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Does someone have opera glasses that are sold at Royal Opera's shop ? If yes, are you happy with them ? http://rohshop.org/?SubNavMenu=10 Thank you

If you call, you'll have to give your credit card number, too. The number I gave you is the one for reservations by phone. These performances are always sold out, and I guess, as you said, there are still very few tickets available.

There are 4 ways of having tickets : You can buy some tickets on POB's website. Right now, there are a few of them for december 12 th. Unfortunately, POB's site is only in French and there is no way of inserting a direct link to reservations. You can try to call at 33 1 72 29 35 35 to see if some tickets are still available but it's only in french and there are very few chances that tickets be still available To queue before performances, because a few tickets are always being sold 15 minutes before the beginning but in order to have one of these you need to be there 3 to 4 hours before the actual beginning and to queue standing for a long time. When you are in Paris, you may try to go to the tickets offices during the day. You might be lucky and find a ticket. Don't buy your ticket to people who are sending them in the street, because it's forbidden by laws, you might end with a false ticket and/or pay it more than its real price!

Here's a bio http://www.ziki.com/fr/people/danseeneteaparis/about. He's teaching at Harmonic's Studio in Paris http://www.studioharmonic.fr/ and at Cite Veron, a mythic studio http://citeveron.free.fr/Prof/adlc.html He's also teaching at Rick Odum's school and at the American Academy of Dance in Paris

http://www.ina.fr/archivespourtous/index.p...lite&id=239 Several videos on this (official) site, including some old ones.

http://www.latribune.fr/info/Maurice-Bejar...6;Channel=Monde It is said in this article that the city of Lausanne will continue to give grants to both the Compagny and Rudra School. The amount of this funding is 4 millions of swiss francs ($ 3.631.247) per year.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/146363.html John Neumier's feedback http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?N...0&PageNum=0 Yuri Grigorovich's ones http://www.tsr.ch/tsr/index.html?siteSect=...y=1195747566000 a ceremony will take place in Lausanne (salle metropole) next Monday at 4 PM. It doesn't say if it will be with the body or ashes. http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2007/11/22/...de-la-danse.php Mor feedbacks

Some more news : http://www.operadeparis.fr/Accueil/Actualite.asp?id=403 There will be a Bejart's triple bill at POB next year http://www.lexpress.fr/info/quotidien/actu.asp?id=461943 Feedbacks from patrick Dupont, Brigitte Lefebvre, POB's AD, and Christine Albanel, French secretary of State for Culture. http://www.levif.be/actualite/culture/72-6...ice-bejart.html Ashes of the deceased should be scattered on a beach in Ostende, Belgium, in the next few days.

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-...1-981261,0.html Extended article in le monde. The title is Maurice Béjart, l'homme qui voulait amener le grand public à la danse wich means MB, the man who wanted to bring over general audience to dance. It says he's a myth.

Well, Bart the sentence "If dance has a public today, it is because of Maurice Bejart" is actually a litteral translation of Claude Bessy's own words. Personaly, I wouln't go as far as Claude Bessy, but I think it is because I'm too young for having known well what seems to be Bejart's most flourishing years, I mean in the 1960-1970 years. I think she means that Maurice Bejart was the one who democratized ballet in Europe and brought it to wider audiences in unusual venues. In that sense, I think she's right. A lot of young dancers I know have a real devotion and fascination for Maurice Bejart. The experience of dancing Variations Don Giovanni and working with Shona Mirk (I may be wrong with her name's spelling) was incredible for them. It is also true that Bejart's name is synonim of ballet/dance among general public. As for myself, I'm not a fan at all of its works, but I appreciate the intellectual process which sustain them and his writings are most interesting. May he rest in peace.

http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/people/0,,3629238,...oregraphe-.html Claude Bessy's feedback. She's very moved. It's very unusual to see her like that when you have known her as POB's school director. She is saying that: 1) She saw Maurice Bejart last week. He wanted to die, because he was suffering very much. 2) He made necessary legal arrangements. Gil Roman may take the lead in Lausanne. The legal rights of MB's works have been given to several dancers. 3) He seemed to have asked her to be a supervisor in this process, but it isn't very clear 4) If dance has a public today, it is because of Maurice Bejart

Newspaper Le monde is bringing back old articles http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-...1-981261,0.html http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-...1-981261,0.html

http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/people/0,,3629213,...st-decede-.html What a sad news.

http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/WAspad/Ajour...p;demande=ajour Here is the link to the legal text related to dancers pensions. I'm sorry, I don't have time to translate it. It's the decree 85-1148, taken on april 5, 1968.

Yes, they get a pension at 42, and like former militaries who get retired very early too, they get their pension and as militaries, are free to do something else at the same time. For some of them, it can be quite lucrative. Please note I'm saying it is lucrative for some of them. It certainly isn't for evereyone. We will note collective agreements ruling POB's dancers' status can't be found on Legifrance, the official site where almost all french laws can be found, while most of that sort of agreements can be viewed on that site. It seems POB and artists trade union don't wish dancers agreement to be made public.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle2910929.ece Times article

Dorothée Gilbert was promoted tonight to the rank of Etoile after having danced Clara in Nutcracker. A star is born. Congratulations to this exceptional dancer .

http://www.prixdelausanne.org/pdf/2008/Pri..._candidates.pdf The list is here. Good luck to erveryone !

Mathieu Ganio

Well, I read this book and was a bit disapointed. It's a very easy book to read. Carlos Acosta speaks a lot of his off-stage life but we don't learn much about his feelings on his art, ballets he danced in or his own choregraphical experience. Yet one can't say it is uninteresting. The account of the author's cuban years are worth the reading. It looks it is aimed to a general public and not only to ballet's fans. It is sold in a lot of booktstores in London, including Harrod's Waterstone

Altinai Assylmuratova began with figure skating.

Has someone read this book ? ? Is there really a focus on ballet ? Thanks a lot

She is on a sabbatical leave from POB for four months, and it seems she's trying some new things: http://www.rai.tv/mpplaymedia/0,,RaiUno-Ba...5E38018,00.html

The Nutcracker Dvd can be found here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw/002-4...x=15&Go.y=3

Well, personnaly, I'm not very fond of most of his works, but his thought is most interesting. I don't know if his books have been translated in English but if they are it's worth the reading. I would say that somewhere, they're more interesting than his choregraphical works. In Europe, he's still a myth, including among POB's school students. His work I like the most is Don Giovanni's Variations. I really enjoyed it but I guess that must be his most classical choreo...