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Jeanne

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  1. Hi Carson. Katya's birthday is August 20, 1982. A fiery Leo indeed!
  2. Genia Obraztsova will be in Rome preparing for a guest appearance with the Rome Opera Ballet as Giselle. At the moment there is no casting but it's possible she may have the opening night performance (Tuesday Feb 23). Washington's loss, Rome's gain ... I am hoping to see her on Tuesday night as I'll be in Italy for work that week. Personally I am very excited to see Katya Kondaurova as Lilac in Washington on Saturday evening. I wonder if Islom will be Carabosse to her Lilac? Is there any other husband/wife duo that has been put to that role combination?? I'm also curious to see Oksana Skoryk, having heard so much about her from the Perm school documentary awhile back.
  3. I think that I predicted this one right. May be i am growing OUT of admiration for Osipova, but i want to THANK Shipulina. she did FOUR performances, and let me dare to say that Bolshoi's Le Corsaire's Medora is more tenous than La Sulfide or Giselle. So, She managed to pull two performances back-to-back. But we'd never know for sure what really happened - to delight everyone - Osipova didn't look injured or strained (not like poor Fadeyev).............. Isn't there a theme, Osipova/Visheva - trying to get as many ABT performances and running out of steam/or time to perform with the home company. But it's not for me to judge ;-)) PS: I liked them all, but i'd agree with Hans, i liked Gulnara better than Medora I cannot agree more, YID. As the International Sales Manager for Gaynor Minden, I was in touch with Katya Shipulina throughout the tour (she is a Gaynor Minden Artist). She did indeed dance an incredibly large amount compared to her fellow principals/leading soloists. Last week alone she danced 5 Medoras - count them, 5, in a span of 6 days : Tuesday's General Rehearsal, Wednesday's evening performance, Friday's evening performance, Saturday's evening performance and Sunday's matinee. Not many dancers in the world could pull that off at the end of a three week tour with week two including Odette/Odile & Kitri and still be standing at the end of it. I was with her at dinner late Saturday night when she got the call that she was to dance the Sunday matinee ... she merely shrugged and finished her dinner and wished for a decent massage. If only every dancer in the world could be as dependable, gracious and easy-going as Katya Shipulina, then she would have the benefit of not having to graciously dance so often for others who bow out at the last minute for 'unknown' reasons. That being said, I thought her Saturday night performance with Ruslan Skvorstov far superior to her Friday night outing with a partner that she had barely rehearsed with and who was evidently too short for her (finger turns were all but impossible!). On Saturday her arabesque at the end of her variation from the pas de deux in Scene II of Act I was divine - she lingered there for a few extra seconds, a look of pure joy on her face.
  4. As the International Sales Manager for Gaynor Minden, I'd like to say that my colleagues and I genuinely enjoy reading these reports from Saint Petersburg. We all wish we could be there in person to experience these fantastic performances from such talented artists. I would like to respectfully point out that while those are not Gillian Murphy's Gaynor Mindens, they are most certainly Nadezhda Gonchar's Gaynor Mindens. Nadia has been wearing them for some years now, as do nearly all of the First and Second Soloists, Coryphees and Corps de Ballet (including recent graduates from the Vagonova Academy, such as Anastasia Nikitina). In summer of 2007 the color of the outer sole was changed from grey to tan, to give the shoes a more traditional look on stage.
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