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Your all-male casting for Dolin's "Variations for Four".


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Since I've never had the opportunity to see Dolin's Variations, would someone mind describing them, so I could get a better idea about what sort of dancer would be suitable for each?
I couldn't give you specifics, having seen it only two or three times a few years ago, but I'm choosing to be less literal and pretend it's a whole new ballet we'd be casting. I'm also going by the "current dancers" rule Leigh specified in the female thread.

Here's my dream quartet, alphabetically:

Tyler Angle

Jose Carreno

Herman Cornejo

Marcelo Gomes

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Since I've never had the opportunity to see Dolin's Variations, would someone mind describing them, so I could get a better idea about what sort of dancer would be suitable for each?
I couldn't give you specifics, having seen it only two or three times a few years ago, but I'm choosing to be less literal and pretend it's a whole new ballet we'd be casting. I'm also going by the "current dancers" rule Leigh specified in the female thread.

Carbro is right about this. I also saw it a couple of times years ago in Havana, but memories of it are kind of vague. Anyways, as said, this is just an excuse to cast four "divos' together...(Actually, there's even a better ballet for this purposes, which was choreographed by BNC by Azary Plisetsky in 1973 called "Vital Song" to a Mahler's Symphony. I also believe this ballet was included in the last US tour of the Cuban troupe) . The original cast included the best four male dancers at the time in Cuba: Jorge Esquivel (now at San Francisco Ballet) portraying "The Fish", Andres Williams (the first black Cuban dancer to get to the top ranks back then, who portrayed "The Beast", Orlando Salgado (one of the last Alonso's partners) who did "Nature" and finally Lazaro Carreno (Jose Manuel Carreno's uncle and currently included in Patrick's list on this thread :thumbsup: ), who danced "The Bird". It is a powerful ballet, and the dancers are presented almost naked.

Here's a pic of it:

http://www.exploredance.com/pressphotos/ba...ubacantov2.jpeg

So we can switch ballets...

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Present:

Johann Kobborg

Andrei Uvarov

Friedemann Vogel

David Hallberg

Past:

Yuri Soloviev

Maris Liepa

Rudolf Nureyev

Fernando Bujones

Oh, God...now i know it....i need to recast, using two different castings. I'll do a cuban one and a Soviet one-(past and present together)

The Cuban Casting:

Carlos Acosta

Jose Manuel Carreno

Rolando Sarabia

Fernando Bujones

The Soviet Casting:

Rudi Nureyev

Yuri Soloviev (how could i leave him out earlier?! :P )

Misha Baryshnikov

Vahtang Chabukiani

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