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Artem Ovcharenko has just posted this on facebook: Join us on Tuesday, 26th at Wythe Cinema, NYC for the BBC docudrama 'Rudolf Nureyev — Dance to Freedom' with Artem Ovcharenko in the role of Nureyev. Screening at 5:30PM and 8:00PM. Q&A session with special guests, Richard Curson Smith and Artem Ovcharenko! 80 Wythe Ave. at N. 11th Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11249

NBOC has had to do this for years, and yet their mixed programs have traditionally always been the 3-parters. It's only in the last couple of years that they've reduced the number of ballets and the length of the program so that you're in and out of the theatre in under 2 hours. 20 minutes of intermission, so indeed you are not getting much ballet for your very big bucks.

I agree with volcanohunter about the vertiginous non-thrill of the 5th ring. It's very scary up there.

You can get rush seats in lower rings (but around the sides) for $45 or $55. Are you under 30, Jumpfrog? They have a special DanceBreak program for under 30s where you can get whatever's left in the house for $45 (I believe)

this thread should really be moved out of the Royal Danish Ballet forum shouldn't it?

I wonder how many variants of Pierre Arthur Raveau he can go through. I will be interested to see how he is listed in the program.

according to this press release from NBOC, Gabriele Frola will be back to dance James when they open in Ottawa in April: Mr. Kobborg’s new staging of August Bournonville’s famous ballet brings his long and intimate knowledge of Bournonville technique to his interpretation. This production includes music and choreography based on Mr. Bournonville’s original hand-written notes found in Copenhagen’s Royal Opera House archives. La Sylphide is the story of a young Scottish farmer who abandons his betrothed after being enticed away to the forest by the ethereal Sylphide. Mr. Kobborg’s new staging fully embraces the romanticism of the original and enlivens it in a way that few modern productions have. The National Ballet will be accompanied by the National Arts Centre Orchestra led by Guest Conductor Philip Ellis. Casting La Sylphide Jurgita Dronina (April 7) Elena Lobsanova (April 8) Sonia Rodriguez (April 9) James Francesco Gabriele Frola* (April 7) Naoya Ebe (April 8) Harrison James (April 9) Madge Sonia Rodriguez (April 7) Stephanie Hutchison (April 8) Rebekah Rimsay (April 9) Effie Meghan Pugh (April 7, 8) Emma Hawes* (April 9) Gurn Piotr Stanczyk (April 7) Skylar Campbell (April 8) Jack Bertinshaw (April 9) *Debut Casting subject to change.

Here you go, his facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/gabrielefrola/photos/a.373895566113384.1073741828.372645609571713/537957426373863/?type=3&theater

I believe Australian Ballet did Spartacus quite a while ago.

I love them too, and I even like Spartacus, but really it's kind of moribund programming. Not a single new creation. If the RB had taken that "traditional" an approach to programming in the 60s and 70s we wouldn't HAVE Fille (or Mayerling, which the Stanislavsky is bringing on tour to Munich).

"Bavarian State Ballet: Bringing you the hottest new ballets of the 1960s and 70s"

more in this article in Dance Mag: http://dancemagazine.com/news/silicon-valley-ballet-closes-its-doors/

I couldn't even get through it once on DVD, though I've tried a few times out of historical curiosity.

It was great to meet you, volcanohunter!

I expect they got the Stevenson Cinderella from Houston. That's who National Ballet of Canada rented it from back in the 90s.

would you like to meet up just before (I don't think there's an intermission, is there?)

is anyone going to Mahler's 3rd Symphony tonight or tomorrow?

I just read a scholarly article that disputed this "miserable old age" story, which seemed to be based on the idea that she was "reduced" to giving dance classes to the daughters of the wealthy. According to this article, Taglioni taught dance into her old age because she enjoyed teaching, much as many current retired dancers do. I am always amazed that my current ballet teacher, recently retired from a first soloist position at the National Ballet of Canada, enjoys teaching a klutz like me, but she says she does, and I think it's genuine.

I don't know what the RAD, which is a huge international organization, was thinking when they released this in a format that isn't viewable in the whole world. And furthermore they didn't even label it as PAL only so it was only after I bought it and brought it home from London that I discovered I couldn't watch it. I was mightily teed off and complained to RAD but nary a response did I get.

I have that video, and interestingly, I can play it on a portable DVD player though not on my TV or computer.

How can it be said that Millepied gave these ballets "the boot"? They did Manon just last year. It would be quite normal for it to go out of the rep for a couple of years before coming back. Same for Onegin, which they did not long ago.

I'd hug Alex Jones emotionally too!

The mixed program in Montreal was contemporary work because it was part of the Danse Danse festival, which is all contemporary work. Again, the presenter decides the programming. We used to have three mixed programs and three full-lengths, plus Nutcracker, in Toronto, but now we are down to only one mixed program, and even that has only two ballets on it, one by McGregor which will probably look like every other McGregor ballet. It is unfortunate. But I guess they have to pay the bills.

I love this Australian Ballet Coppelia too. The costumes are gorgeous and the dancing is fab.

But Pavlova was considered skinny by her contemporaries; she was told to eat butter to fatten herself up. So I don't think this picture represents a new aesthetic, it just represents Pavlova (who may in turn be partly responsible for the later skinny aesthetic)