Mme. Hermine

To quote Mel from 2007: And Ruth Page also used a pas de deux couple, but of course she had also been a Pavlova dancer.

Of course from the past, Lydia Abarca and Paul Russell who danced for DTH but whom I saw in Ruth Page's Nut as guest Sugar Plum and Prince. More up to date Michaela DePrince, who has left DTH for Holland I think?

http://stream.wsj.com/story/latest-headlines/SS-2-63399/SS-2-406288/ Olivia Boisson is pictured in this article, signing autographs for children at a benefit.

I just wish so many of their stories weren't sad.

Also Raven Wilkinson of the Ballet Russe as well as Delores Brown and Janet Collins of course.

And remember Arthur Bell, who fell on hard times but at the end of his life reconnected with his family: http://articles.latimes.com/1998/apr/12/news/mn-38491

Wonder if he plays chess -

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Filin reacts to the verdict: http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2013/12/04/pkg-chance-bolshoi-filin-response.cnn.html

Filin makes a couple of short appearances in this Russian featurette about the premiere of Marco Spada:

something about a pot and a kettle here?

It's all getting a little confusing, but here's how it looks from this end. Joy is accustomed to taking to the different media outlets available to her in order to publicize herself. That isn't a criticism, scores of others do it and some more than her. Her story had a hook, so to speak, so there was interest and it did get coverage. After her experiences in Russia didn't work out the way she'd hoped, she did what she had done before in order to explain why she wasn't going to be at the Bolshoi. I'm pretty sure she didn't solicit each of the newpapers that has written about her. I kind of think she would have been better served both in the present and in the future if, once the decision to go elsewhere was made, she would have gone wherever it was, rehearsed, appeared on stage, danced well and gotten "rediscovered" for the right reasons. All of course while privately handling the various inequities still lingering from her stint at the Bolshoi which of course she has the right to do. But making every iota of it play 100 percent out in the press in real time and not trying to place the right amount of emphasis on what she is doing (present) rather than what happened to her (past) could make it harder and harder for her to be anything but "Joy Womack, formerly....".

She'll have choices to make, as always. If I were to give her advice I would tell her that once she's accepted a job and started it, she should make it about her job, about what she is doing now, and not about what happened before. Otherwise no one will ever be able to refer to her or think of her except in terms of a scandal, such as it is. (and I don't know her at all, I'm just speaking with experience of something somewhat similar).

I remember Michael Shannon; he competed in Jackson in 1986.

Or a video, I suppose. Easier to assess for oneself when it's not filtered through others' ideas.

Only if I can be Dorothy Kilgallen..

corpse de ballet....LOL thanks RG!

Goodness

I wonder if her husband has gone with her. http://searchingperfection.com/en/characters/nikitaivanovgoncharov/

Oh how sad. Thank you for letting us know, rg. RIP Mr. Mitchell.

His wording, albeit translated, doesn't seem crass to me, just frank. No worse, certainly, than some of the things said about him or some of the things done to him.

well it looks rather like a bed, maybe that's what they were referring to?

Thanks so much, RG!