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Also Marcelo will be appearing in this summer's World Ballet Festival in Tokyo, with Alessandra Ferri (Wheeldon's After the Rain and Cranko's Onegin)

https://www.nbs.or.jp/publish/news/2018/05/a-8185.html (Japanese) 

2 hours ago, nanushka said:

The original poster's comment suggests to me that Natori was not so much "disguised as a man" merely out of a desire to be allowed into the Trocks but was rather living as a transgender man (i.e. not only for professional purposes) and did not reveal to the company that he had been born female.

But yes, the situation is rich with irony!

Yes, that is what I mean. Natori was born as a woman but he had gender identity disorder and living as a man. He was thinking about being transgender transition before they asked him to do so, and now he is legally a man and did marry a woman. And yes, the reason he left Trocks was because he was bullied there. 

1 hour ago, Mashinka said:

Patrice Bart is seventy two.  In most companies that would exclude him from the running, are things different in France.

It is former etoile  Jean-Guillaume Bart, not Patrick Bart who is the subject of this poll. He was born in 1972, so still young. 

Aurelie Dupont has been dancing quite a lot since her retirement at the Opera and even after she has been appointed AD.

She has guested in Martha Graham Company just after her retirement. (and we can see the company is invited to guest at POB next season) Also Ohad Naharin created a piece for her and Diana Vishneva for Vishneva's festival Context. 

Also, she had danced in POB's Japan tour last March (after her appointment) , Daphnis and Chloe. At first it was supposed to be with Herve Moreau but as he was unavailable, she danced with Germain Louvet. She also guested in Tokyo Ballet's Bejart Bolero performance.  and also danced at the Lincoln Center Festival's Saburo Teshigawara performance last summer. 

Retiring POB does not mean retiring as a dancer so it is not fair to criticize her that she is dancing quite a lot, many ADs do dance,  but she ought to do her job as AD first. 

19 hours ago, Vs1 said:

Seems very petty if that's the reason 

 

if she denies dancing with does she deny dancing at his galas

I have to confirm you that on Shinshokan Dance Magazine August 2015 issue, she said that the Manon farewell series was her first time dancing with Roberto Bolle. (but also she says she looks forward for more opportunities dancing with him) and also previously she has said she wanted to dance with someone new and secure once Herve Moreau became unavailable so she thought dancing with Bolle would be a nice idea. 

And Dupont is announced to dance in the World Ballet Festival this summer in Tokyo. (although it is not announced who she will be dancing, Bolle is also announced to be in this gala)

Do you have any proof that she had danced with him before? I could not find any by googling.

Aurelie Dupont's farewell performance series were the first time she danced with Roberto Bolle.  They have not danced together in galas. (She has confirmed this in an interview) 

4 hours ago, kbarber said:

off topic about Nijinsky DVD but on topic about Riabko... last year I was at a Hamburg Ballet performance of Neumeier's Shakespeare Dances in Vienna. I was in the second row and at one point Riabko came and stood on a little extension of the stage over the orchestra pit. I literally could have reached out and touched him. (No I didn't!!!) Major fan girling going on in row 2!!! Have been a fan of his since the first time I saw him, in Neumeier's Sleeping Beauty about 15 years ago.

Coincidentally, my first encounter with Riabko was also in Sleeping Beauty about 14 years ago in Tokyo. But he was not the Prince, he was the Bluebird and I had never seen anyone leap so high and seemed to fly away to another planet. I was so lucky to interview him this February for a magazine (Vogue Japan) but was never so nervous before for an interview. (of course he is super nice and very deep) He said he will continue to perform as long as he could.

5 hours ago, Gnossie said:

My Prima at the RB is Miss Cuthbertson and the de facto Prima is Núñez, not Osipova. 

Yes, yes and yes! 

Eléonore Guerineau has announced that she will leave POB (maybe sabbatical but not sure) and join Zurich Ballet next season on Instagram and on this video.

She is a beautiful dancer who represents the French style. A loss for the company but gain for Zurich.

12 hours ago, abatt said:

Unfortunately, at ABT media exposure  seems to be very important in evaluating the value of a dancer, insofar as media exposure leads to ticket sales.

I myself am a frequent user of social media, but these days I am getting a little sick of seeing those. Of course there are many good things, feeling the dance world closer, and sometimes for good causes, like campaigns socially important, and delivering important messages. But if there is much vanity in the postings, too much selfies and party pictures, that is disappointing. 

I am a  professional journalist in my country, and the other day I interviewed Isabelle Guerin. As most of you are aware, she is also a frequent Instagram poster and posts some very lovely photos. However, in the interview she said that these days dancers are too obsessed with social media and are even thinking what to post on Instagram while they are dancing. That deprives the magic of dance she said and I agree with her. 

Social media presence has nothing to do with the value of a ballet dancer.

Appearing on media is not as important as the ballet itself. 

3 hours ago, Drew said:

Thank you--Jane Simpson posted about this on the Alexandrova thread (under Dancers). By coincidence I have tickets to see this production in June. My performance choices were determined by the dates that I could make during a planned trip to London. But I won't exactly be unhappy if Alexandrova dances!

Oh lovely! Hope your tickets are for her performance. I recognized Jane's post after I posted this.

Alexandrova and Lantratov are to perform in the World Ballet Festival in Tokyo this August, and they are also guesting in a full-length Don Quixote with Tokyo Ballet in Osaka (as a part of this festival) 

Maria Alexandrova will be guesting in English National Ballet's Sleeping Beauty in June.

http://www.balletnews.co.uk/english-national-ballets-the-sleeping-beauty-maria-alexandrova-to-guest/

3 minutes ago, JMcN said:

I'm in shock.  I wish David all the best for the future.

Me too...I was also in shock when he left National Ballet of Japan because that was the best days of this company. Hope he continues to create on BRB and National Ballet of Japan as well as other companies. 

Press release

https://www.brb.org.uk/post/david-bintley-cbe-to-step-down-as-director-at-the-end-of-our-2018-19-season

This is posted on another thread but just in case, Marcelo Gomes will be guesting in Mariinsky Ballet's Giselle on March 18th, opposite Ekaterina Osmolkina

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2018/3/18/1_2000

Matthew Golding will guest at Universal Ballet (of Korea)'s Giselle in April.

(Ekaterina Osmolkina and Kimin Kim will also guest)

http://www.universalballet.com/korean/community/notice_view.asp?p=1&cd=3227&g=3227&l=0&n=0

It seems his Giselle is Natalie Kusch who is a guest artist with the company. 

2 performances of the Vikharev reconstruction of Sleeping Beauty are due to perform on March 8th and 9th, with a lovely cast including his student Olesya Novikova.

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2018/3/8/1_1900

https://www.mariinsky.ru/en/playbill/playbill/2018/3/9/1_1900

(edited to add,)

I recognized this is to commemorate The Petipa Bicentennial (on a different topic above) 

3 hours ago, nanushka said:

The memoir is in Japanese? I just did a quick google search (in English) and couldn't find anything, unfortunately, not even any news articles about it. Your summary definitely makes me curious to know more, though.

Here is a link to the Amazon page of the book.

https://www.amazon.co.jp/スカートはかなきゃダメですか-―ジャージで学校-世界をカエル―10代からの羅針盤-名取-寛人/dp/4652202237

And also Hiroto Natori's blog

https://hirotontr.wordpress.com/

Also an article about this book.

https://jisin.jp/serial/社会スポーツ/social/24679

All in Japanese but try google translation. He now has his own ballet school / studio, performs there and also gives lectures on gender equality. 

A clip of his Dying Swan.

There is a former Japanese member of the Trocks called Hiroto Natori, and recently he published a memoir. In fact he was born as a woman but he recognized that he had gender identity disorder and was living as a man when he found the Trocks and joined the company without telling the AD and members that he was a woman. After some time with the company, they found out that physically he was a woman so the company told him to undergo a transgender surgery, unless he does not do so he would be fired. He was thinking of transitioning his gender so that was not such a big deal for him but this is an example how it went in this company.  It was only recently, after he left the company and returned to Japan that he came out of being transgender (with this memoir which is very inspiring and a good read)  

I did see the Trocks in February (in Toronto) and September (in Tokyo) and I enjoyed their performances very much, and of course Chase Johnsey shone in those performances so this situation is heartbreaking.

Other than Cinderella and La Dame aux Camellias, this season looks like a Saddler's Wells one.

I wholeheartedly agree on Gnossie's Opinion on Herve Moreau, he was the finest dancer dancing Onegin in his generation, even better than the dancers from Stuttgart. It is unfortunate that he was injured so much that he rarely was on stage these recent years, but he had appeared in some galas in Japan and did show his excellent artistry. Also Mathieu Ganio has been maturing as an artist while representing the French tradition and becoming a fine actor. 

I enjoyed reading Gnossie's opinion on POB dancers, and of course we all have our own preferences and tastes but I think they are a very good view and agreed on many of them (not all), so it is a pity that many of them were deleted. 

I don't know when she will return to her home company but she is expected to guest in Hamburg Ballet's Lady of the Camellias (Japan tour) February 2nd.

http://nbs.or.jp/stages/2018/hamburg/intro.html

And also guesting for Birmingham Royal Ballet's Japan tour in May (Sleeping Beauty)

Gomes has performed in Roberto Bolle and Friends.