Bruce Wall Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Just wondering ... Usually by this point some of the dance goodies that will appear on TV during Christmas have been revealed ... I haven't heard of any .... Has anyone else? I did attend the operalia gala ... and I was told at that time that it would be broadcast around Xmas ... but I haven't heard of any of the dance fare ... short of the stuff currently on Sky Arts 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 You're right, meunier: in the light of the absence of any mention, I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't any worth speaking of, not on the free-to-air channels, anyway. Still, presumably the Christmas editions of the listings magazines will be out soon, and then we shall know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieW Posted December 3, 2012 Share Posted December 3, 2012 Great minds think alike and all that - was just talking about this with hubby today. Will keep eyes peeled. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lisa O`Brien Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 Will have to wait for the Christmas edition of the Radio Times [only time of the year I buy it].First thing I do when I get it is scour through each page to see what ballet is on. There`s usually something on BBC2. Just hope it`s not BRB`s Cinderella yet again.!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 The BBC website in the 'press' section, isn't featuring anything ballet related - so if anything does turn up, I reckon it will be a repeat. If it was new, I'm sure they'd at least mention it. So - Nutcracker after the Queen's speech on Beeb2, would be my wager... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trog Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 There will most likely be some ballet featured in the Vienna New Years Day concert. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Reynolds Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 There will most likely be some ballet featured in the Vienna New Years Day concert. The choreographer for the Vienna State Ballet dancing at Schloss Hof will be Ashley Page. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 I've just checked in the newsagent, and the next Radio Times, running until the 21st, isn't supposed to be in the shops until December 6th, so quite conceivably the Christmas double edition will be even later than that. Has anyone seen any announcements of Christmas programming at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 only the generic stuff: http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/mediapacks/xmas12/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted December 4, 2012 Share Posted December 4, 2012 The Christmas double issue is on sale this Saturday 8th December, that's the third issue in one week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaneL Posted December 11, 2012 Share Posted December 11, 2012 Paris Opera Ballet's Coppelia is on Sky Arts 2 on 22nd December at 8pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I've only got a few days into the RT so far, and can see that there's loads of dance on Sky Arts 2, but very little so far on free-to-air channels: the full version of the Mariinsky Swan Lake on BBC4, I think on Christmas Day, has been the only thing so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beryl H Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Just noticed that next Tuesday 18th December BBC1 has an Imagine documentary with Alan Yentob about the creation of Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, 10.35-11.35pm, sounds very interesting, possibly the only new ballet programme, apart from the Vienna New Year Gala. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 Ooh, well spotted, Beryl. I hadn't even started looking at next week's programming yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted December 12, 2012 Share Posted December 12, 2012 I've had a quick trawl through the Christmas Radio Times and spotted a few things (nothing earth shattering) Saturday 22nd Sky Arts 2. 2pm Swan lake Probably the one recorded for the RB a couple of years ago; Marianella? 7pm Mystery of Coppelia. Doc. about POB Patrice Bart production. 8pm Coppelia itself. Doen't sound too traditional; a bit more Gothicthan normal. 11.10pm. Mikado. fabulous Jonathan Miller 1920s style production with some dancing. Sunday 23rd Sky Arts 2. 2pm Nutcracker (and repeated). Probably RB version starring Steven and Yoshida filmed 2 or 3 years ago. Sunday 25th. BBC4. 8pm. Swan Lake. Mariinsky version starring Lopatkina and Korsuntsev (I think) More4 11.15pm Matthew Bourne's Christmas. Dance film celebrating his work. Saturday 29th BBC4. 7pm. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Repeat of RB production. New years Day BBC2 11.15am. New years day concert from Vienna. BBC4 7pm. Extended coverage of New years Day concert including a performance by Vienna State Ballet. For me, posibly the most interesting offerings are on the French tv channel Arte (www.arte.tv) . On New years day at 2.55 pm they are showing the Opening gala of the Bolshoi Theatre. and on 4th Jan at 8.50pm what I think is a new 2012 recording of POB Don Q, starring Agnes Gillot. I'm hoping a friend will be able to record these for me. Joan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted December 13, 2012 Author Share Posted December 13, 2012 On behalf of all, thanks so for spending the time searching and typing, Joan. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Trying to make some fancy additions in different fonts: I've had a quick trawl through the Christmas Radio Times and spotted a few things (nothing earth shattering) Saturday 22nd Sky Arts 2. 2pm Swan lake Probably the one recorded for the RB a couple of years ago; Marianella? 7pm Mystery of Coppelia. Doc. about POB Patrice Bart production. 8pm Coppelia itself. Doen't sound too traditional; a bit more Gothicthan normal. These two repeated in the early hours of the (next) morning 11.10pm. Mikado. fabulous Jonathan Miller 1920s style production with some dancing. 7 am Roland Petit's L'Arlésienne Sunday 23rd Sky Arts 2. 2pm Nutcracker (and repeated). Probably RB version starring Steven and Yoshida filmed 2 or 3 years ago. 9 am Swan Lake (repeat?) 10.25 pm Nuages (Paris Opera Ballet) 10.40 pm Nutcracker Monday 24th Sky Arts 3.45 am Snow White 5.20 am L'Arlésienne 6 am onwards repeat of the two Coppelias 11.10 am Snow White 12.45 pm Boléro Tuesday 25th. BBC4. 8pm. Swan Lake. Mariinsky version starring Lopatkina and Korsuntsev (I think) More4 11.15pm Matthew Bourne's Christmas. Dance film celebrating his work. This is a repeat from last Christmas, I think? Sky Arts 8 pm Nutcracker (RB) 11.50 pm Boléro Wednesday 26th Sky Arts 3 am Nutcracker 7.30 am onwards: the two Coppelias 2.05 pm Nutcracker BBC2 1.10 pm Darcey Bussell Dances Hollywood Thursday 27th Sky Arts 8.30 am Nutcracker 5.35 pm Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (repeated 1.35 am next day) Friday 28th Sky Arts 10 am Mikado 12.10 pm Roland Petit's Carmen And that's enough for now. Note that there are also a few brief 5- or 10-minute dance programmes on Sky which I haven't bothered to list, and also that in some cases I'm guessing that Sky programmes are dance works from their titles rather than anything else, so please double-check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nana Lily Posted December 15, 2012 Share Posted December 15, 2012 Thank you so much for posting! Merry Christmas! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted December 17, 2012 Author Share Posted December 17, 2012 The Nutcracker that Alison has so very kindly referenced above being broadcast on Sky is in fact the SAN FRANCISCO Nutcracker ... Sky did, in fact, broadcast the Royal's Peter Wright production a couple of weeks back. They have broadcast both previously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 17, 2012 Share Posted December 17, 2012 Oh well, that's another one for the collection, then . Thanks, meunier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 18, 2012 Share Posted December 18, 2012 Some fuller information here http://www.thestage.co.uk/columns/en-pointe/2012/12/dance-your-way-through-christmas-from-the-sofa/?utm_campaign=En%20pointe&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter, courtesy of The BalletBag. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 The Nutcracker that Alison has so very kindly referenced above being broadcast on Sky is in fact the SAN FRANCISCO Nutcracker ... Sky did, in fact, broadcast the Royal's Peter Wright production a couple of weeks back. They have broadcast both previously. The latest source I have for the Christmas Day one implies that it's the Royal Ballet, with Ansanelli and Hristov, which was shown live in cinemas a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 So, here's the rest I've found: Saturday 29th - BBC4, 7 pm Royal Ballet in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Sky Arts 2, 7.30 pm NDT: Jiri Kylian's Symphony in D Sunday 30th - Sky Arts 2, 12.25 am Roland Petit's Carmen 3.15 am Swan Lake 7 am Carmen again 10 am Stomp: Live midnight: Symphony in D again Thursday 3rd January - Sky Arts 2, 11 pm A Beautiful Tragedy: "The true story of a Russian girl who devoted herself to ballet" Friday 4th - Sky Arts 2, 9.40 pm Paris Opera Ballet: Boléro 10 pm Margot: profile of Fonteyn (3 hours) - the Tony Palmer one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 And on Radio 3 on Christmas Eve, 7.30 pm, a repeat of the LSO/Gergiev Prom performance of Prokofiev's "Cinderella". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman S Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 If you can seize control of the TV remote on Christmas Day (no mean achievement) then the Kirov are dancing Swan Lake at 8pm on BBC 4. I'm hoping it will be on Iplayer !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulieW Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 Not keen on their tutus! ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 I saw POB Coppelia and was more impressed with it than I thought I was going to be. it helped to see the doc. first then you weren't surprised to see a young (and very personable!!) Dr Coppelius. Jose Martinez as Coppelius stole the show giving a marvellous performance, though Swanhilda and Franz were also excellent. The men generally were given more to do and I enjoyed Patrice Bart's choreography. Though much of the music was Coppelia's Bart also introduced other Delibes music to give the production a rather 'darker' atmesphere than normal.Coppelius' wife had died and he was using an older 'traditional Dr Coppelius type' man as his assistant to utilise Swanhilda's 'life force' to possibly bring his wife back to life again (I think) The last act is missing altogether, though with the introduction of the other music it probably lasts nearly as long. it ends with a wonderful pas de deux between Franz and Swanhilda. During the ballet Swanhilda is rather torn between Franz and Coppelius (don't blame her!!) but it all works out in the end. I feel I need to see it again to take it all in but I do feel it is worth watching again which I didn't think I would when I read about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted December 25, 2012 Share Posted December 25, 2012 I also liked Patrice Bart's Coppelia for POB. According to the documentary he went back to the original Sandman story. Jose Martinez had tremendous charisma as Dr Coppelius. I found the sets a little austere, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Nicolas le Riche was very convincing in Le Jeune Homme et La Mort. I was interested to see him because he's supposed to be dancing this with ENB in the Spring. I assume that he will dance it with Tamara in the role of the lover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SheilaC Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 Some of the most fantastic performances I have ever seen were Le Riche in Jeune Homme, when he performed feats that looked physically impossible and was intensely convincing in the melodrama, such were his acting powers. I first saw him do it was when he was very young but he's such a fantastic actor and has such presence that I'm sure he'll be equally stunning with Tamara. Do see him, he's always compelling, whatever he does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 1, 2013 Share Posted January 1, 2013 SheilaC, I'm definitely going to book to see him once I know when he's performing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 BBC2 1.10 pm Darcey Bussell Dances Hollywood Just noticed this is being repeated tonight on BBC4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 Alison - did you really have to resurrect a thread with the Ch word in it!!! But thanks for the heads up! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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