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    Helene replied to Birdsall's topic in Dancers

    [Admin beanie on] The only promotion info that is valid for discussion must come from official news sources: the company itself (onstage announcements, websites, press releases, rosters), from the dancer's public Facebook, Twitter, blog, websites, and interviews with the mainstream media, or from the mainstream media. Other message boards or video sites are not official news. Please do not post unofficial news. [Admin beanie off]
  2. Helene
    I commiserate with you Drew, because of this. I would rather see the opera in some cases.
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    Different criteria. Different strokes.
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    Peter Boal just tweeted some info on the new Wheeldon work: @ wheeldondance arriving Monday to start choreographing a new piece for four couples to # Jobytalbot's Tide Harmonic PNB published a new video of Peter Boal talking about the program:
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    Of course, a performance of Kitri can be quite different than a performance of "Diamonds."
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    Just this morning I read an article on salon.com titled, "Jason Collins' ex-fiancee to write a memoir about his coming out: Former WNBA player Carolyn Moos will reflect on her recent life events about her former fiance." And all of this time I thought a memoir was written by and/or ghostwritten for the subject him or herself.
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    Thank you so much for the heads up on Janet Malcolm's book: I just ordered the Kindle version.
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    Congratulations to Alisa Sokolova
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    As I mentioned earlier, photos posted by companies and dancers on their public-facing websites, Facebook pages, blogs, tweets are official sources. If companies or dance professionals choose to make backstage photos public, that's their privilege. There is detail about official news our Rules/Policies threads.
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    Yes, it is -- written on the website is "De forma muy emotiva, su hermano Esteban Hernández se presentará en el evento recién graduado de la Royal Ballet School de Londres, siendo el primer mexicano en lograrlo," which, according to bing translator, means, "In a very emotional way, his brother Esteban Hernández will present at the event, recent graduate of the Royal Ballet School in London, being the first Mexican to do so." I so wish I could go: it looks like a wonderful line-up, and the food in Mexico City is phenomenal.
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    If you saw the full-length "Swan Lake" in NYC in the mid-60's, it would have been ABT. I can't find exact dates for when ABT performed at New York State Theater before moving to the Met, but in a recent report about the upcoming move from City Center back to the theater for the Fall season, Rachel Moore was quoted as saying, "Our engagement is especially meaningful given ABT's history of memorable performances at the venue during the 1960's and '70's." and ABT might very have performed the mid-60's full-length "Swan Lake"s at NYST.
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    I just received an email that PNB is offering a 25% Mother's Day sale discount for up to four tickets per household on all Director's Choice performances. (This doesn't apply to the least expensive tickets or to previously purchased tickets.) Website prices reflect the discount; the discount code for phone sales is "Glow." https://www.pnb.org/promo/glow?utm_source=Pacific+Northwest+Ballet&utm_campaign=470b1d5b7c-Director_s_Choice_Email_15_6_2013&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_4f2d9028e9-470b1d5b7c-291617869 I don't see a deadline.
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    I didn't find Homans particularly credible in her last tome in the way she dismissed aesthetics that weren't to her taste, and I have no reason to believe any of her other work will be more balanced. I'll have to wait for the book to see if I'm wrong.
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    Post info without links to official sources, not matter how easily found on the internet, is in violations of the Terms and Conditions and Rules and Policies of Ballet Alert! As we mention in them, we can't force you to read them, but we'll moderate the board as if you have. Backstage rehearsal sheets and photos are not public, and therefore, not official sources, and the info in them is considered private to the company. I trust you won't post this info again.
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    Isaac Hernandez, formerly with San Francisco Ballet and now a member of Dutch National Ballet, is producing a gala called "Desperatres" that will be presented twice in Mexico, on August 13 and August 26. DNB posted a link to the gala poster for the August 13 performance, which includes the URL to the gala website. This is a link to the website: http://www.despertaresisaac.com/ (Warning, it takes a while to load and uses lots of bells and whistles, and, eventually, there's a blast of audio.) Currently, 20 selections are planned, danced by the following roster (as of today), subject to change: saac Hernández · Het Nationale Ballet Esteban Hernández · San Francisco Ballet Jurgita Dronina · Het Nationale Ballet 
 Gonzalo Garcia · New York City Ballet Tyler Peck · New York City Ballet
 Vadim Muntagirov · English National Ballet Daria Klimentova · English National Ballet
Victoria Ananyan · Het Nationale Ballet Anton Korsokov · Mariinsky Maria Kotchetkova · San Francisco Ballet Steven McRae · Royal Ballet Londres 
 Misty Copeland · American Ballet Theater Marcelo Gomes · American Ballet Theater Denys Cherevychko · Vienna Staatsoper Ballet Maria Yakovleva · Vienna Staatsoper Ballet
 Emmanuel Tibo · Opera de Paris Works by the following choreographers are planned: Hans Van Manen 
Balanchine Marcelo Gomes 
 MacMillan Alberto Alonso 
Stephane Thoss Moses Pendleton William Forsythe
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    [Admin Beanie On] For anyone who is not a member of the "Editorial Advisor" group: Official news only. If it hasn't been published/announced by the company through word or action (retirement bouquet and solo bow, being removed from the roster), tweeted by a dancer on his personal blog or public ("like") Facebook Page -- not info that can only be accessed by personal invitation -- or published in the mainstream press in an article and interview, it is not official news. "I heard" is NOT official news. I apologize for having missed this thread and being so late to edit out the unofficial news. [Admin beanie off]
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    Second performance of Isaac Hernandez' Despertares Gala. Auditorio Nacional August 26 21:00 hrs. http://www.despertaresisaac.com/
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    August 13, 2013 Mexico City Program and Ticket Info: http://www.despertaresisaac.com/ Bing translator of part of website, 6 May 2013: The Gala Mexican dancer Isaac Hernández (Guadalajara, 1990) will go for second consecutive year with the nighttime gala, in the National Auditorium of the city of Mexico, August 13. Considered one of the most important interpreters of the world, the first dancer of the National Ballet of Holland aims to make this show the dance festival of greater relevance in Latin America in 2014, comparable with which are made in Japan and Petersburgo and make the city of Mexico, the Capital of the Ballet. So he has called the best companies in the world through its leading dancers to join this great experience #Despertares 2013. The cast Some of the 20 pieces to be interpreted are: Coppelia, Manon, La Bayadare, Carmen, Tarantella, Five Tangos among many more. Dancers Isaac Hernandez · Het Nationale Ballet Esteban Hernández · San Francisco Ballet Jurgita Dronina · Het Nationale Ballet Gonzalo Garcia · New York City Ballet Tyler Peck · New York City Ballet Vadim Muntagirov · English National Ballet Daria Klimentova · English National Ballet Victoria Ananyan · Het Nationale Ballet Anton Korsokov · Mariinsky Maria Kotchetkova · San Francisco Ballet Steven McRae · Royal Ballet, London Misty Copeland · American Ballet Theater Marcelo Gomes · American Ballet Theater Denys Cherevychko · Vienna State Opera Ballet Maria Yakovleva · Vienna Staatsoper Ballet Emmanuel Tibo · Opera de Paris Dirección Artistica Bo Spasoff · Director of The Rock School for Dance Education Coreógrafos Involucrados Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit. Dolorem, ab officia obcaecati! Aliquid, odio, hic voluptas veritatis officiis libero deserunt. Omnis, facilis culpa fugiat saepe dicta aspernatur distinctio fugit eveniet! Hans Van Manen Balanchine Marcelo Gomes MacMillan Alberto Alonso Stephane Thoss Moses Pendleton William Forsythe *Sujeto a cambios
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    Almost all of the top students in the company pre-professional schools are stars of their student performances, dancing the major roles, and almost all of them start as apprentices or corps members. There are rare exceptions to that, and some may get soloist and principal roles from the get-go, but rarely exclusively. I would think that competition winners would have the same expectations as top students at SAB, for example, and the same hopes that they'll rise quickly through the ranks and put their corps days behind them.
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    (Sometimes it takes being quoted to realize that I wrote a circular sentence. I'm just glad you managed to understand my point, nonetheless )
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    I think so-called neutrality is important only if the goal is to choose who had the best performance, and even then, judges' personal preferences for style and content are part of the assessment process. Not all ballet or arts competitions have that as the only or even a goal: many are just as interested in potential. Where the judging panel is part of the institution that is doing the choosing, or are choosing on behalf of a single institution, like the Met Opera Council Auditions, it's all about potential and the ability to sing at the Met and meet the company's needs The Seattle Opera International Wagner Competition is all about choosing potential major Wagner singers, not just for Seattle Opera. For Seattle Opera, so far, Speight Jenkins has only cast non-winners, Jason Collins as Froh in the 2009 Ring and Steersman in "Dutchman and Carsten Wittmoser as Ramfis in one cast of "Aida", although 2006 co-winner, Miriam Murphy, might have been hired as a cover. (She's listed in Operabase as the Gerhilde in this summer's "Das Rheingold" but the Seattle Opera website lists Wendy Bryn Hamer in the role.) One of the upsides of looking for potential is that in many ways, it doesn't matter whether a dancer wins one of the official competition awards: if someone on the panel likes a dancer and offers that dancer a scholarship to its summer program, that has nothing to do with anyone else on the judging panel or whether that person wins the prize. Likewise, not being chosen by, for example, Adam Sklyte might mean that dancer's type (physical or stylistic) doesn't fit into what he's likely to need in the near future, or he might be waiting to see what that dancer is like in a few years.
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    I just bought a knitting course in an online file that had imbedded videos demonstrating the techniques I had just read about. e-bios could very well do this, if the rights could be procured. Many physical books, particularly textbooks and training/prep manuals come with DVD's in a pocket in the back cover.
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    I don't know: it was some ballet thing on TV -- Ed Sullivan? Bell Telephone Hour? Firestone Theater? -- and I was hooked. I was probably no older than five. The same thing happened with figure skating and gymnastics on Wide World of Sports -- anything with pointed toes and/or moving to music caught my attention immediately -- and the NY Mets, but that was a different kettle of fish. (I grew up thinking that there was a 50/50 chance that a professional baseball player would catch a fly ball.) My first live ballets were Natalia Makarova and Ivan Nagy in "Swan Lake" and "Giselle" at ABT. I remember being most impressed by the young Mariana Tcherkassky in the Act I Pas de Trois in "Swan Lake."
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    You're not going to see many prize winners outside Prix de Lausanne, which leads to a school.scholarship to elite company schools, because the companies that recruit primarily out of their own schools discourage competitions and don't support the preparation, while frowning on the distraction and misplaced energies. When they hire from outside the schools, it's because someone passed the audition process or was invited to join the company based on their professional accomplishments. Some.schools groom their kids for competition: it's clear the Rock School does, as is shown in the doc. SAB shudders at the thought: it keeps its students busy enough. If you look at the judges panel, that should give a good idea of who is recruiting, but maybe more for their summer programs, given the age ranges, or their schools, not directly into a company.
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    City Center has been the default for many companies because with NYST full, there was no alternate venue of its size in Manhattan. Now that there is another option for part of the season, and there is no direct competition, it's win/win. In the meantime, NYCO is looking for a new home in cental Manhattan. NYST managed after ABT left the theater. I'm sure City Center will as well.
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