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In at least one iteration, the companies were given specific guidelines about the kind of work they were to bring. If they were all given the same guidelines, some chose not to follow them, and that was a disadvantage to those that did, and those guidelines wouldn't have been all of their first choices.

The Kennedy Center's mission:

Hello Canadian, Welcome to Ballet Alert! We don't have a lot of members who see National Ballet of Canada, but we'd love to hear your impressions of the company. That's what our company forums are for (Reviews are posted in "Links" by dirac and Mme Hermine and can be discussed in our "Writings on Ballet" forum.) Also, as an FYI, Denise Sum reviews National Ballet of Canada for danceviewtimes, which was founded by our founder, Alexandra Tomalonis. Links to her reviews are posted to "Links."

From Miami City Ballet:

From National Ballet of Canada, which couldn't resist the marketing angle, but the photo was too good to pass up:

From Pacific Northwest Ballet:

From Premiere Dance Network:

From Miami City Ballet: From Cincinnati Ballet:

As far as I can see from clips of the Ratmansky "Cinderella," and from having seen Ratmansky's "Little Humpbacked Horse," and "Anna Karenina," the sets and most of the costumes in each were perfectly appropriate to the stagings, regardless of whether one likes the choreography or the aesthetic.

The Seattle Times published an obituary: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/kabby-mitchell-iii-first-black-dancer-with-pacific-northwest-ballet-dies/

I've pinned the topic to the top of the forum, so it will never scroll out of sight.

Two of six choreographers in Ballet West's first National Choreographic Festival -- May 19-20 and May 26-27 -- are women: PNB will perform Annabelle Lopez Ochoa's "Before After" OBT will perform Helen Pickett's "Terra" https://balletwest.org/events/national-choreographic-festival

Oh, thank you for going down that rabbit hole and letting us know

Congratulations to him!

Today is GiveBIG, the annual fundraiser for local non-profits. PNB has a contest going for donors:

With new work, you get what you get, although you do get to choose whether to revive it (unless contracted otherwise).

I love "Little Humpbacked Horse" and think it is brilliant. However, Ratmansky did not inflict "Anna Karenina" on the Mariinsky: he made it for the Royal Danish Ballet, and the Mariinsky knew what it was getting. I've never seen "Cinderella." However, fancy sets and costumes aren't my bar for whether a ballet is effective.

Tonight was the final live exclusive broadcast of the season on Met Opera Radio on Sirius XM, and hosts Mary Jo Heath and William Berger gave a shout-out to ABT's upcoming season and the dancers who will be in the House after the weekend.

The Cranko people make the Balanchine Trust people look permissive

Congratulations, Alexandra!

The Queen of Shemakha is pulling out every trick in the book to save her kingdom from the Czar. By comparison, Kitri is far less interesting and complex, except in the Ratmansky version, where she's given more to hang on, and her reactions and interactions are far less stock.