mussel Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 ABT's Beauty nominated for Bessie best revival: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/bessie-nominations-are-announced/ Link to comment
mimsyb Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 ABT's Beauty nominated for Bessie best revival: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/07/15/bessie-nominations-are-announced/ It's the only thing nominated in this category. I guess it's a "shoe in". Link to comment
sandik Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 It's the only thing nominated in this category. I guess it's a "shoe in". It's official -- it's summer and we're in the silly season. Link to comment
Mme. Hermine Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 uh oh................... Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Fairly lengthy and detailed interview with Ratmansky about his production: http://dancetabs.com/2015/08/alexei-ratmansky-simple-and-wise-a-qa-about-ratmanskys-sleeping-beauty-for-abt/ Link to comment
yudi Posted August 14, 2015 Share Posted August 14, 2015 Thank you for the link to the interview. Ratmansky is funny! If you lift your leg to 135 degrees instead of 45 or do a full split it takes more time. If you add a balance here and there and multiply the pirouettes it goes further in slowing down the original tempo. And then you add an extra trick at the very end and you want the orchestra to wait for you so you can finish with a big bang, like in the circus. (Why conductors approve of that is beyond my understanding). So the variation drags and loses its danciness and its character. Well, the original is never like that. Everything is faster and more alive. Faster pirouettes, less time spent in the preparations, no walking from one corner to another. Less amplitude and ‘wow’ effect maybe, but much more common sense. Stretching the lines to the extreme played a bad joke with Petipa. Too often it looks like a boring exercise, not exciting theater. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 It's brilliantly put and identifies almost everything I dislike about the Mariinsky today. I realize that's a heretical view--and I'm certainly not suggesting that Ratmansky shares it--but if ever anyone were wondering how a ballet lover could dislike the Vaganova style, I'd point to the things Ratmansky enumerated right here. Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted August 24, 2015 Share Posted August 24, 2015 It's brilliantly put and identifies almost everything I dislike about the Mariinsky today. I realize that's a heretical view--and I'm certainly not suggesting that Ratmansky shares it--but if ever anyone were wondering how a ballet lover could dislike the Vaganova style, I'd point to the things Ratmansky enumerated right here. I second that thought... Link to comment
fondoffouettes Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 The Detroit-area press reports that Copeland will be appearing in the Sleeping Beauty performances at the Detroit Opera House, but exact casting is TBD. http://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/arts/2015/08/25/misty-copland-dance-detroit/32337209/ I'm assuming she and Shayer will perform the Blue Bird pas de deux at the gala mentioned in the article since they presumably haven't learned the lead roles since the Met season ended. Link to comment
abatt Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 I would assume that Copeland will be doing Aurora, not Bluebird. I think ABT will teach her Aurora so that she can do the role in Detroit, Washington DC and the Met. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted September 9, 2015 Share Posted September 9, 2015 How I wish ABT would film it with the original cast! My real fear is that LaScala will do it with Zakharova RAI typically films one performance by La Scala's ballet company each calendar year. This year it's going to be the "Gala des Étoiles" at the end of October. So presumably there won't be a film of The Sleeping Beauty, at least not this time around. (I'm guessing the imperative to film Roberto Bolle outweighs most other considerations, and since he'd already been filmed in Manon with the POB last spring, there's little need to film it again at La Scala in November, which leaves the gala.) http://www.all-opera.com/gala-des-etoiles/ Link to comment
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