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a problem with fire stage curtain... They had to veryfy all the cables and changed some of them

The Green table will be given by Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin as part of their next season in Mulhouse, Colmar and Strasbourg. http://www.operanationaldurhin.eu/en--dance-2018-2019--spectres-europe-opera-national-du-rhin.html

Well there is a management team. An artistic team with a chief ballet master, associate director (and a couple of ballet master) and a dance administrator.

It was her choice, it just gives an insight about who she is and how she can think...

Although she had said when she was asked about it at first (that is when Hervé Moreau was supposedly already retired) that she would dance with Josua Hoffalt, I don't think that in the case of her retirement show, it was a surprise, that Madame Dupont asked for Roberto Bolle because as I said before, she was known to choose her partners and to avoid series when she could not. By then, as a dancer, she didn't care about the effects it could have inside the company, and for the audience. And although she now may be paying the price, I don’t think she cares either. The best question is what Lissner has in his agenda? In choosing Millepied then Dupont?

she should. It's extremely difficult to keep high level without performing regularly full length ballets and attending company classes.

well usually, galas are for money, being in a company is for art sake

Madame Dupont was quite good to manage her career, one might have thought she would be good for others... It's partially true for her favorites. I think she should have a broader view on what is a manager of 154 people and if she could understand that, well maybe...

and what does it have to do with her management skills? Madame Dupont was fairly known for choosing her partners even before her retirement show.

Well, nothing really new unfortunately, necessary changes after the departure of Brigitte Lefevre were done in a complete amateurism and the dancers are paying a high price. Personally, I don’t read Le Figaro which by the way seems to have become a gossips newspaper. Anyway, it is fairly well known that Madame Bavelier has something against the current management and the past few years has already seen smaller outbursts like that while when Le Figaro was the official sponsor of the opera, she was scarcely reviewing the shows, having only promotional articles before the beginning of any series. Does she miss something?

Yes, the jury couldn't agree on one dancer... Up to me and most of the people around me, the best was Charline Giezendanner but she's not really in the favour of the direction, so perhaps there was a problem with that...

Nothing was really that obvious from the concours today, for Pablo Legasa as well as for Paul Marque, no one else stood out... it's is a consensual result up to me. Sébastien Bertaud is an artist who always delivers his full artistry during the concours, unlike some others. He is a true artist and a pure joy to watch.

Results for today competition Quadrille to Coryphée 1. Axel Magliano 2. Simon Le Borgne Coryphée to Sujet 1. Francesco Mura 2. Pablo Legasa Sujet to Premier danseur Paul Marque

Results Quadrille to Coryphée 1. Caroline Osmont 2. Bianca Scudamore Coryphée to Sujet 1. Roxane Stojanov 2. Aubane Philbert Sujet to Première danseuse No one is promoted

I think what Nureyev brought from what he learnt from his time at Kirov is just fine, it's his own additions and reworked of choreographical aspects which are debatable... The third act of Raymonda is indeed beautiful, Bayadère as well and it's his most achieved ballet IMO... Swan Lake has some issues, Romeo and Juliet and Cinderella, well.... Staging is often questioned but the choreography is really unrealistic...

the season is online https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/season-18-19/ballet

It's been long since Marie-Agnès Gillot has danced a classial ballet , in Paris at least... I think it was in Cinderella in 2011. She has danced Myrtha in Giselle though in the 2012 US Tour and 2013 Australian Tour

Dupont is doing the casting but Reid Anderson came last November to check the dancers

We all have personal taste and me too I think Hervé Moreau was really good in Onegin but this is not enough to qualify him as the artist of the company! He has cancelled so many times, so often at the last minute putting his colleagues (partners and substitutes) in difficult situations with side effects on the audience too! Someone who has shown up so little on stage in so few ballets can of cause keep an aura but, to my opinion, he doesn’t deserve it.

No, I was just asking, because most of what you had written at first looked so odd to me. You have considerably edited your post and most of it has been erased, I don't really want to comment your taste... Anyway, in my opinion, Mathieu Ganio is an elegant dancer that I like to watch in classical pieces for his refinement, his delicacy of movement and he is an excellent partner. He is yes a good representative of the French style, but he’s neither a great actor (although he tends to improve), neither a great technician. Hervé Moreau? I don't know... He is the Ghost of the opera. His most popular role is probably… himself in the Défilé! He must have danced in not more than 20 programmes or so since he has been made Etoile in 2006. That night was the last time I saw him in a classical ballet and this run of Bayadère (March 2006) was indeed the last time he danced a classical role in Paris!!! If he is not cast in Onegin (where he was quite good indeed), it is because he can’t simply perform and in fact, it would have been reasonable for him and honest to the company, to resign years ago, as Jean-Guillaume Bart did.

Are you being humorous?

Yes Fancy free is new to the repertoire... and is far from the culture of POB dancers but most of the new pieces on the list are... Well, why new choreography of Les Noces or Bolero? Because the music is available perhaps... Mats Ek likes to revisit classics so it's no news...

Additionally, two other programmes are announced for I guess the season 2019-2020 (but are in the 2018-2019 brochure) In September 2019 Hiroshi Sugimoto/William Forsythe Alessio Silvestrin : At the Hawk’s Well William Forsythe : Blake Works I In October 2019 Crystal Pite Creation

Here it is *Martha Graham Dance Company Cave of the heart/Ekstasis(Virginie Mécène after Martha Graham)/Lamentation variation(Nicolas Paul after Martha Graham)/the rite of spring Appalachian spring/Ekstasis(Virginie Mécène after Martha Graham)/Lamentation variation (Nicolas Paul after Martha Graham)/the rite of spring *Ohad Naharin : Decadance *Hommage à Jerome Robbins Afternoon of a faun/A Suite of dances/Fancy free/Glass Pieces *Rudolf Nureyev : Cendrillon *John Neumeier : La Dame aux camélias *Rudolf Nureyev : Le Lac des cygnes *Goecke / Lidberg / Cherkaoui Marco Goecke : - (création) Pontus Lidberg : Les noces (création) Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui : Faun *Rosas Six Concerto Brandbourgeois *Spectacle de l’École de danse Beatrice Massin/Nicolas Paul : D’ores et déjà Bournonville : Conservatoire Haveline : Les deux pigeons *Leon-Lightfoot / Van Manen Sol Leon/Paul Lightfoot : Sleight of Hand/Speak for Yourself Hans Van Mannen : Trois gnossiennes *Iolanta / Casse-Noisette (Cherkaoui/Lock/Pita) *Mats Ek Another place (création) Boléro (création) *Wayne McGregor : Tree of Codes

Lacotte' Sylphide is not currently that forgotten as it has been in the repertoire of seasons 2012-2013 and 2016-2017. It has been presented in Japan in 2017 and was supposed to be part of the cancelled 2018 US tour. POB had his Paquita during seasons 2007-2008, 2010-2011, 2014-2015 and has toured to Canada, China and Russia... So Lacotte is not forgotten either