Sim Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 Why do Sky Arts assume that everyone who likes ballet is awake and able to spend two hours watching ballet at the crack of dawn? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 8 hours ago, Sim said: Why do Sky Arts assume that everyone who likes ballet is awake and able to spend two hours watching ballet at the crack of dawn? they probably assume nobody watches 'live' TV anymore, and records everything In my case, they'd be right too! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 12 hours ago, zxDaveM said: they probably assume nobody watches 'live' TV anymore, and records everything In my case, they'd be right too! But there are still Luddites like me who don’t know how to record! 🤦🏻♀️😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted September 19, 2021 Share Posted September 19, 2021 Me too Sim if it involves a dvd recorder. Luckily with the Sky box all you have to do is press a button that says record. Even I can do that! However, some people just like to switch on the TV in an evening without thinking about recording. It seems SkyArts doesn't rate their Arts audience as sufficiently important or numerous enough to merit scheduling most ballet or opera at a time when people actually want to watch it. It's often popular music programmes in the prime evening slot. Given that the age group for ballet and opera is (I suspect) somewhat older and may be more likely to watch TV in the evening, perhaps they should experiment with scheduling some evening opera and ballet. They may be pleasantly surprised, especially if they do it the same evening every week which I think they did at one time when it was Artsworld. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trog Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 16 hours ago, Sim said: But there are still Luddites like me who don’t know how to record! 🤦🏻♀️😂 A hard disk PVR is ideal for this. With mine, you call up the program guide, goto what you want to record and press OK. That's it! It wakes up and records your program. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 1 hour ago, trog said: A hard disk PVR is ideal for this. With mine, you call up the program guide, goto what you want to record and press OK. That's it! It wakes up and records your program. That's what I have - the trouble is, it's so easy that I end up recording hundreds of programmes! Then every now and then I delete lots of them because I realise I'm not actually going to watch them... 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trog Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 59 minutes ago, bridiem said: That's what I have - the trouble is, it's so easy that I end up recording hundreds of programmes! Then every now and then I delete lots of them because I realise I'm not actually going to watch them... I'm glad it is not just me who does this. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Two Pigeons Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 59 minutes ago, trog said: I'm glad it is not just me who does this. Me too !!! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted September 20, 2021 Share Posted September 20, 2021 1 minute ago, Two Pigeons said: Me too !!! Me four! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted September 27, 2021 Share Posted September 27, 2021 SkyArts are showing a Bolshoi Ballet Coppelia Sat 2nd Oct 1-3 pm (a civilised time!) No casting details but I suspect it might be the more recent cinema broadcast with Shrainer and Ovcharenko (?) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 SkyArts are showing Northern Ballet's Casanova 6-8am Wed 13th Oct. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob S Posted October 4, 2021 Share Posted October 4, 2021 Sky Arts 9th October 14-1630 La Bayadere with Rojo, Costa and Nunez 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 4, 2021 Author Share Posted October 4, 2021 On 27/09/2021 at 20:24, jmhopton said: SkyArts are showing a Bolshoi Ballet Coppelia Sat 2nd Oct 1-3 pm (a civilised time!) No casting details but I suspect it might be the more recent cinema broadcast with Shrainer and Ovcharenko (?) Indeed it was. Just a shame about the weather conditions at the time - my recording came out quite pixellated in parts Never mind, perhaps they'll repeat it at some stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted October 5, 2021 Share Posted October 5, 2021 Really pleased to see Sky Arts showing performances at better times in the day, but I’m wondering if there will be some more recent broadcasts from Royal Ballet. Sky used to show the screenings less than a year later which was brilliant. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 5, 2021 Author Share Posted October 5, 2021 I wouldn't even mind some earlier ones, too, for a bit of variety, and a change in casts. We seem to have a large batch from about 5 years ago, whereas we know that multiple Sleeping Beauties, Giselles and Nutcrackers have been available. It may be that they're only allowed to show one of each. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 8, 2021 Author Share Posted October 8, 2021 On 04/10/2021 at 19:35, Rob S said: Sky Arts 9th October 14-1630 La Bayadere with Rojo, Costa and Nunez Not to mention Matthew Bourne's Romeo & Juliet at 7.25 am, for those early risers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 9, 2021 Author Share Posted October 9, 2021 On 04/10/2021 at 19:35, Rob S said: Sky Arts 9th October 14-1630 La Bayadere with Rojo, Costa and Nunez I'm told it was actually Nunez, Osipova and Muntagirov. I guess that's yet another lesson never to believe what Sky Arts claim about casting. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted October 9, 2021 Share Posted October 9, 2021 1 hour ago, alison said: I'm told it was actually Nunez, Osipova and Muntagirov. I guess that's yet another lesson never to believe what Sky Arts claim about casting. It was. I watched bits while working. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pulcinella Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 BBC4 this Sunday, 17 Oct, Romeo and Juliet: Beyond Words with Francesca Hayward and William Bracewell. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dawnstar Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 That's handy! I'm sure I can't be the only person wanting to re-watch it after seeing Hayward & Bracewell on stage last week. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 13, 2021 Author Share Posted October 13, 2021 You may have trouble fitting it in round all the other bits ... More later once I've digested this week's TV guide, unless someone else posts it first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 14, 2021 Author Share Posted October 14, 2021 (edited) Okay, since nobody else has posted it first, from my (very limited) listings mag: Saturday 16th: Sky Arts 6 am: La Bayadère (I'm guessing the RB version we saw the other day, so Muntagirov et al? - claims to be the Acosta cast on the EPG, so will almost certainly be the Muntagirov one ) Sunday 17th: BBC4 10 pm: (as already mentioned) Romeo and Juliet Without Words (Repeated in the early hours of Friday 22nd, 2 am) Monday 18th: Sky Arts 7.30 am: Rumpelstiltskin (I'm guessing children's ballet by either Northern Ballet or Ballet Lorent or someone?) Tuesday 19th: Sky Arts 6 am: Australian Ballet in I know not what - apparently The Merry Widow (for those who got into Frida Kahlo after ENB's ballet, there's also a programme about her at 9 pm) Wednesday 20th: Sky Arts 6 am: Giselle (am guessing the RB version - yes, but cast not specified) (I got so into the swing of daily showings that I was trying to persuade myself that Barry Manilow: Live on Thursday was a ballet too ) Friday 22nd: Sky Arts 6 am: Australian Ballet in Coppelia (really nice production!) and at midnight: Why Do We Dance?, which I think was the Akram Khan thing. Whew! Edited October 15, 2021 by alison Updated 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Rumpelstiltskin is Ballet Lorent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Thursday 28th Oct Channel 4 12.10 am 45 minutes (repeated 1 hour later on +1) Ballet Black: Eightfold. Conceptual dance film performed by the award-winning company Ballet Black, created by the group's artistic director Cassa Pancho and film director Mark Donne, and accompanied by an observational script read by Thandiwe Newton 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 (edited) Just checking the SkyArts listing as I thought I'd seen a mention for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and I was right; it's on tomorrow at 6.15am until 8.30am. It says it's the 2013 Lamb/Bonelli/Watson version. However, before it, just a short programme 6.00-6.15am, apparently part 3 of a 6 part series called Arts Uncovered. This episode 'Follows the stage managers at the ROH as they prepare for a new show at Covent Garden' (no indication whether the show is opera or ballet). I'm trying to think if I remember this series first time around. It says it's part of a ROH season so I'm not sure if the whole series is about the ROH or just this episode. Will have to set it to record the series and see what happens. Unfortunately the Radio Times only gives minimal information for SkyArts so it only says Arts Uncovered with no indication as to what the programme is about which is why I missed it when I went through it. Nov 7th 6.25-8.30am is another repeat of the Ashton triple with Midsummer Nights Dream and Yanovsky's final performance of Marguerite and Armand. Much as I enjoy Alice and of course the Ashton triple I wish SkyArts could screen more recent arts performances. There was one year that they screened the cinema series the year it was filmed but those days are long gone. Surely there are ballets/opera filmed abroad that we never get to see that could be acquired if there is a problem with UK performances. Edited October 30, 2021 by jmhopton amending programme timing 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted October 30, 2021 Author Share Posted October 30, 2021 Iirc it was opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 7 minutes ago, alison said: Iirc it was opera. Thought it might be! Still interesting though. Searched for it in Tvguide.co.uk and apparently programme 5 in the series is about a Bristol Old Vic production of Madame Butterfly so not all about the ROH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmhopton Posted November 7, 2021 Share Posted November 7, 2021 BBC2 are showing a repeat of the David Bintley doc Dancing in the Blitz on BBC2 Sat Nov 13th 4.40pm. Also SkyArts are showing Australian Ballet's Sleeping Beauty Tuesday 16th Nov 6.45am. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted November 9, 2021 Share Posted November 9, 2021 Watch out for new Sky Arts programme “Play in a Day” to be broadcast in December. Date Unknown. Filmed at the Alexandra Palace on 31st October. “Three performances; three genres; six graduates: 24 hours to create something spectacular! Sky Arts would like to invite you to Play in A Day. You will have the opportunity to see star actors and dancers working with recent performing arts graduates. Six graduates from across the nation team up with some of the world’s greatest actors and dancers, under the lights of Alexandra Palace, the watchful eye of Kwame Kwei-Armah OBE (artistic director of the Young Vic theatre in London), and the pressure of the Sky Arts cameras with only 24 hours to produce a masterpiece! Each performance will feature two graduates working together with some of the world’s greatest actors and dancers from the worlds of theatre, music, and ballet, bringing you one ballet piece, one musical and one short play. We would love to see you this Sunday, 31st October 2021, at the iconic Alexandra Palace, north London for an unforgettable evening!” The graduate dancers had to do several rounds of auditions. They thought the 31st October was actually the final round … but then it turned out to be the event itself. The lucky two chosen were - Kamal Singh, from India currently on ENB School’s professional programme - Leigh Shaked, recent graduate of Laine Theatre Arts Sergei Polunin was the choreographer of the dance ‘play’. https://www.instagram.com/p/CVu_w3eMec7/?utm_medium=copy_link 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted November 23, 2021 Share Posted November 23, 2021 Just picked up The BBC's plans for 2022. No dates yet but something to look out for: https://www.culturewhisper.com/r/dance/bbc_dance2022/16625 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted November 24, 2021 Share Posted November 24, 2021 At long last they are showing Yuli ( it was initially supposed to be part of their last dance season). It’s such an enjoyable film. With the documentary about McGregor, I wonder if they will be screening The Dante Project at some point in 2022- in recent years it was the BBC that screened both Woolf Works and Frankenstein relatively soon after both had premiered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest oncnp Posted November 27, 2021 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Christopher Wheeldon's "An American in Paris: The Musical" with Robert Fairchild & Leanne Cope BBC 4 tomorrow (28 Nov) 20:00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted November 27, 2021 Author Share Posted November 27, 2021 Well spotted, thanks, oncnp. That led me to have a closer look at the schedules: All Sky Arts: Monday 29th November 7.20 am: LSO: Romeo & Juliet, which I assume is the Prokofiev score, although I haven't checked 9 pm: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (includes Chroma, and of course Revelations) 3.10 am (so Tuesday): Natalia Osipova: The Mother The Ailey is presumably repeated at 7 am on Thursday 2nd December 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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