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from the wings - confident the Mariinsky will cast with dancers that deliver the spirit and musicality https://www.instagram.com/p/BkcctHOhpPt/?taken-by=vladimir_shklyarov

In 1983 that ballet was part of a very special evening at ABT by Baryshnikov, AD. Balanchine recently passed away. https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/03/arts/ballet-abt-opens-with-symphonie.html

Cirio's artistic vision is a mismatch for many US companies including Miami based on current AD's. Lourdes Lopez was a great dancer and as AD in Miami will do Ratmansky's Swan Lake in 2020: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bjwl2FoAa8_/?taken-by=lourdesmcbHe chose ENB over ABT fall rep and was Hilarion in ENB's Akram Khan Giselle including on film. The music is only a reference to Adolph Adam and the choreography bears no relationship to various traditional versions of Giselle. I'm surprised Rojo did La Sylpide [not Hubbe'd] and SB [Bocca on Macmillan] given her statement on classics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2nsC_pchw "want to make classical ballet relevant" "classical stories can transcend time and place and that's the story of Giselle"

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Cuban DQ's sold out. Great artistry, technique, staging. Cubans were at the KC in 2011. The 3 in 5 years DQ's were ABT 2014, Royal 2015 [new Acosta who is Cuban], Cuban 2018-incidental due to Artes De Cuba. I don't think the KC is as concerned with revenue as other venues - ie Saratoga [local media market had financials for NYCB]. There is an element of what the KC [see 2018/19 season] and media think we should see. Pre-show press varied: Washingtonian 1 of the top 5 must sees, WP critics choice as minor/also appearing. The online Washington Post negative review was available 5/30/18 and "losing battle" isn't in the current online or print article. Spin? Thursday 5/31/18 print edition is titled : "Like it's title character, 'Quixote' is stuck in the past A little revolution might be in order for Ballet Nacional de Cuba" Google: As Cuba enters the post-Castro era, its ballet company seems stuck in ... https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../397b8bba-6416-11e8-b166-fea8410bcded_story.ht... 23 hours ago - Ballet Nacional de Cuba's 'Don Quixote' at the Kennedy Center is a losing battle.

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Have you seen the Mariinsky's Rite? I saw it multiple times. The Chosen One dances to death. 12+ in St Petersburg. Pavlenko as the Chosen One and Gergiev conducting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvVKWapctX4

Mariinsky Rite was pagan, tribal, elaborate costumes, and the ritual sacrifice obscured by action. Age12+ https://www.mariinsky.ru/playbill/repertoire/ballet/le_sacre_du_printemps Le Parc is age 16+.

Another fact about AfteRite has emerged in a review. Dancers appeared urgently onstage and Ferri had a hood placed over her head and was beaten : https://www.ft.com/content/c7323370-5db1-11e8-ab47-8fd33f423c09 Scherr wrote about the woman hooded and beaten and Macauley the children killed in a gas chamber. Tickets sold with no content notice. This program juxtaposition is more egregious than the POB Balanchine's Agon with the Eurotrash roll around in the dirt gratuitous baring Rite. Eurotrash is Eurospam when it reaches the USA like the KC's Goldberg and NDT. Did the gala gross or net 2 million? For the philanthropy class at the gala [it is the season], ABT had AfteRite, fun toe tap, and commedia dell'arte. Same net for Harlequinade paired with toe tap + season teasers like Bayadere Grand Pas, Don Q pdd, etc. ABT's cost for AfteRite? Underwriting sponsors? https://www.forbes.com/sites/bettinazilkha/2018/05/22/powerfully-creative-american-ballet-theatre-spring-gala-raises-nearly-2-million/#78b538a44499 : "After that, I need a drink," was overheard many times on the way to dinner

Harlequinade-Brilliant film by Hurwitz was shot at Alder Manor/WB Thompson in Yonkers. Thompson was from Alder Gulch in Montana-went to Exeter later US envoy to Russia Kerensky years. [Kent's R & J photo shoot was National Cathedral in DC.] https://www.instagram.com/p/BiW3nnJHFvH/?taken-by=mister_rom

The Mariinsky will perform at City Center [1 of 8 companies] in fall 2018. https://www.nycitycenter.org/pdps/2018-2019/Balanchine/ Chronological list of Balanchine pre 1965: http://balanchine.com/category/chronological/

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Farrell did great work on a shoestring. Peck and Copeland [M/F] were not as good with programming Ballet Across America...

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Any advice on Tsch PDD casts? Ramasar [not appearing], Ulbricht, Adrian DW, Hyltin, don't have Tsch PDD in their rep?

Decades ago multiple Star Wars action figures were [or re-]released. I found myself attempting to get them for my children for Christmas and battling collectors at Toys R Us. Some actually tried to pilfer stuff out of my cart. Based on prior history I would be buying the Copeland and Tan Barbies. Children would love Barbie clothes like Ratmansky's Praline, Tea Flower, or Czar Maiden. At one Kennedy Center performance a little girl with her family exclaimed Barbie when the blond Kolegeva made her entrance.

San Francisco is at the KC near Halloween. Perfect time to book Frankenstein. TWB did Cranko's Romeo & Juliet at the KC for 2018 Valentine's Day. Happy audience, great sales in the Opera House. ABT often programs mixed bills and a full length. Instead...

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