Amy Reusch

I would vote for a Laurencia...

Thank you! I've seen some black & white footage (and have shot a reconstruction of that piece on several occaisions), but I wasn't expecting her skirt to move quite like that, and the "speaking" was interesting to see as well.

Thank you! Was worried after the hospitalization news.

Not the Don Q Ratmansky set on Het Nationale & PNB?

Was Villella present for the awards?

It does sound as if the tickets were snapped up so quickly that the gala was not done at a loss... Weren't the retiring dancers of Tsarist Russia granted "benefit" galas at their retirement, with the house proceeds going into the dancer's pocket?

Super! It is always fascinating to see a teacher as they were in their dancing days!

I asked someone who danced with Jeanne... She said it "certainly looked like Jeanne" but that Jeanne joined ABT in the summer of '65, in which case the filming would have needed to be done earlier... Interestingly, the sidebar in youtube is full of hurricane videos. I would like to attribute that to the turns, but I assume there was a hurricane Camille in '65? [yes, but in 69]

He will be in Hartford, CT for the month of July, directing Hartt's summer intemsive. Perhaps we will hear something.

Knowing the script entirely changes the perspective... Thanks!

Performance clips means a whole 'nother ballpark of rights negotiations... In the studio involves far fewer parties in the rights negotiation process. $$$$$ vs. $

I cannot, but I am very much looking forward to this recap of it coming on Thursday: http://thebarreflies.com/ Alexandra Ansanelli, Apollinaire Scher, Eliza Minden, Joel Lobenthal, Laura Javobs, Leigh Witchel & Robert Johnson

I think they are beautiful but I do not like the way the corps tutus move.

The mystery is indeed alluring but the insights would be valued regardless!

I am forgetting Sleeping Beauty... Is it not some echo asserted between Louis xIV and the Tsar?

Would it be the romatic idea of the Tragic? I believe Romeo and Juliet is very close to the Russian soul too. Why do so many iconic Russian ballets take place outside of Russia? Nutcracker & Swan Lake in Germany, Sleeping Beauty I thought was set in France? Romeo & Juliet in Italy, La Bayadere in India, Raymonda in Hungary, Esmerslda in Paris, ... Only the Little Humobacked Horse & Baba Yaga which are tarely presented in the US? Firebird, of course, but that is Ballets Russes... Not sure it is much loved in Russia? Is it a repertory warhorse at the Maryinsky or Bolshoi? Fountains of Bakhchisarai? Has that ever been presented by a Russian touring company in the US? We are more likely to get Giselle, set in Germany. Spartacus, so tepresentive of the soviet Bolshoi, again, not set in Russia... Peehaps to be Russian is to be tragically in love with the exotic ?

I am always happy to read your posts but now will be wondering what happened to ll the intermediary Leonids on the way to Leonid17...

It was one of the corps de ballet... Tamara Barden if I'm remembering aright... And I believe it was done just out of good will toward the community, I doubt anyone was paid a cent for it. We are talking the very early days of the web when most people weren't on it yet. I don't believe Google even existed yet. There may not even have been spam yet. This website did not exist yet.

He has my vote.

How about Wim Wenders who did such a wonderful job with "Pina"! Generally speaking, though, I'd rather see the dancers express themselves by dancing rather than by talking to an off camera interviewer.

Corella has the charisma to make a great AD... so sad that the economic cards fell out this way in Spain... Some company will be very lucky to land him as director.

If a sterotype were having an effect, I would suggest that "ethereal" is not the definition of a female NYCB ballet dancer. I would suggest that "ethereal" might be much more in demand in companies dominated by 19th century repertory. However, the more interesting observation is the lack of native Asian-Americans.

It is so hard for real dancers to fake physical ignorance... I love that last one but it's obviously anbody trying hard to make mistakes, not one oblivious to them...

Can't believe they cut away on the penché! Of all moments to go to a side angle!

But won't the artistic team under Roy Kaiser still be in place and don't they have a long history with the company? I thought Gribler & Kaiser were the same generation. Christine Cox is doing an admirable job with Ballet X and should be much funded, but has she any interest in presenting the canon of ballets Philadelphia expects from PAB? It would be like Morphoses coming to Miami City Ballet. How has that worked out, by the way?