Vs1

On a light note, I took a non-balletomane friend to see Giselle twice this year and once before.  He said " I don't think that that Devon Tushy ( his pronunciation) can ever be as icy and good as that Gillian as Mertha.  She is so killer.  I love her facial expressions."

he snored through Romeo literally but loved manon so I have to be careful.

  Now he can't stop talking about how great Gillian was and making me put on swan lake videos so he can dance.  Which I can't decide if everyone should see for a laugh.

Ba should invite Pres. Trump to see the ballet after his disapproving comparison of boxing to ballet today.

There are fifty practically empty dance studios in the surrounding five villages to my house.  I doubt she'd want to teach five year olds at each once a week for a few bucks each

I don't know how you could arrive at that conclusion.  She seems desperately grasping  with Watson (?) and other attempts. I assume she will end up teaching. Who esp accomplished active forty year old person wants to sit at home staring  at the  tv decades

Did anyone see signs on the show? 

On 5/20/2018 at 3:21 PM, Vs1 said:

Cuban I counted 34-38 and the woman next to me said 42 but she is incorrect. Faux pas they added music this time which someone confirmed  

 

Kent Becker of Ballet Focus reported 36. 

Well, certainly Graham addressed Medea

Or the Green Table.  I didn't expect anything not serious from a Rite of Spring commentary.  I don't understand the pairing of ballets at the gala.

I keep thinking of Alessandra and Herman saying they don't like to watch dance.

I don't get the smiles, either.

I watched the Holocaust tv show as a kid and was horrified, with parental guidance.  But even South Park commented on The Lottery.

Are gala folks asking for insulation from reality or bubbles? I would think McKenzie would give it to them.

What was the commentary in survival of fittest or holocaust?

how did it compare to that Light holocaust ballet?

excelsior had a slave whip within commentary

On May 16, 2018 at 1:40 PM, Drew said:

At any rate, Balanchine has a more legitimate claim to be part of a Petipa gala than, say, Wheeldon or Maliphant....

Why is Apollo in a nuryevev gala with his Sb and dq

Cuban I counted 34-38 and the woman next to me said 42 but she is incorrect. Faux pas they added music this time which someone confirmed  

After the trip seen onstage in act two, someone saw from the side her fall on her face when she was backstage.  The thud was enormous and worrisome.  He continued without interruption. 

In act 1 she didn't jump the second time in the vertical lift so he didn't lift her at all. 

She also did not bump hard into bathilde and act startled but rather ran to her mother after a tap of the nobles and seemed almost unaware of them rather than frazzled as usual.

he varied the interpretation in act one too being less worried about nobles and being caught , and more involved with her mad scene and remembrance, moving upstage with her. That conveyed more regret or compassion.

hee said goodbye to him on media and many said he is not returning. I feared that but it was not the impression I got.

nothing special marked his anniversary but he took a longer solo bow

and why are you abandoning us canbelto?

by the way, where can I get a pair of borzoi?

I saw L Laccara in a segment of a version of dame aux camillias that was credited to someone named Ivan.  Does anyone know if this is a suite or full ballet and who choreographed it.  

22 hours ago, nysusan said:

DO NOT DO IT! I was in orch E-1 last night and the average height woman who was sitting in front of me was blocking my view all night. She kept bobbing her head back and forth (to see over the guy sitting in front of her) and I kept having to do the same.

I rarely sit in the orchestra but when I do I always sit in the aisle seat of an outside section cause that usually gives you and unimpeded view, and even if the person directly in front of you is tall, they generally only block the very edge of the stage. Not at the Met - the head in front of me was blocking the center of the stage.

I think this is less of a problem further back, but I would avoid that seat in the first 10 rows. 

Don't know why you say this. Inner aisle end row seats, at row g or other rows, are good.   Much open space to see or maneuver.   Outer aisle ( end of row) , even row a , have stage cut off.

heads a problem anywhere except row a, of any section, and sometimes still  then, if at end of row.

Compare the answer to "how are you" and see if one smiles.  

Or see if or how one comments on one's bodily functions or appearance.

Can't someone compare a press kit

Faux pas we all must make sacrifices sometimes . Lol. Less than half of his partners merit his services or my money.

Faux pas , doesn't he always start low and then pump up? I counted 32to34 and only once have I seen more and I've seen his Giselle dozens of times. The two press lifts were stronger than before, too.  And he wasn't exhausted in the fall scene as usual.  The strength was greater but less emotion.  The music was off, though.

Child of the air?

Competing with dance company nonprofits 

Going tonight so have to take care of the Stella Gis tix in advance while in the city .  Any suggestions? Already seeing two other Gis, bay, harleqinade , Afterite unfortunately with firebird again, whip c

Cant see another abt Rj sl dq with this casting

unless indications on replacements

I don't keep track

The book on the PNW ballet

Why ? she's supposedly dead under suspicious circumstances . Is that better than suicide? 

On May 11, 2018 at 10:09 AM, vipa said:

This is true for many young people. I know many college educated young people with full time jobs who can't afford an apt. in NYC without house mates. If you don't enter a field in which there is a lot of money to be made, like finance or corporate law, it's tough to find afford housing in an expensive city.

Well govt employees have it easier getting mortgages and leases.  Maybe top lawyers or financiers fit your bill or ones during their period of productivity. In expensive suburbs the help always has a section too for obvious reasons. Never understood reason to price the help out of the city  or commerce either but it seemed the plan 

MAybe I am thinking of gelsey book, pnb book, Baryshnikov and Nureyev movies, Sab, pob movies , Darcy movies, polinin stories, theatre st movie, bun heads , Farrell, and other books and misty c articles .  

On May 11, 2018 at 3:12 AM, pherank said:

 

Being a West Coast person, I've always been aware that the East Coast pays little attention to developments out West.  😉

Do you mean they make up the past? Or simply don't honor it? Or plagiarize without attribution? Or want different things? Or are stuck in the past?