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Sorry, it worked in Firefox on a PC, which is the only thing I run...didn't think to check how it would work on other platforms

Are you using a Mac or a PC (Windows)?

PC...but right now, as writing this response, your post above comes as "Helene, on...said"...without any symbol at the end...Let's see if I came out of the blue box after posting...

Edited: Yep..out of the blue box! ;-)

If this is really bothering you, click the little light-switch button--the first one on the top left of the reply area. It'll go to a basic version with the code for quotes showing, and you can type after the quote tags. To get it back with your bold, italic, etc options, just hit the button again. You can always hit the button, start typing, then hit the button again once you know you're out of the "quote area"

Singing in the Rain.

The "Moses Supposes" number.

I like all of Singin' in the Rain, but yes, Moses Supposes is one of the best moments in there.

I also liked Hello, Dolly!, which he directed.

Fortunately when it comes on I know how to time it so I can tune in for "A Couple of Swells."

My mother has seen that scene so many times she knows all the choreography and where it goes in the song

Her movies plot-wise do little for me, but I like her very much on-screen as an actress and swimmer. May her soul rest in peace.

Rosalind Franklin

Lise Meitner

Marie Curie

Happy Easter or Passover, everyone!

Wow, such articulate and interesting responses to my question!

Thank you, everyone, I now have a much clearer idea of what's being bandied about.

I'm trying to follow this discussion, so forgive the teenager who's struggling to acclimate to this site a bit. I started following the thread because NBoC was mentioned, and am just now figuring out the whole meaning of the title. Sorry.

As I understand it, then, Ballet Jorgen would be more deserving of the title of "national" because it tours all over Canada, including small towns, and really brings ballet to Canada's people? The issue being discussed here is the limited accessibility of a company calling itself "national" (NBoC or not), correct?

Sorry to intrude, I just want to make sure I'm understanding this right.

I've never seen Ivan the Terrible, watching the clip posted in the thread, it looks like a lot of histrionic choreography.

I can't see that video, it says it's private.

It's been changed on the official website: http://www.cineplex.com/Events/DanceSeries/Home.aspx

It only gives the whole article to TIME magazine subscribers.

I understand Novikova better in French than I do English, and she certainly seems much more comfortable in French, but who am I to complain about a trilingual person when I speak only one language fluently, and merely dabble in a second?

Happy Hearts Day to you all, as well. Why coudn't Lent have started next week, so we, who gave up chocolate, could partake without guilt?

We decided that Valentine's Day and St Patrick's Day don't count.

Happy belated Valentine's Day, everyone!

There's a wonderful discussion on the sister board, Ballet Talk for Dancers, about line...I haven't been on this board long enough to know about any others.

Possessing a Beautiful Line

Well speaking of Grand Pas Classique watch Komleva and Soloviev absolutely sail through it:

I'm adding this a bit late, but I'm sure I'll be forgiven.

I found that was my favourite video of all the Grand Pas that were shown on this thread. I sent it to two of my friends, because I wanted to share the lovelyness with them!

Imagine my suprise at how different their reactions were from mine. One of them, the older one, was impressed....at first, all she said was "WOW!" Later, she added how strong their legs were, how she kept wondering during the female variation "Is she ever going to get off that leg? She's so strong to just stay there!" The second friend, a younger one, in her twenties, thought it was lovely, but "the ballerina's turnout and extensions weren't great".

I think I've become more aware, since I joined this board, that sometimes things are just incredible. I can be wowed by what they're doing, but some small part of me can turn that off and just enjoy it, instead of thinking about the hows and whys of what's going on. And I certainly am not one to be impressed simply by extensions!

So thanks, everyone, for making me a more cultured balletviewer.

Particularly in that he works in a visual art. (then again, Beethoven went deaf, but still)

Or perhaps the whole thing was just them coming down the ramp?

Ok, thanks, rg. I had previously seen the Royal Ballet version with Darcy Bussell as Gamzatti, and there's the full-scale destruction there, so I was a bit confused when I didn't see it today....

No, I meant the Fakirs. Thanks for the clarification!

I watched La Bayadere with my sister today, and she asked me who "the guys with the long hair" were. I was forced to reply that I actually didn't know; I assumed they were from a very low caste, but I would find out for her. I'm calling them tribesmen in the title for lack of a better term to describe them. She also wanted to know, and I'm with her on this, where the loyalties of the one who keeps appearing lie. I at first thought that he was helping Solor, but then it looks like he's helping the Rajah a little later...

Does anyone have any idea why the Bolshoi's version cuts out the wedding scene entirely, and just finishes with the Kingdom of the Shades?

Check out the Bolshoi's Bayadere, if you can find a copy. It has 3 levels of ramps, so when you count the shades that arrive on the stage floor at one point there are four levels of shades. It is so gorgeous. Now that I have seen that I actually want to see it that way all the time, but no other company does it that way, and I am scared the Bolshoi's new Bayadere (I think there is a new one coming out this season) will get rid of some of the ramps.

They kept the multiple ramps--all four of them, you'll be gratified to hear. The effect was ethereal.

This article from the London Daily Telegraph was in my newspaper yesterday (funny, this same newspaper ran this article, but not one on the actual attack).

Bolshoi's Principal Ballet Dancer Interviewed Over Acid Attack on Artistic Director

I wonder if they will say anything at La Bayadere today that's being broadcast to all the cinemas....

That's horrible! Sorry to get off-topic there for a second, and thanks for answering the question!

I do hope for a full recovery for Filin. I think this attack opens a window into the Claque culture surrounding the arts in Russia (at least at the major institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg).

Forgive me, but what's Claque culture?