Angela Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Well that's a change of direction... https://twitter.com/BalletFlanders/status/562919432818003969 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Courtesy of Cloud Dance Festival I have just picked up that Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui has been announced as the new Artistic Director of the Royal Ballet of Flanders. It looks s if the press conference is still ongoing. The twitter tag for the company is @BalletFlanders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Angela and I were posting at the same time. I've merged the topics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Wow.....that's a surprise! Well it is to me, at least! Very best of luck to him in his new role. RBF is a wonderful company and I hope he keeps their flag flying high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 An announcement on the Opera House site - seems he's to have a deputy, Tamas Moricz: https://operaballet.be/nl/het-huis/blog/sidi-larbi-cherkaoui-wordt-artistiek-directeur-ballet-vlaanderen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 And in English: https://operaballet.be/en/the-house/blog/sidi-larbi-new-artistic-director-of-royal-ballet-flanders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Have I missed something? Nowhere on the current website, all changed back last summer, is the 'Royal' term used regarding the ballet company. The current usage appears to be "Ballet Vlaanderen" or "Ballet Flanders." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 In the English version, Janet's link above, it definitely says 'Royal'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted February 4, 2015 Share Posted February 4, 2015 Well, I assume that the company is going to move firmly into contemporary dance/ballet. I don't suppose that it will be doing Onegin or Don Q again in the foreseeable future, but perhaps its audiences prefer contemporary work. I wonder whether there will be a departure of some of the more classically minded dancers. It's a bit of a risk for female dancers to stay if all the work is performed barefoot or in ballet slippers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 From today's Links, a translated version of an interview with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and some background on the situation at Royal Ballet of Flanders: http://www.flanderstoday.eu/art/all-eyes-dance-world-sidi-larbi-cherkaoui Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Thanks for posting the link, Ian. Big changes are ahead. I don't know whether it's fair to say that the company is/was 'in a rut' though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Aileen: I certainly had no impression of the Company being in a rut when I saw it in Samodurov's R&J just under a year ago: http://www.balletcoforum.com/index.php?/topic/6053-royal-ballet-of-flanders-romeo-juliet-samodurov/?p=82355 Nonetheless, something was clearly amiss, as evidenced by Assis Carreiro's unsought departure on Day 1 of the next season, not many weeks later - and my guess is that the reason was probably not to be found on the stage but in machinations of some kind out in the background. One day that may all become clearer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 (edited) I suspect it may be related to budgets! So many European companies have gone this way over the last few years. Generally a contemporary company has fewer dancers, without all the ranks of corps, coryphé, soloist, principal (and subdivisions within those ranks). The first time I remember it happening was when Rambert Ballet Company was told to reinvent itself as a Contemporary company or lose its subsidy! Edited for spelling Edited February 17, 2015 by Pas de Quatre Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aileen Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Yes, I rather suspect that the company may become smaller. If you are not putting on the classics with a large corps then you don't need 49 dancers and, as PdQ has said, contemporary companies are less hierarchical with all the dancers being expected to be able to dance everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angela Posted April 25, 2015 Author Share Posted April 25, 2015 Season 2015-2016 at Flanders Ballet: https://operaballet.be/en/programme/2015-2016?type=ballet&page=1 Still very much classical with Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker, van Manen 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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