goddard would be the draw for me! I see the matinee on 10th Feb is showing as sold out so it would be an overnight stay for me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emeralds Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 Shanghai a tad far for me 😂 but that’s a great lineup. Wonder what Johan will be dancing? (Also took me a while to work out that @ biiaia is Bianca Teixeira). The show in Bath looks intriguing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 25, 2023 Share Posted September 25, 2023 3 hours ago, SheilaC said: I'm not sure that anyone has posted that Alina will be dancing at the end of January and beginning of February in England- in Bath. Partnered by Matthew Ball. and with Kristen McNally and Tommy Franzen. It's a contemporary double bill of pieces by Kim Brandstrup. Jonathan Goddard is in the other work, Minotaur, which was shown at the Edinburgh Festival. The dates have been modified- the performances I initially booked got cancelled!- but it runs 29 January to 10 February, at the Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal (one matinee, Saturday 10 February) Aaagh! That's the same day as the BRB Sleeping Beauty (?) matinee I've already booked down in Southampton! Don't suppose there's any way of getting a train back to London after the evening performance (and who would risk it with the intermittent train strikes at the moment?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ondine Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 5 hours ago, SheilaC said: Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal ( Not the largest of venues! Capacity 126 seats? The small but perfectly formed Theatre Royal itself only has 900 seats. One of my favourites. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Perregrino Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 15 hours ago, SheilaC said: I'm not sure that anyone has posted that Alina will be dancing at the end of January and beginning of February in England- in Bath. Partnered by Matthew Ball. and with Kristen McNally and Tommy Franzen. It's a contemporary double bill of pieces by Kim Brandstrup. Jonathan Goddard is in the other work, Minotaur, which was shown at the Edinburgh Festival. The dates have been modified- the performances I initially booked got cancelled!- but it runs 29 January to 10 February, at the Ustinov Studio, Bath Theatre Royal (one matinee, Saturday 10 February) does anyone knowhow long this piece is? might be worth a day out but not if it's only 20 minutes running time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 1 hour ago, PeterS said: does anyone knowhow long this piece is? might be worth a day out but not if it's only 20 minutes running time. But the chance to see Jonathan Goddard is definitely worth sitting through the first one before Minotaur! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 7 minutes ago, Jan McNulty said: But the chance to see Jonathan Goddard is definitely worth sitting through the first one before Minotaur! I saw Minotaur first time around in Bath and it's very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 9 minutes ago, Lizbie1 said: I saw Minotaur first time around in Bath and it's very good. I’m jealous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
San Perregrino Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 21 minutes ago, Jan McNulty said: But the chance to see Jonathan Goddard is definitely worth sitting through the first one before Minotaur! but if they're both only short pieces,its a long way to go from London even for Matty Ball, hence my asking if anyone knows the running time(s)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 18 minutes ago, PeterS said: but if they're both only short pieces,its a long way to go from London even for Matty Ball, hence my asking if anyone knows the running time(s)? Even further from Liverpool! When I worked in Bath I knew a number of people who commuted to London on a daily basis. I don’t know the running times but if I had to hazard a guess I would say somewhere between 75 and 90 minutes for the evening. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 The box office have no indication of running time. They say it’s not yet in rehearsal by which I assume it’s not created in full yet. The previous Brandstrup show in Bath was called Minotaur. The box office say that had 2 parts of 40-45 minutes each with an interval. I believe this new show includes part of that show. Does anyone know the running order of the Brandstrup Phaedra & Minotaur double bill in Edinburgh? https://amp.theguardian.com/stage/2023/aug/19/phaedra-minotaur-review-royal-lyceum-edinburgh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted September 26, 2023 Share Posted September 26, 2023 Booking link and info https://www.theatreroyal.org.uk/events/metamorphoses/ Very small theatre (126 capacity) and very small stage … one jêté and you’re in the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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