Helene

Is your confusion about the numbers, 1.7M vs. 2.3M? (The last link is displaying a "404" server error for me, at least right now.) It could be a timing issue, the available data, or poor research. The number from American Masterpieces would anger the Cybercast News Source, whose parent organization, Media Research Center, states on its website: For everyone, NEA funding is a pertinent topic to discuss for us, and is on mission.

I've created this thread for PNB Dancer Profiles videos. The subject of the latest is Carla Korbes: Towards the end, the clips are: "Black Swan Pas de Deux" (K. Stowell, after Petipa), with Stanko Milov "Dances at a Gathering", (Robbins) with Karel Cruz (Boy in Green) "Nutcracker Snowfall Pas de Deux" (K. Stowell), with Milov "West Side Story Suite: America" (Robbins), with Chalnessa Eames and Lindsi Dec in the background "After the Rain Pas de Deux" (Wheeldon), with Batkhurel Bold "Rose Adagio" (Hynd after Petipa) "3 Movements" (Millepied), with Bold "Opus 111" (Tharp) "Romeo et Juliette Balcony Pas de Deux" (Maillot), with Lucien Postlewaite An earlier in the series is of Barry Kerollis: The background music is by William Lin-Yee.

Speight Jenkins has often said that producing DVD's was cost-prohibitive. I would love to see the cost breakdown and how other "Ring"s have been financed and subsidized, since there are a number of them on the DVD market: The Copenhagen "Ring", the Metropolitan Opera "Ring", the Chereau/Bayreuth "Ring", the Audi/Amsterstam "Ring", the Kupfer/Liceu "Ring", the Stuttgart "Ring" with four different directors, like Canadian National Opera did in Toronto to open the Four Seasons Centre. They all retail for between $90-$150 on amazon.com, most without substantial discount.

From the opera world: In Crosscut, Seattle Opera's Executive Director, Kelly Tweeddale, http://crosscut.com/2010/08/11/arts-orgs/20052/How-Seattle-Opera-is-surviving-tough-times/wrote today: She then lists them: This is an excellent read on the subject, particularly the second on obsolescence.

That sounds like very great news

It came up on the second page of search results for "quotable", and I almost missed it, too.

The greatest thing about it is that almost the entire original cast is in it: the only substitute was Sara Leland substituting for Kay Mazzo, who had retired by the time the recording was made. (Stephanie Saland was wonderful in that role after Leland was no longer dancing it.) The couples are: Karin von Aroldingen/Adam Luders (the Schumannesque couple) Suzanne Farrell/Jacques d'Amboise (the Farrell and Balanchine couple) Heather Watts/Peter Martins Sara Leland/Ib Andersen Do you mean the one they did in 2003? I had that on Tivo, but then the Tivo died I loved the "Liebeslieder Walzer" excerpts from that. I would love, love, love to see a commercial release of the Farrell/Andersen/Castelli "Mozartiana", the "Vienna Waltzes" with Nichols/Lavery, Watts/Tomasson, Elyse Borne/Cook, von Arolding/Martins, and Farrell/Luders, and "Who Cares?" with Lavery, McBride, Lopez, and Watts, but rights, etc. get in the way. That had an amazing array of dancers, some of whom have rarely been recorded commercially. There was another program with "Serenade" (Kistler, Nichols, Calegari, Luders, Kozlov) and "Western Symphony" (Melinda Roy/Soto, Saland/La Fosse, Alexopoulos/Boal -- I had forgotten and assumed it was Woetzel! Beyond Balanchine, I would love to see commercial releases of the Martins' Ballerinas program, with Ashley and David Parsons and Luders and Kate Johnson in "Barber Violin Concerto" with Elmar Oliveira's beautiful playing, McBride and Anderson in "Valse Triste", Nichols and Luder's in "Beethoven Romance", Watts and Soto in the slow movement from "Ecstatic Orange", and Farrell/Martins in "Sophisticated Lady". And the Robbins program, with "Antique Epigraphs" and "Fancy Free". Add in the kinoscope and complete footage of the ballets in the Balanchine biography plus all of the work that CBC recorded. Not going to happen, but it's fun to dream. If only Netflix could add in streaming on demand from NYPL for the Performance Arts archives in its $1 billion deal to stream on demand...

Congratulations to them all

As an FYI, "Davidsbuendlertaenze" is a separate Nonesuch recording and is only available in VHS format. I wish they're release it to DVD.

Here's the link, http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/5764-quotable-quotes/

Please be sure that any news is official and not just known to insiders. Thank you!

Has experimental modern dance ever been seen and championed by a wide audience that was able to appreciate its aesthetic? If so, was any of this outside the dance boom years? Is the generation that saw everything shown at Judson for a few years still going regularly to experimental performances? Has it been replaced? Or is it the case of being a very specialized area that was once subsidized more than it is now? I ask because many artists in Canada have been subsidized through government grants, and with drastic cuts in arts funding, it's been a real shake-up to the basic assumptions about the role of government. The institutions around modern dance have been centered around choreographer/founder companies, like Taylor, Cunningham, Graham, Morris, Tharp, and centers like Dance Theater Workshop and university programs, although a few like Fenley still have companies. Childs, Brown, Paxton, and a handful of others are still high profile when they get commissions or revivals. Experimental dance requires an audience that is attuned, interested, and invested, with lots of time on their hands, and creators who are willing to create (and often live) on a shoestring, year after year. You can sleep through your fifteenth performance of "Don Giovanni" or "Swan Lake", especially if it's on your subscription, but experimental anything takes much more energy and engagement.

Francia Russell and Kent Stowell's chef son Ethan is about to open his fourth Seattle restaurant in Ballard, Staple & Fancy Mercantile. http://crosscut.com/2010/08/11/food/20051/For-fans-of-dining-Ethan-Stowell-style,-a-kind-of-re-Union--/?utm_source=Crosscut+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=5b414c7f02-Crosscut_E_mail_8_11_20108_11_2010&utm_medium=email The food is described as "homey 21st-century haute". I think it's time to visit my old neighborhood...

Thank you so much for following up on this Anne!

The press in both Washingtons have picked up the story: In The Washington Post, Anne Midgett writes: While he didn't found the orchestra the way Kershaw founded the Auburn Symphony, I don't remember this having been mentioned before in describing de Cou's considerable experience. Moira Macdonald's piece in Seattle Times is a short announcement from the press release. I'll be interested to see if Macdonald expands on this and to what R. M. Campbell will write for the "Gathering Note" site.

Many thanks -- I've just made the correction. I apologize to Ms. Rausch.

This is the link for Canada: http://watch.thecomedynetwork.ca/#clip10972 (Although it won't load for me...)

I'm a sucker for when at around the 2'13"/2'14" mark Dec snaps one foot on point. It is so sharp!

This is like a matryoshka doll: on the outside is the fantastic news that Emil de Cou will lead the PNB orchestra. When you layer down, you get the sad news that other great candidates did not, followed by the silver lining that there are so many strong candidates to lead a ballet orchestra, followed by how few ballet orchestras there are... I agree that this must be a great relief to the orchestra and the company.