macnellie

i moved to new york because of city ballet! What is martins doing!? i too, i think, will have to boycott or move to miami or something. can't buy third ring tickets. makes me so sad and mad. thought maybe seats would open up now that single tickets are on sale. no.

i would love to see symphony concertante Bal/Mozart-- I saw Hamel and Gregory : viola and violin--so many wonderful dancers to dance it now. why doesn't NYCB do it anymore? Anyone know?

morning!

You can purchase "Dancers" on Itunes and download it. I did--beautiful romeo/Juliet pas de deux with Ferri.

martine was my favorite--i thought she was the most moving of them all

Blanche in Streetcar is actually in her late 20's. She's often played by actresses in their 40's.

Is there a video of farrell in T&V?

Did anyone see her swan lake? would love a report

What a beautiful dancer Fernandez was! Thank you for posting this.

they've been in the orchestra and in the 2nd row of the 2nd tier

tickets are available for the 19, 20 and 21 Jan-- if you are a member. TDF.org. I've had very good seats usually. $29.00.

Black Swan Goes Retail.

I was a ballet dancer in a major American ballet company. Now, years later, I am a sales clerk at perhaps the “most major” designer clothing store in the Western world. Why not make a movie about us? “The Sales Associates.” We too have anorexia, violent love affairs, sexual dysfunction, and really bad mothers. There are grave battles among us for the prize of Saudi princesses and Russian oligarchs. A wretched young man in designer shoes swallowed a boot—and an aging prima sales associate poured perfume down her rival’s ear—where did she get that idea! Now that I’m no longer a dancer I finally have drama, drama, drama every day! My ballet life was boring: we practiced—we sewed our shoes, we washed our tights, performed, had love affairs –listened to music --made lifelong friends—slept badly—slept well…oh well….

I don't know how to access these films. Can someone tell me. Can I watch them on my computer here in Brooklyn?!

thank you,

Macnellie

I just came from the opening--Loved Julie K. and Stella A. and how beautiful the choreography of R was for them. I was happy to be there--enjoying the evening-etc. until Veronica Part came on and I started to cry--she took me away from the lovely and and into a deeper and more profound place. What a wonderful artist she is.

I would love advice on the best seats for watching dance at Avery Fisher Hall.

Thank you

Macnellie, 'Swamp Thing' is how a lot of people refer to the lakeside incarnation of Rothbart in Kevin McKenzie's production of 'Swan Lake' for ABT.

Of course! Thank you.

Dear Paul,

Who/What is "Swamp Thing"?

Thank you!

Judith

beautiful "Firebird" with Nina and Marius Liepa on YouTube as well as others

"The Dancer" [Dansaren] is a beautiful film that, for me evokes, some of the mystery of ballet.

Although I understand your criticism, Marga, I feel that this film was created as a work of art. There is much about the reality of what it means to be a ballet dancer but Feuer has also tried to express the intangible. As Rick Whitaker writes in his review "The style of the film is lyric-documentary." and "The Dancer is a film of breathtaking chaos, ordered and shaped by Feuer's musical, choreogaphic imagination." (Dance Magazine, Dec, 1995)

There are also clips of the ballerina, Anneli Alhanko. And, although nothing to do with ballet, I enjoyed Erland Josephson's role in the film. He is an actor I like very much.

This film can be rented from Netflix.

keep me

there is a review of Osipova's performance in the NY times (Mr. Macaulay)

www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/arts/dance/15abt.html?_r=1&ref=dance

This time he decided to ignore V. Part (I guess since he probably found no reasons to destroy her, ignoring was then option number 2). I so so tired of this guy's aversion for V. Part and his adoration for some other dancers.

We are all entitle to have our own opinions, but no matter what his glorified dancers do, he will always write beautiful things about them, and no matter how magnificent the ones on the opposite group perform, he will always destroy them (or in the best scenario, ignore them). Is pretty pathetic.

Is there is something to be admired from a critic is fairness, for the good and the bad.

I've just finished Judith Makrell's biography of Lydia Lopokova. The Bloomsbury group's tart and disdainful treatment of her reminds me of Macaulay's reviews of V.Part-perhaps she(Part) has too much life and light for Macaulay to stand. He certainly brings Bloomsbury-inner-circle-wit to his reviews. ..but inner-circle nevertheless