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SFB's Gala is now available till July 6th.

2020 Opening Night Gala will be available until 7/6

http://www.balletnews.co.uk/the-national-ballet-of-canada-20-21-promotions/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=socialnetwork

Principal Dancer Elena Lobsanovaand First Soloist Hannah Fischer will be departing The National Ballet of Canada to join Miami City Ballet at the end of the 2019/20 season as a Principal and a Principal Soloist, respectively. Also departing the company are Corps de Ballet members Jimmy Coleman and Ethan Watts to join The Royal Danish Ballet and The Royal Swedish Ballet. 

And the National Ballet of Canada has just released Promotions and Retirements. 

https://national.ballet.ca/Ballet-News-Plus/News/2020-21-Promotions

Siphesihle November to First Soloist and  The David Tory Award to Alexander Skinner. This is so symbolic. (the other promotions would be mentioned on another thread I guess) 

On 6/24/2020 at 4:22 PM, volcanohunter said:

Despite an official mea culpa, I get the sense the company thought the accusations were unfair. On june 19th it flooded its social media with profiles of black and bi-racial dancers: first soloist Jordana Daumec (American), first soloist Tanya Howard (South African), second soloist Siphesihle November (South African) and corps member Alexander Skinner (Canadian), but not Rose. It seemed to imply that its "normal channels" work just fine, and that team players were being rewarded. The company's culture strongly favors graduates of its school and dancers who worked their way up through the ranks. There are outside hires, but study casting patterns and you'll see that they rarely get first dibs, and that includes principals.

Agree every word with volcanohunter.  They only favor dancers that came from the school and rose their way through the ranks. (mostly Canadians)

There was also a press release mentioning about leavers, and Hannah Fischer, Elena Lobsanova is leaving, as well as Jimmy Coleman and Ethan Watts. Brent Parolin (another outsider) is retiring. 

Misa Kuranaga often said in her interviews that she owed a lot to Ponomarenko in her Boston Ballet days.

Nikolai Fadeechev, Soviet and Russian ballet dancer, People's Artist of Russia has passed away at the age of 87.

https://www.bolshoi.ru/about/press/articles/memory/nikolai-fadeyechev-has-passed/

He had been partner of great Soviet ballerinas such as Ulanova and Plisetskaya, and after his retirement he coached many dancers such as Sergei Filin, Andrey Uvarov, Nikolai Tsiskaridze, Ruslan Skvortsov

Something a little similar is the Music Box Challenge on Yuriko Kajiya's Instagram (there are several videos)

Tair Gatauov, principal of Astana Opera and Honoured Artist of Kazakhstan passed away because of traffic accident on June 10th. Astana Opera streamed La Bayadere with Tair as Solor in honour of this artist. 

Here is a profile video of him.

According to this article (interview with Lissner)

https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2020/06/11/stephane-lissner-l-opera-de-paris-est-a-genoux_6042522_3246.html

Ballet Gala, Schechter/Robbins/Pite, Cherkaoui/Eyal/Ashton, Jiri Kylian will be cancelled. La Bayadere is supposed to open at Bastille in December. 

Soloist Alexandre Hammoudi will say goodbye to the company and here is the video where he talks about his memories at ABT. It is sad that he will leave the company without a farewell, as the MET spring season was cancelled but best of luck to his future plans. 

National Ballet of Japan will stream MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet with Ayako Ono and Yudai Fukuoka. 

Available from Friday, May 29th for a week.

https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/all/nntt-at-home.html

It may be available for a short period but I liked this Coppelia from Novosibirsk Ballet. Anna Jarova is just lovely with good technique and the production, especially the costumes are lovely.

https://www.russianseasons.org/ru/live/balet-koppeliya-spektakl-novosibirskogo-gosudarstvennogo-akademicheskogo-teatra-opery-i-baleta/ 

Sleeping Beauty by Mariinsky Ballet Primorsky Stage, starring Ekaterina Osmolkina and Kimin Kim, starting in an hour. 

Kent Stowell's Swan Lake Free Full Recording Pacific Northwest Ballet on Friday, May 22 at 7pm PST

The film will be available for viewing through Wednesday, May 27 at 11:59pm PST.

CASTING
Odette/Odile - Noelani Pantastico
Prince Siegfriend - Seth Orza

Originally filmed at the dress rehearsal of Swan Lake on February 1, 2018.

From Isabelle Guerin's instagram, a  beautiful tribute to the essential workers by the former etoiles at Paris Opera Ballet. A star studded performance- Guerin, Loudieres, Legris, Romoli. Letestu, Martinez, Ciaravola, Guizerix,  Maurin, Le Riche and Osta, Gaida, Arbo, Pujol, Moussin, Pech, Paquette J.G. Bart and more. 

or a clearer video here.

Stuttgart Ballet, Cranko's masterpiece Initials R.B.M.E. from Thursday to Sunday. 

San Francisco Ballet's Romeo and Juliet, choreographed by Helgi Tomasson. Mathilde Froustey as Juliet.

Mariinsky Ballet's Little Humpbacked Horse 

Compania Nacional de Danza's Don Quixote with Maria Kochetkova and Joaquin de Luz, choreographed by Jose Martinez. Will be available till May 3rd.

National Ballet of Japan will stream 2 works, from May 1st to 8th MacMillan’s Manon (with Vadim Muntagirov as Des Grieux) and from 8th to 15th Don Quixote, both has the fabulous Yui Yonezawa as Manon and Kitri.
https://www.nntt.jac.go.jp/english/news/all/nntt-at-home.html

The Kabuki  (Maurice Bejart)　by The Tokyo Ballet

12 hours ago, Leah said:

That seems extreme but I’m not very familiar with European companies generally. Does this usually happen with a turnover in leadership? 

Many (like one-third) of the company members at Bayerische Staatsballett left when Igor Zelensky came, and also one-third of the company left at English National Ballet after Tamara Rojo arrived. And for smaller companies such as Karlsruhe in Germany, almost all dancers left the company because the repertoire changed largely, from classical to modern works with the change in directorship from Birgit Kail to Bridget Breiner. 

1 hour ago, volcanohunter said:

Legris is moving to La Scala. I doubt he is in a position to take many dancers with him.

Many good dancers at Vienna State Ballet are moving on . Madison Young (originally from Utah) moves to Bayerische Staatsballett, James Stevens to Royal Danish Ballet, Scott McKenzie to National Ballet of Canada and so on. (about a half of the company members are leaving)

Star Dancers Ballet, one of leading Japanese ballet companies will stream "Ballet Dragon Quest" based on the popular role-playing video game, from Friday 24th (Japan time 20:00, 13 hours time difference from US east coast time) for a limited time. The video was recorded at Japan Expo 2019 in Paris and is a 40 minute version. It is a highly entertaining ballet and a popular repertoire for them .

Here is Noism (a contemporary ballet company based in Niigata, Japan lead by choreographer and former NDT2/Gothenberg Ballet Jo Kanamori). with their ASU. They have been invited to the Diaghilev Festival and Sibiu Festival. 

https://vimeo.com/396105876