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World Ballet Day-Oct 1 2014


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Five companies will live stream their day on World Ballet Day, October 1, 2014. Here's the announcement from San Francisco Ballet:

http://www.sfballet.org/worldballetday

Here's the announcement from the Royal Ballet:

http://www.roh.org.uk/news/world-ballet-day-to-show-live-action-from-inside-five-of-the-worlds-leading-ballet-companies

I'm glad one American company is included. I wonder if ABT and NYCB are planning anything.

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Five companies will live stream their day on World Ballet Day, October 1, 2014. Here's the announcement from San Francisco Ballet:

http://www.sfballet.org/worldballetday

Here's the announcement from the Royal Ballet:

http://www.roh.org.uk/news/world-ballet-day-to-show-live-action-from-inside-five-of-the-worlds-leading-ballet-companies

I'm glad one American company is included. I wonder if ABT and NYCB are planning anything.

The National Ballet of Canada has ABT/NYCB's timezone.

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The SFB site has the times listed for each company -- in PST. That's a little confusing, as San Francisco will still be on Daylight time on October 1. And they list a 4-hour difference between NBofC and SFB -- when there's a 3-hour difference between EST and PST. Perhaps it will be best to just stay on-line to catch all of them!

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Perhaps it will be best to just stay on-line to catch all of them!

The Royal Ballet assures us that "the stream will subsequently be repeated on YouTube to allow viewers from around the globe to catch up on anything they missed. Edited highlights will be made available after the event."

It's a great initiative. 'Royal Ballet Live' was extremely interesting. The video of company class has been watched more than 2 million times on YouTube. If memory serves, the complete stream was repeated almost immediately after the live stream.

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I think they get four hours each; one picks up when the other leaves off, like a relay race.

It will be up on YouTube afterwards.

OK, now I understand. ;)

An interesting twist on SFB's participation: they are trying to raise $30,000 to cover their costs, via Kickstarter:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sfballet/sf-ballet-on-world-ballet-day-live

$30,000. Goes to show these "Free" livestreams are only free to us!

Yes, this type of media presentation does cost a hefty amount, so it makes sense that SFB would not have an existing budget to cover such things. NYCB may have a separate media budget, given all the videos they produce, but SFB has been struggling to get in the game lately.

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PNB got into media originally through a multi-year grant for arts institutions to kick-start their new media offerings, a while before Kickstarter was founded. Lindsay Thomas, who is responsible for it, is a gem. If SFB is starting now, they are playing catch-up. I'd have thought someone in Silicon Valley would have been interested in sponsoring them for some online outing.

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The Royal Ballet has published more details of the stream.

  • The Australian Ballet will rehearse Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake, Stanton Welch's La Bayadère, Peter Wright's The Nutcracker and the company's world-premiere piece Ostinato by resident choreographer Tim Harbour. Artistic director David McAllister will be answering questions.
  • The Bolshoi Ballet will rehearse Jean-Christophe Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew and Yuri Grigorovich's Legend of Love.
  • The Royal Ballet will show Carlos Acosta coaching Vadim Muntagirov in Don Quixote, Marianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli rehearsing Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon, Liam Scarlett rehearsing his new work The Age of Anxiety with Laura Morera and Steven McRae, rehearsals of Christopher Wheeldon's Aeternum and Frederick Ashton's Scènes de ballet, and Ludovic Ondiviela will rehearse his new ballet Cassandra. In addition, Wayne McGregor will discuss his forthcoming Woolf Works, and artistic director Kevin O'Hare will talk about the forthcoming season.
  • The National Ballet of Canada will rehearse Kenneth MacMillan's Manon with Anthony Dowell. The company will also rehearse John Neumeier's Nijinsky. The segment will be co-hosted by Heather Ogden (currently on maternity leave) and Aleksandar Antonijevic. There will be an interview with Karen Kain, as well as visits to the company's wardrobe department and athletic therapy facility, and a demonstration on the preparation of pointe shoes.
  • San Francisco Ballet will rehearse Yuri Possokhov's RAkU, William Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, scenes from Helgi Tomassón and Possokhov's Don Quixote and Tomassón's Concerto Grosso. There will be interviews with Yuan Yuan Tan, Maria Kochetkova and Taras Domitro.

http://www.roh.org.uk/news/world-ballet-day-programme-whats-in-store-during-the-24-hour-live-stream-on-1-october-2014

The San Francisco Ballet Kickstarter page also includes this useful information:

The entire 20 hour live stream event will be available live on our website www.sfballet.org or our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/sfballet. The footage from all 5 ballet companies and their live rehearsals will be available to view on both these channels.

The 24 hour event will not be available in its entirety after it is shown live on October 1st. But for 48 hours after the event, you can watch each company's broadcast on their respective YouTube channels. After that, each company will post selected highlights from World Ballet Day.

Incidentally, the SFB fundraising campaign is still $1,669 short of its goal.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sfballet/sf-ballet-on-world-ballet-day-live

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San Francisco Ballet has provided us with a fairly detailed program of its section, starting at 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern and 7:00 pm BST.

There will be full company class taught by ballet master Felipe Diaz. After class, the company will rehearse several sections of Tomasson and Possokhov’s Don Quixote: principal dancer Maria Kochetkova will rehearse the role of Kitri, alongside principal dancer Sofiane Sylve as the Driad Queen from Act II. Additionally, principal dancers Vanessa Zahorian and Carlos Quenedit will dance the “gypsy pas de deux” from Act II, while principal dancers Frances Chung and Davit Karapetyan will rehearse the wedding pas de deux from Act III.

SF Ballet resident choreographer Yuri Possokov will then lead a rehearsal of his own ballet, RAkU, featuring Principal Dancers Yuan Yuan Tan, Carlos Quenedit, and Pascal Molat. Shinji Eshima—a member of the SF Ballet Orchestra and the composer of RAkU—will speak with Possokhov about their creative process.

Helgi Tomasson will then rehearse his ballet Concerto Grosso.

Next, ballet repetiteur Stefanie Ardnt will rehearse William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, featuring principal dancers Gennadi Nedvigin and Jaime Garcia Castilla, and soloists Dores Andre, Clara Blanco, Sasha De Sola, and Carlo DiLanno.

SF Ballet Master Christopher Stowell and co-host Leyla Gulen of ABC 7 News will interview SF Ballet artistic director & principal choreographer Helgi Tomasson; principal dancers Davit Karapetyan, Maria Kotchetkova, and Yuan Yuan Tan; soloists Sasha De Sola and Joseph Walsh, and corps de ballet dancers Isabella DeVivo and Sean Orza.

http://www.sfballetblog.org/2014/09/sf-ballet-watch-world-ballet-day-live/

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