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Was that niche similar to the Joffrey Ballet, before pop?

Excellent news, Joshua. I won't be able to see the program until tomorrow's matinee and then next weekend, and I look forward to it.

Kitri87, Ballet Talk is board in which we discuss issues and performances of ballet from the point of view of the audience. The appropriate board for your question is Ballet Talk for Dancers. You will need to register there as well, and we ask that you use the same name on BT4D, if it's available. Once you register, please go to the Nutrition and Health. Before you post, please review the Forum Rules and the other topics at the top of the forum, to see if there is any pertinent information there. Good luck to you! I'm going to close this thread.

For any Ballet Talkers in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, or anyone planning to travel there soon, there are two superb exhibitions showing now: Dallas: Nasher Sculpture Center (next to Dallas Art Museum): The Women of Giacometti, through 9 April, 2006. (In addition to the stellar rotating permanent collection in the sculpture garden.) Admission to the museum is $10 for adults. http://www.nashersculpturecenter.org/index...&PageID=1000000 (To view the site, you may have to disable pop-up blockers.) The website shows most of the permanent collection, although not everything is photographed in its current location. For example, the Serra piece "My Curves Are Not Mad" is on the grass, with gravel between the plates, making a path to walk through. The cafe in the Nasher is catered currently by The Mansion on Turtle Creek, and their famous Tortilla Soup is on the menu. However, their tenure ends on 28 February. Fort Worth: Kimball Art Museum: Gauguin and Impressionism, through 26 March 2006. $12 for the show. Permanent collection, free. http://www.kimbellart.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.cfm?id=29 This is a remarkable show, covering Gauguin's paintings until his move to Tahiti. (One of him Tahitian paintings is shown at the very end of the exhibit.) He was married to a Danish woman, Mette Gad, and he moved to Copenhagen with his family for a brief, unhappy period. There are paintings from that era, including a rare self-portrait. The show is a joint effort by the Kimball and the Ordrupgaard in Copenhagen. There were several themes from the exhibition's commentators, Richard Brettell and Anne-Birgitte Fonsmark. Gaugin attracted remarkable mentors in both business and art, among his elders and contemporaries. One of the assumptions had been that certain paintings by Gauguin were influenced by specific paintings of his mentors or contemporaries, but it has turned out that several predated the paintings which were supposedly the originals, including one by Cezanne which Gauguin owned. He was also capable of mastering a medium almost immediately, including sculpture in marble, wood, and wax. Across the street is the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, which has another great Serra outside the building. The building by Tadao Ando itself is worth a visit. Admission is free on Wednesdays and the first Sunday of every month, and $8 other times. Unfortunately, one of the main galleries is closed until 11 February to prepare for the Sean Scully show. http://www.themodern.org/ I also found out that for a $4.50 premium day pass, it's possible to commute from Dallas to Fort Worth and back again. by DART bus or light rail to Union Station by TRE (Trinity Railway Express) train from Dallas to Fort Worth ITC (Intermodal Transit Center) by T bus #7 to the Museums (get off at the Will Rogers Exhibition stop. It's to the left and impossible to miss the big ferris wheel.) It makes Seattle public transportation look shameful by comparison.

Postlewaite is still listed on the website as a member of the Corps, and there's nothing in the Press section on the PNB site that shows a press release with an announcement. If we hear anything official about promotions, we'll be sure to post it in the PNB forum.

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In the 80's, Lourdes Lopez, Antonia Franceschi, and Carole Divet were photographed in vintage Fortuny dresses. The magazine was a re-launch -- maybe the North American edition of Elle?

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2006: The 250th anniversary of the birth of Mozart and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Shostakovich! Both are being celebrated by the Seattle Symphony over the next couple of months. (Hopefully, the Shostakovich celebration will continue in the 2006-7 season, as his birthday is 25 September.) A few weekends ago, Vladimir Feltsman gave a recitial celebrating both composers. He opened the recital with Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 10 and later was joined by Maria Larianoff, acting concertmaster and the Symphony's Amos Yang (cello) and Mara Gearman (viola) in the Mozart Piano Quartet in G major. In the second half of the program, Feltsman, Larianoff, and Yang gave a sublime performance of Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor. During the ovation, Feltsman retrieved the score from the piano, and pointed to it, in tribute to the composer.

My comment was that there are a limited number of performances given by PNB, and that it was an opportunity lost to PNB dancers. If PNB had over 100 performances a season (not including Nutcracker), like NYCB, I wouldn't consider this an issue, because the many dancers in the company who can give a "star" performance would have been given their own opportunities. I think parochialism is insisting that what comes from the "big city" must be better than what one has.

Based on the celebrations of the 100th anniversaries of the births of Balanchine and Ashton in 2004, I wonder if a dancer/choreographer requires an institution or disciples affiliated with institutions to launch and sustain a major commemoration. If there is one dancer in history with whom the word ballet is associated worldwide, it has to be Pavlova. Even the all-sports-all-the-time New Zealanders I met on both islands could tell me that the ubiquitous dessert was named for the great ballerina Pavlova.