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Thank you, Naomikage

Please can you post details of the second programme?

Have you any comments to add?

This has been a very strange 'world festival' as virtually nothing has appeared about it onlline. I have seen a promo piece to camera from Vadim Muntagirov, a clip of Tamara Rojo at the beginning of her Black Swan solo, a clip of Osiel Gouneo in the Don Q pdd, and some stills of Steven McRae and Iana Salenko. Otherwise, Japan seems to be keeping it all very much to itself!

Does anyone know what the three programmes are for this festival, please?

There is a list of performers online (impressive) but no details.

It is simply wonderful to see Marianela Nunez receiving the praise she so richly deserves in the US.

If this is true, I just hope this won't be another overworked dancer, running back and forth, who ends up bailing with injuries right before another ABT season. BTW I guess no news about Moore's replacement in this announcement? Nor changes to the much anticipated AD changes?

It is understood that Alban Lendorf is currently injured and not dancing, as planned, with English National Ballet in Columbia.

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Brief as it was, it was certainly nice to see Muntagirov looking more animated than he did when he danced Solor with ABT a couple of summers ago, where he seemed zonked from jet-lag, or in a trance, or both.

Muntagirov did not come across to me like that at all when he danced Solor with ABT last year.

But based on when I saw the Mariinsky in London last August, London audiences are VERY restrained. No clapping during the performance and certainly no cheering or bravos at the end (except for me). So I'm sure the RB dancers are not offended.

Don't you believe it, Amour! There may be less clapping during the performance (praise be!) but London audiences often go wild for the Royal Ballet, English National Ballet and visiting companies - with a lot of shouting and prolonged applause.

Maybe Vadim Muntagirov in the extract from Le Train Bleu today will get you New Yorkers going??

Did anyone on here see Muntagirov dance in Chicago on Saturday? If so, please would you report?

Looking forward to reading what everyone thinks of the RB in New York.

Just wanted to tell you that Le Beau Gosse from Le Train Bleu, which is to be danced in New York by Vadim Muntagirov on the 27th Mat and Eve and the 28th Eve, is likely, on the evidence of having seen him dance it in the UK, to be absolutely terrific. The problem is that it is very short indeed.