The Fashion Institute of Technology Museum in New York has announced this upcoming exhibition:


 

I thought the film was dreadful. At one point I said, "If she runs around one more time shouting "Nyikki", I shall scream". And then of course she did.

15 hours ago, Roberta said:

Not Harss. We'd get a steady diet of "All-Ratmansky, All-the-time."

I don`t think that`s fair to Harss at all.

4 hours ago, Quiggin said:

Some dance books I've found helpful, randomly found in used bookstores here in San Francisco:

Horst Koegler's Dictionary of Ballet Oxford University Press, 1977, seems to be a sturdy and learned reference book, not outdated, but being unsupplemented might be its weakness. Don't know if there's a successor.

 

 

The OUP Dictionary is now the Oxford Dictionary of Dance (Craine and Mackrell, 2010).

Here are Tours en l'air Ballet Holidays' 2019-20 trips. For more info please message me or email me at toursenlair@gmail.com

You can also visit my website at https://toursenlair.blogspot.com/

The Four Temperaments (Balanchine), Black Milk (Naharin), new Fernandez, Errand into the Maze (Graham)

Ballet Chemnitz: 

Swan Lake (Peci)
  


 

 

Paris and Amsterdam

March 29 - April 9, 2020
  11 days, 10 nights
4 performances 

"I love Paris in the springtime..." (Who doesn't?)
 
Paris Opera Ballet School:  
Coppelia
 
Paris Opera Ballet: 

all Balanchine: Concerto Barocco, The Four Temperaments, Serenade

 
Dutch National Ballet: 

Four Seasons (Dawson), Yugen (McGregor), new Arques

  
 Nederlands Dans Theater 2: 

mixed program


Milan and Rome
Wednesday April 29 - Thursday May 7, 2020

Ballet of La Scala:  
Romeo and Juliet (MacMillan)
Rome Opera Ballet: 
Suite en Blanc (Lifar), Serenade (Balanchine), Bolero (Pastor)

Note that I do not usually offer European trips with only two performances, but I am constrained by the company's schedules. Up to you to decide whether you are interested in a ballet trip with not very much ballet!

 

 

Munich

Munich Ballet Week

On 5/31/2019 at 5:14 AM, meunier fan said:

Does anyone know where Jurgita Dronina is?  I see she is not in the June NBoC casting and, sadly, is not in the ENB Cinderella at the RAH ones either.  She is missed.  

at an NBOC donors' event in April she said she was about to have surgery. no details though.

15 minutes ago, pherank said:

The Return of the Nutcracker Skit (2 parts, so click forward arrow to advance to the next part):

On Jahna's Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br_tVBsgqZF/

On Myles' Instagram page:
https://www.instagram.com/p/Br8P128A6Sj/

Maybe it will remain for a day or so.  😉

gone again.

Watch company class from Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris on World Dance Day, April 29, on their facebook page, starting at 12.25 pm in Europe, 11.25 in the UK, 6.25 am Eastern Time

US dates and venues are now available here

https://www.sonyclassics.com/thewhitecrow/#5thPage

31 minutes ago, annaewgn said:

Interesting! I know from friends that the Open Rehearsal was Tuesday’s cast, but interesting that’s Guseinova did it. Possibly to rehearse for a performance back home? No clue. Was there a program with casting for the open rehearsal? 

The Open Rehearsal on Tuesday afternoon was not Tuesday evening's cast. It was Wednesday's cast.

As of September 1, Joaquin de Luz takes over from former Paris etoile Jose Carlos Martinez as artistic director of Spain's national ballet company

https://cadenaser.com/ser/2019/03/27/cultura/1553708325_012641.html?ssm=fb&fbclid=IwAR3kEDu00HS_NFO7TKANbwdYsaUAEFuydHmHCuawFX9WidBCkYulxqSk7_Y

20 sept Opening gala

23 sept - 15 oct: Hiroshi Sugimoto/Alessio Silvestrin : At the Hawk's Well; Forsythe Blake Works

26oct - 17 nov: New Crystal Pite (60 segments in 60 minutes)

3-31 Dec: Raymonda

9-31 Dec: Le Parc (Preljocaj)

31 Jan - 15 feb: Giselle

3 - 22 feb: Concerto Barocco, 4 Temperaments. Serenade

25-30 March: POB School Coppelia (Lacotte)

14 april - 8 May: New Alan Lucien Oyen

12-30 May  Mayerling

4-7 JUne Nederlands Dans Theater

26 June - 14 July Play (Ekman)

Yuli, a biopic based on Carlos Acosta's autobiography, will be screened at the Havana Film Festival of New  York on April 16 at 630 pm at the DGA Theater New York, with Carlos Acosta in attendance.  Tickets go on sale March 4

https://hffny.com/2019/

Thanks for the heads up, but for many of us the NYTimes is behind a paywall, so it would be helpful if the info in the article were provided rather than just a link.

1 hour ago, pherank said:

No participation from San Francisco Ballet this year, is curious.

SFB was not one of the original participants, which were NBOC, RDB, RB, and ABT. For several years now RB has not participated, so other companies are invited. Sometimes SFB has participated, sometimes not. I expect the timing is not good for them this year, late March being smack in the middle of their season.

1 hour ago, FPF said:

SPAC has now announced that there will actually be 3 performances of Coppelia: the evenings of July 18th and 19th, and the matinee on the 20th.

https://spac.org/calendar/calendar-of-events/?view=list&gen=2&mc_cid=5db66c137f&mc_eid=bee1c0630b

The rest of the season will be announced in 2019.

you used to be able to go to Saratoga on the Friday and see three different programs Fri nite, Sat aft, Sat nite. Since they have switched to scheduling like this, for me it is not worth the trip to Saratoga. Such a shame.

I have never understood "tutu ballet" to have negative connotations anyway; I've always considered it purely descriptive.

the number 20 bus takes you right from Garnier to Bastille. Or you can take the Metro, which is faster, but I prefer to stay above ground because paris is beautiful.

6 hours ago, Drew said:

Fantastic!  (I think of the whole city as a ballet --  a really great ballet!)

(If the Swan Lake is in the Opera Bastille as mentioned above, then perhaps you can still find a way to see the Palais Garnier--perhaps there are tours --and don't worry if you knoew French or not since you just want to get inside--or other performances taking place there.)

There are public tours in English of the Palais Garnier

16 hours ago, California said:

I'm wondering what triggered this release. I can't find any other Cranko or Stuttgart ballets on DVD, although it appears there was an ancient VHS no longer available. I'd also love to get his R&J, especially because of the intriguing comparisons with MacMillan's. European companies are usually so generous in releasing DVDs (unlike the American companies!). Perhaps they need money? Or perhaps they feel overshadowed by all the other companies gaining worldwide recognition with their DVDs? Anybody know the story?

I believe there were rights issues, but in the last year all of the Cranko story ballets have been filmed, and I am sure they will be released in due course.

On 11/5/2018 at 12:21 AM, Drew said:

Thank you @laurel  for the summary. The Budapest opera house is stunning. And if it's being renovated, then touring of the opera and ballet companies in the meanwhile seems rather normal to me whatever other goals or meanings may have accrued to the tour. That is, whoever was in government, the companies would presumably have gone on tour if they couldn't perform at home.

The company is performing at another Budapest theatre, the Erkel Theatre, while the opera house is being renovated.

I saw Balanchine's Don Q when the National Ballet of Canada revived it, and it is one of very few ballets I have ever walked out of. Just dreadful.

9 hours ago, Fraildove said:

I’m curiou about how Polunin performed the role of Rudolph (in Pretty sure he did) If I’m not mistaken in my assumption, did anyone see him in it and what were your thoughts? It seems like he would have been the perfect type to take on the role, maybe a little too much so.

He performed it with the Stanislavsky and guesting with Bavarian State Ballet. I saw him in the latter and was not terribly impressed. His technique seemed to have suffered a lot so his first solo was very wobbly. Also I just found him histrionic.