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Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, it seems like the Spring season is starting April 19 and ending May 29. At least a week earlier than the usual commencement of the spring season. That's great. Fewer overlaps with ABT.
Vienna Waltze, Ballo, Tchai Suite 3 and Tchai Piano 2 all returning. Liebeslieder too!
That's great until another visiting company is scheduled post-NYCB forcing us to make difficult choices again. Or NYCB starts early to make room for ABT in case Met residency contract talk didn't pan out?
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It probably depends on the carrier, Rogers Cable carries WNED Buffalo PBS on ch. 61 last time I was in Toronto.
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More detail from NYCB site:
Get ready for our 2015-16 Season, opening September 22 with eight performances of Peter Martins' Swan Lake, followed by the annual Fall Gala on September 30, featuring world premieres from Justin Peck, Troy Schumacher, Robert Binet, and Myles Thatcher — and another from Kim Brandstrup on October 8. Other fall highlights include two all-Balanchine programs and one of works scored by American composers. In Winter 2016, new Music Director Andrew Litton leads a program featuring music from composers who've had a major influence on his career: Barber, Bernstein, and Gershwin. January's annual New Combinations evening features another new work from Peck, his first narrative ballet and largest to date, based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale The Most Incredible Thing; Christopher Wheeldon's Estancia rounds out the program. Winter also sees encore performances of Martins' La Sylphide and several all-Balanchine programs to celebrate the choreographer's birthday. Spring brings a premiere from Wheeldon for the Company's 2016 Spring Gala, as well two programs of contemporary choreographers, and another full contingent of Balanchine ballets, including the return of Jewels and a week-long run of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Subscriptions will be available April 28 and single tickets go on sale August 3.
NYCB's beloved holiday classic, George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker™, returns for its annual holiday run Friday, November 27, 2015, through Sunday, January 3, 2016. Tickets for these magical performances go on sale September 20.
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I haven’t been able to find any information about a 2016 tour except on Ballet Alert. Does anyone know where this information originated?
The 2016 tour is confirmed by a Russian newspaper, via Google translate, scroll to the last sentence: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http://izvestia.ru/news/579840&usg=ALkJrhhpwC6gQHKZG_Sy1sSiMUWF8QqoTQ
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The dates are very odd. 10/30/16 is Sunday and 11/15/16 is Tue., tours usually start during the week or at the beginning of a weekend, and end on Sat. or Sun.
Also the dates coincide with ABT fall season, assuming it's the State Theater, does that mean ABT & State Theater are not renewing their 3-year contract which expires after 2015 fall season?
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Promo video for the new RDB Swan lake.
Looks like a "Black Swan" trailer.
Any differences between the NYCB and the old RDB Peter Martins version? I am looking forward to your reports.
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Here's the slow motion clip of Vishneva & Gomes rehearsing the fish dive: https://instagram.com/p/zjSM45wWwv/?modal=true
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I hope they'll bring back Flames of Paris, and no Nacho Duato.
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Did anyone notice if anything was cut?
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Maybe the fact that Marcelo is no longer dancing Bayadere contributed to Vishneva's decision not to dance it at ABT this season. I'll bet she was mighty pleased when the casting reshuffle caused by Hallberg's cancellations resulted in her getting Marcelo as her Giselle partner instead of Hallberg.
The question is why was she cast with anyone other than Gomes in the first place.
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Any companies still do Square Dance with a caller?
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Too bad Geffen insisted on no sunset clause. I have to give prop to Koch for such a provision when he donated the same amount to the State Theater.
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Thanks ksk, Josette and Andre for your wonderful reports. I felt joy just reading them. ABT finally has a production it can be proud of. May is such a distant future, I am not sure how I'll survive the wait.
So Cabinet des fées characters that actually dance the variations are Cat & Puss, Florine & Blue Bird, Red Hood & Wolf, Cinderella & Prince Fortune, Ogre/Ogress and Hop-O-My-Thumb in addition to the Precious Stones. While Bluebeard & Ariana, Porcelain Princesses, Mandarin, Scheherazade, Shah & bros. are walk-through characters. Correct? This production has more act 3 variations and walk-thru characters than RB's, which many considered as the Western production the closest to the original one.
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Premier starts in less than 3 hours. It's killing me I am here but not there. I'll be waiting with bated breath for members' reviews.
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So news about extending the KennCen season was just talk, not that I am complaining, still great news that they're bringing Raymonda.
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Hudson interview re costume design for the new Beauty: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/costumes-652786-bakst-production.html
Another new Beauty article: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/beauty-652775-sleeping-ratmansky.html
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ABT also posted the old costumes with a mischievous Disney hashtag: https://instagram.com/p/zA_RPPyJc6/?modal=true
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So there will be Puss in Boots and Big Bad Wolf
Diamond & Princess Florine
Aurora PdD
Vishneva & Gomes in their coronation costumes: https://instagram.com/p/zs5eB4wW6P/?modal=true
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Vision costume
Queen at christening
King
Canary Fairy
Lilac's costumes appear to have 2 different lengths
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Yes, Richard Hudson is the same costume designer for ABT's Nut and new Beauty.
More costume sketches:
Hummingbird Fairy
Lilac
Prince Charming?
Another picture of the set from Library of Congress, looks different from the one posted earlier on FB:
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If Ratmansky is staging the Stepanov steps, how long will the show last? Four hours, as in Vikharev 's Mariinsky production? Or will it be a two and a half-hour typical western production with 'union overtime' in mind...in which case, how can Ratmansky truly do justice to the Stepanov notation of Beauty?
Now I'm truly looking forward to this production. Bring it on, ABT!
According to La Scala, the length is 3 hours with one 15-minute intermission, when the 1999 Vikharev reconstruction was presented at Met, it's 3:45 with three 20-minute intermissions. So the 2 versions are of the same length. And the complete SB score CD by Mariinsky Orchestra is 2'41" http://www.amazon.com/Sleeping-Beauty-Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky/dp/B00000415B/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1425061702&sr=8-4&keywords=sleeping+beauty+kirov I assume nothing is cut in Ratmansky's reconstruction.
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This LA Times article confirms the steps are reconstruction of the 1890 Beauty based on the Stepanov notation at Harvard: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-ca-american-ballet-theatre-sleeping-beauty-20150301-story.html#page=2
And Hudson mentioned the tutus won't be as long as the Bakst's design.
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Posted by Vishneva on her Instagram:
About working on the Sleeping beauty with Ratmansky. The new version premiere is already in March. 'He is staging the Petipa version based on the same notation by Nikolai Sergeyev that Sergey Vikharev worked with at the Mariinski Theatre. Alexey has been thouroughly exploring these notes, and he is absolutely mesmorized with what they reveal: it is a text completely different from what we know. And he wants to go back to the original. Alexey says that we need to find the right percentage ratio between what can be revived and what will have to be stylized'. From the Time of Culture magazine interview.
She also posted a video in slow motion of rehearsing the fish dive with Gomes: https://instagram.com/p/zjSM45wWwv/?modal=true
Gomes rehearsing Carabosse: https://instagram.com/p/zJRfDnCuTc/?modal=true
Mariinsky Live Stream
in Kirov-Mariinsky Ballet
Posted
http://mariinsky.tv/n/e
March 19. 2015 19:30 St. Pete Time, 12:30pm EDT, 9:30am PDT
I. The Legend of Love (Act II)
Music by Arif Melikov
Libretto by Nazim Khikmet
Choreography by Yuri Grigorovich (1961)
Set, costume and lighting design: Simon Virsaladze
Shyrin: Alina Somova
Ferkhad: Kimin Kim
Mekhmeneh Bahnu: Viktoria Tereshkina
The Vizier: Yuri Smekalov
II. Schéhérazade (choreographic drama in one act)
Music by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scenario by Léon Bakst and Michel Fokine after Arabian Nights fairytales
Choreography by Michel Fokine (1910)
Reconstruction by Isabelle Fokine, Andris Liepa
Set and costume design by Anna Nezhnaya, Anatoly Nezhny after original sketches: Léon Bakst
Shahriar: Vladimir Ponomarev
Zobeide: Viktoria Tereshkina
Zobeides Slave: Danila Korsuntsev
The Odalisques: Olga Belik, Viktoria Brilyova, Anastasia Zaklinskaya
III. Paquita Grand pas
Music by Ludwig Minkus
Choreography by Marius Petipa (1881)
Revival consultants: Pyotr Gusev, Lidia Tiuntina, Georgy Konishchev
Set design by Gennady Sotnikov
Costume design by Irina Press
Soloists: Viktoria Tereshkina and Vladimir Shklyarov