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stinger784

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  1. Well the reason you had so much trouble finding Karen's bio, was because she is retired. She occassionally from time to time comes and guest artists for us and we love having her around. So I am so glad you enjoyed the show! Kepp those reviews coming!!!
  2. This just in... Dying Swan has been changed to Melody.
  3. Ok here is the updated Russian Treasures: Carnival of Venice Dying Swan Diana & Acteon Fairy Doll Le Corsaire And I believe that will be the program and then Carmen follows.
  4. I believe the Russian Treasure's are as follows: -Carnival of Venice -Dying Swan -Fairy Doll possibly "Don Q pas de deux", Melody, Marz The rep is constantly changing so when I know more, I will post it. ~Ian~
  5. Ballet Internationale-Indianapolis will finally be making there NYC debut at Brooklyn College in the Whitman Theatre on April 3rd. Check out www.brooklyncenter.com for more information on how to buy tickets. We will be performing Alonso's Carmen and Russian Treasures. So check it out!!! www.balletinternationale.org www.ianpoulis.com
  6. Yes in Ballet Interntaionale's Alsonso's version, chairs and stools are used a lot. In the tavern scene, 8 mafia men sit on stools along with two tavern girls dancing as the men clap out a rhythm. At the beginning and end of the ballet 4 girls and 8 men sit atop the bull ring and watch the story unfold below. It is quite intimidating. In the fortune telling scene, four chairs are used as Escamilio, Jose, Zuniga, Carmen and Fate (aka The Bull) dance. The Bull does dance like I said in the Fortune Telling Scene and then again at the end of the ballet before Carmen dies as a Bull with Escamillio. A pas de quatre then happens with Bull, Jose, Escamillio and Carmen. Hope this answers your question and you can see us in Brooklyn at the the Whitman theatre perform this ballet on April 3rd. check out www.brooklyncenter.com for more info!!! www.IanPoulis.com
  7. I am a dancer with Ballet Internationale Indianapolis, and we are the only US company to perform yet another version by Alberto Alonso. We are continuously performing it throughout the US, so if you wanna see another version by Alsono, go to my website, www.ianpoulis.com and check out the schedule section to see where we are performing it next. I believe our version was set on our director Eldar Aliev as Jose'.
  8. Alla Sizova For evidence watch her graduation with Nureyev doing Corsaire. She out jumps him easily.
  9. Going back to Rothbart's costume... In Ballet Internationale, we go back to he old Swan Lake where Rothbart is none other than a domineering big, black bird which is most effective. The make-up of a Raven (let's say) is far more effective with proper face-emotions than a guy in a gargoyle fat suit used by ABT. Once in the ballroom, he is transformed into a human but keeps his black colors and make-up as to not confuse the audience into thinking that thier is a completely different person now controlling the Swan. In ABT's, I was confused as to why Rothbart suddenly became purple in the ballroom scene. His costume in no way whatsoever reflected the birdman he once was. p.s. Thanks for the Swamp Thing info!
  10. Hey Hans. Ian from KAB here, good to see your sarcasm is still with you. Yeah, I saw ABT's Swan Lake and the costumes for Rothbart were just hideous. He was either Swamp Thing from that great 70s movie (correct me if I'm wrong), or perhaps he was a stone gargoyle. I hope Barbie had a better representation to say the least. Ouch!
  11. Mel, I much do the same with the "arm crossing" when there is something I don't like. I believe the last time I did it at a ballet was for Mark Morris' Gong. The dancing was great, but the choreography was almost as if he was trying so hard to be so different. But this is just my POV. If there are others out there that love Gong, so be it, but I won't be clapping for it.
  12. A little of the subject but a good parallel... During one of Pavarotti's last performances at the Met when he made his fateful "crack," he was booed off the stage. When you pay big money to see big stars, pardon the pun, you expect big results. So in some instances I guess when your expectations aren't met, a boo may be what you end up with. Now being a performer, I would hate to be booed, but that is how you learn and grow and do that much better the next time and shove it in their faces!
  13. ok, this link is from the Fox News website. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,111799,00.html
  14. Ok, ok, you got me about the Shakespeare and the sex, I understand that, but I think Shakespeare is above what people are creating today. Should money really be going to things such as the "Sex Parasite" and things of that nature? That is what the Factor was all about. Sorry if I used some touchy words in here, but that is what Bill O'Reilly was dwelling on. Can anybody back me up on this if they saw the Factor or not? I will try to get a link on this info.
  15. Last night on the O'Reilly Factor (2/17/04) on Fox News, they were talking about the budget increase. Bill went on to say that its great that is funding, but its what the money is going towards that doesn't seem to make sense. Much of it is for the further education of Shakespeare, but the other is for plays that are geared towards the three letter word known as s.e.x. What happened to preservation of art? I mean it is great and all that the NEA wants to fund new programs to give someone a push in this business, but at what cost? But apparently sex does sell as we have learned with the advertisements of, was it Joffrey? Correct me if I am wrong, I'm sorry. Did anyone else see happen to watch the Factor last night? I was watching it subtitled while I was working my part time job, so if I got some info wrong, help me out. I tried to follow as best as I could.
  16. You know, I am a dancer for Ballet Internationale. Being in Indianapolis is not exactly the mecca for ballet but we do advertise as much as we possibly can with billboards, posters and radio advertisments. It is funny that you brought up Disney. Last year, our season closer was John McFall's Peter Pan. (We did a nice trade with Atlanta Ballet. Great people!) fortunately for us, Disney was in town about two months prior on tour with Beauty and the Beast. After speaking with management, Disney allowed us to put inserts into their programs. This idea was genuis. It worked for every show, except for the one on Easter weekend, but it filled the house. Although this ballet was not our Russian classical style, it DID fill the house. I guess it must be a matter of timing and getting the right audience. Disney is once again coming into town this time to perform The Lion King. This season we are closing with The Sleeping Beauty. I hate to say it, but even though I think Disney is "evil," they vicariously put food on my plate! Wierd, eh? Not until we did Peter Pan, did people really know we existed. But back to Bush... $18 million is not a lot of money for the type of programming and outreach we need. When Clinton was in office and we saw that he was in fact an artist himself, that bread hope. I am not saying Bush does not follow the arts, but showing up to a Kennedy Center Honor's and not supporting us, it's strange. I am so glad to see so many people speaking their minds on this. Keep it coming!
  17. I hope this topic doesn't get thrown out because it does involve all of us. How does everyone feel about Bush taking money away from the National Endowment for the Arts? I know as an artist, I was hurt by this because living in a country where basketball and football stars are treated like kings, we just continue to get lower and lower on the totem pole. And maybe because the NEA hasn't been getting the grants that it used to, is because PBS isn't showing the amount of Classical Arts that it used too? Just interested to see where this topic goes. Thanks again!
  18. Didn't mean to start a fight. I guess my tone should have been a little nicer after looking back at what I wrote. Sorry. Ooops!
  19. Not sure where you heard that gossip about them not being together. Irina divides her time between Indy and NY. As of now, she is in New York and should be coming back for the staging of Sleeping Beauty for our season closer. Then we are off to Taiwan! We will spend two weeks there performing Sleeping Beauty, Eldar Aliev's A Thousand and One Nights, Carmen and Eldar Aliev's Firebird. It is sure to be a good time.
  20. I think you are mistaken about seeing Vladilen Semenov at the 2003 graduation. He is on full time here at Ballet Internationale. He is a full time Ballet Master and teacher for the top level in the academy. However, he did visit St. Petersburg during the Christmas Holiday I believe.
  21. The Clara R. Noyes Academy of Ballet Internationale, under the direction of Vladilen Semenov and VP Clark Blakely, took top prizes at the YAGP regional competition in Chicago. The Academy won Most Outstanding School, Best Ensemble, and Best Teacher Tatiana Pali. Student, Tuesday Perry, took top prize at the age of 15 in the senior competition for Ballet and 3rd prize for contemporary. Emily Momberg placed Top 12 in the Junior Division.
  22. Just wanted everyone to know that Ballet Internationale's Nutcracker was on Indy's WFYI 20 Christmas day and was broadcasted via satellite to Children's Hospitals across the US and Canada. It was really cool to perform for these kids even though I never got to meet them. But I sure hope I did make them smile!
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