Maxi3D

Just a quick FYI, Paloma Herrera will be performing Don Quixote with the Festival Ballet Theater in Costa Mesa CA. on the fifth and sixth of April 2003. She will be partnered by Gennadi Saveliev of ABT also. For more info here's the link to Festival Ballet Theater: http://www.festivalballet.org/ Catch it while you can

Misty Copeland, a star in the making.

ABT has a summer intensive workshop around the U.S. but not a full time ballet school like NYCB's SAB.

Just a quick note for all of us in the cultural wastesland of So. Cal. KCET is airing the Men of ABT tonight @ 8PM PST. Catch it while you can!!

Thank you Michael and Manhattnik for your descriptions of last night's performance. They are the next best thing to being there in person. I truely envy you guys from the other side of the country.

Is anyone going to tonight's performance of NYCB with guest dancer Sofiane Sylve? If so could you describe how the evening was and what ballet was she danced in. Ever since I saw the video of Sofiance doing those amazing foot works and the fouettes on another thread I'm hooked by her. Please do tell.

Thanks for all the infomation! I will look into all the options. Thank you.

Thank you for the infomation Ms. Leigh I will find out which day the single ticket go on sale and cross my fingers hoping they don't sell out. I wonder if in the past do the seats usually sold out at the Met when a special event such as Alina Cojocaru dances in the ABT?

I have made up my mind to fly across the country for a weekend excursion on May 10 to watch Alina debut in ABT's La Bayadere. The problem is, single performance ticket won't be on sale until end of March and I'm afraid that by that time the tickets might be sold out. Another option is to buy the subscription to ABT's Met season, but they come in group of four preformances which I will be wasting three unuse tickets. My dilemma is, should I take a chance and wait until the single ticket become available, or go ahead and buy the subscription. Any advice from knowledgeable person will be most thankful. Also, if I may be so bold to ask those native to New York city for their advices on which airport is the best to be arriving into the city, I'm thinking about staying in the hotels around the Central Park area. Thanks.

It is a very interesting film. This whole movie is one big 88 minutes steadycam shot that dances in and around the palace. Very nicely done.

Thanks BalletMaMa: My VCR is set and ready to go. I wonder how recent is this production of the Nuts? It looks like this was filmed before Anthony Dowell retired.

I must say that you can't take Dave Barry's article too seriously. I laughed so much that tears came out of my eyes. I think that he set himself up in his article by saying those manly-man things so that he can make us laugh at his expense. It will only serve him right if one day Sophie, his daughter, will become a ballerina like she wanted. P.S. Has anyone seen the cartoon on Barry's article? It was hilarious.

My wish-list will be a new Romantic era style classical ballet. I wonder why haven't any company has come up with a new ballet in the style of Swan Lake or Gislle? I I belive that most audiances want to see ballerinas in tutus and new classical ballet or/and dramatic ballet would help the artform of ballet. P.S. Los Angeles City Ballet company will fit very nicely on the wish-list also. I wish, I wish.

I think that both Julie and Angel did the same thing on Jay Leno show last year. It would be nicer if they could do an interview after they danced thou.

Hello Mel and thanks for the infos. I love the idea of Star Trek ballet ;) I would like to see the whole stage set-up as the flight deck of the Enterprise and have all the corps bourrée en pointe from stage left to stage right and then back again during attacks from the Romulan. I wonder which company will be brave enough to have my dream realized. P.S. If I'm not mistaken, did they got rid of the Sugar Plum Fairy in the movie? I didn't see any credit given to the role.

I was doing channel surfing and happened upon a performance of Nutcracker on my local UPN network. which suprised me by the fact that I thought UPN only shows Star Terk TV series. Anyway, the ballet was performed by the PNB and it is called Nutcracker The Motion Picture. I was only able to catch the last third of the show from which mother ginger and her little bon bons danced. The part of mother ginger have been omitted, instead of the children coming out under her skirt, a weird looking man opens a big book from which the children emerged from it, different but strange none-the-less. Dr. Drosselmeyer was in this ballet been replaced by even-more stranger looking character wearing a large turban on his head. :confused: From what I could gather this film was released in 1986 and was danced by Hugh Bigney and Vanessa Sharp. Has anyone else seen this film? Could anyone tell me more about it? Thanks. P.S. Also on Sunday 12-15, A&E is showing once again the Swedish royal Opera Ballet's Nutcarcker on the breakfast with the Arts show.

Could anyone tell me how did it go for the Houston Ballet in Moscow, and what are the respones from the Russian. I tried to look it up in the company's web site but it didn't say much about their tour in Russia. I wondered who opened the show and were the performances sold-out at the Boshoi theater? Thanks.

I wonder why should we boycott Nutcracker? The Nutcracker season is where most small campanies earn their incomes isn't it? Anyway I am planning to see most of the performances put out by the local companies in my city. They need all the supports they can get.

Yes I remember that Charlize Theron was a ballerina, but was suprised to learn that Lea Thompson can't resist the pull of the bright lights of la la land. From the first time I saw Audrey Hepburn I thought that she would make a great ballerina, but I didn't know she also study ballet. Only if Audrey would stick with it perhaps she would as great as Margot Fonteyn. I guess that ballet will always come second when it come up against the draw of Hollywood.

Really!? Patrick Swayze danced ballet? I wish I could see him dance.

Just read that there will be another ballet movie with Robert Altman as the director. The movie is called "The Company" which chronicles the life of a ballerina. Joffrey Ballet is involve with the movie so perhaps the movie is center around the company. Actress Neve Campbell will play the up-and-coming corps girl on the fast track and Malcolm McDowell will play the AD. Here is the link to the story: http://film.guardian.co.uk/News_Story/Excl...,797977,00.html Neve Campbell was trained at the National Ballet School of Canada during her teenage years before injures force her out of ballet. Nicole Kidman also started out as a ballerina but was forced to turn away from ballet. I was wondering is there any more actors and actresses in Hollywood today also came from the world of ballet. P.S. Can't wait to see Neve putting on her pointe shoes once again.

Hello Alexandra! >Maxi3D, what was your sense of the audience's reaction? During the whole of the second half of the evening's PNB performance I would describe the audience's reaction as ho hum. I am a regular of ballet performances for many years and I have never encounter such a lackluster audience. I have been to full evening performance of ballets where the applauses were in greater supply. I guess that the event was not geared toward the ballet audience since it was a mix bill of concert and dancing. Also, the Hollywood Bowl is a open air theater and applause from the audiences are not as loud as those in the indoor theater and unless you spend great fortune to buy a box seat out front, you will be sitting with the mass's at least a hundred yard back. At the "curtain" call the dancers were awarded with a modest appreciation for their works, but before the applauses ended most of the people were in the aisles hurriedly trying to beat the traffic jams in the parking lots. P.S. I also love the pre-preformance's warm up by the dancers on stage. It is such a rare sight it worth the ticket price alone just to watch them getting ready.

It was not as cold at the Bowl on Friday night and I greatly enjoyed the performance by the PNB. I must admit that I don't have much exposures in turn of Balanchine's works out here in L.A., but the ballet performed by the PNB didn't quite felt like his works. Perhaps because I have to watch the ballet behind a pair of very high power binocular and the fact that the hollywood Bowl is not a very good venue for ballet performance. This was the first time I saw PNB perform in L.A. and they were great. Louise Nadeau was wonderful given the small stage area that she have to work with, and the corps were strong as the butterflies and hounds. Although the hound heads that the dancers have on was petty freaky. All in all I would go again. Well that's my two cents worth.

Hi all! Just a bit of info on PNB. They will be performing this Sept. 6 and 7 at Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The event is called Much Ado About Nothing-Shakespeare at the bowl. PNB will be dance parts of A Midsummer night's dream. Here is the link: http://www.hollywoodbowl.org/tix/performan...tail.cfm?id=906

Hey everybody! Thanks for the infos . "A Very Young Dancer" is a really nice little treasure that I had dug up at the used book store. The book have photos of Mr. B rehearsing with the students and also have pictures of Kay Mazzo dancing Sugar Plum Fairy and Peter Martin as the Cavalier. The other thing that the book surprised me was that Jacques d'Amboise have twin daughters; Charlotte and Catherine, but when I checked the NYCB's roster only Christopher d'Amboise and Ninette d’Amboise appeared on the list. This book is just not a children's book, but also a photo documentary of the NYCB during the Golden 70's.