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[GeorgeB fan]

Kathleen O, on 13 August 2010 - 04:59 AM, said:

It's on his right nipple. Scroll down in this post on Evan Namerow's blog Dancing Perfectly Free  to see what it looks like. I think it looks fine, but your mileage may vary. (I live where the East Village meets Union Square. In my neighborhood, Hall's tattoo would be considered a nice start.)

Now that I finally saw the tattoo - oh yes - he could EASILY dance the role of Apollo. The top of his costume - the sash - would easily cover that up. Add a little flesh colored make-up for safe guarding and you wouldn't even notice it was there. And even if NYCB was still performing the "Birth of Apollo" prologue the design of the tattoo is actually appropriate. Not only is it tastefully and elegantly design it depicts the sun and of course Apollo is the Sun God. Yes he has my permission to dance the role. LOL.

[nysusan]

I would LOVE to see Hall do Apollo - tattoo covered or showing. Actually, I think the sunburst tattoo is a perfect fit for the role! I'd also like to see Robbie Fairchild tackle it. But we'll probably get Marcovicci.

Would also love to see Janie Taylor as Terpischore.

I'm ready for the season to start...

[Kathleen O'Connell]

For everyone who said "Marcovicci" - good guess!

  From Marcovicci's page on NYCB's "Get to Know Our Principals" minisite:

  Q: What are you most looking forward to dancing this upcoming year?

  A: Apollo

  The site is a bit awkwardly designed. You have to click through each dancer's page in order - no jumping ahead allowed - and the dancers are listed alphabetically by first name.

Some interesting tidbits: Megan Fairchild would love to be a math teacher and Theresa Reichlen is a biology major looking forward to a second career in the sciences.

[carbro]

Kathleen O, on 13 August 2010 - 04:59 AM, said:

Scroll down in this post on Evan Namerow's blog Dancing Perfectly Free  to see what it looks like.

What a striking photo by Matthew Murphy!  Thanks for linking it, Kathleen!

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(I live where the East Village meets Union Square. In my neighborhood, Hall's tattoo would be considered a nice start.)

LOL!

FauxPas, on 13 August 2010 - 08:39 AM, said:

Apollo was not only the god of the arts but also the sun god.  So a sunburst on the nipple may work very well.  I think that Craig Hall's classical handsome features would work well too.

Well, that certainly throws a different light on it (no pun intended)!  Thanks for broadening the context, FauxPas!  And yes, his handsome appearance suits the role very well.

Kathleen O, on 17 August 2010 - 03:41 PM, said:

For everyone who said "Marcovicci" - good guess!

  From Marcovicci's page on NYCB's "Get to Know Our Principals" minisite:

  Q: What are you most looking forward to dancing this upcoming year?

  A: Apollo

Oh, dear!  I was afraid of that.

[Paul Parish]

There are many ways of dancing Apollo -- not just the noble one.

Villella was rather a rascal, but he was thrilling and it worked, by all accounts.

Henning Kronstam was very exciting, really edgy, for a big dark Dane.

When Gonzalo Garcia danced it in SF, he was not my favorite -- but he WAS first cast, and he looked amazingly like d"Amboise, who'd set it. He was extremely eciting, and several peopl whom I respect a lot -- Leigh witchell in particular -- felt like they'd seen a revelation.

Me I preferred the noble style of vadim Solomakha, who was sweet-tempered and so beautiful in the role I could barely contain myself. The closest comparison I could make would be to say that he put me in mind of Anthony Dowell.

[jsmu]

'the noble one', as many times discussed before on Ballet Talk and elsewhere, is completely wrong for Balanchine's intentions;
Balanchine himself said (verbatim) that Apollo was a 'devil' and a 'rascal', and it is transparently clear from the iconic and
amazingly innovative man's choreography that this is not intended to be the Apollo Belvedere.
That said, Bouder or Scheller as Polyhymnia, and how about Morgan as Terpsichore?

[Quiggin]

Roberto Bolle and Peter Martins are the Bruce Weber mild & noble Apollos (albeit with lovely presence even when they were doing nothing) whereas the scampish Apollos are Andersen, Garcia Portero and maybe Lifar (because of his slightness), and Eglevsky had his devilish side. (William Klein would be their official photographer.) I always vote for the scamps. Delos itself where Apollo was born is uninhabited (the lake drained "for sanitary reasons") but the men of Mykonos, the next island over, tend to be rascals. The original set:

http://www.flickr.co...N00/4994596647/

Where Apollo was born