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Both your commentaries elevated my excitement and curiosity to see Serenade After Plato's Symposium in LA in July. I don't know if it does follow Plato's Symposium at all, but there are a lot of romantic/platonic dynamics (primarily male/homosexual) in Symposium that's different from the typical love stories in classical ballet, so I'm hoping for a very original and fresh performance/choreography.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPq4lvn9FpQ

thank you!

Based on the reviews here it's ironic that Skorik was promoted to principal dancer right after performing this very role a few months ago

The Mariinsky site hasn't been updated yet, but the news is on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mariinsky.theatre

We're delighted to announce that Xander Parish has been promoted to First Soloist after a stunning performance this evening! Congratulations, Xander !
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Announced after this Giselle performance

Here is the video of the press conference. In Russian and with Japanese interpretation.

First night in Tokyo was Jewels and I enjoyed it a lot. Kondaurova seemed fully recovered from her injury and was commanding as Big Red in Rubies, also Kimin Kim is back from his injury in China and showed such delight in his dancing, Bateeva had much jazziness and musicality. Kristina Shapran a little unstable in Diamonds but nevertheless displayed her fragile beauty and lyricism, Askerov, although a little stiff was good with his accuracy and academism. The corps seemed good as well.

Kondaurova is replacing Skorik in Swan Lake on Saturday at Nagoya. (Skorik is in Japan now but she was not at the conference, but she is still scheduled to dance in Swan Lake on December 5th)

can anybody translate what Kimin Kim says at around 25:00 that results in laughter in the room? and what he says in general

Hi everyone new user here.

I'm planning to take a friend to the Nutcracker at Segarstrom tomorrow. Any advice on whether we should see Stella Abrera/Alexandre Hammoudi or Gillian Murphy/James Whiteside?

I saw Gillian/James yesterday and they were fantastic together. She is amazing in the role and I'd love for my friend to experience what I did, but I also really want to see Stella as well. Hopefully we'll get to meet/get a photo with one of them after the show at the stage door.

Thanks a lot!

So I actually attended Gillian/James' performance (again) and it was very good. I personally wanted to see Stella more, but the time ultimately became inconvenient. My friend who's not a huge ballet buff thought the corps was sloppy (she saw Mariinsky's Raymonda at Segerstrom and RAVED about them, so she was probably expecting that level of synchronicity). Gillian was radiant, but suffered a trip, which she bounced back from with resilience and determination to finish the variation at 200%. don't think it's serious at all. Didn't get to meet her since it was raining and we were too tired to walk to the stage door, but there's always next year/next time. Also seeing Isabella/Cory on Thursday. Hopefully that goes better than it did yesterday (judging from the posts here)

Even though ABT's Nutcracker sounds like a nice Segerstrom tradition, I hope they bring other works next year

Hi everyone new user here.

I'm planning to take a friend to the Nutcracker at Segarstrom tomorrow. Any advice on whether we should see Stella Abrera/Alexandre Hammoudi or Gillian Murphy/James Whiteside?

I saw Gillian/James yesterday and they were fantastic together. She is amazing in the role and I'd love for my friend to experience what I did, but I also really want to see Stella as well. Hopefully we'll get to meet/get a photo with one of them after the show at the stage door.

Thanks a lot!