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Arte Live Web will stream Mozart's Don Giovanni live from the Aix-en-Provence Festival on Monday, July 5, at 21.25 local time, or 3:25 p.m. ET.
Don Gionanni: Bo Skovhus
Leporello: Kyle Ketelsen
Donna Anna: Marlis Petersen
Donna Elvira: Kristine Opolais
Zerlina: Kerstin Avemo
Don Ottavio: Colin Balzer
Masetto: David Bizic
Commendatore: Anatoli Kotscherga
Conductor: Louis Langrée
http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Don_Giovan...ix-en-Provence/
If you're unable to watch it live, Arte streams are usually available on demand within 24 hours of being broadcast.
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In anticipation of tomorrow's broadcast, PBS has posted some excerpts from the film.
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Here are two video reports about the POB's new production of Jiří Kylián's Kaguyahime.
http://culturebox.france3.fr/#/danse/24256...e-de-kaguyahime
http://videos.tf1.fr/jt-we/ballet-le-tcheq...is-5880445.html
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For Francophones, here's an interview with Bullion from the French morning news (interrupted pointlessly with info about new CD releases).
http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/2010/une-etoile...ur-5878688.html
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Armand is definitely reading Marguerite's diary at the end.
Armand has now reached the end of his narrative to which his father, much moved, has listened. They part. When Armand is alone Nanina brings him Marguerite's diary. Armand starts to read it and learns of her deep and sincere love and of the rapid disintegration of her health. Reading, he seems to accompany her on her last visit to the theatre to see Manon Lescaut. In the ballet, Manon impoverished dies of exhaustion in the arms of her faithful lover Des Grieux, who had followed her into exile.Ill and despairing, Marguerite must leave the theatre, but the ballet's characters appear in her feverish dreams. She longs to see Armand one last time but dies alone and in poverty. Armand silently closes her diary.
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I still have my doubts about this prize cause fine in the movie industry you are watching a movie but with dance it's not the same to see a videotape of somebody dancing or see the live performance.
As well is the jury reviewing the full performance or just excerpts?
Anyhow dance is an art form so hard to judge. Do you know who decides about the years members of the jury? Cause seems like it determines the the nominees and the outcome.
I would love to see an award that has a mixed jury of audience and professionals is there any? That in my opinion would give a more balanced decision.
Thank you again
I can understand your doubts, smokeyjoe. Two years ago Kirk Peterson was nominated for his ballet Othello. I can't imagine that any of the jury members actually traveled to Calgary or Edmonton to see it, but I did have the misfortune of sitting through it, and the ballet was perfectly dreadful, a complete waste of time and space. I can't see Alberta Ballet reviving it, no matter how much was spent on the production. Of course the ballet didn't win the prize, but I was absolutely astonished that it was nominated in the first place, and I have to admit that its inclusion pretty much exploded any idea I may have had about this prize being some sort of ballet "Oscar."
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B.C's Knowledge Network will air three ballet-related programs on Wednesday, June 9, starting at 9:00 p.m. PT.
9:00 p.m. - Royal Winnipeg Ballet: 40 Years of One-Night Stands is a documentary about the early years of the company.
10:00 p.m. - Flamenco at 5:15 is a documentary about flamenco classes taken by senior students of the National Ballet School of Canada. I haven't seen this film in years, but as I recall the students included future National Ballet principals Martine Lamy, Owen Montague and Rex Harrington.
10:30 p.m. - A Delicate Battle is the filmed version of Matjash Mrozewski's ballet featuring the National Ballet of Canada.
The programs will repeat starting at 1:00 a.m. PT.
Knowledge Network is available outside British Columbia on satellite service from Bell (ch. 268) and Shaw Direct (ch. 354).
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Now I'm officially envious. Over the next year six performances by the Paris Opera Ballet will be beamed to more than 100 cinemas in France and Europe.
La Petite Danseuse de Degas (Patrice Bart/Denis Levaillant) - 8 July 2010
La Dame aux camélias (John Neumeier/Frédéric Chopin) - 16 September 2010
Swan Lake (Rudolf Nureyev/P.I. Tchaikovsky) - 2 December 2010
Caligula (Nicolas Le Riche/Antonio Vivaldi) - 8 February 2011
Coppélia (Patrice Bart/Léo Delibes) - 28 March 2011
Les Enfants du Paradis (José Martinez/Marc-Olivier Dupin) - 9 July 2011
Presumably all of them, except Lady of the Camellias, which was performed earlier this seaon, will be beamed live.
I do wish they would take pity on those of us living on the other side of the Atlantic!
http://www.operadeparis.fr/cns11/live/onp/...dex.php?lang=en
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I'm always grateful to quick-thinking people who capture these moments on their cell phones and the like.
Personally, I find this nomination particularly inspiring. I may be wrong, of course, but I'm guessing that Bullion is the first cancer survivor to become an étoile.
http://www.culturekiosque.com/dance/inter/...Bullion367.html
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Congralutations to him!!!
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I have to see the Graeme Murphy "Swan Lake" someday, which looks like a hoot.
A bit
but I came across a listing for Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake on British Amazon today.http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tchaikovsky-Graeme.../dp/B003O2AHSG/
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Here's the info we've been looking for. It's the recent TV biopic, plus Fonteyn dancing the second act of Swan Lake, The Firebird and Ondine. If I'm not mistaken this Royal Ballet film hasn't been available on DVD in the U.S until now.
At age 40, Dame Margot Fonteyn (Anne-Marie Duff – The Virgin Queen, Shameless) was one of the greatest ballerinas of the 20th Century. At her creative peak, she was a woman torn between her loyalties to the Royal Ballet and her marriage to unfaithful Panamanian diplomat, Roberto de Arias (Con O’Neill – Criminal Justice). Under mounting pressure to retire, Margot’s unexpected pairing with young Russian émigré Rudolph Nureyev (Michiel Huisman – The Young Victoria) caused a global sensation and created one of the most enduring and stunning ballet partnerships of all time. Also starring Lindsay Duncan (Alice in Wonderland), Derek Jacobi (Endgame) and Penelope Wilton (Pride & Prejudice), Margot is a timeless tale of love, performance, passion and self-sacrifice.BONUS PROGRAM: The Royal Ballet
Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes dance scenes from the ballets, Swan Lake, Firebird and Ondine.
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I have the first pressing of the DVD released by EMI Classics. Assuming you have the newer edition, it would seem that both version have the same options. Does your DVD also include Neumeier's English and German introductions? The background on how the ballet came to be is very interesting and basically tells you everything you need to know about the production. If anyone's unfamiliar with the staging I'd suggest watching it first.
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Where Peter Wright's Nutcracker is concerned, he has said that "there's very little of the original Nutcracker remaining" in his production, only 10 mintues or so of the original choreography.
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For Francophones, here is a nine-minute television interview with Agnès Letestu. There are also a number of clips from the POB's current run of La Bayadère which obviously don't require any knowledge of French.
http://videos.tf1.fr/infos/2010/agnes-lete...ev-5859992.html
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The infrequently used Sapphire variation from Sleeping Beauty is written in 5/4 time.
Nureyev changed the gemstone to gold and turned it into a male role, but he used the music.
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Have you, as audience-(or maybe as a dancer)-ever been faced with a company that doesn't fulfill your needs...?
The short answer is, yes. So I'll admit to jumping on planes to New York also.
Are the MCB dancers really capable of performing the 19C classics? Is the company large enough to do them justice?Ballets such as Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, La Bayadère, &c require an enormous cast and a very large budget in order to be performed properly. They also need dancers who are familiar with Petipa's stately style, who are strong actors, and who can mime at least competently.
Yup. Consider what I have to look forward to season: a company of 30 dancers, not remotely competent in the Petipa style, attempting Sleeping Beauty, a lousy production of The Nutcracker and a trashy pop extravaganza for the third year in a row. If not for a program that includes Balanchine's Serenade and a couple of touring (modern) companies, it wouldn't even be worth the effort.
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PBS has posted a trailer:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/gperf/episodes/la-...w-the-film/988/
For his 38th film in a career spanning more than 40 years, master documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to one of the world’s greatest ballet companies, the Paris Opera Ballet. Observing daily classes, rehearsals, and performances, the camera roams the vast Palais Garnier opera house, the company’s opulent home: from its chandelier-laden corridors to its labyrinthine underground chambers, from its light-filled rehearsal studios to its luxurious theater replete with 2,200 scarlet velvet seats and Marc Chagall ceiling. La Danse – Le Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris devotes most of its time to watching young men and women — among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnès Gillot, and Agnès Letestu — rehearsing and/or performing seven ballets, including: Genus by Wayne McGregor, Paquita by Pierre Lacotte, The Nutcracker by Rudolf Nureyev, Medea by Angelin Preljocaj, The House of Bernarda Alba by Mats Ek, Romeo and Juliet by Sasha Waltz, and Orpheus and Eurydyce by Pina Bausch. La Danse will air as part of THIRTEEN’S Great Performances series on PBS stations nationwide on June 16, 2010 at 9 p.m. (check local listings). -
Can you imagine instructing a 8 year old to do these moves? "Okay kids, this is the part where you bump and grind! And put your back into it!" Eww!
If I had to venture a guess, the kids are probably quite unaware of what they're doing. I remember being a kid in jazz class, which always involved performing "isolations," including pelvic rolls and thrusts in all directions, and I'm sure my 8-year-old mind never understood it to be sexual, even if that's precisely what it was.
Of course I agree completely that adults ought to know better. If it were up to me, jazz dance wouldn't be included in any dance curriculum until students were at least 15 or 16 years old. Even in the context of training professional dancers I can't imagine it would be necessary at an earlier stage. The problem is that many kids think it's fun, as opposed to "boring" ballet class (even the "ballet" movie Center Stage adopted this line), and among children not studying dance formally, it's likely to be the only sort of dance they know.
I remember being outraged when my television provider changed its "theme packs" to mix "family" and music video channels that had previously been segregated. It never occurred to the company that parents who want their children to watch Discovery Kids may not want them to watch MTV. I lodged my protest with the satellite company, but there was no great outcry over the change, so I have to assume that many parents don't consider the misdirection, as perky puts it, of popular culture onto their kids as a problem. But the kids are absorbing the culture, and if you were to ask youngsters on school playgrounds to reenact the latest raunchy music video, they probably could, so I'd be willing to bet that the failing isn't limited to the parents of the little girls who went viral on You Tube.
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Darrell Grand Moultrie, a Broadway performer and choreographer, said this is nothing new.
"There are thousands of these competitions going on around the country where the girls are dressed just like this," he said. "It's no big surprise." Moultrie said what's new is viral video which gives everyone access to a world some have never seen.
The building where I work houses a theatre that hosts these sorts of competitions annually, though I don't know how young the kids start. You can't miss the made-up girls with glittery hair and shiny costumes, nor, for that matter, can you miss the mothers. Just last week as I was leaving the building I found myself walking behind a mother and her teenaged daughter with matching platinum blonde hair, black eyeliner, skinny jeans and silver shoes.
Being the "serious" dance student in my family, I never took part in the competitions. (I couldn't get out of jazz class fast enough.) But my sister, who wanted no more of ballet and character class, took jazz and tap recreationally at a local studio with her school mates, and she did compete once or twice. My mother found the whole thing distasteful so this didn't last long, and it wasn't quite as raunchy a couple of decades back. Even in those tamer days I found watching pre-pubescent girls doing jazz routines unsettling, but the numbers of participating girls (I never saw any boys) were huge. For the parents who'd transported their daughters to many evenings of the rehearsals, sewn their costumes, curled their hair and made up their faces, participation in these competitions seemed to be the crowning achievement of their children's dance training. Since there are so many people doing it--probably at most dance studios beyond the hoity-toity world of ballet schools--I'm guessing that the parents are just inured to the weirdness of this subculture and look upon it as normal.
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The U.S. release date is June 29. Amazon is now taking orders for both formats.
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Some Romeo and Juliet information... according to someone I spoke with at today's performance (5/9/10) at last night's show, during the curtain call, Davit Karapetyan proposed marriage to Vanessa Zahorian! He got down on bended knee and asked her to marry him! Wish I could have seen that one. I'm assuming she accepted but... ouch, that would be humiliating if she said no.
The crowd seemed to love it.
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For those who weren't able to watch it live, the opera is now available on demand.
http://liveweb.arte.tv/fr/video/Don_Quicho...e_de_Bruxelles/
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Bel Air Classiques will soon release a DVD and Blu-Ray of Heinz Spoerli's production of Swan Lake with Polina Semionova, Stanislav Jermakov and the Zurich Ballet. The European release date is May 21. There is a trailer on the Bel Air site.
http://www.belairclassiques.com/
There are also some photographs of the production on the Zurich Opera House site.
http://www.opernhaus.ch/de/programm/detail...tellID=10328065
but I came across a listing for Graeme Murphy's Swan Lake on British Amazon today.
POB performances
in Paris Opera Ballet
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As of now, Dorothée Gilbert has replaced Delphine Moussin as the ballerina.
http://www.operadeparis.fr/cns11/live/onp/actualites/index.php?lang=en#news2345
According to the distributor, the Lady of the Camellias and Swan Lake screenings will of the existing performances already available on DVD. The other ballets will be beamed live.
http://www.cielecran.com/assets/files/font..._BALLET_BAT.pdf
There's also something of a trailer about the series, along with a list of participating French cinemas and stuff available for download at the bottom of the page linked below.
http://www.cielecran.com/index.php?id=16&fiche=96