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1 hour ago, angelica said:
So true, Helene. So much more of everything and too little time to keep up. I haven't done a whole lot today besides keep up with the current threads on Ballet Alert!
Isn't this exactly what Fridays in June were made for?
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2 minutes ago, nana said:
I think what Waelsung said has a point. I don't think the problem is because of guest star policy of ABT, but because there haven't been many comparable level of stars from home-grown in ABT so far. I also do not care the dancer is home-grown or from anywhere else. What I care is the quality of performance. Honestly, people here are very excited about Abrera, but after seeing her giselle, I didn't want to see her anymore, so I don't think she's that level of dancer (and one of the reviews of Le Corsaire said she simplified its step too, such a disappointment!). But agree with most people that soloists (Shevshenko, Trenary, Lane, Brandt... ) seem to have a good potential to be the stars and loved them so far. Hope ABT can get their old name back.
These seem like two very different points, though – Waelsung's being that "the future of ABT is grim" (quoting from memory from the previous page, but that's almost exact) and nana's that there seems to be "good potential" for future stars and that ABT is in a sort of "growing period" (my own summarizing term, not a quote). Having actually seen many of these recent performances and debuts, I'd agree with the latter, rather than the former.
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18 minutes ago, Waelsung said:
The local crowd will always be there to cheer the home team, but big-league attendees (and sponsors) will not be enthusiastic enough to keep the budget sane and the price of the seats even remotely affordable.
Just one note, Waelsung, since you've mentioned this twice now: there are quite decent $30 orchestra seats available as rush tickets (which can be purchased online day-of) for virtually every performance, other than the sold-out Misty performances.
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6 hours ago, Waelsung said:
Hard to believe what the ABT has become. So sad.
Four principal dancers and reliable O/Os are injured. Surely this is a pretty exceptional situation. What's the indication here of "what ABT has become"?
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Shevchenko looks beautiful in that photo and great in the video!
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Wow. Three performances in 4 days for Shevchenko?! She is having a BIG year!
I don't think I can remember a time in the last 10 years at least when Part has pulled out of a full-length due to injury. She's always seemed blessedly impervious.
I really hope she's back for Swan Lake next week. I already fear how few of those we have left to see from her. I'm glad she's not scheduled until Saturday.
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57 minutes ago, onxmyxtoes said:
Misty Copeland is also not a young principal, at age 34.
I suspect that Misty will be around for quite some time. Just a guess.
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Any guesses (wishful or otherwise) for who might take over Kochetkova's O/O the following week, if she's still out?
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3 minutes ago, LadyBubbles said:
Casting change:
Skylar Brandt debuting Medora on Monday. Replaces Kochetkova.
This has been a big year so far for breakout opportunities!
I guess the era of "Hee Seo Ballet Theatre" is over!
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38 minutes ago, mimsyb said:
As the story goes, the tortoise won the race!
Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. As we've all seen plenty of times before, widespread acclaim on Ballet Alert does not a successful ABT career make!
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5 minutes ago, vipa said:
I do think her presence has impact on the opportunities offered the shorter women.
That's really what it comes down to, though, isn't it? How much more interesting would it be to see Trenary, Lane, Brandt, etc getting shots and second shots at all those roles?
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37 minutes ago, alexL said:
I know others are not fond of Kochetkova but I think she is a reliable partner for most male dancers.
Just the fact that several posters now have said something along these lines is telling, though, isn't it? "A reliable partner." That's damning with faint praise for a principal ballerina, I'd say.
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3 minutes ago, dirac said:
Unless other evidence surfaces to the contrary, presumably Seibert wrote about Copeland's performances because they interested him, with or without encouragement from an editor who might think readers would be interested as well, and no slight to other dancers was intended by him or the Times.
That seems no more presumable to me than any number of other explanations for the piece's appearance. And I say that with no particular agenda or implication in mind. I just don't think we can presume such a thing (indeed, "unless...evidence surfaces to the contrary") about Seibert's or the paper's purpose for writing or publishing the piece -- nor do I particularly think their motivation(s) matter(s) all that much. The piece exists, as a thing to be commented on, regardless of why.
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I have mixed feelings about Seibert's piece. On the one hand, it seems unfortunate that Seibert writes so extensively about two apparently (at least to his eyes, as his descriptions suggest) middling performances when other excellent ballerinas are also performing. On the other hand, Seibert's appraisals strike me as refreshingly honest and a valuable reminder to his readers that ballet can be so much more than what now appears on the Met stage approximately twice each week.
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4 hours ago, abatt said:
As mussel said, in Act I her hops en pointe barely advanced forward at all. In fact, she didn't even fill out the entirety of the music for that section - she ended the hops early and started swirling her skirt and making goo goo eyes at Lendorf to fill out the rest of that music.
I guess these are the "real acting chops" that Gia Kourlas was lauding and that Misty herself said she's come to rely on:
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Yes, the float drove south on Columbus right past Lincoln Center at around 1:15 before Saturday's matinee. A bunch of kids from the morning event were about and excited to see it.
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35 minutes ago, sz said:
Seems Copeland's Saturday (5/20) could have been switched with Shevchenko.And face the wrath of Copeland's disappointed fans? No way. They need them to keep buying up the tickets.
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Murphy's post suggests to me that Lendorf will dance with Shevchenko.
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8 minutes ago, ABT Fan said:
It's looks unprofessional.
Then it fits perfectly as part of the overall ABT "marketing" "strategy"!
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6 hours ago, mussel said:
Tonight Mercedes and QoD were split roles with Paris as the former and Part as the latter.
Interesting. I wonder if that was always intended, and the calendar just didn't reflect it, or if that was a change. I'm so sorry to have missed Veronika's QofD!
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53 minutes ago, chicagoballetomane said:
They're fairly challenging, but 32 fouetté turns is much more difficult, in my experience. There's no excuse for a professional dancer, let alone an ABT principal, not to be able to perform either type of fouetté. If you can't do it, do something else or have someone else dance the role.
And it's one thing for a dancer to have an area of general technical weakness that results in an occasional slip, but to keep putting the same dancer in the same role before paying audiences when it's well established that she cannot perform one of its most iconic steps (here I refer to the QofD's Italian fouettés...don't mean to relitigate old arguments!) seems to me quite objectionable.
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1 hour ago, Dale said:
...characters from the ballet will board a 24-foot open-air festive float for a ride along the Upper West Side and through midtown, ending back “home” at Lincoln Center’s Metropolitan Opera House on Saturday, May 20, 2017. Cupcake Children, Swirl Girls, Layer Cake Girl, Pink Yak and Chef, all characters from ABT’s new production of Whipped Cream, will set out from the loading dock of the Metropolitan Opera House at 9:30am for their journey up Central Park West to West 96th Street, down Columbus Avenue and back to Lincoln Center, waving to fans and offering photo opportunities prior to the 11:30am performance of ABTKids.
For the dancers' sakes I sure hope they're hiring stand-ins!
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8 hours ago, canbelto said:
Suzanne Farrell owns the rights to Tzigane and it's unlikely she'll allow NYCB to perform either that or Meditation and Don Quixote (two other ballets that belong to her).
Wouldn't the retirement of Martins likely make some difference in that decision (depending, of course, on who would replace him)?
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8 hours ago, DC Export said:
If I had one wish for the leadership in the company, it would be to restore and revive shelved Balanchine works while those he created them on are still with us. The Balanchine Foundation may be the official caretaker of his work, but NYCB is where it takes life. They need to expand that legacy with the wealth of talent SAB has fostered and create programs that go beyond the signature works. I want to see Tzigane in the State/Koch Theater where it belongs.
What else would be on people's wish lists for such a project?
I would love to see Gounod Symphony. I hope it's not lost again with the imminent end of Suzanne Farrell Ballet.
ABT 2017 Corsaire
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You clearly haven't been keeping up with the board – she's having a really big season! Kitris and Myrthas, in particular. Enjoy, and let us know what you think! I'm seeing her tomorrow, stepping in for Part.