alison Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 Yesterday was the 32nd anniversary of my first trip to the Royal Opera House (Ondine, with Ravenna Tucker in the title role). Tomorrow it will be a year since I last went to the ballet - there or anywhere else. Let's hope it won't be too much longer before performances are able to open up again 17 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneMarriott Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 10 hours ago, alison said: Yesterday was the 32nd anniversary of my first trip to the Royal Opera House (Ondine, with Ravenna Tucker in the title role). Tomorrow it will be a year since I last went to the ballet - there or anywhere else. Let's hope it won't be too much longer before performances are able to open up again Ravenna Tucker - one of our all-time favourites since we started going to ROH a year before you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 10th March was my last visit to ROH (Akane Takada's Swan Lake) BEFORE the lockdowns/cancellations started. I have managed to attend a few things in the Autumn at ROH and Sadlers Wells between lockdowns, but under social distancing and mask wearing conditions, and only brief hellos to friends. So strange a year - days seem to stretch eternal, and yet suddenly, here we are and a whole year has passed Lets just hope the latest lockdown, combined with vaccinations, will do the trick and things start opening up again, and opening up properly 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Yesterday was my last West End show before the theatres went dark. Was due to see the same show on the day they did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 March 8 marked the one-year anniversary of my last live ballet: ABT in Ratmansky’s Of Love and Rage in California. 😢 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnstar Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) The last live ballet I saw was the Cellist/Dancers at a Gathering double bill on 4th March. The last time I was at the ROH was also the last "normal" performance there: La Traviata on 14th March. That was the last time I was in a theatre. Subsequently I've only been to Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, at the end of August. Edited March 10, 2021 by Dawnstar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Don Q Fan Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 My last shows were Onegin at ROH followed by was Alina Cojacuru's matinee at SW In Feb 2020 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 18 hours ago, Don Q Fan said: My last shows were Onegin at ROH followed by was Alina Cojacuru's matinee at SW In Feb 2020 Ditto! Exact same last shows in London theatres. I did see the cinema relay of The Cellist and Dances at a Gathering after these. I also went to Cardiff for Acosta DANZA and saw The Red Shoes in Bristol Hippodrome (that did not feel safe .... full house) in March. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheilaC Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 A year ago this week I went to Sunderland on 4 days to watch BRB's wonderful production of Swan Lake- 1 rehearsal (rather relaxed!), a Friends talk by Brandon, a pre-performance talk (Daria), 4 performances. On the Thursday I was even introduced to Carlos Acosta (I had actually met him in Havana several years previously but he was scarcely going to remember that!). The Saturday matinee performance was especially fine (Lachlan and Miki) which was a relief as I had prioritised that over going to Leeds to see the premiere of Northern Ballet's Geisha that night, safe in the knowledge that I had tickets to see Geisha in Leeds the following week. How wrong can you be! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted March 12, 2021 Author Share Posted March 12, 2021 When you said "Daria", I automatically thought: Klimentova! Still. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted March 12, 2021 Share Posted March 12, 2021 Not everyone is on first name terms with professional dancers so may I suggest we show appropriate courtesy to both dancers and other users of this board? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheilaC Posted March 13, 2021 Share Posted March 13, 2021 My humble apologies, bangorballetboy and Alison. May I point out that a moderator who referred to 'Daria' on 3 March was not similarly reprimanded. But you are right that full names are preferable. so.... Brandon Lawrence, Daria Stanciulescu (who performed the role of Queen Mother; less than 10 months later she became an actual mother to Zion), Lachlan Monaghan, Miki Mizutani. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 It is a year today since the world premiere (and only performance) of Northern Ballet's Geisha by Kenny Tindall. It was a stunningly beautiful performance. There was a tension in the air, not the usual anticipation for a Northern Ballet premiere. At Leeds Grand the outer doors of the toilets were fixed open so we didn't have to touch them on the way out. People were talking and speculating that a lockdown was coming. How naive we were thinking that it would be a couple of months and we would be back to normal. On the Sunday morning I left my friend's house to drive home and we had a quick hug and said "See you next weekend". Of course, the rest is history. Although I was lucky to see some of the performances that took place with optimism in October this was the last "proper" performance I saw before we plunged headlong into this nightmare. I feel so sad for the dancers and the companies. It is bad enough to cope with for us dedicated ballet watchers, what must it be like for them? 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted March 14, 2021 Share Posted March 14, 2021 1 hour ago, Jan McNulty said: I feel so sad for the dancers and the companies. It is bad enough to cope with for us dedicated ballet watchers, what must it be like for them? Absolutely terrible and I have a sense (from ‘reading between the lines’ of many social media posts) that the last three months have been the hardest of all for them. And the limbo continues......... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted March 14, 2021 Author Share Posted March 14, 2021 Seems that now might be a good time to bump this thread - I'd been meaning to do it anyway: "Dancers" does of course cover everyone else involved as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJH Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 On 14/03/2021 at 08:14, Jan McNulty said: It is a year today since the world premiere (and only performance) of Northern Ballet's Geisha by Kenny Tindall. It was a stunningly beautiful performance. There was a tension in the air, not the usual anticipation for a Northern Ballet premiere. At Leeds Grand the outer doors of the toilets were fixed open so we didn't have to touch them on the way out. People were talking and speculating that a lockdown was coming. How naive we were thinking that it would be a couple of months and we would be back to normal. On the Sunday morning I left my friend's house to drive home and we had a quick hug and said "See you next weekend". Of course, the rest is history. Although I was lucky to see some of the performances that took place with optimism in October this was the last "proper" performance I saw before we plunged headlong into this nightmare. I feel so sad for the dancers and the companies. It is bad enough to cope with for us dedicated ballet watchers, what must it be like for them? Especially as the next Saturday was going to be very special indeed - the Performance of Geisha that was to be Hannah Bateman's last planned performance with Northern in Leeds what the Northern/ The Ballet Retreat Community conjured from nothing ( thanks to the two Nicola's [one famous - Gervasi , one not famous / infamous member of the TBR family] and Giuliano Contadini ) was special... #hannahsflowercascade 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 42 minutes ago, NJH said: Especially as the next Saturday was going to be very special indeed - the Performance of Geisha that was to be Hannah Bateman's last planned performance with Northern in Leeds what the Northern/ The Ballet Retreat Community conjured from nothing ( thanks to the two Nicola's [one famous - Gervasi , one not famous / infamous member of the TBR family] and Giuliano Contadini ) was special... #hannahsflowercascade The flower cascade was such a lovely idea and very, very special. I was very happy to participate in the online event. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 25 minutes ago, Jan McNulty said: The flower cascade was such a lovely idea and very, very special. Always a fan of flower throws! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 3 hours ago, bangorballetboy said: Always a fan of flower throws! This was a virtual one. We all had to post pictures of flowers on Hannah's social media at 7:30, the time the performance should have been starting. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJH Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 10 hours ago, bangorballetboy said: Always a fan of flower throws! because the performance got cancelled a plan was hatched between various people ( The Ballet Retreat people , Northern Ballet company people plus some of the serious Northern Fans like Janet and a raft of other people from the dance world) and at 1930 hours on that Saturday when the curtain was meant to go up on the celebratory performance Hannah's social media was filled with images + little videos it was a fabulous moment ( and apparently it got very dusty ... ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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