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I saw many beautiful performances with Lane and Cornejo together. I guess I'm sad that offstage things broke down between them so badly.

I love Sarah but it's not the partner's fault he was injured a lot. And since he was a bigger star than her I'm not surprised that she lost this game of company politics. 

Hmm. Overall I think Faye Arthurs is one of the most intelligent dance writers around. I had the pleasure of sitting next to her at an ABT performance we were both reviewing. She's an observant, sharply opinionated lady.

David Zaleev has been seriously injured in a scooter accident:

https://www.rt.com/russia/524105-mariinsky-theater-soloist-electric-scooter-incident/amp/?__twitter_impression=true&fbclid=IwAR1dxaIwpa-xkWoxI25RoJvm-HutYX2t9mEOBBqjYnycqRzoTI_A09RPZJk

Soloist Erica Pereira is expecting:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CKeWMKMgswH/

I'm okay with large indoors gatherings requiring a mask, vaccination, or a combo of both. I wouldnt enjoy an event unless I felt safe.

9 hours ago, cubanmiamiboy said:

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They've been closed to all audience members for months now. To me, that's a lose-lose situation.

I think Alena Kovaleva looks a lot like Suzanne Farrell:

Dancer tributes:

Megan Fairchild:

https://www.instagram.com/p/COb1NIKnrYb/

Harrison Coll: 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CObAudlAYMl/

Wendy:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CObARM0rcFt/

Heather Watts:

https://www.instagram.com/p/COaoijTgwUEGVhg_221T-GwYuG_Dp31uFH5Csc0/

Ashley Bouder:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CObMqgKr3yc/

Daniel Ulbricht:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CObYA9uAR2g/

Heres another source:

https://www.gramilano.com/2021/05/jacques-damboise-dies-at-86/?fbclid=IwAR17OY7fLvEFzuhMh4tBiOSc6RqnvBcxhWbq29aVVHZ5Aym43Fk7mHN-4sU

I was watching Mayara Piniero in the Allegro Brillante that PA Ballet streamed and to me she resembles Paloma Herrera both in looks and style. If you covered one's face and told me the other was dancing, I'd believe you.

Does anyone else have these dancer doppelgangers? A dancer who looks and dances very much like another dancer?

I loved Mayara Piniero and Zecheng Liang in Allegro Brillante!

I have the Excelsior pass. 

I think they mean a vaccine greater than 14 days prior (fully vaccinated). 

I think moving forward proof of vaccination will become the standard requirement to attend indoor gatherings. Laminate your CDC cards!

Dancers do make dropped wrists part of their style in Emeralds. Like it or not it's become part of the ballet's idiom, a bit like the jutting hips have become a part of Concerto Barocco.

Violette Verdy:

Roberta Marquez:

Evgenia Obraztsova:

Tiler Peck:

I wonder what people would have thought of Suzanne Farrell, who made broken wrists part of her style:

Overall a bit disappointed with the latest streaming program. I didn't feel the works were as strong as the other programs.

The best chance for full resumption of performances is if enough of the population gets vaccinated. I'm afraid that until that happens, we'll be stuck in this "outdoor pod" limbo. 

More NYCB news: Brittany Pollack is having a baby!

https://www.instagram.com/p/CN8Ja6ygzlt/

IMO they should accept vaccine proof. By the summer everyone who wants a vaccine should be able to get one. Vaccines are also easier to check for because of the CDC cards.

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I think I "get" what Hurwitz is saying in your quotes, but I certainly also feel that there is unhealthy behavior perpetrated by potentially anyone, everyday. (As one writer once put it, "the world runs on the Seven Deadly Sins and the weather".)  And individuals and societies need ways to identify and deal with this unhealthy behavior. Note that I'm saying "unhealthy" and not "unethical" because I think that the realm of ethics and morality is where things get really sticky. "Of course" sexual relations with 12 or 13 year old children, or marriage at the age of 12, or forcing children to work long hours each day all seems abhorrent to us now. But my ancestors routinely did such things at a time when the average life expectancy for the peasantry was 24 for men and 33 for women. If the children didn't work alongside their parents from an early age, the family starved to death. We've only had a hundred years or so of our "modern" values - our ancestors had at least 100,000 years of different values to live with (my apologies to anyone following the Bible's timeline). They had their reasons and their values that arose from their situations. Well that continues - the values of say, the LGBT community, are going to differ from the BLM community on certain issues. And an individual who can identify with much of LGBT, and MeToo and BLM, for example, is also going to run into points of conflict with those general movements. Because we have our individual lives, feelings, thoughts and needs. I think it is very problematic to assume that my values are superior to, or some kind of improvement over, the next person's - or the previous generation's, and that they are certainly deluded in their thinking. That's been something of a "thing" on the dance forums over the last few years - that dancers are somehow deluded in their thinking around certain recent controversies, and we on the outside have the clearer view and can make the more appropriate judgement. But I think that's something of a delusion as well. I either acknowledge another person's experiences, thoughts and feelings, or I don't. And not acknowledging someone else's experience, thoughts and feelings tends to derail any relationship.

This is @pherank paragraph I refer to. Again, I say this: 

Liam Scarlett wasn't operating on a 100 years ago timeline. We aren't retroactively applying judgment the way people are to, say, Thomas Jefferson who had an extremely 18th century worldview about slaves and women and their roles in society. 

Liam Scarlett lived in 2020 and was expected to conform to the norms and values of 2020. Based on his termination from multiple ballet companies for problematic behavior re: students and dancers it seems as if he struggled with this. 

I'm really puzzled by the "this was okay 100 years ago" arguments. The fact is, Liam Scarlett lived in 2020, not 1820. In 1820 slavery was considered moral and just but I'd like to think that not everyone in 1820 if brought up in the 21st century would have the same views. 

3 minutes ago, PeggyTulle said:

Reading through a bunch of IG tributes and such to Scarlett, I'm stunned by the "cancel culture" and "he was a great person" comments. While there were no criminal charges or illegal acts with students (not sure if the final decision was all students or just those under 18), it seems pretty clear that he did some things that weren't ethical or moral and that companies decided he was too much of a legal liability to work with again. Diving into the things on IG, I'm especially struck by how there's a lot of blame being put on the dance companies for Scarlett's choices. He behavior was all their fault, it was all a part of the culture, if you don't change the culture, he can't be expected to change, even if these allegations are true, he's too great of an artist to ignore his talents and his choreography should still be gracing our stages... For anyone in the dance community who may need to come forward with allegations, I think they're going to be thinking twice in light of all of this. The dance community does not seem to take alleged assault or consent very seriously. There are also some concerning comments from those in the "know" in the dance world about Scarlett's past transgressions. For instance on Ratmansky's post, Ezra Hurwitz replied to someone, saying: 

ezrahurwitz

@alexe84 i dont have sufficient energy to educate you in the greater context of a centuries old culture that produces and profits off creative young choreograpgic minds and asks them to produce unprecedented and evocative work via intimate and physical connections with fellow artists and peers, all while isolating them from their contemporaries. using salacious buzz words like "rape culture" illustrates that you 1) dont know the details of liam's circumstances and 2) lack any perspective on the complex issues the ballet world faces and the casualties on every side that will continue to fall as the dance world struggles to survive in the 21rst century.

ezrahurwitz

@alexe84 when ur a 25 year old phenom celebrated for ur emotionally visceral creativity and sent around the world to live in hotel rooms alone for months at a time, and asked to create uninhibited physical poetry with artists your own age - and raised, defined by and reinforced in every way by an insular yet increasingly toxic world - u tell mr how ur meant to survive when that world banishes u for consensual relationships they profited from

Just an observation: this seems to have become yet another culture war. People are railing about "cancel culture" and "political correctness" without knowing anything about the reasons Scarlett was dismissed from so many companies. 

9 minutes ago, pherank said:

Most of what I've read has been by people mourning the loss, not 'glorifying and beatifying' as you put it. I guess we agree to disagree.
 

If you read comments on FB and twitter there's a whole bunch of "he was innocent, and such a genius" talk, and also of course a bunch of "political correctness gone awry" and "cancel culture" rants.