Helene

Mark Morris Dance Group has a deal with Great Performances and Bel Air Media to film "L'Allegro" in live performance. The company is trying to raise $80K to replace the well-worn costumes, which aren't camera-worthy. This project is on indiegogo: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mark-morris-the-l-allegro-film-project Minimum donation is $5, and there are optional premiums at various giving levels: anything $100 or over gets an advance copy of the DVD. $10K gets you dinner with Mark Morris. [jk] $15K gets you out of dinner with Mark Morris. [/jk] Deadline for giving is 15 July 2014 at 11:59pm Pacific Time.

My apologies -- I fixed the link. It's the LA Ballet Seattle performance that's been canceled. I had the Napa Valley link in memory from adding it to the calendar.

This is the list of Round I rep: http://www.usaibc.com/round-i-classical-repertoire/ This is the list of Round III rep: http://www.usaibc.com/2227-2/ There is no overlap: the Round I "Esmeralda" are the Esmeralda and Frolio grand pas and variations, while for the Round III, it's "Diana and Acteon." For Round I, "Swan Lake" excerpts were from Act III; in Round III they are from Act II.

It's been cancelled, according to the Ticketmaster site: http://www.ticketmaster.ca/los-angeles-ballet-presents-la-sylphide-seattle-washington-06-27-2014/event/0F004C9EAF8A8CC4?artistid=1531708&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=12&tm_link=artist_msg-0_0F004C9EAF8A8CC4 (I'd expect it to drop off the site after Friday.)

If we're lucky, someone in Jackson will post the info from the programs, because I can't find anything specific on the site. The Round II compulsory contemporary piece had to be chosen from specific pieces made available by Matthew Neenan and Trey McIntyre on video, and then the competitors had the chance to work with the choreographers on site. The contemporary piece for the Finals (Round III) had to be choreographed after 2010 and be a maximum of four minutes: http://www.usaibc.com/rules/#Auto%20Acceptance%20Policy I don't know if he commissioned a piece -- he'd have a lot of options just from his colleagues -- got permission to use something PNB presented, or got permission to do another existing contemporary work. "Emergence" is too old, and I doubt the solo in silence in the recent Morris would count. The only extended solo I remember in the Cerrudo is for a woman. There's nothing I can find that specifies the version of the variations for the classical rep Columns A&B. The only ballets he'd have seen at PNB are the Stowell male variation for "Nutcracker" and the Hynd and reconstructed versions of the "Sleeping Beauty" male variation, both in Column A. I don't know if there's anything else he would have danced as a PD, but it would be sweet were he to dance to a reconstructed version working with Doug Fullington. I know Doug's worked on "Raymonda," (also Column A), "La Bayadere," and "Le Corsaire," but Ali wasn't added until 1955; so much for Medora and the Slave.

Steven Loch has made the USA IBC finals http://www.usaibc.com/2014-usa-international-ballet-competition-names-finalists/

Ariana Martin is one of seven senior females to make it to the finals (Round III), where she'll perform her choice from the defined classical excepts and contemporary dance. Congratulations to her! http://www.usaibc.com/2014-usa-international-ballet-competition-names-finalists/