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And thank you, Bart, for your comments. I think Diana Adams had the most beautiful legs - that photo of her in arabesque (or was it attitude) where Stravinsky said her legs looked like the Soligen scissors ad or something like that (my library is way upstairs and my cat Ollie is sitting on my lap, otherwise I'd go upstairs and check my source, which I believe is Taper's bio of Mr B.) I saw alot of Patricia McBride at SPAC and she was just wonderful. She was my first Titania. I never saw Allegra dance (too young),but I think her vulnerability is always apparent in her dancing when I look at video clips and photos).

I haven't been on in several days - Thank you, Mark, for pointing me in the direction of Gorey's interviews.

Thank you, Mr. Dery. I have a question for you. Do you know who Mr Gorey's favorite ballerinas were back then when he was attending NYCB on a (very) regular basis?

Thank you, Helene. When my computer comes back from repair, I'll take some time to look at your links (this computer? Fageddabootit..)

I loved Ms Mounsey's recent interview in Ballet Review. Thank you for sharing, Bart and rg. I keep checking the Internet for an obituary in the NY and LA Times, but nothing has appeared as yet.

Thank you, ascballerina! I appreciate your help.

Good evening, Mr. Dery. Well, it's not a loss yet. SPAC says NYCB will be back next summer for one week and pledges to resume the two-week schedule in 2014, but I don't know. It surely doesn't look rosy. I've seen that company at SPAC for 33 of it's 47-year residency and I've noticed the crowds getting thinner. It's such a shame. There are people who live up here and have never gone to a performance! I routinely sing the Ballet's praises and encourage people to go to a performance. Opening night was really bittersweet because the news had already been announced a day or so before and Peter Martins opened the season with a few words and he seemed really sad. Such is the state of art now.

This is a fun topic! Lots of fun suggestions. Ok, here are two ideas I've had for a long time. 1. A ballet set to Dvorak's Slavonic Dances. Not sure if it would be plotless or tell a story or be a loose sketch, I'd have to listen to them again, but whenever I hear them on the radio, I immediately hear the dancing and start visualizing how a ballet with that music would look . 2. A ballet called Ballet for Youth set to the recorded music of Cat Stevens. It would be danced by ballet students and would celebrate teenagers, their energies, fresh outlooks, etc., but also express the challenges 21st c. teens face. Also, choreography to Eric Satie's gymnopedie and other pieces of his. And Mozart's 3rd violin concerto.

Thank you, kfw, I'll check that out when my new computer comes back from the repair shop - it crashed, pooped out, whatever, WHEN I was watching that very upsteam'ed Work and Progress show!

Hello. I've searched this forum to find answers to these questions without success. What does it mean when a topic is designated 'hot'? Some topics are really old but still have the 'hot' icon next to them. What does it mean when a topic is 'pinned'? Why does a board member 'lock' a topic? Thank you.

I, too, believe the nicknames must refer to the same moment. It's such a distinctive and offbeat but 'pretty' part of the ballet. To me, it's seems like Terpsichore is flying...

I just read through this thread and, being new to this forum, often forget to check the date the thread began, so I now realize this is an old thread. Given that, I want to share that Ballet Review 's Spring 1998 issue (which I recently picked up in a used bookstore) had an incisive article on Osipenko by Joel Lobenthal. She was a courageous woman who stood up to the Party on a number of occasions. The article describes what Canbelto noted in this thread - that Osipenko had a neoclassical style with her Vaganova training. The article describes Osipenko's distinct approach to her classical roles and goes on to say that when Osipenko was a guest artist with the Maly, Igor Chernichov created Antony and Cleopatra for her and describes Chernichov's choreography as demonstrating "the influence in Europe and Russia of Graham's, Bejart's, and above all Balanchine's companies during the 1960s." ..."watching Osipenko tilt and corkscrew and endlessly reconstitute herself makes it very easy to imagine her in Agon or Episodes". I'll check out that DVD 'Glory of the Kirov'.

So interesting, Mark Dery. Well, if NYCB suddenly closed shop, I'd be devastated forever, but the Big Apple does hold a number of not-so-meager charms for me, nonetheless. One the loss of NYCB note, we here in upstate NY, regrettably, may be experiencing a reduction and perhaps an eventual loss of NYCB at Saratoga Performing Art Center after a 47 year summer residency.... I fervently hope not and hope they can straighten out those financial impediments they have experienced. Back to Mr Gorey, I just love his work Being a balletomane myself, as well as a lover of cats (my husband and I own 5 - all supremely content and complacent), Herr Blutig is indeed a man after my own heart! I attended a matinee performance of NYCB yesterday, which was lovely (I'll post about that at a later time this week), wherein I acquired from the Met Opera shop a silver Gorey ballerina pin - she's lovely! Have a nice day.

I showed the pic to my husband - he immediately focused on Toumanova and thought she was, in his words, 'a stunner'.

Welcome, Mark Dery. Can't wait to read your book when it comes out. I don't have a 'Gorey story' to relate, but I remember reading somewhere (Terry Teachout's book on Balanchine, I think) that Edward Gorey never missed a performance of NYCB. You may wish to contact Mr Teachout, if you haven't already done so. Happy writing....

It is indeed fantastic! I'm working on an old computer right now while my brand-new all-in-one is being repaired so I cannot watch this video very well right now - I'll park it for later on! Can't wait. Wonderful! Imspear!

Good morning, Bart, is the 2011 MCB Dance in America soon t be released on DVD? I looked for it recently on Amazon and did not find it. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this, rg. They are all so beautiful. I just watched Ballets Russes (again) last week so this photo is very welcome. Krassovska, among others, was so endearing in that film.

And therefore unavailable?

Doing this post over with the quote format so Canbelto receives an email and can respond. Canbelto, where oh where did you get this video/DVD?! Don't see it on Amazon..... Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you, Birdsall.

Re my earlier post today and above on the Nureyev/Vienna Opera Ballet Swan Lake: That's early 1960s not 1950s. Sorry for any confusion.

I don't know how to post a quote in the format I see you all posting so I'll just cut and paste regarding NYCB's Nutcracker - Adams, Kent, Mitchell, Villela, Balanchine (1958) Canbelto, where oh where did you get this video/DVD?! Don't see it on Amazon..... Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you, California, for the suggestions.

Thanks,Bart, for your reply. I can't wait to get my summer BR issue, which reminds me, perhaps I'd better check if my subscription has expired . This is my first year as a subscriber and I haven't received a reminder yet or the issue. I will start a thread on Tiler Peck once I have more time - I think she is really terrific. But for now, let me just say that I agree with your view about her Marzipan - IMO, she was brilliant. And in general, Tiler is sooo much fun to watch! Lots more to say about her.