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I predict ABT will tour Paris Opera Garnier as a guest company and part of POB 2016/17 season in early September 2016 for 2 weeks. The reconstructed Beauty will be part of the tour. If my prediction is correct, Paris will host NYCB & ABT back-to-back in 2016.

ABT website should be relatively easy to update as all of its tickets are sold thru venue websites, so it doesn't need to maintain its own online ticketing system like NYCB and Met do. May be ABT is nostalgic it's heydays thru 2000's and, therefore, it doesn't want to update its website.

Vishneva Gomes on Monday was a sold out except last 2-3 rows of Family Circle. There are always no-shows.

The new Lake will be a reconstruction, go to the last sentence: http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/June-2015/Bringing-the-Past-Alive-

So anyone went to the DC opening night? Any Reports?

NYT review of the season closer, M. Miller & A. Huxley debuts: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/09/arts/dance/review-city-ballet-debuts-in-season-finale.html?ref=dance

Opened curtain view is 90% more helpful than closed ones, hope Met will listen to us and replace them with opened ones in the future. Kennedy Center has opened curtain views, it even uses the set from ABT SL act 3 ballroom scene. BAM used to have opened curtain views but now they're no long available.

Stuttgart Ballet 2015-16 season announced: http://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/schedule/2015-16-season/

Here's the link: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/new-york-city-ballet-announces-promotions-in-dancer-ranks/?ref=dance Congratulations to all for the well-deserved promotions.

Don Q is more difficult than R&J technically, I hope her withdrawal from Don Q doesn't necessarily mean the same for R&J.

Hope they'll come to NYC during ABT and NYCB offseason, and with live orchestra.

Why RB needs to hire from outside of RBS?

Théâtre du Châtelet announces 2015/16 season with NYCB in residence between 6/28-7/16/16. Programs will include works by Balanchine, Robbins, Martins, Ratmansky, Wheeldon, and Peck. I guess more detail will be available on 6/9 when tickets go on sale: http://www.zyyne.com/zh5/166634#p=35 http://chatelet-theatre.com/en/les-actualites/nouvelle-saison I assume Saratoga season will follow Paris tour.

There is a documentary on the same subject from a Russian TV, with some rare footages:

The bed and bedroom should be uncluttered so there's no distraction from the all-important kiss. The large bird is a menacing eagle. I believe it represents the French Imperial Eagle (Aigle de drapeau), it's in the first French Empire (Napoleon Bonaparte as the first emperor) coat of arms: I think the production design team tried to draw a parallel between the restoration of King Louis XVIII aka le Désiré following Hundred Days of Napoleon and the restoration of King Florestan XXIV following hundred years of comatose state. The eagle's retreat signifies the restoration of the kingdom.

Has Osipova danced Nikiya before? She needs to fully recover by Mon. or Tue. at the latest for rehearsal. I doubt she'll be ready for the Wed. Bayadere.

Does Volksoper have its own ballet troupe or it stages ballet using dancers from Vienna State Ballet?

First and most important of all let's hope Osipova wasn't injured. Her fall is very upsetting to me. A friend just called, KM made an announcement at the stage door that she's being treated and it's too early to tell the extent, if any, of the injury. I was sitting at the orchestra not far from the stage, I thought I saw Veronika with tears in her eyes as if she's expressing great concern for a close friend and couldn't do anything about it when witnessing the fall diagonally across the stage . I thought she was fully recovered when she exited the stage when 2 grand jetés but my heart sunk when walked with a slight limp during curtain calls. The audience showered her with thunderous applause to express their supports and for her professionalism. Even the corps broke their characters with applause during curtain calls. I hope someone will post YT video of the curtain calls.

NYT on the new Beauty costumes: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/31/arts/dance/the-sleeping-beauty-awakes-to-vibrant-ballet-costumes.html?ref=dance NY premier tomorrow, CANNOT WAIT.

First wave of casting change: Yana Selina replaces Maria Shirinkina in Emerald, and Yekaterina Chebykina replaces Yekaterina Kondaurova in Ruby on 9/26 Kristina Shapran replaces Somova on 11/27 in Legend of Love Somova replaces Shirinkina on 11/28 in Legend of Love Tereshkina replaces Kondaurova on 12/6 in Swan Lake http://www.japanarts.co.jp/mb2015/english.html I hope Kondaurova will make it to DC.

With the company's depth of talents I can't imagine there's no alternate cast for Raymonda. I hope the 2 variations that were reportedly cut will stay put.

http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2015/6/14/1_1930/ http://mariinsky.tv/n/e June 14. 2015 19:30 St. Pete Time, 12:30pm EDT, 9:30am PDT PROGRAMME: I. The Young Lady and the Hooligan Music by Dmitry Shostakovich Choreography by Konstantin Boyarsky Libretto by Alexander Belinsky based on the play of Vladimir Mayakovsky Set design by Vyacheslav Okunev after Valery Dorrer Costume design by Tatiana Noginova Lighting design by Vladimir Lukasevich Lighting Adaptation for the Mariinsky II by Andrei Ponizovsky and Yegor Kartashov In the lead roles: The Young Lady: Viktoria Tereshkina The Hooligan: Danila Korsuntsev The Leader: Alexei Kuzmin II. Le Divertissement du roi Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau Choreography by Maxim Petrov Costume Designer: Tatiana Noginova Lighting Designer: Konstantin Binkin Dramatist: Bogdan Korolyok Performed by Igor Kolb III. Schéhérazade Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov Scenario by Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales Choreography by Michel Fokine Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa Set and costume design by Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches: Léon Bakst In the lead roles: Shahriar: Vladimir Ponomarev Zobeide: Olga Belik Zobeide’s Slave: Yevgeny Ivanchenko The Odalisques: Viktoria Brilyova, Yulia Kobzar, Zlata Yalinich

When Fancy Free meets Giselle: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/nyregion/a-cleaner-fleet-week-what-do-you-do-with-a-cultured-sailor.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=mini-moth&region=top-stories-below&WT.nav=top-stories-below&_r=0

Marcelo Gomes and Nina Ananiasvilli taking company class together 2 days ago: https://instagram.com/p/3EnSqiiuRh/?taken-by=marcelua

I think that's a very lovely touch, it occurs at 7:55 of the curtain calls from Stella, Shklyarov, and Veronika's Giselle: https://youtu.be/Zk4Lxjhh0mU