Helene

I'm thrilled that it was Part.

Apollinaire Scherr reviewed the Murphy and Hallberg for her blog "foot in mouth": It sounds like quite a cast. I wish I'd been able to see Murphy live when I was in NYC a couple of weeks ago, but "La Sylphide" isn't her rep.

Many thanks, Agnes Y!

In today's Links was a review by Robert Gottlieb, and at the end of it he praised Messmer with glowing words: http://www.observer.com/2009/theater/meet-...natalia-osipova (This may have been the most un-snarky review I've ever read by him...)

Any word about whether this will eventually be a DVD?

You have so many that when a DVD is re-released with new cover art, it would take you too long to see if you actually have it before you order it

4mrdncr, you are killing me!

perky!

I know this isn't in the spirit of this thread, but I what comes to mind immediately is Arlene Croce's comment in a review that "If Giselle herself called up Jaffee during the Mad Scene, she'd get a busy signal." (Of course, that was back in the day when busy signals existed.)

That is perfect!

I'm currently in the middle of Michael Pollen's "In Defense of Food". I'd just finished Paul Tough's book on Geoffrey Canada, "Whatever It Takes", and Sarah Vowell's "Assassination Vacation". (I love my Kindle.)

In doing some Google searches on the dancers who are not on the roster, I found that Courtney Clarkson received her degree from St. Mary's College of California this year. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/courtney-clarkson/4/891/b5a

That is great news about Hernandez!

Thank you for reporting on a company a hope to see in the future, JMcN, and to the dancers on their promotions!

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This thread is going in circles and getting personal. I'm closing it.

I am in Canada right now, and today I paid a little visit to the bust of FDR near Parliament in Quebec (City), where it faces a bust of Churchill, and thanked him.

This is the right place to post this, Agnes Y. I'm sorry to hear about Moreau's injury. Would you tell us about the other performances and the corps? I've never seen Paris Opera Ballet perform "La Bayadere".

Are they any trips to Saratoga arranged by NYCB this year? I know that they were discontinued at one time, but I thought they were revived, at least temporarily, by NYCB in the last year or two.

Merv Griffin was mid-evening, if I remember correctly, like Dick Cavett.

Just as a note, Gia Kourlas is well-respected critic, regardless of the publication that is paying and publishing her. A lot of people think the New York Post is only good for snarky headlines and wrapping fish, yet, Clive Barnes was its dance critic until the end of his life, and now Leigh Witchel writes for it.

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I agree. Without senior corps members to anchor the corps and set the standards, the corps becomes just a set of soloists and potential soloists waiting to be cast in something else. The last time I looked, NYCB still had a core rep to which a real corps was critical.

I'm glad she said what she did. I don't have to agree with it all or analyze it like a doctoral thesis for consistency, but there's a lot of ugly behind this beautiful art form we love so much, and I don't think it's asking too much for us to recognize this.