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6 hours ago, fiddleback said:

Ballet Arizona will perform an entirely new production of The Firebird next season, in February 2019. This will be Artistic Director Ib Andersen's most spectacular new production in some time, and it will feature all new choreography by him, as well as original costumes and sets. Given Mr. Andersen's Royal Danish Ballet instilled skills in story-telling, it will be interesting to see how he interprets the not-so-well-known story for Arizona audiences. It will, of course, feature Stravinsky's legendary score, which will be performed by The Phoenix Symphony at Symphony Hall.

Ballet Arizona's press release says: "The world premiere of Andersen’s The Firebird is based on a Russian fairytale, with a singularly original twist. This unique performance tells this classic story through the lens of the present-future, exploring themes of love, fantasy, and escapism, making it perfectly in tune with Stravinsky’s modern score."

Details at Broadway World

Just think of the Arizonan possibilities. The Firebird could be a roadrunner and Kastchei Wile E Coyote...

oh sorry about that, maybe it's geoblocked outside Canada

Genius at Play | September 6–16, 2018
Interplay
Music by Morton Gould
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Fancy Free
Music by Leonard Bernstein
Choreography by Jerome Robbins
Glass Pieces
Boston Ballet Premiere
Music by Philip Glass
Choreography by Jerome Robbins

The Nutcracker | November 29–December 30, 2018
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by Mikko Nissinen

Full on Forsythe | March 7–17, 2019
Artifact Suite
Choreography by William Forsythe
Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Eva Crossman-Hecht
World Premiere
Choreography by William Forsythe
Blake Works I
North American Premiere
Choreography by William Forsythe
Music by James Blake

Coppélia | March 21–31, 2019
Music by Léo Delibes
Choreography by George Balanchine

Cinderella | May 10–June 8, 2019
Music by Sergei Prokofiev
Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton

Rhapsody | May 16–June 9, 2019
ELA, Rhapsody in Blue
World Premiere
Music by George Gershwin
Choreography by Paulo Arrais
Yakobson Miniatures
Choreography by Leonid Yakobson
Rodin
Music by Claude Debussy, Alban Berg
Pas de Quatre
Music by Vincenzo Bellini
Vestris
Boston Ballet Premiere
Music by Gennadi Banshchikov
Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Choreography by George Balanchine

the CBC just posted this cute and funny video. With Kurt Browning.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/cbckidsolympics/videos/according-to-kids-figure-skating

it's very frustrating. I think only one cinema in all of Canada is showing it.

Casting for the cinema broadcast of Christopher Wheeldon's The Winter's Tale has been updated as of February 6. Broadcasts start February 28.

Hermione

Lauren Cuthbertson

Leontes

Ryoichi Hirano

Perdita

Sarah Lamb

Florizel

Vadim Muntagirov

Paulina

Laura Morera

Polixenes

Matthew Ball

To find a cinema near  you, click here

While we're on the topic, can I also recommend The Word Detective by John Simpson, retired editor-in-chief of the Oxford English Dictionary.

(full disclosure: John Simpson trained me when I worked as a lexicographer for Oxford University Press.)

Kory's book is great, and I hear she is working on a second one.

3 hours ago, abatt said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/arts/dance/jacques-damboise-national-dance-institute.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdance&action=click&contentCollection=dance&region=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

 

If anyone goes to this upcoming lecture, Balanchine Guys, please report. Sounds fascinating. 

It's being livestreamed on Pointe Magazine's facebook page

Pointe Magazine will be livestreaming this on Monday Feb 5 at 7 pm on their facebook page,

https://www.facebook.com/PointeMagazineOfficial/

http://www.pointemagazine.com/balanchines-guys-jacques-damboise-2530604326.html?utm_campaign=RebelMouse&socialux=facebook&share_id=3263917&utm_medium=social&utm_content=Pointe&utm_source=facebook

 

Circus Polka is only four minutes long, and that is exactly what it is: an opportunity to include the school kids.

Johan Kobborg has just staged Don Quixote for the Yacobson Ballet in St Petersburg

I realize I haven't updated this for a while, but I am still here!  These are my trips for January-July 2018. For any trip whose booking deadline is past, it is always worth inquiring if space may still be available. For sold-out trips you can ask to be put on a waiting list in case of cancellations. If you are even potentially interested in any trip, please let me know at toursenlair@gmail.com. This gives me a general idea of what size group I might be dealing with (since one can't contact a hotel and say "I need to book *some* rooms"!), and I have to have a general idea before I can create a budget for a trip.
 

 

Juliet, the daughter of Capulet	Ekaterina Krysanova
Romeo, the son of Montague	Vladislav Lantratov
Mercutio, Romeo’s friend	Igor Tsvirko
Benvolio, Montague’s nephew and Romeo’s friend	Dmitry Dorokhov
Tybalt, Lady Capulet’s nephew	Vitaly Biktimirov
Lord Capulet	Nikita Elikarov
Lady Capulet	Kristina Karasyova
Paris, Juliet’s betrothed	Egor Khromushin
Juliet’s Nurse	Anastasia Vinokur
Friar Laurence	Egor Simachev
Lady Montague	Vera Borisenkova
Duke of Verona	Alexei Loparevich
Two prostitutes	Kristina Loseva Xenia Sorokina
Juliet’s friends	Bruna Cantanhede Gaglianone Anastasia Denisova Elvina Ibraimova Xenia Zhiganshina
The Fools	Andrei Koshkin Georgy Gusev Alexei Matrakhov Egor Sharkov
Chevaliers at the Ball	Oscar Frame Mikhail Kochan Sergei Kuptsov Maxim Oppengeym
Conductor	Pavel Klinichev

On 11/30/2017 at 12:37 PM, DDD said:

Excellent, thanks again!

 

casting is up (Guillaume is opening night)

http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2017/12/national-ballet-of-canada-nijinsky.html

Eric Quilleré has been named Directeur de la danse in Bordeaux. He was assistant director under Jude and has been interim director since Jude's departure.

Also announced: a partnership for sharing productions with Paris Opera Ballet, and one ballet a year for 3 years from Angelin Preljocaj, including potentially a piece created on the Bordeaux company in the third year.

Manuel Legris announced on his facebook page that he will step down as AD of Vienna State Ballet when his contract expires in 2020.

 

 

 

also the company will be performing Man in Black in Hamburg a couple of weeks later.  Not that I suspect it requires huge amounts of rehearsal time (it only has four dancers).

An interesting interview with the choreographer of Australian B's new version of Spartacus:

https://australianballet.com.au/behind-ballet/spartacus-redux?utm_source=BB&utm_medium=EDM&utm_campaign=TAB&utm_term=17MKBEHINDBALLET179EM&utm_content=version_A&sourceNumber=28395

I just stumbled across this. I haven't read it so can't say whether it's good or not.

from the author's website:

THE BALLET LOVER exposes the beauty and cruelty of ballet, the performances, the back stage moments, and the personal dramas of the famous ballet dancers Rudolf Nureyev and Natalia Makarova as seen through the eyes of an American female journalist.

Paris, 1970s: the orchestra plays the first note of Swan Lake. In the audience sits Geneva, an American journalist and ballet lover, waiting for the heart-stopping beauty of the romantic duet to start, but instead she witnesses Rudolf Nureyev failing to catch his Russian partner, Natalia Marakova, allowing her to fall with a crash upon the stage.

Geneva interprets the fall as an act of cruelty, a man with all the fame and power in the world brutally letting fall his partner. When other critics defend Nureyev, Geneva vows revenge on the page, creating havoc in her own career and discovering surprising parallels between herself and the fallen ballerina.

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0615722865/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_cmps_btm?ie=UTF8&reviewerType=all_reviews

 

I don't think it's fair to call a dancer who suffered one catastrophic, almost career-ending injury "injury-prone". By all accounts his "very long absence" was required for full rehabilitation. Perhaps you should read Hallberg's book.

If you want to see Guillaume, I would say that opening night is a safe(-ish) bet.

First cast means opening night, 2nd cast 2nd performance, 3rd cast sometimes 3rd performance but sometimes a matinee. But they don't have matinees in Ottawa.

Glad to be of help!

1 hour ago, DDD said:

Does anyone know the casting for Nijinsky in Ottawa in January?  Where and when it will be posted?  Thanks.

I'm answering this in two places because you posted it in two places.

they are not likely to announce it until a few weeks before.  I expect first, second, third cast will be same as in Toronto though, which you can find in detail here:

http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2017/11/detailed-nijinsky-casting-national.html

the only difference being that Piotr Stanczyk, who was injured in November, will likely be back as second cast Diaghilev.

I am on the NBOC's media mailing list and I post casting to my website as soon as I get it from them so if you subscribe to the website you will get it promptly.

All three casts are excellent.

they are not likely to announce it until a few weeks before.  I expect first, second, third cast will be same as in Toronto though, which you can find in detail here:

http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2017/11/detailed-nijinsky-casting-national.html

the only difference being that Piotr Stanczyk, who was injured in November, will likely be back as second cast Diaghilev.

I am on the NBOC's media mailing list and post casting to my website as soon as I get it from them so if you subscribe to the website you will get it promptly.

 

43 minutes ago, mnacenani said:

Just one week to go and still no casting posted. Stash, Katya and Genya have posted their

rehearsal photos. Am due to see the premiere next Wed 22nd, cannot visualise anyone

other than Genya as Juliet. Don't know this Ratmansky staging at all - hope it will be better

than the current Grigarovich staging which imho has made hash of a beautiful ballet.

Who are Stash, Katya, and Genya, please? Not all of us are on a first-name basis with the Bolshoi Ballet, let alone on a familiarfirst-name basis.