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A great way to think of it.

No, it's not especially unusual for a work to appear on two different programs. This season I believe that's the case with Song of the Earth.

The Royal Ballet has announced details of its next season. The link is here. http://www.roh.org.uk/news/ballet-and-dance-201516 Cinema broadcasts will include: Romeo & Juliet a MIXED BILL featuring a new version of Carmen by Carlos Acosta, plus Scarlett, (brief) Robbins and (brief) Balanchine The Nutcracker an ASHTON DOUBLE BILL featuring Rhapsody and The Two Pigeons Giselle Liam Scarlett's new Frankenstein So, folks, since many of us have been moaning for cinemacasts of mixed bills, it's time to get going to the movies.

I would be surprised if any American company took a chance on Grigorovich given that there probably isn't a major critic in the country who doesn't regard his ballets with undisguised disdain. And the fact remains that none of his works is the exclusive domain of the Paris Opera Ballet, which doesn't fit with SFB's description. Looking into the Paris Opera's online archive, I see that the only ballet by Hans van Manen it has performed over the past 30 years is Grosse Fuge, which certainly is performed by the Dutch National Ballet also. I'm guessing Forsythe is a likelier candidate.

Ek's Apartment is also performed by Jose Martinez's company in Madrid. Grigorovich's Ivan the Terrible was created for the Bolshoi in 1975. His Romeo and Juliet was first performed by the POB, but it was never their exclusive property. Since most of Neumeier's ballets have been performed by his own company, I think that would leave only the new Song of the Earth.

I would appeal to his sense of economy. Crossing a border to see a show only once sounds less rational to me.

The Kirov was already going tightless in ballets like Le Corsaire and Don Quixote in the 1980s. A couple of years ago Alastair Macaulay brought up the issue in a piece on nudity in dance, pointing out how making all of a dancer's musculature visible fundamentally alters our perceptions. I don't like it on women or men, but I find bare midriffs at least as objectionable. I don't care to count dancers' ribs any more than I care to see the throbbing muscles on their legs. Exactly.

This performance is being released on DVD by Sony Classical under the title The Chopin Dance Project. It hits the North American market on May 26. The list price is quite low, which perhaps compensates for the excessively frequent shots of Lang Lang's red blazer. Congratulations to Houston Ballet.

How many swans were there?

That wouldn't make a DTH Swan Lake any less worthwhile. I don't like the idea of attaching an asterisk to a production by, say, the Tokyo Ballet just because all of its dancers are Japanese.

Meaning what, exactly?

Which reminds me that I'm still unclear on Froustey's status. But I don't want to veer .

I would expect her to continue to dance, but will she follow Tamara Rojo's example and become prima of the company she now directs, or does she intend to be more of a titular director and continue working at the POB? Does the Paris Opera allow such a thing?

The Italian press is reporting that POB étoile Eleonora Abbagnato has been named artistic director of the ballet company at the Rome Opera. The reports don't seem to say anything about what this means for her performing career. http://www.agi.it/spettacolo/notizie/opera_roma_eleonora_abbagnato_direttrice_del_corpo_di_ballo-201504081536-spe-rt10135

In this case the ROH came out three days after the broadcast and announced that this Swan Lake would be released on DVD. Since there has been no similar announcement regarding The Sleeping Beauty, you're probably right about it staying in the vaults. I did some rough math and found that less than a quarter of live-to-cinema ballets have made it to DVD.

Makarova used only Ashton's Neapolitan dance and gave the male part to Benno. She also cut the pas de trois from Act 1 and replaced it with the pas de quatre Ashton choreographed for Act 3.

Was there no Des Grieux among the POB's healthy dancers who could have danced opposite Dupont for the occasion? When the Royal Ballet brought in Bolle to dance with Darcey Bussell in a telecast of Sylvia I could almost understand it, because there was a height issue. Was it really necessary in this case? Are we to infer that among the POB's active dancers Dupont enjoyed dancing only with Hervé Moreau?

Dates for South Africa have been added: May 2, 3, 6, and 7. http://www.cinemanouveau.co.za

Well, the climate is better, the air is cleaner and the Australian Ballet offered her a coryphée position, so she isn't stuck at the very bottom. On the other hand, we can all see how easy it is to advance out of ABT's corps.

Owing to an apparent raft of injuries among the Bolshoi's Grigorovich dancers (Nikulina, Volchkov, Lantratov, Rodkin), Vasiliev will now make his debut as Ivan the Terrible on April 14 opposite his real-life girlfriend Maria Vinogradova. They're scheduled to do it two days in a row, which would be pretty darn taxing. Mikhail Lobukhin is healthy and still scheduled for the cinema broadcast. For that matter, Nikulina and Rodkin are still scheduled for that performance as well, even though they have been withdrawn from this weekend's Legend of Love, for which the Bolshoi has been forced to borrow a couple of Ferkhads from the Mariinsky.

The director was Vincent Bataillon, who also directs the Bolshoi's live-to-cinema broadcasts. I'm afraid PBS can't take any of the credit for his French and Spanish crew. I'm guessing this means the DVD will come out on the Bel Air Classiques label, but right now there is no sign of it on the company's site either.

I don't know how high your mark-up was, but I have used StubHub myself to sell tickets when I have been too far away to handle any transactions personally. StubHub takes 15% of a seller's asking price as a commission, and the price the buyer pays is 15% higher than what the seller is asking. Part of the latter covers the cost of express shipping. So even if a seller is seeking only to recoup his costs, the buyer will end up paying at least 30% more than the face value of the ticket. If the seller wants to recoup any services charges he paid, and at some venues the charges for tickets bought online can be particularly high, that will raise the price further. It goes without saying that some sellers do jack up prices very high if they sense the demand is great, and they see an opportunity to make a handsome profit.

My, oh my. The grotesque hypocrisy of playing the offended religious feelings card to get oneself appointed director of an opera house.

I caught a glimpse of the preview, and it features Irina Dvorovenko as well, dancing.

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