Helene

Newly promoted Principal Dancer Heather Ogden, who was chosen by Suzanne Farrell to dance Dulcinea in the Suzanne Farrell Ballet production of Balanchine's Don Quixote, is this month's featured "Meet" series dancer: http://www.national.ballet.ca/InsideTheCom...t_heather_ogden

According to the Cal Performances website, the version of Sleeping Beauty that is going to be performed on the tour that includes Berkeley is: http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/...vents/kirov.php

The Kirov/Mariinski will perform Sleeping Beauty from Tuesday 12, October through Sunday, 16 October at Zellerbach Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. The casting on the website today is: October 12: Diana Vishneva - Igor Zelensky - Uliana Lopatkina October 13: Ekaterina Osmolkina - Leonid Sarafanov - Irma Nioradze October 14 : Natalia Sologub - Andrian Fadeev - Olga Esina October 15 (2:00PM): Olesia Novikova - Vladimir Shkliarov - Ekaterina Vostrotina October 15 (8:00PM): Diana Vishneva - Igor Kolb - Uliana Lopatkina October 16: Irma Nioradze - Andrian Fadeev - Olga Esina http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/presents/...vents/kirov.php (I'm not sure if Cal Performances will update the site if the casting changes.)

Right back to Eden. Or in an adagio. Which is just about all I was thinking during the Pilobolus piece in which they slide across the stage naked on water-slicked tarps. Or closed fifth. (ouch ouch ouch) It seems that nudity on stage is more painful for the men. That sounds more like a dramatic use of nudity where Albrecht wasn't dancing.

Without Verdi's ballet music in these operas, we never would have had Balanchine's Ballo della Regina (Don Carlos) and Robbins' The Four Seasons (I Vespri).

We've begun to fill in the calendar with the performance schedules from many companies, with more to come. To view the calendar, click the Calendar link at the top right of any page (edited to: the left-most link). If you click any of the items on the Calendar, there will be detail about the performance/program and how to buy tickets. There are a couple of things to note: * The New York City Ballet Winter Season will be posted when the new website is up, and we can add the appropriate links to the detail. * We're waiting for site updates from the Bolshoi and Kirov (English versions) and a number of smaller American companies; we'll add them to the calendar when they become available. * December is empty, because there are simply too many companies performing The Nutcracker. * Some cities (like Paris and Copenhagen) have more than one venue; please see the detail for the venue. On some days, the company will perform in both venues. * Before planning trips, please confirm the date, time, and program from the company websites themselves. These are subject to change. Also, one of the "features" of the board software is that once you submit an item to the Calendar, there's no way to search for it if there's a mistake in the date, and there are a few "floating" performances from my own entries. Many, many thanks to carbro for all of the work she's put into Calendar.

This should have been on my list, too.

There's a discussion about the story on this thread (in the Dancers forum): http://ballettalk.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=20581 Thank you for making sure that all the NYCB watchers were aware of the article.

Congratulations, Volkmar!

Maybe this one fits into Richard's category of "romantic thriller." It certainly qualifies as a love story like its predecessor on the operatic stage, Die Walkure.

The Metropolitan Opera announced yesterday that they have a new sponsor for the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts: (The full press release) http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/new...ail.aspx?id=115

Great topic BalletNut Reese Witherspoon as Kitri Daniel Day Lewis as Alain (based on his role in A Room with a View) Cate Blanchett as Berthe Barbara Stanwyck as Odile Simon Keenlyside as James

Sadly, Google isn't much help in determining a current location or affiliation. However, over the past couple of years: * She was guest faculty for Ballet Academy East's (NYC) Summer Intensive in 2004: http://www.balletacademyeast.com/pdf/190Ne...tterMay2005.pdf (photo on page 2) * She staged two ballets for the Ohio Ballet in 2005.Raymond Variations (Feb): http://www.coolcleveland.com/index.php/Main/INKRM02162005 Grand Pas Classique (May): http://ohb.sitempower.com/site.cfm/current-performance.cfm * She was a coach for the 2005 New York International Ballet Competition (NYC): http://www.festivalballet.com/main%20%20te...ews_040405.html (scroll down) * She was interviewed in the August/September Pointe Magazine in an article called “STEP IN TIME -- Cynthia Gregory, former ABT prima, talks about what it means to be a ballerina.” She also participated in the Pointe Magazine-sponsored Ballerina Symposium at Nutmeg this past August. * She's an Honorary Chair for the upcoming (October 24) benefit for Career Transition for Dancers, "That's Entertainment," a gala that “will pay homage to dance as entertainment in our culture - a lively jubilee that highlights a variety of styles from Ballet to Broadway to Break Dance – with a side order of circus arts for fun.” (Big Apple Circus) http://www.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=4585 There's also a note on the University of Texas website, where ABT has held a summer intensive, that former ABT dancer Jolinda Menendez "is currently producing an art documentary series called 'A Perfect Balance' for PBS that will commence with a biography on ABT luminary Cynthia Gregory." A search for more info about the documentary is coming up blank, and I can't find anything on the PBS website about it. http://www.utexas.edu/cofa/theatre/abt.html

Shades in Bayadere.