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14 hours ago, pherank said:
I wonder how much those platform stages cost to rent? Can't be too inexpensive, and then there's the licensing fees to secure the outdoor space for a certain period.
The Festival des Arts de Saint Sauveur uses a platform stage and they are VERY noisy whenever anyone lands a jump. Also if the venue doesn't have raked seating the sight lines are terrible.
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only some of them are back. the full company will be back on September 15.
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5 hours ago, volcanohunter said:
Yes indeed. But in fairness there is very little the National Ballet of Canada can control outside the confines of the Walter Carsen Centre or the Four Seasons Centre.
About the school, Celia Franca co-founded it with Betty Oliphant with the intention that it should be a feeder school for the company. Oliphant was associate artistic director of the company for six years. The school's studio complex is called the Celia Franca Centre. It's not as though the institutions are disconnected.
and I would say most NBS students think of the NBOC as "their" company and dream of dancing as part of it.
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2 hours ago, Millie said:
Perhaps one reason that National Ballet School graduates are not joining the company is that they are being offered jobs with excellent companies in Europe. Many dancers prefer to dance in Europe. I know that the Royal Danish Ballet, for example, has many graduates of NBS, both male and female. German companies have also hired quite a few.
also Dutch National Ballet has many NBS grads. It seems that I find Canadians in just about every ballet company I visit.
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5 hours ago, naomikage said:
Hannah Fischer, Elena Lobsanova is leaving, as well as Jimmy Coleman and Ethan Watts. Brent Parolin (another outsider) is retiring.
Fischer and Lobsanova are going to Miami City Ballet, Jimmy Coleman to Royal Danish Ballet and Ethan Watts to Royal Swedish Ballet. Brent Parolin (not sure how he's an "outsider" since he trained at the National Ballet School before going to Stuttgart) is going to Ballet am Rhein in Dusseldorf as a ballet master.
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sorry, they have cancelled all grant applications for now.
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apparently the Alberta government has cut all arts funding...
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Joffrey Ballet has just announced that they will not be starting their season till February 2021.
Friends, we are deeply saddened to announce the cancellation of all performances for the remainder of 2020. That includes our upcoming productions of Manon and The Nutcracker.
It has become painfully clear that the COVID-19 pandemic continues to compromise the health and safety of large gatherings. We must listen to the advice of health experts and do all we can to protect everyone's well-being.
As of now, we are moving forward with our winter and spring programs in February and April/May 2021. In the meantime, we will stay connected. The stage may be dormant but our artists are not. Stay tuned.
Thanks to our audience, fans, and patrons for your incredible support of the Joffrey during this difficult time. We appreciate and love you so very much. We look forward to seeing you at the theater when the time is right ❤️
Alberta Ballet will not be starting again till May 2021:
Alberta Ballet is planning to perform Swan Lake in May 2021, Peter Pan in July 2021 and to revive Artistic Director Jean Grand-Maître's All of Us featuring music of The Tragically Hip in August 2021. We're hoping by February there will be more certainty around the safety of mass gatherings and we'll be able to announce dates for Calgary and Edmonton.
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21 hours ago, silvermash said:
Paris Opera director Stéphane Lissner has announced he will leave the head of the company at the end of December (he was due to finish the 20-21 season and leave in July 21) and that he has decided to close both Opera houses for renovation work until the end of November (Bastille) and end of December (Garnier)
https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/news/stage-renovation-work-at-the-paris-opera-from-july-2020
Apparently no one told iincoming director Alexander Neef that this was happening, and he's saying he can't leave the Canadian Opera Company before the originally planned takeover date in July.
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DTH have just announced they will be keeping this up through June 10.
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The National Ballet of Canada rents out a lot of its productions. But I don't imagine building a production of Serenade costs very much, as ballets go, and then you have the costumes in the warehouse for decades.
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9 hours ago, California said:
Does NYCB rent out their costumes and sets
On an NYCB wardrobe tour I did a few years ago, Marc Happel said that they categorically did NOT rent out their productions
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12 hours ago, Buddy said:
Perm Opera Ballet Theatre
La Fille mal gardée (Alexandre Gorski version)
. I’ve also made a brief search for The Chicken Dance, one of the great moments in ballet, but can’t find it.
Give it a try if you like. The company is loveable — and very good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcN1ffcVAng&feature=youtu.be
Chicken dance is only in Ashton
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thanks for the early warning, @fiddleback
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this is a hoot. The Australian Ballet's Wilis work from home.
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16 hours ago, volcanohunter said:
And, well, Hugo Marchand with no shirt on is kind of self-explanatory.
oh you made me laugh!!!
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Knowing that you will all need something light, fluffy, and amusing, Stuttgart Ballet has scheduled for their YouTube channel this weekend.....Mayerling!
The Stuttgart production with new sets and costumes by Jürgen Rose will be online for 24 hours from April 11th, 18.00 CET to April 12th, 18.00 CET on Stuttgart Ballet's Youtube Chanel
https://www.youtube.com/c/dasstuttgarterballett
The cast is the premiere cast at Stuttgart, with Friedemann Vogel (Rudolf), Elisa Badenes (Mary), Miriam Kacerova (Elisabeth), Alicia Amatriain (Larisch), Diana Ionescu (Stephanie), Anna Osadcenko (Mizzi), Marcia Haydée (Sophie) and Egon Madsen (Franz Josef).
Not to be missed!
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I also received an email from NBOC which linked directly to my account so that I could choose what option I wanted (donate, voucher, forget what the third one was, but it wasn't "refund".)
I think we should cut all box office staff some slack. I was communicating recently with Berlin State Ballet and my contact there told me they had 58,000 ticket cancellations to process and yes they're trying to do that from home.
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On 12/1/2019 at 7:21 PM, pherank said:
There are a few actual Kung-fu marital arts stances
now that could be really interesting! ;-)
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2 hours ago, volcanohunter said:
After numerous cancellations over Christmas because the strike, the French government has banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people, in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19. So once again, POB performances are being canceled. This time it's the Balanchine bill that's being pulled.
https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/message-to-spectators-of-the-performance-of-george-balanchine-3
@volcanohunter how did you find that message? It doesn't pop up on the landing page when you go to the Opera site. Neither does it come up on the page for the Balanchine program, which is currently showing "no seats available" for all performances but no explanation why.
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Spring 2020 Dance Programs at The New York Public Library for the Performing ArtsAll events are free and take place at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza. Advance registration may be recommended for some events. Please visit nypl.org/lpa for more details.Conversations
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Land Of Happiness: A Journey Into The Dances Of Bhutan with Karen GreenspanMON, MARCH 16 | 6 PMKaren Greenspan, author of Land Of Happiness: A Journey Into The Dances Of Bhutan, offers an insightful tour of the Dance Division’s extensive footage of Bhutanese dance, filmed by Core of Culture.An Evening with Alexei Ratmansky and Myles ThatcherTHURS, APRIL 30 | 6 PMClassical ballet is not frozen in the past but is a living, evolving art – this conviction provided a shared faith for mentor Alexei Ratmansky and protégé Myles Thatcher. After working together through Rolex’s Mentor and Protege program, Ratmansky and Thatcher come to the Library to talk about the living art of dance.An Introduction to the George Balanchine Foundation Video ArchivesTHURS, MAY 21 | 6 PMFor 20 years, the George Balanchine Foundation’s Interpreters Archive has recorded the creators of important Balanchine roles, as they teach and coach the roles with dancers today. Join us for a celebration of the Balanchine Foundation "Interpreters Archive," with rarely seen clips of coaching sessions, and testimonials from great dancers, past and present.Willa Kim: Made in New YorkTHURS, JUNE 4 | 6 PMBobbi Owen, curator of the Library's new exhibition The Wondrous Willa Kim: Costume Designs for Actors and Dancers, presents a close examination of Willa Kim’s costumes in motion. See Kim’s innovative designs captured in performance footage from Will Rogers Follies, Elliot Feld’s Variations on America and Paper Tiger, plus other works preserved in the Library’s theatre and dance moving image archives.The NYPL Dance Division and the Queer QuotientTHURS, JUNE 25 | 6 PMHow is dance history a form of queer history? In what ways is the Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts an archive of LGBTQIA+ lives and experiences? In connection with Pride Month at NYPL, dance scholar Paul A. Scolieri explores responses to the above questions focusing on the research for his recent biography of Ted Shawn.
Dance Rewind
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division has an ongoing documentation program dedicated to the recording of live dance performance and dance-related events and panels. This series highlights a selection of these films and videos, which date back to 1967. Dance Division staff will introduce each program, which will range from 60-90 minutes each.WED, MARCH 11 @ 1 PMSuzanne Farrell at New York City BalletTwo films featuring Suzanne Farrell: Chaconne filmed in 1976, and Union Jack filmed in 1977. Please note both are rehearsals, in practice clothes, with piano accompaniment.WED, APRIL 8 @ 1 PMPaul Taylor Dance CompanyTwo works by Paul Taylor: Nightshade and Dust, filmed in 1976 and featuring company members Elie Chaib, Carolyn Adams, Christopher Gillis, Lila York, and David Parsons.WED, MAY 13 @ 1 PMAnthony Tudor Works at American Ballet TheaterTwo filmed rehearsals of ballets by Antony Tudor: Jardin Aux Lilas recorded in 1972, and The Leaves are Fading from 1975 which features the original cast including Gelsey Kirkland, Cynthia Harvey, and Jonas Kage.WED, JUNE 10 @ 1 PMLe Ballet National du SénégalTraditional dances from Senegal recorded in 1995 at the Zellerbach Auditorium, Berkeley, California.Advance reservations required.
David Vaughan's The Dance Historian Is In
David Vaughan was the archivist of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and author of Merce Cunningham/65 Years and Frederick Ashton and His Ballets. From 2012 until his death in 2017, Vaughan held monthly screenings of his favorite dance films and videos from our collection. The Dance Division continues this series in his honor with guest hosts.WED, MARCH 25 @ 1 PMTony WaagFounder of the American Tap Dance Foundation and Tap City, the annual New York City Tap Festival, Tony Waag is an international ambassador of the form, receiving the Dance Magazine Award in 2014 for his countless contributions. He will screen some clips from his vast Tap City archive.WED, APRIL 29 @ 1 PMDean MossMercurial and reclusive, the award-winning interdisciplinary choreographer, video artist, curator, and lecturer Dean Moss will screen and contextualize his acclaimed work Kisaeng becomes you with guest scholar Maura Donohue.WED, MAY 27 @ 1 PMMelissa ToogoodBessie award-winning performer Melissa Toogood will show footage from her time dancing in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and with Pam Tanowitz Dance.WED, JUNE 24 @ 1 PMSachiyo ItoChoreographer, educator, performer, and compelling ambassador for Japanese arts and culture, Sachiyo Ito has embodied the beauty and grace of Japanese classical dance to American audiences for the last 48 years. She will screen her Kabuki dances and choreographed works inspired by the Japanese traditions. -
11 hours ago, pherank said:
I wonder if it's just a coincidence that Maria Kochetkova is a guest principal with Dresden Semperoper Ballet. 😉
And choreographer David Dawson (an old acquaintance of SS) will become Associate Choreographer with Semperoper.David Dawson has had an association with Dresden for over 15 years already.
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Dresden Semperoper Ballet announced their 2020-21 season, along with the news that Carlo di Lanno will be joining as Principal Dancer and Sofiane Sylve as Ballet Master (along with Marcelo Gomes)
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Australian Ballet just announced this 10 minutes ago on their facebook feed
BREAKING NEWS: David Hallberg will be the next artistic director of The Australian Ballet! This international dance star is currently a principal of American Ballet Theatre and Bolshoi Ballet, a principal guest at The Royal Ballet, and Resident Guest Artist of our company. We’re delighted that he’ll be bringing his unique vision, experience and leadership to this role. David has a long relationship with and admiration for our company, and we’re looking forward to welcoming him in 2021.
and on Hallberg's fb feed
Announced today in Melbourne, I am thrilled to share that I will become the next Artistic Director of The Australian Ballet The Australian Ballet starting January 2021.
I am excited at the opportunity to finally realize an artistic vision and it feels like the right place and the right time to get to work doing so. I have had such amazing opportunities throughout my career and I am so ready to funnel that into a company I so love and respect. I have had a long 10 year history with the company, first as a Guest Artist, then using the expertise of the world renowned Medical Team (which was all explained in the book!) and finally as Resident Guest Artist. This appointment makes so much sense in many ways.
It has been a long and eventful (to say the least) career and I have always known that the time will come where I take all of my absorbed experience and become an Artistic Director. This is the time. I can’t wait to realize my ambitious vision for the future of this essential art form with an institution that I so deeply love and respect.
See you in Australia!
What Is a Ballet Body? by Gia Kourlas
in Writings on Ballet
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My thoughts exactly when I saw they'd interviewed the skeletal Whelan of all people. I remember seeing her in a leotard ballet and something seemed to be jutting out of her leotard at rib cage level. I asked a medically trained friend who was with me "what is that" and she said "it's her liver."