Royal Danish Ballet soloists and principals - Peacock Jan 2015

[Lynette H]

Just spotted this on the Sadler's web site

 

"Ten years since The Royal Danish Ballet’s last visit to Sadler’s Wells, principals and soloists from this internationally renowned company perform a program featuring excerpts from works by August Bournonville, the acclaimed 19th century Royal Danish Ballet choreographer and ballet master who created more than fifty works for the company."

 

http://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2015/the-royal-danish-ballet/

 

good news....

[aileen]

Great news.

[Jan McNulty]

OH YES!!!!!

[alison]

Ooh, nice - although I don't envy them on the Peacock's stage!

[aileen]

I wonder why they are going to the Peacock Theatre rather than Sadler's Wells.

 

I also wonder why they are bringing excerpts rather than a mixed bill or a full length ballet.

Edited October 20, 2014 by aileen

[Jane S]

I also wonder why they are bringing excerpts rather than a mixed bill or a full length ballet.

 

It will be a group of (I'd guess) a dozen or so dancers rather than the whole company, so they couldn't do much more than excerpts.

[aileen]

What I should have said was I wonder why the whole company is not coming.

[alison]

Financial reasons?  I have a feeling that was the reason given last time.

[Bruce Wall]

Lendorf is dancing SL on 8th with Rojo for ENB but not 9th and 10th. Fingers crossed he is one of the Peacock RDB principals. Certainly would save on air fares. :-)

[alison]

Ooh, thank you Bruce - I hadn't actually bothered looking at the press release yet.  What a lovely birthday present - it'll almost make up for all those years I've had to suffer the Nutcracker

[Jane S]

Assuming this is the same group which will appear at the Joyce Theatre in New York later in January, it isn't an official RDB thing - it's one of those tours put together by the dancers themselves, and from the Joyce publicity material it looks as if this one is  organised by Ulrik Birkkjaer, and that Gudrun Bojesen will also be dancing (in New York at least).

 

I wouldn't put money on Lendorf appearing in London, nice though that would be - he could well not want to switch from Petipa to Bournonville and back in such a few days. (Pure speculation - I have no inside information!)

[Jane S]

The Dancing Times has published a list of the repertoire and the dancers:

 

http://www.dancing-times.co.uk/news/item/1640-royal_danish_ballet_dancers

 

It only names 10 of the 12 dancers, though.

[alison]

At the risk of provoking a minor stampede, I thought I should point out that there aren't exactly a lot of bottom-price tickets available at the Peacock, for those who are on a budget.

[Pulcinella]

I've just gone on to the Sadler's Wells site to look at the ticket availability for these performances and got the following message: "Unfortunately this performance is not available for purchase"

[alison]

Glitch with the booking system? I know they have been having problems.

[Jan McNulty]

I wonder if it is because they have decided to hold off until the next booking period opens in a couple of weeks, although when I checked the day this thread was started some tickets had already been sold.

[Coated]

Huh, that must be a blip of some sort - I booked a ticket on Saturday. I hope it's merely a blip with their booking system...

[Bruce Wall]

I've just gone on to the Sadler's Wells site to look at the ticket availability for these performances and got the following message: "Unfortunately this performance is not available for purchase"

 

That is odd as I have bought a ticket to two different performances.  

[alison]

I wouldn't have thought they'd have been making changes to the database on a Sunday, then. OTOH, I've heard reports of the site claiming that shows are sold out and all sorts of things, so who knows?

[barton22]

Janet, I understand that they deliberately opened booking for this show ahead of the November 10th date for the next booking period because the RDB people didn't want to leave it too late to get the tickets sold and specifically asked for booking to open early.  I asked when I called last week to book (I usually use the website, but it keeps having trouble processing payments by Amex - has been happening for the last two or three weeks and they are trying to fix it).  It seems to be possible to buy tickets online again today.

[Jan McNulty]

Thanks for the clarification.  I will hold off till 10th and hope there are still some decent seats left as I would like to get my 20% discount!

[alison]

I got my 20% discount - or are you saying there's nothing left on this current booking period that you wanted?

[Lynette H]

^{I was told by the Box Office that the 20% members discount does not apply to this particular production.}

[alison]

Oops

[Bruce Wall]

^{I was told by the Box Office that the 20% members discount does not apply to this particular production.}

 

Really?  I got it ... but am going to stay quiet about it on this occasion as the money has already been paid. 

 

Perhaps, they've just figured out that it is an independent rental .... far from the Spalding dreams of making London 'a world mecca for dance'.  

Edited October 27, 2014 by Bruce Wall

[Jan McNulty]

I got my 20% discount - or are you saying there's nothing left on this current booking period that you wanted?

 

Alison, there are loads of things I would like to see at Sadler's Wells but the logistics of travel and overnight stays preclude so many.  I wish Sadler's Wells would relocate to Liverpool or even the Lowry and then I could immerse myself in their wonderful offerings!

[Jane S]

Good news - it's now confirmed that Alban Lendorf will be dancing!