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Great news for both Sascha, ABT and NYU.

I predict 2 programs will be part of 2016-17 season, ABT's Beauty this September and Wayne McGregor's Tree of Codes.

Tree of Codes had its US premiere last September at Park Ave. Armory, POB is one of the co-producers: http://www.armoryonpark.org/programs_events/detail/tree_of_codes

Repertories announced for the Paris season: http://www.lesetesdeladanse.com/edition-2016-2/programme-calendrier/

http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/

The only ballet offering is National Ballet of Canada's Winter' Tale: http://www.lincolncenterfestival.org/2016/the-winters-tale

ABT's. It is the best rendition of the double suicide original version.

Agreed. SL must have a tragic ending. And ABT's has the most dramatic tragic ending. If Kevin restores the 4th act, it could be the most definitive of all current productions. All current productions have major flaws, let's see if Ratmansky's SL for Zurich and La Scala will end the drought.

Best:

Ratmansky's reconstructed Sleeping Beauty

NYCB the company as a whole in general, particularly Tiler Peck.

Fogot to add as one of my best of - the Alina Cojocaru and Friends gala at the Rose Theater in December.

Probably the worst marketing.

Potential major snow storm Friday evening into Sat., up to 2 feet of snow, keep a close eye on weather forecast and be prepared to exchange tickets on Thur.: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/20/us/a-snowstorm-is-expected-on-the-east-coast.html?module=WatchingPortal&region=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=wide&state=standard&contentPlacement=1&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F01%2F20%2Fus%2Fa-snowstorm-is-expected-on-the-east-coast.html&eventName=Watching-article-click&_r=0

I saw the live stream Paquita on my 46" screen, I also liked the costumes a lot and didn't find them polyester-y or cheap.

9 ABT and 1 NY Theater Ballet dancers will perform with Gemma Bond Dance at St. Mark's Church on Feb. 4-6: http://www.danspaceproject.org/calendar/?event-month=02&event-year=2016

When's the premiere of the new Nutcracker? The one with several contemporary choreographers. It seems Millepied just carries on Lefevre's vision. Let's see next season programs to confirm this trend.

If a guest company is to bring a classical work like Beauty, does POB feel less compelled to schedule more classical works? Since the guest company fulfills some of the classical quotas. Is there any precedent where POB dancers guested with a guest company at their own home theater?

If Misty is cast as Aurora in the September Paris tour (as POB guest company) next year, let's see her box office draw will extend across the pond. Does Paris Opera have dynamic pricing? I assume the pricing policy in Paris will be up to the Opera.

We can't rule out Shklyarov from the Kennedy Center tour just because he has 2/21 R&J. He and Tereshkina arrived in NY the same morning of their scheduled Swan Lake at BAM.

I only found out the gala from a friend who found out from another friend. I haven't come across any ads, publicity, or anything on social medias. Whoever is doing the marketing should be fired.

State Theater starts releasing unsold ADA seats few days before performances.

Not according to a Milan newspaper: http://milano.repubblica.it/cronaca/2015/11/14/news/polemiche_e_proteste_dopo_la_cancellazione_di_manon_ma_la_cgil_esulta_sciopero_riuscito-127303732/

Last paragraph of the article via Google Translate:

"But the fish to fry for the number one scaligero not end there. Natalia Osipova, star of the Royal Ballet in London, engaged in the performances of Manon 18 and 20, does not want to dance with the Scala Claudio Coviello. He proposed to replace it with Sergei Polunin (which by the way is her boyfriend), but for the theater it would pay another étoile guest. Nothing is decided yet if she will jump or Coviello. In short, bad luck hit hard Manon, and deportation to the United States, as in the story of the Abbot Prévost shot by Massenet and Puccini, it would be almost a relief."

David Hallberg was originally scheduled to dance Manon with her.

Very strange wording from La Scala why she pulled out of Manon:

"With great regret we inform you that, for reasons not attributable to the artist, Natalia Osipova will not take part in the performances of 18 and 20 November. In the role of Manon will be Sarah Lamb, Principal of the Royal Ballet, for the first time at La Scala."

ABT's Gemma Bond, Claire Davison, Scout Forsythe, Cameron McCune and Calvin Royal III are featured in Club Monaco holiday campaign: http://www.clubmonaco.com/category/index.jsp?categoryId=63015426&ab=WPSG_PSF_111315

For the benefit of Romanian National Ballet: http://www.jazz.org/events/t-5114/

I am glad everything turns out ok.

The spring schedule is now gone from the Met site.

Oh wow, this is grueling. Only 4 days after the Paris season ends, then the Saratoga season begins.

Don't know if the first tweak will make it to DC this January: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10204989309437268&set=a.1133754148868.2020465.1377723438&type=3&theater

L to R: Garcia, Davis, Generosa, Tiler Peck, Anthony Huxley, Doug, Claire Von Enck.

New York State Theater naming rights cost $100 million in 2008 with a sunset clause. That amount was spend to renovate the theater. Met naming rights probably costs at least 2-3 times more, considering the Met is a stronger brand. And it'll cost much more than $100 millions to expand the lobby and renovate the house. Several NYC apartments already broke the $100 millions mark, with one rumored to cost over $200 millons: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/09/18/nycs_most_expensive_condo_will_measure_18000_square_feet.php So several hundred millions are just pocket changes for many billionaires.