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With all these issues on this new Met site, I wonder if my own wishes that ABT should update their own site might be a good idea. I have to say I love the NYCB site, it is so fresh and easy to manneuver. Maybe that is what the Met is trying to do but isn't just quite there yet? I guess we are all part of the test this season.
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.
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The Vishneva Gomes show on MOnday sold well too, but not quite as heavily. Maybe that will be ABt's new strategy going forward - advertise superstar Russian guest artists and then switch the cast.
Vishneva Gomes on Monday was a sold out except last 2-3 rows of Family Circle. There are always no-shows.
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The new Lake will be a reconstruction, go to the last sentence: http://www.dancemagazine.com/issues/June-2015/Bringing-the-Past-Alive-
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So anyone went to the DC opening night? Any Reports?
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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
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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.
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Stuttgart Ballet 2015-16 season announced: http://www.stuttgart-ballet.de/schedule/2015-16-season/
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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.
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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.
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Hope they'll come to NYC during ABT and NYCB offseason, and with live orchestra.
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Why RB needs to hire from outside of RBS?
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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.
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There is a documentary on the same subject from a Russian TV, with some rare footages:
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I just have to add this one point. THE BED! Oi! It looks like the prop department went out to a Sleepys and ordered the "biggest 'perfect sleeper' you got"! Totally unadorned, except for that rather large bird hanging above it. Is this supposed to represent our own worst nightmare? Can't the set dressers at least put a few frills around it? Poor Aurora looks like she just stopped in at her local mattress store to test one out! I'm just sayin'
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.
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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.
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to get the full season you also have to look at the Volksoper site:
Season 2015/2016
Schneekönigin Premiere by Michael Corder (December 2015)
Choreographer Michael Corder’s successful and highly acclaimed full-length ballet "The Snow Queen" is based on the score of "The Stone Flower" by Sergei Prokofiev, the music newly arranged by Julian Philips. The freely-adapted story recalls Hans Christian Andersen’s famous fairy tale. The creative costumes and sets designed by Mark Bailey heighten the magical atmosphere of the ballet.
Marie Antoinette by Patrick de Bana (May 2016)
Patrick de Bana’s ballet saw its world premiere on November 20th 2010 at the Vienna Volksoper. Now the touching story of Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria and Queen of France and Navarre, returns.
Does Volksoper have its own ballet troupe or it stages ballet using dancers from Vienna State Ballet?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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http://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2015/6/14/1_1930/
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
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Marcelo Gomes and Nina Ananiasvilli taking company class together 2 days ago: https://instagram.com/p/3EnSqiiuRh/?taken-by=marcelua
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And then, during the second curtain call, he escorted Stella out, and then left the stage so she could soak up all the applause by herself. Lovely to see!
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
ABT in Paris (Opera Bastille) 9/2016
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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.