Rosie

Do you know, if Tara Schaufuss is a member of the famous family too?

Yes, she's the younger of Peter Schaufuss's two daughters from his marriage to Janette Mulligan who was a dancer with English National Ballet.

Are you really sure about that?!

On her CV it says that she´s from Brisbane, Australia

The RDB has posted changes to the company for next season.

Principals:

- Rose Gad and Silja Schandorff have retired; Schandorff is now listed as an

Instruktør

Soloists:

- as is already widely known, Jodie Thomas joins from Pacific Northwest Ballet

- Kizzy Howard is now Kizzy Matiakis

Corps de ballet joiners:

- Caroline Baldwin (won a scholarship to the RDB school at YAGP 2008)

- Carling Talcott (SAB, MCB apprentice)

- Alexandra lo Sardo (RBS, Dresden Ballet)

- Mads Eriksen returns to the company after a couple of seasons' absence

New Aspirants:

- Oda Grøner (Norwegian, just graduated from the RBS)

- Andreas Kaas (RDB school)

- Oscar Nillson (RDB School)

What has happend to Eliza Mullholland and Anna Kuran?

They were listed as aspirants i think

Does anyone know why Sebastian Michanek headshoot picture isn´t published in the 08/09 repertoire book of the Royal Danish Ballet?

Is he going to leave

i really don´t know what to think about it, that would be a huge tragedy for me

Hi, i have an update about Thomas Lund, i have recently discoverd that he together with Ole Nørlyng

have written a book about his life. I think the book is of of course in danish but it sounds very interesting

The book is called "Danseglæde og springkraft" and i have manage to find a little sample of it http://www.weekendavisen.dk/apps/pbcs.dll/...60106/-1/kultur but that´s also in danish

but for you who dosen´t understand it i have found a early picture of Thomas together with Bill Holmberg with Neel Resling Halpern enjoy http://www.neelreslinghalpern.com/board.html

On October 13th i went to Copenhagen to see Caroline Mathilde, the ballet is about Caroline Mathilde´s life. The scenografi was magnificent as the clothes I have never seen such beautiful clothes

the main characters were danced by Thomas Lund,Gudrun Bojsen,Andrew Bowman.

I haven´t ever seen Thomas dance before he did a stunning preformance as Christian VII

woaw now i know what everyboy is talking about Gudrun was a magnificent Caroline Mathilde, the whole show was overwhelming it was a bit modren and a bit classic.

I liked it a lot

Question is if it is a danish dancer? She looks like Kirsten Simone...

My Webpage

difficult question indeed, i could be anyone. If you really want to know who she is i suggest that you ask the royal danish ballet maybe they know

Hi, I have red that it´s going to be a completely diffrent show this year. It will be a so called let´s dance program with no ballet

I can´t belive my eyes when i red that

Does anyone know if there will ever be a eurovision young dancers like it used to be?

Hi, i have red at the Royal Danish Famliy website that the Royal Family

will take part of a 200 years celebrity party at the Royal Danish Ballet. Does anyone know if it´s going to be broadcosted on tv?

Hi Rosie,

You could purchase videos of the classical rounds of the Jackson IBC. It is ordered through the Jackson web page. So I saw those videos of each of her rounds. She is an unusually expressive dancer with lots of technique too.

Renata

I have found an interview with Jurgita but i´m afraid it´s in lithuanian language so I don´t understand it perhaps you do

http://judron.tripod.com/Jurgita_Dronina.html

Hi Natalia,

Actually Jurgita has won a series of medals in competitions. Because of her birthday, she was one of the youngest seniors in Moscow, where she won a silver (hardly older than Christine and Chinara); Helsinki, where she won a silver; and Jackson, where she won a silver. She is originally from Lithuania. I've never seen her dance in person but I have seen a video of her at Jackson and she is fantastic.

Ciao

Renata

Where did you see the video was it on the net please let me know

Just a headshot and some information on Jurgita from the USA Int. Ballet Comp

at the bottom of page 46

http://www.usaibc.com/Competitors.pdf

(scroll up and you can find Daniil at the bottom of p. 44 - another fellow BTer)

Dronina pics

http://jorgen-w.livejournal.com/tag/dronina

some more pics of Jurgita

http://pics.livejournal.com/jorgen_w/gallery/0007kdk5

keep clicking on 'up to gallery list' for more pics of other dancers. (and this website is from BT's jorgen, too!)

Jurgita seems to be a lovely dancer unfortuanly I haven´t seen her dancing beacuse I don´t live in Stockholm I have heard and red only positive things about her.

Hopefully she will be guestdancing in at the Royal Danish Ballet then I´ll see her

When I was a young ballet student I used to write to dancers asking them for an autographed photo.

Almost all of them replied. Then, when I had my ballet school in Spain I gave most of them away to my pupils - all my photos were nicely framed. But I have kept three and they are all hanging in my study now;

Margot Fonteyn, Svetlana Beriosova and an authographed program with Alexandra Danilova.

There are some antiquarian book shops selling autographs as well, but of course it is more fun to get it from the person him or herself.

I might have told this before, but I still blush with shame when I think about it. I saw Flemming Flindt with London Festival Ballet and he was so handsome, really to die for. He had just done the Drummer in Graduation Ball and I asked him (in Danish) to please write with my own fountain pen. It was somewhat old and leaky and I noticed to my horror that his fingers became stained with violet (yes!) ink. But I still keep that old program in my collection - just a bit sad to notice that some of them are no longer with us, f.ex. Toni Lander and John Gilpin - they were marvelous in Etudes. :huepfen024:

what an embarrssing moment

it´s feels great that dancers do replay when they receive post from fans all though a dancers day can be quite hectic sometimes. It´s sad when dancers die but in a way they will never be forgotten there will always be a change seeing them in a ballet or on you tube

Some of others might comment on Rosie's question...

Can you wait at the "stage door" of the threatre with some flowers or something? Dancers do go home and rest I suppose...

I did go to the Netrebko PR event and got some memorabilia signed. She is very gracious and a good sport to sit there for a huge line of fans. The Met Opera Guild photographer snapped pictures and sent one to me... which is on my desk of yours truly smiling in disbelief next to the opera divsa herself. That was a thrill!! A kodak moment as they say.

I don't know that dancers do PR events like CD releases a singer might do.

I think if Rosie writes to the dancer c/o their company, there is a good likelihood he or she will send a signed PR photo back to her... I would give that a try.

Ok, do you really think that a ballet company would allow sendig letters to a dancer

i really hope so

Hello I´ve found out that Dragos Michalcea has got an hompage at http://www.dragosmihalcea.com/

I have a few brief emails from some dancers.

Recently I was in the Met Opera Book store and there was a poster announcing that Anna Netrebko was going to be there for a signing / promotion of her new Russian CD.

Being an admirer of her singing I am considering taking the opportunity to purchase the CD, and see Ms Netrebko up close and perhaps get a signed copy.

This may not be correspondence, but it is but is more akin 4mrdncr's experience with encounters of artists on the street. I wouldn't expect to have any sort of conversation about her work.

How do I get an autograph from a dancer?!

Hello, I wonder if someone knows some good seating places at the new opera house?

I have never been there so it´s difficult for me to deside :mellow:

Hi, I wonder where I can find picutures of the participants of Eurovision young dancers 2003?

I do remember that there was this dutch site about it that had those pictures

That's so interesting, Rosie!

What name did she dance under? With which companies? Maybe one (or more) of our members remembers seeing her and will post their recollections.

I am sure she'd be delighted and proud to know that you are about to start studying.

Her name was Natalia Dall i don´t know in which companies she did join but she lived in warsaw so that has to be a company there.

Hi, I have disocverd that my grandmother was a ballerina

but i don´t know if she was a prinicipal nor a solist.

My mom told me that she was a ballerina and I have a 2 pictures when she was dancing

however i can´t ask her about that beacause she died a year ago

but i know she would be very happy if she´d knew that i´m going to start dancing ballet

I´m reading the sixith Harry Potter book, harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, it´s exiting but my favorite one is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

I love to read books about ballet and enjoy books about baking.

I love baking it´s very fun

Hi, I wonder if someone has seen the swedish ballet movie the dancer?

I have orderd it online at dvdboxoffice becasue it´s impossible to buy it in Sweden,

has anyone seen it? If so what do you think of it?

Now i have discoverd a second movie it´s called Premiärdansösen(principal dancer)

a documentary about Swedish principal dancer Marie Lindqvist. The However the movie is very difficult to buy and i´m not sure if it´s been released but it came out in 2001 so it should have been released

I have e-mailed the producer of the movie, hopefully i´ll get an answer back:)

Hi, I have a big problem, a friend if mine found out that Tachkin's St. Petersburg Ballet Company (i think) is going to guestdance in Sweden Lund, but i can´t find any information about it.

I would like to know if someone knows their website or some other information because the theather and ticket sellers dosen´t know anything about their preformance

thanks, The curse does have a advance course in ballet and i think the advance is pointe class i´m still quite young 21 but i wern´t interested in ballet dancing until now and red all books about ballet and i did never thought about dancing ballet:) . I´m so exited i´m going to buy a leotard and ballet shoes and other ballet stuff

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I´m going to start dancing ballet in spring. I wasn´t sure if i wanted to start dancing it, last week a saw a bunch of kids in ballet dresses and i thought if they can so can I.

And i went online to find a ballet course and i found one so i did enter it and the next day an e-mail arrived in my mail box saying that the course did start 5 weeks ago and it wasn´t possible to enter it.

But it had also good news saying i could enter it next term from the begining and I will

I will never be a profesionell ballerina but at least I do get to feel like one