alison Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 I've certainly seen Yanowsky, and I think Nuñez, as well as Morera dance the role as principals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
capybara Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Mara Galeazzi also danced Rose Fairy on occasion, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted December 31, 2013 Share Posted December 31, 2013 Yes she did. Fond memories. So light on her feet in the role 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Fonty, in answer to your question about children being used in child roles, ENB's current Nutcracker has children (from Tring Park) playing Clara and Freddie who are replaced by adult dancers at the beginning of the battle scene. I think that all the current Nutcrackers have children in the party scene (and ENB's has children playing mice in the battle scene). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted January 1, 2014 Share Posted January 1, 2014 Thanks, Aileen. I haven't seen the current ENB one, but a friend was telling me the other day she played Clara when she was at Arts, and in her day Clara remained a child all the way through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I think that all the current Nutcrackers have children in the party scene (and ENB's has children playing mice in the battle scene). As does the RB version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 2, 2014 Share Posted January 2, 2014 I thought that it did but I wasn't absolutely sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisydance Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 Sure I saw a version of the Nutcracker many many moons ago with a dance featuring a giant teapot - either Royal Ballet or Festival Ballet (yes, going back that far!) - can anyone out there help me out with this? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josephine Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I share the teapot memory! I think it was in the London Festival Ballet Nutcracker, which I saw a couple of times in childhood. Sadly I remember very little of the producton, apart from this image of a huge willow pattern teapot in the Chinese dance. I think one of the dancers had to lift the lid and jump out! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisydance Posted January 3, 2014 Share Posted January 3, 2014 I share the teapot memory! I think it was in the London Festival Ballet Nutcracker, which I saw a couple of times in childhood. Sadly I remember very little of the producton, apart from this image of a huge willow pattern teapot in the Chinese dance. I think one of the dancers had to lift the lid and jump out! That sounds like the one! I wish I could remember more about it. Glad to know it wasn't false memory syndrome. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 It was definitely old Festival Ballet's version as I was dressing for them at the time!! I'm just trying to think whose production it was though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Approximately when was this, Lin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Was it Ronald Hynd's production that had the Tea Pot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Sounds likely - was that the last one they did before they moved to the Coliseum? No, actually I think that was Ben Stevenson's, wasn't it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 They were doing Ronald Hynd's production when I started watching ballet in the mid-1980s. This was followed by Peter Schaufuss' production and then Ben Stevenson's in the early 1990s. I lost track after that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Well they used to do the Nutcracker at the Festival Hall for years and then started to use the Coli. I only dressed for them at the Coli.....at least Im pretty certain I didnt dress when they were at Festival Hall......so must have moved there mid 70's (74-76?) Will have to check this out with friend in Oz as she did it with me and will remember whose production had the big teapot! Wasn't there quite a good Old Mother Hubbard character as well with children dancing out from under her huge skirt? I'm sure I'm muddling up productions but will get back to you about the teapot! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Ronald Hynd's production started in 1976 so it probably is this one with the teapot. I only dressed for a few seasons so think most likely 76-79 .....Certainly Beryl Grey was still Artistic Director and Evdokimova seemed to,be their main ballerina along with Miklosy and another dancer who was constantly smoking! The memory gets a bit hazy before the 80's one forgets so many details! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daisydance Posted January 7, 2014 Share Posted January 7, 2014 Well they used to do the Nutcracker at the Festival Hall for years and then started to use the Coli. I only dressed for them at the Coli.....at least Im pretty certain I didnt dress when they were at Festival Hall......so must have moved there mid 70's (74-76?) Will have to check this out with friend in Oz as she did it with me and will remember whose production had the big teapot! Wasn't there quite a good Old Mother Hubbard character as well with children dancing out from under her huge skirt? I'm sure I'm muddling up productions but will get back to you about the teapot! Ah yes, the Mother Hubbard and children coming out from under the skirt. But that rings a bell from my very early ballet-going days, back in late 60s. I need to hunt through old programmes at my mother's house to see what I can turn up. Unless ENB have an archive going back to their earlier days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Is it not Mother Ginger with the large skirt under which the children live? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan66 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 hello LinMM, yes ¡¡¡ the 6th december , FINALLY, my dream came true and I saw Lauren Cuthbertson ¡¡¡ and I have no words to express my impressions. She offered a SPECTACULAR dancing. she's first of all a fantastic dancer, that's for sure, everybody knows that, of course, she's pure excellent technique ( graceful port des bras¡¡¡ so beautiful ¡¡¡, but the special thing about her, at least is my impression , is that she is kind of listening the music while dancing or following it or dancing with it,I'm sorry if I can't express myself better, but maybe you know what I mean, she gave me the impression as if she were dancing for and with the music ¡¡¡, enjoying it, following it ,I mean, I was sooo amazed by that, and of course, her variation was WORTH the trip to London....SHE WAS something really magic , special and unique, I saw then ,while she was on stage, why she is a principal star of the company, she's a real star that shine for a lot of things not only for her great dancing, she has something unique that only the true stars are distinguished from good dancers, so I enjoyed a lot that night at the ballet. The sad thing about the performance was that I was really really wishful to see Iohna Loots, as I enjoy a lot her DVD performance that I was kind of happy to see her on stage live, but she was replaced by another dancer, I dont remember the name, I got the cast information in that paper with all the cast names that I took at the tables at the entrace hall but I don't know where that paper is now, so I don't remember the name of the dancer, but the truth is that she was GREAT, and actually, I loved her a lot, and I hope to see her again in the future ( actually I'm planning to travel again to London to see Sleeping Beauty )so even if I missed this time the beautiful smile of Iohna, I've discovered a new dancer that I did not know and that she got a tremendous success and lots of applauses¡¡¡, she was perfect for the role.really. so good for her. by the way, can you or anybody find out the name of that dancer, she danced Clara the evening of 6th december , the night that Lauren danced.. Thank you,Merci¡¡¡¡ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 It was Meaghan Grace Hinkis that evening 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan66 Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Yes, that's right. thanks. I've just google to see her and yes, it was her. what a lovely ballerina¡¡¡ Thanks for your fast reply¡¡ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Could well be.....it's a character I remember may have been based on Old Mother Hubbard but perhaps in the ballet was called Mother Ginger. Still don't know if this was also in "the teapot" version. Friend in Oz says we did dress at Festival Hall as well so not sure which Nutcracker version was BEFORE Hynds one in1976. I wasn't a paid dresser just a volunteer when they were in London which meant The Festival Hall or Coliseum usually. I actually only have a recollection of watching from the sidelines occasionally at the Festival Hall and was very admiring of the dancers for coping with the cramped conditions. My memory is much stronger of the Coli and I associate that theatre with the teapot!! It's incredibly hard to find details of past productions so long ago in fact. There is a very good "old programme covers " site if you search for a company and a year etc but it won't tell you the production details just who the main dancers were etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 http://www.phyllis.demon.co.uk/theatricalia/13dance/festival.htm This is the old programme site but it doesn't have one for EVERY performance but useful nevertheless! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinMM Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Sorry we seemed to have got onto a discussion about ENB ' s Nutcracker (or older versions of!!) and just remembered this is RB thread! It's not beyond the bounds of possibility that it was an old RB production that had the teapot and my memory doesn't serve me correctly but right now would put £5 on it being an ENB production!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Ooh, thanks for posting this link, Lin. It's fascinating. Can you actually buy these programmes (or copies)? I'd love to see some photographs of some of the earliest Nutcracker productions. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Newcombe Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Totally agree with you about Lauren and her musicality. Often when she is doing a series of repeat steps, she will suddenly do one of them slightly differently and to me it is a if she has suddenly found something in the music and immediately responds to it. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 So do I . I've commented before on it, and the way she seems to share her fascination with it with the audience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Sorry we seemed to have got onto a discussion about ENB ' s Nutcracker (or older versions of!!) and just remembered this is RB thread! It happens . Don't remember seeing anyone complaining about it being hijacked by ENB fans, though 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shade Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 Did anybody else go to the performance at ROH on 4 jan? For me it was worth all the travel difficulties (buses and trains etc). I thought it was a magical performance, especially the Christmas tree. I have not seen the RB Nutcracker for many years - it must have been the previous production that I saw. This one was very enjoyable. I thought that Natalia Osipova danced in the style of a grand imperial Russian ballerina, which surprised me. The pdd was very grand indeed! Thanks to all the gracious and charming dancers who signed autographs after the performance. I wish them all a happy New Year. Pleased to see Francesca Hayward in the Observer as one to watch in 2014 - well deserved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timmie Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 For the RB Nutcracker what do they do about the choral part during the Waltz of the Snowflakes? In the ENB Nutcracker at the London Coli they had a choir of children in a box (no, not a cardboard box, you know what I mean!). Just curious as to what the RB do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
symphonyinc Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 For the RB Nutcracker what do they do about the choral part during the Waltz of the Snowflakes? In the ENB Nutcracker at the London Coli they had a choir of children in a box (no, not a cardboard box, you know what I mean!). Just curious as to what the RB do. They use a choir and they sing from the orchestra pit 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted January 8, 2014 Share Posted January 8, 2014 I believe that the choir is the London Oratory School Junior Choir, which is a well respected boys choir which records and tours, I believe. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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