Margaret Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 I've just been watching the original film of 'Tales of Beatrix Potter' with my grandson - there is certainly some fighting over the food in the picnic scenes - does that count for one? Margaret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 I've just been watching the original film of 'Tales of Beatrix Potter' with my grandson - there is certainly some fighting over the food in the picnic scenes - does that count for one? Margaret It does, indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Perhaps the second answer to my blindfold question might be an answer to your question Anjuli - there's a fight with food between the Duchess and the Cook in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... (Plus, with respect to my question, a segment where Alice is blindfolded by Jack & the White Rabbit between Acts. Never quite understood why!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 Well, then Alice in Wonderland would be a third answer to the food fight question. There is still one food fight scene in a ballet not answered, yet. The blindfold question stumped me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Margaret Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 Not exactly a fight, but there is a scene in Firebird where apples are thrown? Margaret Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 The one I'm thinking of is much more of a fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted December 6, 2013 Share Posted December 6, 2013 In which two ballets is there a food fight? The Taming of the Shrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 6, 2013 Author Share Posted December 6, 2013 The Taming of the Shrew. Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zxDaveM Posted December 7, 2013 Share Posted December 7, 2013 Perhaps the second answer to my blindfold question might be an answer to your question Anjuli - there's a fight with food between the Duchess and the Cook in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland... (Plus, with respect to my question, a segment where Alice is blindfolded by Jack & the White Rabbit between Acts. Never quite understood why!) It was so that Alice couldn't follow Jack and the White Rabbit into danger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 In which ballet does the stage floor have to be swept during intermission (in most productions)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Nutcracker - to get rid of all that snow! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anjuli_Bai Posted December 15, 2013 Author Share Posted December 15, 2013 Oh - that was much too easy! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 In which ballet do shepherds have a lot of fun in the background of one scene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 If you're thinking of Spartacus, Janet, they aren't always in the background. If I remember correctly, some of them do a pas de trois. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 I was thinking of the background orgy in Spartacus! I always remember looking at how much Gedeminas Taranda was enjoying himself in that scene - I haven't got a clue what else was going on on stage at the time! Over to you Capybara!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Aaaah!!!!!....... Gediminas Taranda certainly enjoyed himself in the background of that scene. I would have thought that half the audience would have been watching him at that moment rather than Aegina. My question is: which ballet includes a famous pas de deux which has nothing whatsoever to do with the main narrative? [ And I'm not thinking of Flames of Paris here.] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 My question is: which ballet includes a famous pas de deux which has nothing whatsoever to do with the main narrative? [ And I'm not thinking of Flames of Paris here.] Are you, perhaps, thinking of the Diana and Acteon Pas de Deux in Esmerelda? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Yes. Over to you for the next question, DavidW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 Okay, seeing as I've just found out I'll be dancing a section of this ballet in a performance next year... Which ballet sees the hero venture into a magical underwater kingdom to recover an engagement ring? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted December 15, 2013 Share Posted December 15, 2013 (edited) My answer was wrong Edited December 15, 2013 by Tony Newcombe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTL Posted December 16, 2013 Share Posted December 16, 2013 Tony, if you're referring to my post 116, your post 129 was correct, as was Alison's post 128, it was "Le Train Bleu". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 The little mermaid? Though this is a very new ballet isn't it? Don't know if many have seen it......I'm only guessing because of the watery world and I'm sure it's not Ondine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Or Daphnis and Chloe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Afraid I was thinking of neither of those LinMM - and don't know them well enough to say if they fit the bill! The ballet I'm thinking of doesn't have anything to do with water in its title... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Intriguing......sounds like it might be one I'd like to see though. I just hope the old grey matter is quietly working away at it and the answer will just pop in my head while I'm doing pliés in class tonight!! Foxed at the mo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Anyone else have a guess? Another clue, I don't think it has ever been performed by a British company, but is currently in the Mariinsky repertoire... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alymer Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Is it Sadko? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Is it Sadko? That's not the one I was thinking of, but sounds a fascinating ballet! In the ballet I'm thinking of, the trip to the underwater kingdom is one of three trials the hero needs to do... the others include climbing a mountain at the edge of the world, and bathing in a cauldron of boiling water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MargaretN7 Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 (edited) Pharoh's Daughter? I seem to remember some sort of descent into somewhere in that, although can't remember any boiling water! Edited December 18, 2013 by MargaretN7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 David W wrote: "In the ballet I'm thinking of, the trip to the underwater kingdom is one of three trials the hero needs to do... the others include climbing a mountain at the edge of the world, and bathing in a cauldron of boiling water." This is "The Little Humpbacked Horse". My question now again: In which ballet the main female heroine lost her beauty and had to keep her new ugly face covered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alymer Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Legend of Love? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidW Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 This is "The Little Humpbacked Horse". Correct! I'm very excited to be dancing a little section of it. As for you question - I've no idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amelia Posted December 18, 2013 Share Posted December 18, 2013 Legend of Love? THIS IS CORRECT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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