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I checked into purchasing tickets at the discount price and you cannot choose your seat, though you can choose a generic location. I suspect that they will fill these orders in after the subscription seats are assigned.

Dallas as well? This is great! Any idea as to what theatre in Dallas?

The pirouette that went awry in Emeralds was a finger pirouette from fouetté en dehors and not a "supported" pirouette. Her handsome partner's hand slipped away and Gilbert miraculously releveed straight up, twice, to save it. It was an amazing save. She is a beautiful, musical dancer.

I go every year right after Christmas and I do not recall any singing during the snow scene at SFB.

I can't say that the change in caption is any less heartbreaking to me than the earlier one. But I hope she continues to dance - she is just too beautiful and should not be stopping because of ABT's idiocy.

Oh, canbelto, these comparison photos are a delight!

Thanks, Pherank. I was hoping to get in all the new works in one fell swoop.

Memorable for many reasons.

Thanks, volcanohunter and silvermash, for the information!

Eleonora Abbagnato, director of the Rome Opera Ballet, is currently an etoile of the Paris Opera Ballet (and is not a former etoile). Who from POB is in Madrid? Wonderful news about Le Riche!

Edward King is British.

I don't think Millepied is twiddling his thumbs all that much. His company, L.A. Dance Project, is currently in residence in Arles and has performances scheduled throughout the coming season. http://www.ladanceproject.com/new-events/

Practicing fouettes in a classroom is different from performing them on stage, due to the lighting and spatial awareness, particularly an awareness of the audience out there in the dark auditorium. You can predict that a problem will arise if the dancer's weight is back, as it is very hard for a dancer en pointe to correct this while turning (I saw this with Skorik in Black Swan a few years ago.) The darkness of the auditorium can push your weight back and so you need to practice fouettes on stage.

So excited about these three wonderful dancers joining LA Dance Project!

I recall reading at the time that Millepied was leaving POB, that there was a female POB dancer who was joining LA Dance Project, but I do not recall her name by now.

I also had a decision to make as to what I would see, given the overlap, and settled on BalletNow on Friday night, and then three Giselles, so I can see the La Scala cast principals in the matinee and Marinela Nunez twice (Saturday evening and Sunday matinee). I have never seen Nunez live and don't want any regrets if she is as beautiful as I hear. I am rarely enthusiastic about hodgepodge programs with an assortment of pas de deux and divertissements, but I am looking forward to seeing the amazing Tiler Peck on stage, as well as some of the other dancers - Gomes, Cuthbertson, Delgado. The BalletNow casting and program list has been up since at least May 26, 2017, with Robert Fairchild's name included until recently.

I was wondering how this would affect the performances featuring Tiler Peck at the Los Angeles Music Center at the end of July, called Ballet Now, but I just checked the website and it shows Cory Stearns as dancing Stars and Stripes pas de deux with Tiler, as well as Fancy Free. Interesting that the casting changes are already up. Robert Fairchild was previously listed as a dancer.

The Joffrey did that program in Los Angeles as well. I think it's the only ballet by Massine I've ever seen.

I saw three performances of The Winter's Tale in New York last summer with different casts, and vastly preferred Heather Ogden and Jurgita Dronina as Hermione. I found Fischer one-dimensional and immature artistically, and did not understand why she was first cast. Though her dancing was very nice, it wasn't enough for that role.

I'm in California and I am also reflecting on as to who is on stage over the next few hours - and sending supporting thoughts!

Neither am I.

Kochetkova danced in Ratmansky's The Golden Cockerel with ABT and Shostakovich Trilogy (the last section) with both ABT and SFB. She has danced several of Ratmansky's ballets at SFB. I can only think of one other time that Kochetkova has missed performances due to injury: a number of years ago, she missed dancing Juliet with SFB in two performances because of a neck injury, but she danced the last performance. At that performance, she got injured, seemingly by the brush and started bleeding around her eye, in Juliet's first scene with the nurse, and she walked off stage, halting the performance for a half hour while it was decided to what to do next. (Corps dancer Madison Keesler had rehearsed the role.) Her Romeo, Joan Boada, rose to the occasion and gave an impassioned performance, supporting Kochetkova emotionally and physically beyond the call of duty. I was seated in the first row and the brush incident occurred right smack in front of me.

Fabulous! I am so enjoying reading all the posts about Lane, Brandt, Teuscher, and Shevchenko's taking on their new roles!

According to the OC Register link, Segerstrom’s executive vice president Judy Morr is the person to contact.