Helene

Thank you, ksk04, for your help with the testing I hope we'll have an answer soon.

We've tested (to no avail) and I've restored what I turned off. I'll post again if there's further testing.

I'm about to start testing based on tech support's recommendations to troubleshoot an issue some of our members have been having with the site. Things should be turning on and off over the next 15 minutes or so.

I'm about to start testing tech support's recommendations, which will make the board do some strange things for a little while.

Also, Amy Watson of Royal Danish Ballet.

Not only week 2, but also the updates to week 1. I guess I was supposed to save the changes... Directors Choice 2014.xls

Change from the original casting from last week: Leah Merchant and Seth Orza will make their debut in "Kiss" second weekend (Thursday, 20 March). For second weekend, Angelica Generosa makes her debut in "State of Darkess" on Friday, 21 March. I think she will rock it. If I'm reading the cast lists properly, for two performances second weekend (Thursday, 20 March and Saturday 22 March), Jahna Frantziskonis and Elizabeth Murphy share the part Murphy will do in all other performances, and for the other two performances second weekend (Friday, 21 March and Sunday 23 March) Kaori Nakamura/Jonathan Porretta replace Rachel Foster/James Moore, and Carrie Imler/Charles McCall replace Leah Merchant/Andrew Bartee in the third couple's roles, with Bartee and McCall somehow splitting up the corps role. Or something like that. http://www.pnb.org/Season/13-14/DirectorsChoice/#Casting Updated spreadsheet: See below. Directors Choice 2014.xls

I've received two screen shots showing a blank home page (forum index). "View New Posts" shows a valid page, but is limited. Is anyone else experiencing this issue, but can access this post through View New Posts? If so, would you please tell me what hardware (PC, Mac, tablet, phone) you are using, the operating system, and the browser? Also if you could see the home page starting Saturday night after 8pm ET (before we launched the fundraiser), but stopped seeing it afterwards, when you first noticed that the home page was missing. I can't find anything in the "Help" files, and I'd like to give tech support the most information possible. If you have the issue, does clearing "invisionzone.com" cookies resolve it?

In this Balancing Pointe podcast, Houston Ballet's Harper Watters describes the process and experience of participating in 2011 Prix de Lausanne, from ~16:33 to 24:35: http://balancing-pointe.com/harper-watters/

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I missed your post from last fall. A belated welcome to Ballet Alert!

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I just got a heads up on my personal Facebook feed that D. David Brown will receive the Dance/USA Ernie Award at the opening of Dance/USA's conference on 18 Jun with this link to the 6 March press release: http://www.danceusa.org/press-release-liz-lerman-and-d-david-brown-be-honored-danceusa Congratulations to Mr. Brown

Alejandro Cerrudo's new work is called "Memory Glow":

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Croce wrote in her February 14, 1977 review, re-published in "Afterimages" ('pp 260-1), I saw BD in 1982, with Lisa Hess/Jean-Pierre Frohlich, Judith Fugate/Helgi Tomasson, Lourdez Lopez/Stephanie Saland/Kipling Houston, Darci Kistler/Ib Andersen, and Kyra Nichols/Adam Luders. I saw it again in 1988, with Kelly Cass/Michael Byars, Judith Fugate/Carlo Merlo, Lauren Hauser/Shawn Stevens/Patrick Hinson, and my notes say a Pas de Six from Abdullah with Julie Michael/Roma Sosenko/Kathleen Tracey/Margaret Tracey/Peter Boal/Jeffrey Edwards/Gen Horiuchi, which makes no sense, because I logged seven dancers, not six, and note neither Pas de Deux from William Tell or Flower Festival in Genzano. I don't remember traveling long enough during the season to miss BD if it had been performed between 1989-94. The last cast is one I would have expected for Bournonville. The 1982 cast had Kistler and Nichols, but wasn't nearly as tall as the original, which also included Colleen Neary.

PNB owns the sets and costumes for both "Swan Lake" and "Romeo et Juliette," though. If ticket sales aren't an issue for either, I'm not sure why the swap would be between these two works. RetJ uses fewer students and no guest artists. The big expense -- although not as much as in the PNB premiere -- will be "Don Quixote." RetJ has sold well for PNB, but 2015 would have made it the fourth time shown in seven years (2008, 2009, 2013, 2015), with the Balcony Pas de Deux included in the 2011 "Love Stories" program.

All of the "springing forward" last night (I moved the post to the "Heads Up!" forum, where more people will see it.)

The Guggenheim schedule has Lecrone's presentation listed for March 23-24, with the live broadcast at 7:30pm on Sunday, 23 March: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/calendar-and-events/2014/03/23/bach-interpreted-new-choreography-by-emery-lecrone/3359

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Balanchine -- or Williams? -- cast tall dancers in it in the past along with shorter dancers like McBride and Hlinka: Nichols and Ashley, Kistler, Farrell. Croce, in her review of the premiere (republished in "Afterimages"), remarked, "It's Farrellized Bournonville--an independent show within a show." She thought that McBride suffered from lack of turnout and ballon, but, by her next review, thought that McBride (and Farrell) had adjusted. Croce also thought that "Ballo della Regina" was an extension of what Ashley had done in "Bournonville Divertissements" in a review published in "Going to the Dance."

I'm just catching up with two dancer podcasts from December -- ABT's Christine Shevchenko and NYCB's Olivia Boisson -- but I found the next two especially fascinating: Galit Adani, who founded Dance to Unite, and Jordan Matter, author/photographer of "Dancers Among Us."

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Ismene Brown published a report and translation to her blog on Thursday: http://www.ismeneb.com/Blog/Entries/2014/3/6_Bolshoi_sacks_Dmitrichenko_as_he_loses_appeal.html High-level: *Sentences were reduced, as volcanohunter reports above *Damages from each party have been set *An appeal, in which the defendants tried to get new and additional testimony, was rejected *Citing Russian law, Urin announced that Dmitrichenko was fired from the Bolshoi.