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https://www.instagram.com/p/BIvmLwsgfzl/ Photo by Lindsay Thomas left to right: Christian Poppe (blue), Dylan Wald (yellow), Steven Loch (black), Henry Cotton (green), Dammiel Cruz (red)

If you are alluding to people here, assumptions about people's reasons for liking or disliking a dancer are not permitted on this board.

You are welcome to PM the person if they have PM privileges. If you don't want to report something, then you're always free to let it stand. It's not up for discussion on the board.

I don't much care about diverse opinions about a dancer or performance, but the forum rules hold: Posting what you couldn't through a friend or overheard lobby talk -- don't even go there. If you have a problem with a post, report it, and don't discuss the discussion.

Hello, Seb, What a thoughtful idea! I hope you have some money to spend, as those postcards in anything but bad condition fetch a pretty penny, as they are not only collectors' items, singly and as part of collections, but are also of great sentimental value, as you know from your grandmother. You may want to consider excellent reproductions available not only of postcards, but from books and even recent stills from the Ballets Russes documentary that rekindled interest in the companies. Good luck!

Oh, I remember those days! ABT was in London in 1977 when I was traveling on a student budget, and the cheapest seats were solid out for Baryshnikov's performances. I couldn't afford the heady four-pound tickets (and the exchange rate at the time was ~1.15 USD).

Not to mention the hang time.

That is such sad news for the ballet community. I was lucky to have met her, thanks to Leigh Witchel, when we did Ballet Talk on Tour in the late 00's. Meeting her was the highlight of that trip for me. May she rest in peace.

Hello safiyaelisa, You are looking for our sister site, Ballet Talk for Dancers: www.dancers.invisionzone.com Or click on BT4D on the menu bar just under our logo. You'll need to register at BT4D separately. Please read their rules and policies, which differ from ours. For example, they don't accept Gmail, yahoo, or MSN accounts but generally require a work, school, or ISP address. We're the audience site, where we discuss what we've seen. I'm going to close this thread now.

The characters in the ballet were chosen because they have a chance of being an interesting ballet, which I don't think Ratmansky accomplished in his first major ballet. The other characters in the book make good novel. Or, as Balanchine said, there are no mother-in-law in ballet.

I'm very far behind on my podcast listening, but I just finished James Whiteside's dressing room interview with Gillian Murphy and Marcelo Gomes from back in June, just before Murphy and he (and Murphy and his dressing roommate, Cory Stearns) were scheduled to dance in "Swan Lake." https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stage-rightside-james-whiteside/id1111803118?mt=2 I haven't listened to the other interviews yet with his colleagues, but I see there is one with fellow dancers Stella Abrera and Isabella Boylston from 5/13, one with Rena Most, Head of ABT's Wig and Makeup department from 6/17, one with Gemma Bond from 6/24, and the latest with Julie Kent from 7/8. There's a direct link to the Abrera/Boyston interview on the Premier Dance Network/Balancing Pointe website: http://balancing-pointe.com/04-the-ellas/ The rest of the interviews are among all of his podcasts available from iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stage-rightside-james-whiteside/id1111803118?mt=2

That's not her real profile. Someone is trolling her.

Posted to Chelsea Adomaitis' Facebook page in a public-facing post is the new that she will join Paris Opera Ballet in the Fall! direct link: https://www.facebook.com/alexandra.adomaitis.5/posts/10154178655225049?pnref=story CA's page: https://www.facebook.com/chelsea.adomaitis?fref=ts I will miss her horribly, but congratulations to her on this new adventure

Sylvia is the leading nymph role, and Delibes created a gorgeous score, sometimes pillaged to add to other ballets, like Coppelia, for the ballet. Ashton created a version that is performed by the Royal Ballet and ABT. Mark Morris did a fantastic version for San Francisco Ballet in the mid '00's that was done for a second season, and his choreography for the nymphs was especially fine. (I've long wished for a revival and that PNB could acquire it - - I've cast it in my head many times - - but I don't think Morris' last collaboration with PNB went too well, and his name is hardly mentioned in any of the Q&A's anymore.)

Ooo, when I was a girl, I wanted to be Lieutenant Uhura!

Marcie Sillman's book, "Out There: Jonathan Porretta's Life in Dance" with photos by Angela Sterling, will be published in September. Here's the book trailer (music by William Lin-Yee) : Link to the website: http://jonathanporretta.com

Sometime in the weeks following ABT's season in Wolf Trap, we'll be doing a major software version upgrade on Ballet Alert! While I've been reading up on it, there's only so much I can prepare abstractly, and I've learned in the past that the main switches turning features on and off don't always do so completely. We'll need to take the board down longer than we usually do. I'll give another notice about a week before, then the day before the request, then the morning of the request.