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mimsyb

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  1. I received the same reply when I called the Box Office. No reply either to my leaving a number. My guess is that they are swamped with all sorts of many issues. The HD showing has been cancelled. I had sort of wished that perhaps ABT might have come up with an answer regarding exchanges. I suppose they too have many issues to address. I guess we wait and see. Just hope all will remain healthy and safe.
  2. Does anyone know if the Box Office will be open beginning Sunday for Member's exchange week?
  3. Add me to that list! Bourne's version is technically challenging, visually engaging and emotionally moving on every level. Add to that his amazing respect for the score and inventive use of same. I often come away from more "classical" versions not satisfied. Never so with Bourne.
  4. I also felt the Bolshoi missed the mark on Rubies. So forced and "in your face" and not in a good way. They lacked musical punch. A pretty tepid showing. And those costumes! OMG! They looked like old curtain material from a long ago circus show. No one here is going to make me forget the great Tess Reichlen any time soon. But oh, the wonderment of Sara Mearns and Tyler Angle in Diamonds! Can anything come closer to heaven than these two? I've seen Sara dance this before, but never with such luster and inner sole. It was as if she spoke a whole other language, but was gracious enough to share with us her translation. She seemed from a whole other world. And please. If there is ANY doubt out there about the sheer inventiveness, the imagination and the musicality of this great choreographer, it can be totally put to rest. Every choreographer working today needs to study and study hard about how it all works. Free of the clutter. Empty of all false artifice. No kitchen sinks in sight! Pure dance, revealed in the most musical and magical of fashion. I bow down to Mr. B. and humbly so.
  5. I really can't blame her for the anger. It's not simply the firing; it's how it was all handled. And it's all so public. This has to hurt, no matter how you slice it. And I can't help but wonder how she will make a living even, given that she isn't a youngster with years of dancing ahead of her. Unless she teaches or has some other means of income. It has got to be worrisome. No one is really prepared to become unemployed.
  6. But can you imagine the hew and cry if it had been Stella who was terminated instead of Part.? After waiting so long for her promotion, it would have been a total PR disaster if ABT had terminated Abrera now. They will have to give her a few years in her new capacity perhaps just to please her very formidable fan base. I love Stella and wish she could have had a longer time, but I do wonder about up coming rep for her. I doubt she will ever get a "Swan Lake", or a "Bayadere". I hope it will be Abrera who will decide when it's her time to leave and not ABT's. Also, I find it odd that ABT supported so many dancers who were long term injuries (Hallberg, Cornejo, Hammoudi, Gillian, this year in particular, Stella even, and some in the corps also....Zhong-Jing Fang comes to mind ), but that they were so impatient with Part and her injuries. She at times struggled to "work through them" rather than stay out and truly heal. I'm only saying it feels to me as if ABT never truly understood what a treasure they had in Part and thus never really gave her full support. Even now, with Kolpakova getting older (although who would guess it!), ABT could REALLY, REALLY use someone like Part to help coach and guide these younger Principles. Role models and mentoring are such a big part (no pun intended!) of becoming a true artist. Despite what Veronika is saying now, I so hope she will find a place somewhere in which HER artistry can be fully appreciated.
  7. I agree, Vipa. This is an astonishing ballet that just keeps revealing more and more every time one sees it. It's so rich in texture and emotion. I couldn't help but notice the utter differences in both the Gomes work and the "new" Ratmansky with the Balanchine. While both of the newer pieces are clumsy and cluttered, the Balanchine seemed fresh and totally in the present. Unadorned; only ravishing movement. No choreographer living and working today can come up to Mr. B's standard. No one can reveal what dance can and should be. No one can really move us beyond the superficial that is presented so much to us these days. Dance over... bye, bye. But with Balanchine it stays burned in the memory and continues to speak to us even after the curtain comes down. While we can say that ABT is not a "Balanchine" company per se, still yesterday's performance by Veronika, et al gave us the perfume that is of the Master. No small thanks and recognition must go to Maria Calegari who set this work on the company. I have to hope that Veronika has this triumph to carry with her, despite all that has happened in the past few weeks. Perhaps she will be able to heal (both in body and spirit) and return someday and somewhere to teach and perhaps coach. She has so many gifts still to offer.
  8. I'm sad to hear about Daniel Mantei. I always loved his work, but felt he was somewhat relegated to back row stuff. He was always tall and elegant to watch. Sorry he didn't get more opportunities. But I've seen some of his choreography and found it to be quite engaging. Interesting. So perhaps he'll find another life somewhere else. Good luck to him.
  9. Joseph Phillips for one. And the "biggie", Sterling Baca. And let's not forget Simone Messmer.
  10. Wasn't it written somewhere in one of the recent articles that Part's sponsorship was turned down by ABT? I believe the company has the right to do that. Does anyone know?
  11. Amen to that, Canbelto. I'm still trying to process the fact of Part's departure. Big loss to the company.
  12. Not a very interesting season, for sure. I'm looking forward to Mathew Bourne's "Red Shoes" in stead. Sara Mearns alternates as the lead!
  13. Well, one only has to look at the expansiveness of McBrides arms and upper body (as well as her legs) to see the difference. Boylston dances too much internally still. But I'm not sure she even has the upper body openness needed to do this work. And Mischa, even though small, dances so big!! I always feel as if this work should look "dangerous", and I use that term in the sense that the dancing should look as if it may not happen, but always does in the very best way imaginable! Videos are hard to judge by at times, but it seems to me the tempos in the video were more correct. Last night they seemed to lag a bit, as if to suit the dancers inability to "dance on top of the notes". I wanted a "rush" where there was none.
  14. I agree, Cubanmiamiboy. Part has given us so many "time stand still moments". Her "O/O" stands alone among many. "Bayadere", "Chopiniana", Myrtha, "Cinderella", "Sylvia", even "Trilogy". We can probably all give a favorite moment. Such a loss to the company. I know she's had injuries, but ABT seems to be very willing to wait it out for other dancers, but never for Veronika. She was never given a partner with whom she could develop a performance relationship with. IMO she should have been dancing with Gomes all these years. Now that Vishneva is gone, Part was the only real Prima ABT still had. Her elegance and assertiveness out shone all the rest. How I wish she could still find a place somewhere, but I'm guessing at this stage of her career, that might not be possible. NAtional Ballet of Canada perhaps, or even Pennsylvania Ballet. What a sad day at ABT when they can't find a place for this great ballerina.
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