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For those keeping up - Ms. Froustey has updated her Instagram photo address to: http://instagram.com/lapetitefrench_/ She is very good about keeping it up-to-date.

;) And they can just keep on doing them, if that is what "Russian art" requires. Meanwhile, back in the real world - we continue to create...

I feel the love - Do you?

An edited version, but I like to see these all the same... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plUhhsKaC4Y (with Albisson, Cozette, Dupont, Gilbert, Gillot, Pujol, Renavand, Belingard, Bullion, Ganio, Hoffalt, Moreau, Paquette and Pech)

My apologies if this interview has been posted before - "Damian Woetzel created a Studio 5 event that highlighted three signature George Balanchine ballets from 1960. The night ended up being a tribute to the lyrical, idiosyncratic, and wildly apt coaching language of Woetzel's guest, NYCB legend Violette Verdy." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fFK6-LsQEU

For those who have an interest in Ms. Kochetkova's fashion sense - Maria Kochetkova puts her personal stamp on dance and dress http://www.sfgate.com/style/article/Maria-Kochetkova-puts-her-personal-stamp-on-dance-5967211.php

Hello DB, Who dances in the 'excerpts' of Apollo?

Her "1st Nutcracker of the Season" photo is worth posting:

Hmmm, his certificate only mentions the B.A./Summa Cum Lauda - I'm not sure how this works with the LEAP program - everyone may be in the same area of concentration. I see now that St. Mary's has graduate MFA programs for dancers: http://www.stmarys-ca.edu/mfa-in-dance

Yes, congratulations - a fine fellow, great dancer, and looks to be a great dad too. Now that he's out of college, he just has to decide on a career. ;)

The "highlights" just made me nostalgic for the full (or at least 'fuller') versions of the rehearsals. ;) Some of the best footage of Tan was left out, actually. But they seemed to devote about 5 minutes to each rehearsal and we get what we get. But, to actually see this much legal footage of SFB dancers is a big deal. Still, they have such a long ways to go to catch up to NYCB with regards to videos.

Offical video posting from SFB: SF Ballet World Ballet Day 2014 Highlights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tST3-ivV_Ro

Thanks for that clarification, Helene. Re: etoile status, of the men, I know Carbone and Thibault have been waiting (and presumably hoping) for a long while now.... I'm sure this was discussed somewhere else, but how are the jurors chosen?

POB standards are very high concerning the etoiles - the dancers have to "show the magic" onstage, and, they have to do so consistently. There are only so many dancers who have that 'certain something' that keeps all eyes upon them (no matter what they happen to be doing onstage). Part of me likes that their standards are so high, but that can be a problem during those periods when the young dancers don't seem exceptionally artistic, or 'magical'.

I've seen this one recently on the Classic Arts TV channel - it's fun: Rameau - Pièces de clavecin en concert N° 3 (Tambourin) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMQDy5lWH7o And from the film Le Roi Danse - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMvpvDjFvHA

Ms. Froustey has a blog in which she records her impressions - in French - of life in San Francisco (mostly): http://mathildefroustey.me/

"Raymonda Grand Pas and Solo last month in Madrid with Moises M. Cintas and Compania Nacional de Danza"

I'm not sure about "small", but at least he would meet people of similar height. ;) Apprently Yao Ming is in the wine business (Napa Valley, of course) - I did not know that. That was something Ms. Tan mentioned on Twitter.

Just received a catalog from VAI today and that too reads McBride and Bonnefoux for Bugaku. In any case, I'm looking forward to viewing this one.

Dancer Yuan Yuan Tan and basketball player Yao Ming are taking action and showing their support for @WildAid

Not to be morbid, but I found these gravestone images interesting, and they led me to a nice little online article. Both Balanchine and Danilova were buried at Oakland Cemetery, Sag Harbor, New York. George Balanchine (photo courtesy Tyler Peck, NYCB) The Isamu Noguchi lyre from Orpheus! Alexandra Danilova (photo by Gene Schiavone. I like the little vodka bottle and the Christmas decorations.) Dancing in the Grave by Caitlyn Lehmann mentions the last resting places of Taglioni, Nureyev, Nijinsky, Pavlova and others: http://www.behindballet.com/dancing-in-the-grave/

Now Bugaku I would like to see. But most of us have already seen the Montreal CBS broadcast film of Apollo (many, many times).

Video with transcript is available here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/ballet-icon-patricia-mcbride-comes-full-pirouette/

I agree - the Ballet Masters segment was a nice addition, and like you, I found these segments to be more relaxed (less angsty) than the previous season's offering. This is what Breaking Pointe should have resembled.

I watched a few and they have been very enjoyable - perhaps even better than the first season for me.