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Whereas I'd take that ticket in a heartbeat!

Speaking of Radvanovsky, I'm listening to Met Opera on Sirius, where in a performance of Gotterdammerung from 2002, and she's singing Gutrune, not the usual progression to Donizetti.

On the one hand, the Stowell Swan Lake, with sets by Ming Cho Li, is paid for and sells, sells, sells. On the other hand, Peter Boal is jettisoning the Stowell rep. His Cinderella was also paid for, with Martin Pakledinaz's gorgeous costumes, to be replaced by Maillot's execrable Cendrillon. Were Swan Lake to be replaced, that would leave Carmina Burana alone from the Stowell rep.

Thank you so much for posting this, ABT Fan!

I've moved the discussion of Alastair Macaulay's review of the ABC Spring season to the "Writings on Ballet forum: http://balletalert.invisionzone.com/index.php?/topic/41549-macaulay-on-abc-spring-season/#entry372137

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Official news only.

This came up on my Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/BookBub/status/746744778566471680

Please keep the political discussion to how this will affect dancers, companies, and fans traveling.

Thanks for the update, California. I knew that each had the option, but didn't realize they had taken it.

The Chunnel construction started and was planned before the EU came into existence, Were the UK to opt out of Schengen, then border crossings would be impacted.

A life well lived is the best revenge (served cold).

PD's: Pacific Northwest Ballet: Madison Abeo, Dammiel Cruz, and Leah Terada Alberta Ballet II: Claire Barrington Hubbard Street Dance: Isaac Bates-Vinueza Ballet Austin II: Matt Gattozzi Carolina Ballet: Raum-Aron Gens-Ostrowski Carolina Ballet Summer Trainee: Kaylee Grippando Oregon Ballet Theatre 2: Marlena Jackson-Retondo Nevada Ballet Theatre II: Madeline McMillan Boston Ballet II: Clay Murray, Balla Ureta Grand Rapids Ballet Apprentice: Dillon Perry, Levi Teachout Louisville Ballet Trainee: Sarah Potgieter Los Angeles Ballet: Helena Thordal-Christensen, Shelby Whallon Ureta and Teachout are DanceChance graduates. Patricia Barker has a great eye! Jesse Newman will attend Whatcom Community College, and Mikayla Lambert will attend Smith College. Bates-Vinueza and Chris Brown will be attending the Royal Danish Ballet School this summer. Two of the Level VIII Graduates will be in the PNB Professional Division next year: Andre Alabastro and Nazirah Taylor. Also Gemma Garlisch will join the Cinevox Junior Company in Switzerland and Miranda Stuck will be a Joffrey Ballet of Chicago Trainee and attend University of Arizona School of Dance.

Congratulations to the company -- this must be exciting and gratifying for them.

Although "The Guardian" has chosen to report on the controversial in Sir Peter Wright's new book, "Wrights and Wrongs: My Life in Dance," which is scheduled to be available on Bastille Day, I'm looking forward to reading any descriptions he gives of the choreography and staging processes. There was some interview footage of him in the bonus tracks of the Dutch National Ballet DVD of "Sleeping Beauty" (with Sofiane Sylve, before she moved to NYCB). He staged his production for them, and it's lovely.

Thank you so much volcanohunter -- I feel like I was there!

It's an Allegra Kent-fest!

ABT would be lucky, IMO, to get the Ratmansky "Don Q." I find it much less heartless and caricaturish than most Don Q productions, where almost all of them are two-dimensional throw-away characters. (The Cuban National Ballet's Don is an exception, where there's a lot of genuine affection towards him, but he's still a peripheral character.) The opening scene which establishes Don Quixote and Sancho Panza's characters is about ten minutes long. In Seattle we had two casts with completely different dynamics, and an especially brilliant turn by Jonathan Porretta as Ganache, who was also a terrific Sancho Panza. Kitri's two friends are meaty parts, and they have solos in the Grand Pas + 2. There are lovely demi-caractere roles in the acting troupe in the second act. The dream scene is rather lovely when done straight, and Kitri gets to keep some of her character, like a higher version of herself, not some cipher that's she's not like at all. Peter Boal said that the soloists were begging to be matadors, because of the grand moments of dancing with the bright-pink lined capes. What I dislike about the DVD with Dutch National Ballet is that there's so much going on, and the camera has to choose. It's so much better to see when you choose yourself. There may be a "Paquita" available as a fire sale, now that Zelensky has stomped through Munich.