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It's Carrie Imler's 21st season with Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Barry Hughson, Executive Director of National Ballet of Canada, tweeted, https://twitter.com/BarryHughson/status/649681468726353922

Mirror images of Lesley Rausch and Laura Tisserand as Siren: https://www.facebook.com/PNBallet/photos/np.1443720467901540.688777437/10153332270733952/

They're about to start San Francisco Ballet's segment, the final of the day, from 1pm-6pm Pacific Time. Kudos to National Ballet of Canada for their segment! Joanna Berman is hosting, and Helgi Tomasson may have smiled. They're in the middle of the floor part of class. Ballet Master Felipe Diaz is teaching. Joanna Berman in "Liebeslieder Walzer" in the Hayden/McBride role is still one of my favorite all-time performances at SFB.

Sadly, this could be an indication of the different standards for women and/or minorities.

I missed the question asked Greta Hodgkinson, who is hosting the "Ask Greta" segment in the National Ballet of Canada's #WorldBalletDay presentation, but she answered that she is inspired by Tamara Rojo and Karen Kain, who she said are revitalizing ballet.

Nice to see schools tweeting and supporting #WorldBalletDay Northern Ballet Academy School of Alberta Ballet Roch Dance Brooklyn Ballet School BJM Baltimore School of the Arts National Ballet School plus: A classroom of watchers Plus a well-placed shoutout from Flesh and Bone and a shoutout from the British Monarchy: https://twitter.com/BritishMonarchy/status/649619114298855424

Core-ography is now launched on YouTube, chapter one with Lauren Fadeley: Remember this day as having an embarrassment of riches of media-enabled ballet.

PNB's segment is pre-taped from Company Class: https://www.uta.edu/cpsees/uzbekcit.htm

Wheeldon is live tweeting rehearsal corrections!

I fell asleep after and hour or so of the Bolshoi - I loved watching Akimov teach -- but I did see the interview with Alexandrova, in which she said she's recovered from injury. Novikova was excellent! I was so relieved to see her. Rex Harrington was a pip teaching class. Guillaume Cote did bi-lingual commentary and pointed out many of the dancers in class. He noted that Tina Pereira was back from injury: she repeatedly caught my eye. I loved the class pianist, Andrei Streliaev, who played many opera excerpts. He s playing the Talbot beautifully in the "Winter's Tale" rehearsal, too. Also the Australian Ballet's rehearsal pianist for "Sleeping Beauty," who sounded like a small orchestra. It was great to see Stephen Baynes' rehearsal of his Schnittke PDD, and the Bangarra Dance Theatre segment, a combination of class and a well-produced overview of the company. I was lucky to see their "Skin" at the 2002 Adelaide Festival in collaboration with Archie Roach. Page made the "Spear" section into a film I've yet to see.

I'm sure Balanchine wouldn't have cared much if someone didn't consider his "Elegie" ballet.

Not only did I forget, I actually saw slippers in my head . (Thank you for the correction!)

"Glass Pieces" and "Interplay" do have pointe work, but there are ballets in ballet slippers. If I'm remembering correctly, the "Elegie" movement of "Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3" is danced in ballet slippers.

Everyone seems to be reporting their own time. If Australian Ballet, which is always up first because they are 17 hours ahead of us, and it's 23 hours long, it has to end at 6:30pm tomorrow Pacific time, which makes the reported times by HB and PNB within the schedule.

8:30pm Pacific Time for PNB would be about first intermission for their Thursday night performance.

The five major companies are hosting others during their time blocks: I've copied the hosts and hosted from the website, but it's not all-inclusive, as at least Ballet Met has been added. The Australian Ballet -- 12pm local time Bangarra Dance Theatre -- 4pm National Ballet of China Royal New Zealand Ballet Bolshoi Ballet Hamburg Ballet Les Ballets de Monte Carlo Nederlands Dans Theater Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Moscow Music Theatre The Royal Ballet Birmingham Royal Ballet English National Ballet Northern Ballet Scottish Ballet The National Ballet of Canada -- all ET Ballet Met -- 1pm (Added: from company tweet and website) Boston Ballet -- 1:30pm American Ballet Theatre -- 2:50pm Les Ballet Jazz de Montréal San Francisco Ballet -- all PT Houston Ballet -- 5pm Pacific Northwest Ballet -- 5:30pm

Here's the video on YouTube

Boston Ballet just tweeted: https://twitter.com/BostonBallet/status/649317710619406337 http://www.bostonballet.org/greenway/

From a PNB email: Dear Friends, PNB is thrilled to be participating in World Ballet Day on Thursday, October 1 from 5:30 – 6:00 PM. World Ballet Day is your 23-hour peek behind the curtain into a number of the world’s leading ballet companies. Cameras will follow them inside the studios, on tour, and in live performance. Five companies will anchor the day-long live stream: The Australian Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet, The Royal Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, and San Francisco Ballet. In turn, those companies will share the spotlight with their neighbor ballet companies, including American Ballet Theatre, Boston Ballet, English National Ballet, Hamburg Ballet, Houston Ballet, National Ballet of China, Nederlands Dans Theater, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Scottish Ballet, and of course, Pacific Northwest Ballet. Tune in online to watch and learn more: WorldBalletDay.com Follow the excitement on social media at #worldballetday.

Amen, sandik, amen.

From Facebook: Join Chair Anne Titterton, Dancer Edward Barnes, and Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet for cocktails, refreshments, and private shopping at Saks Fifth Avenue in Bala Cynwyd. The evening will feature an exclusive fashion show with Pennsylvania Ballet dancers modeling the latest in men’s and women’s fashion. Front Row Ticket Package-$350 Standard Ticket-$125 Young Friend Ticket-$75 https://www.facebook.com/events/435397966645023/ It takes place from 6-8pm at the Saks Fifth Avenue in Bala Cynwyd*. For tickets: https://tickets.paballet.org/donate/donate.aspx?f=396 For people who have a couple of hundred extra shekels, this sounds like a fun way to spend a few hours before Friday night dinner. *How to pronounce:

Video excerpt from the "Mistake Waltz" from "The Concert": https://www.facebook.com/PNBallet/videos/vb.21358443951/10153329374818952/

On Thursday, October 1, Barry Kerollis launches his Core-ography video-based storytelling/choreography project, and his first subject is Pennsylvania Ballet Principal Dancer Lauren Fadeley. Here's: A link to the first episode's preview on the project's YouTube channel, where you can subscribe to the series of 12 that will be launched over the next year: An article about the project in Pointe Magazine:http://pointemagazine.com/blogs/web-series/core-ography-new-ballet-web-series A link to the Balancing Pointe podcast in which Kerollis discusses his career and the project with host Kimberly Falker:http://balancing-pointe.com/109-barry-kerollis-free-lance-dancer/