alison Posted February 19, 2012 Share Posted February 19, 2012 Late last year, back on the old forum, I expressed my appreciation of the Royal Ballet - and particularly their corps - having completed an insane number of performances in November due to having to fill in for a missing opera production as well as their originally scheduled performances, and reckoned they deserved a very large cyber-bouquet. Reading today's links, I remembered that I'd been intending to do the same for English National Ballet: 35 performances of The Nutcracker at the London Coliseum, I think it was, followed by a goodly number (19?) of Strictly Gershwin. I think their Bristol performances were the last of the Gershwin programme: over the last 6 months I'd have thought they've done enough performances of it to put most people off Gershwin for life, so I think they're deserving of a giant cyber-bouquet too. I hope their schedule over the next few months will be thoroughly refreshing for all of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Mallinson Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 Very nice idea. Problem is how do you deliver a cyber-bouquet so that the intended recipients see it. Twitter, Facebook, email the company director? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim b Posted February 20, 2012 Share Posted February 20, 2012 your last suggestion is ironically interesting JohnM in view of the other breaking news - to use current parlance - is the director bovvered any more?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tim b Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 just a further bit of musing - i went down to bristol (coincidentally my home town) last week and saw stage rehearsal and first performance of strictly gershwin - thereafter i did not get in as the hippodrome was sold out every evening! - i found the company were still dancing this work with customary elan and enthusiasm so certainly mega cyber bouquets to all concerned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 I showed my appreciation to the RB corps recently (after they did 7 shows in 5 days) by sending them a couple of big boxes of chocolates. I left them at the stage door and asked a couple of dancers whom I know to pick them up. They were very well received. There has been a recent influx of presents (mostly edible or alcoholic) to Royal Ballet dancers under the pretext of a "Royal Ballet Twitter Feed" which seems to have arisen from a tweet by Bennet Gartside! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted February 21, 2012 Author Share Posted February 21, 2012 I'd gathered Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted February 21, 2012 Share Posted February 21, 2012 No one works harder than the corps de ballet. Yet, there are very few ballets - like La Bayadere - where they get applause apart from the general applause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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