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Last year when Ballet Arizona was doing Napoli they approached NBOC about renting this production but were told it is not in fit shape to be staged, so I think you will have to abandon that hope. Natalia (and anyone else from the US) it is true you should look at the Canadian dollar right now. To our despair it is worth only 69 cents US. If you're Guillaume Cote fans you might also think about the Festival de Saint-Sauveur, of which he is the artistic director (and he also performs there). A lovely charming village for a nice relaxing weekend, not far from Montreal.

A fascinating article about the situation in Iran, where people defy the law to dance: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/the-illegal-underground-ballerinas-of-iran?utm_source=broadlytwitterus

actually I have heard that the Bavarian State Ballet is the best funded ballet company in Germany.

also Scheherazade: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Leon-BAKST-Ballets-Russes-Original-Tunic-from-Scheherazade-/121334301193?hash=item1c40168209%3Ag%3A96kAAOxy9X5TZP3I

got $40,000? http://www.ebay.com/itm/BALLETS-RUSSES-3-Costumes-from-First-Production-of-Stravinskys-FIREBIRD-/121793928458?hash=item1c5b7bdd0a%3Ag%3AKFsAAOSwo0JWJ~Ye

That is correct. Guillaume has been resting during Nutcracker so that he will be in fine form for you Washingtonians. Sonia is a great dance actress. Of the ones I saw in November, my favourite cast was Mckie/Dronina

On Sat 23 mat you also get to see Gabriele Frola, who was just named one of Dance Mag's 25 to watch in 2016.

But surely this is not new. Brigitte Lefevre also programmed a lot of non-classical stuff: Bausch, Ek, de Keersmaeker, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Neumeier, Carolyn Carlson, etc.

I honestly wasn't sure whether you were being ironic or not. I have no desire to get into an argument about this.

you're joking, right?

Pennsylvania Ballet Yesterday at 10:42am · A Facebook user recently commented that the Eagles had "played like they were wearing tutus!!!" Our response: "With all due respect to the Eagles, let's take a minute to look at what our tutu wearing women have done this month: By tomorrow afternoon, the ballerinas that wear tutus at Pennsylvania Ballet will have performed The Nutcracker 27 times in 21 days. Some of those women have performed the Snow scene and the Waltz of the Flowers without an understudy or second cast. No 'second string' to come in and spell them when they needed a break. When they have been sick they have come to the theater, put on make up and costume, smiled and performed. When they have felt an injury in the middle of a show there have been no injury timeouts. They have kept smiling, finished their job, bowed, left the stage, and then dealt with what hurts. Some of these tutu wearers have been tossed into a new position with only a moments notice. That's like a cornerback being told at halftime that they're going to play wide receiver for the second half, but they need to make sure that no one can tell they've never played wide receiver before. They have done all of this with such artistry and grace that audience after audience has clapped and cheered (no Boo Birds at the Academy) and the Philadelphia Inquirer has said this production looks "better than ever". So no, the Eagles have not played like they were wearing tutus. If they had, Chip Kelly would still be a head coach and we'd all be looking forward to the playoffs." Happy New Year!

I would have thought that La Scala has European rights for Sleeping Beauty rather than ABT anyway.

they are not "so-called" "pirate" videos. They really are pirated. pirate, v. 2. trans. To reproduce or use (the work, idea, etc., of another) without authority, esp. in infringement of patent or copyright; to produce a pirate copy or edition of.(Oxford English Dictionary)

as a matter of fact, many lexicographers are female and they make their decisions re inclusion by looking at the frequency of words in a very large representative sample of text, not on whim. This is such a tempest in a teapot about a small dictionary. When y'all have tried to write a dictionary, and to fit what you can into the space that you have available that can sell at a price that people will pay, then come back and tell us which words should go in and which should be left out. In the same 100 million word corpus where "cygnet" appeared 28 times, "celebrity/celebrities" (which is not a "new word" having been in English since the 1600s and even in its current sense since the 1850s) appeared 650 times. Which one would you leave in and leave out? Which decision do you think would serve your users best?

Can we have a clarification from the moderators about BA's policy re YT videos of entire films? In the past week we have had postings of both the complete Bolshoi Babylon nd the complete Nureyev docudrama, which have been posted on YT within days of their public release by posters who are not the owners of the films in question. This seems to me to rate as video piracy. If we have limit of 250 words for quotes from printed sources, isn't there something similar for video?

I know that you didn't put it on YT. But by posting such things here, with the result that BA-ers will click on them, aren't we encouraging the people who put such things up illegally? And violating the intellectual property rights of the filmmakers?

I have a question. This YouTube video appears not to be from an official BBC channel. In other words, someone has pirated it. Do we condone this on BA by posting such YT videos?

For heaven's sake, they haven't taken the words out of the LANGUAGE, just out of this particular small dictionary. By the way "cygnet(s)" appears 28 times out of 100 million words in the British National Corpus. 28 times. Out of 100 MILLION. Without looking at the entire wordlist in the dictionary, you cannot make judgements about what should have been put in and what left out. Flora and fauna are almost infinite lexical sets. You just can't put everything in a small dictionary.

the Oxford Junior Dictionary is a small (288 page, large typeface) dictionary intended for children perhaps 5-7 years old, with a relatively small word list. The publisher made this comment: "“The Oxford Junior Dictionary is very much an introduction to language. It includes around 400 words related to nature including badger, bird, caterpillar, daffodil, feather, hedgehog, invertebrate, ladybird, ocean, python, sunflower, tadpole, vegetation, and zebra. Many words that do not appear in the Oxford Junior Dictionary are included in the Oxford Primary Dictionary; a more comprehensive dictionary designed to see students through to age 11. Words included in this title include mistletoe, gerbil, acorn, goldfish, guinea pig, dandelion, starling, fern, willow, conifer, heather, buttercup, sycamore, holly, ivy, and conker." Seriously, anyone who says "There is an unavoidably tragic note to the ... removal of the chthonic poetry of "cowslip" is just being pretentious. Do you know many 6 year olds who need to know what a cowslip is? Or a cygnet? really? And if they do, they can look in a larger dictionary.

cast change for this year's Nut: Nehemiah Kish replces Matthew Golding as the SPF's Prince.

well they may have had a Petipa conference in Bordeaux but the rep of the company itself is not terribly classical.

it's a biopic. I don't think it's a documentary.

Gulfstream Pictures is developing a biopic on the early years of the influential ballet choreographer George Balanchine. David K. Israel is adapting from Elizabeth Kendall’s book “Balanchine and the Lost Muse: Revolution and the Making of a Choreographer.” Producers are Gulfstream Pictures partners Mike Karz and Bill Bindley. http://variety.com/2015/film/news/ballet-choreographer-george-balanchine-movie-1201647293/

You should set up an email alert on the exchange site for performances that are on when you are there; that way you will know as soon as something comes up in your price range (and you have to leap on these things as soon as you see them)

Hello from Toronto, tapestrybluecat!