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Diana

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  1. Diana

    Takarazuka

    I haven't seen any posts on this fabulous dance company! The Japanese dancers there work so hard and are much talent in singing, ballet, jazz and many other arts! Has anyone evr seen them dance or on tour? When I was very young mother took me to Cinderella and my aunt was the stepmother! Very funny. I would love to hear if anyone has seen them perform because i used to live there and my daughter took master classes with pupil of Mertha Graham and vaganova trained teachers! (price was not very good but yen is weak so dollar gets good exchange). Diana L.
  2. I am looking in my NYCB book 'Tributes' and a contributor mentions the heroes of ballet, the corps. I agree that some of members have made sacrifices and choices that affect career for entire lives. Principals and solists dance and are known on stage but what about (I think Americans call 'unsung heroes'?) the shades who make ghostly patterns and wilis whose presence is so cold and ethereal? You cannot have nutcracker in winter without snowflakes or else plot becomes messy. So who do you think deserves the best title? Etoiles are the stars, but the corps is the night sky. Diana L.
  3. I do not like it when I see Balanchine style hands looking like eagle claws. Very unattractive, like gripping something in the air. Diana L.
  4. If Margot Fonteyn were living and dancing, I would stay to watch Sleeping Beauty!! I came to ballet very, very late in life and I am regretting a lot. I saw her once with Nureyev in Manilla of the Filipines. Ballet was Swan Lake, and no dry eyes from people! Someone in lobby told me about how Sleeping Beauty grew up through evening but I never saw it. Money is hard for me to use for ballet so I stay no matter if I have bad feeling from act 1. Sometime I am wrong and ballet is great!! But maybe bad! That is part of fun about ballet for me.
  5. For me, there are sometimes when they are both. For instance, Lucette Aldous as Kitri, in Nureyev's staging of Don Q. Tiny in build, but like a fireball of energy on stage - during first act, she is energetic and happy, but in tavern at Basil's fake death, she is like motherly figure weeping over beloved. Maybe my thinking is a little different? What are today's dancers? Girl, women.. in Kirkland's time, they were so skinny, like girl.. now, dancers have athletic figure and women can almost do anything men can. Maybe they do. I think very girly like dancer was Larissa Lezhnina. Seemed like perfect Princess Aurora, sweet, innocent, megawatt smile. But strangely, her smile is sometimes like Kolpakova, but they are very different, to me. Sorry if dancers I say are not current!!
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