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And, sadly, many trailers are better than the movie itself. Or at least more entertaining.
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Is Cambridge an option?
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Gathering Amalgamate (Kats-Chernin/Page) Rites (Stravinsky/Page) Synopsis This exciting double bill reunites the creative energies of two of Australia’s most extraordinary performing arts companies. Stephen Page, Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, most recently worked with The Australian Ballet on the highly successful Rites, which was acclaimed by audiences and critics alike on its debut in Australia in 1997 for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, as well as during its tour to New York. Rites – set to The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, one of the ballet world’s most fascinating and challenging scores – will return in 2006 as part of this programme, along with a brand new work by Page, Amalgamate. Ticket Information: Single Ticket Sales open Saturday 4 March 2006 In Person: Sydney Opera House Box Office Monday to Saturday 9am to 8.30pm Ticketmaster outlets Phone and Charge: 02 9250 7777 (all major credit cards accepted) Paying by phone, internet, fax or email: Patrons will be charged a $7.50 transaction fee irrespective of the number of tickets purchased. Fee includes GST. (Fee subject to change) Online: www.sydneyoperahouse.com.au Sydney Opera House
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn/Balanchine) Single Tickets go onsale September 1, 2005 Kimmel Center Box Office Hours are Sunday through Saturday 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.; Academy of Music Box Office open two hours prior to ballet performances at the theater. Merriam Theater Box Office Hours are Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; open one hour prior to ballet performances at the theater. Online sales: select month and click “buy” on the calendar (after September 1, 2005) http://72.5.51.74/season/calendar.aspx The Academy of Music
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The Sleeping Beauty (Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky/Ronald Hynd after Marius Petipa) Ticket info: Call the PNB Box Office at 206-441-2424. (Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm) Visit the PNB Box Office, 301 Mercer Street, Seattle. (Monday–Friday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm) Purchase online at www.pnb.org McCaw Hall
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You have to check the box to the left of "Add a copy of this message to my sent items folder" at the bottom of the message, located just above the "Send" and "Preview" buttons. If you "preview," the box unchecks, and you have to check the box again.
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chrisk217, Now I'm frightened! (But if I did have to cast someone as Balanchine, I would pick Oleg Menshikov, from East/West and Barber of Siberia. He won an Olivier Award for playing Sergey Esenin opposite Vanessa Redgrave's Isadora Duncan, and he was a good enough pianist to have entered the conservatory if he hadn't chosen acting.)
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A couple of more corps women are cast as fairies: Zimmerman and Brunson. Apprentice Leanne Larsen is dancing Little Red Riding Hood in week 2.
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We usually get three reviews of PNB programs: one in the Seattle Times, one in Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and one in Seattle Weekly. There is often a preview article in at least one of the two dailies and a short preview in the Seattle Weekly and in The Stranger, the local alternative newspaper. R.M. Campbell (PI) covers music and dance, and Moira MacDonald (ST) covers dance and film. The dailies' reviews are run the first weekend, but I'm not sure if the Seattle Weekly's schedule allows that.
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Gathering Amalgamate (Kats-Chernin/Page) Rites (Stravinsky/Page) Synopsis This exciting double bill reunites the creative energies of two of Australia’s most extraordinary performing arts companies. Stephen Page, Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, most recently worked with The Australian Ballet on the highly successful Rites, which was acclaimed by audiences and critics alike on its debut in Australia in 1997 for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, as well as during its tour to New York. Rites – set to The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, one of the ballet world’s most fascinating and challenging scores – will return in 2006 as part of this programme, along with a brand new work by Page, Amalgamate. Ticket Information: Single Ticket Sales open Saturday 4 March 2006 In Person: Sydney Opera House Box Office Monday to Saturday 9am to 8.30pm Ticketmaster outlets Phone and Charge: 02 9250 7777 (all major credit cards accepted) Paying by phone, internet, fax or email: Patrons will be charged a $7.50 transaction fee irrespective of the number of tickets purchased. Fee includes GST. (Fee subject to change) Online: www.sydneyoperahouse.com.au Sydney Opera House
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I'm really glad to hear that about the latest SFB triple bill. PNB's Valentine program had a big success, also partially due to repeat viewings. But I do hope Sylvia is also a success its second time around.
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What a worthy goal, especially considering that unlike film, which can be viewed again and again, the vast majority of ballet performances go unrecorded for public viewing. How else, except by the local press and occasionally national or international journals, can we hear about great debuts?Sadly, Ballet Talkers can't see everything and report it here.
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Carolyn Carlson is a ballet-trained modern dancer, although she was AD of the Cullberg Ballet and has been affiliated with several other companies. She was in Alwin Nikolais' company, and I saw her do an extraordinary long solo called "Blue Lady" at BAM either in the 80's or early 90's. Her ballet technique came through very strongly in this solo.
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Excellent, Dale! We look forward to reading it. It would be great if you would post the link to the interview here when it is published, if one of us hasn't been able to first I'm sure it will have many points worth discussing in this thread.
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Gathering Amalgamate (Kats-Chernin/Page) Rites (Stravinsky/Page) Synopsis This exciting double bill reunites the creative energies of two of Australia’s most extraordinary performing arts companies. Stephen Page, Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, most recently worked with The Australian Ballet on the highly successful Rites, which was acclaimed by audiences and critics alike on its debut in Australia in 1997 for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, as well as during its tour to New York. Rites – set to The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, one of the ballet world’s most fascinating and challenging scores – will return in 2006 as part of this programme, along with a brand new work by Page, Amalgamate. Ticket Information: Single Ticket Sales open Saturday 4 March 2006 In Person: Sydney Opera House Box Office Monday to Saturday 9am to 8.30pm Ticketmaster outlets Phone and Charge: 02 9250 7777 (all major credit cards accepted) Paying by phone, internet, fax or email: Patrons will be charged a $7.50 transaction fee irrespective of the number of tickets purchased. Fee includes GST. (Fee subject to change) Online: www.sydneyoperahouse.com.au Sydney Opera House
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Modern Dance -- Sinking Like a Stone?
Helene replied to miliosr's topic in Modern, Contemporary, and Other Dance
The US subsidizes companies indirectly, through substantial tax deductions to individuals and foundations. While I would not argue that there are never enough private donations to go around, it is a different value system, and one that is being adopted within Europe and Russia, as tax-based budgets shrink and fewer institutions receive state funding.There is a big difference between state-supported ballet and opera institutions in Europe and support of a company dedicated to a single choreographer. While the repertoire for Paris Opera Ballet, Mariinsky Ballet, Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, La Scala Ballet, etc. has focused more on specific choreographers within each period of artistic leadership, state institutions are cross-choreographer repertory companies dedicated to an evolving art. There is no large scale institutional equivalent for modern dance. -
I don't think there could be any dancing in the bio-pic unless it was historical footage. It's one thing to play a fictional character, even if "based on" a real person, but who would volunteer to try to dance as Farrell or Tallchief or LeClerq or Adams or McBride, etc. in a Balanchine biopic? (Or Fonteyn, in a biopic of her life?) The only way I could see it work is if a real dancer playing the role were to mark dancing in rehearsal or that there were lots of poses and close-ups.
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Thank you, Natalia! Must. Have. This. DVD.
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I personally think that any classical artist or group that pairs up with Celine Dion automatically loses his/her/its classical cred. In my opinion, the step into the abyss happened when opera houses started to use amplification. Not only does this practice fabricate a number of "opera singers," who cannot produce the sound naturally, but it also habituates the audiences' ear to an amplified and limited sound. I think this is different than the somewhat airbrushed quality of modern-day recordings.
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I'd pick Juliette Binoche for Farrell.
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Thank you so much for your heads up on the FNAC set. (Dance Books only carries Comme les oiseaux and Violette et M. B.) Thank you, too, for identifying Erik Vu An. Vu An has a beautiful physique and line, and does the steps very well, but watching Vassiliev demonstrate in rehearsal is again worth the entire video. It truly separates the men from the boys.
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Gathering Amalgamate (Kats-Chernin/Page) Rites (Stravinsky/Page) Synopsis This exciting double bill reunites the creative energies of two of Australia’s most extraordinary performing arts companies. Stephen Page, Artistic Director of Bangarra Dance Theatre, most recently worked with The Australian Ballet on the highly successful Rites, which was acclaimed by audiences and critics alike on its debut in Australia in 1997 for the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts, as well as during its tour to New York. Rites – set to The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky, one of the ballet world’s most fascinating and challenging scores – will return in 2006 as part of this programme, along with a brand new work by Page, Amalgamate. Ticket Information: Single Ticket Sales open Saturday 4 March 2006 In Person: Sydney Opera House Box Office Monday to Saturday 9am to 8.30pm Ticketmaster outlets Phone and Charge: 02 9250 7777 (all major credit cards accepted) Paying by phone, internet, fax or email: Patrons will be charged a $7.50 transaction fee irrespective of the number of tickets purchased. Fee includes GST. (Fee subject to change) Online: www.sydneyoperahouse.com.au Sydney Opera House
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Ballet Company Of A University - What Advantages?
Helene replied to silvy's topic in Everything Else Ballet
Thank you for such a thoughtful post, sandik (Sad news about Cole and Vaness. I hope this doesn't mean they'll be performing less with the Opera. Cole, in particular, is one of the most underrated current singers, in my opinion.) -
Western Symphony (Traditional American Melodies, orchestrated by Hershey Kay/Balanchine) Fancy Free (Bernstein/Robbins Futuristica (TBA/Cross) http://www.tulsaballet.org/calendar/evolution.htm Ticket Information: Online: http://www.tulsaballet.org/tickets/purchase_single_tickets.htm From From 14 February 2006 or www.tulsapac.com In Person: The Tulsa Ballet Ticket Office Tulsa Performing Arts Center (TPAC) By Phone: (918) 749-6006 (Tulsa Ballet Ticket Office) (918) 596-7111 (Tulsa Performing Arts Center Ticket Office) Tulsa Performing Arts Center
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Beauty & the Beast (Dukas, Faure, Bizet, Debussy, Poulenc, Massenet, Mussorgsky and Saint-Saens/Nixon) http://www.atlantaballet.com/new/fs_performances.htm Click "Beauty & the Beast" from the left toolbar. Ticket Information: Online (Ticketmaster): http://www.atlantaballet.com/new/fs_tickets.htm By Phone: Ticketmaster Arts Hotline 404-817-8700 In Person: Go to any Ticketmaster Ticket Center Location Publix and Braves Clubhouse Fabulous Fox Theatre