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The Vienna State Ballet livestreamed this program in January 2022, and it was terrific.
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A reminder that the Pacific Northwest Ballet stream of Giselle is available until 20 February. The cost is $35.
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Wiebke Hüster is similarly unimpressed by Goecke's apology.
The excrement came from Goecke's unwitting dachshund.
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Michaël Denard has died at the age of 78.
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1 hour ago, miliosr said:
The Nederlands Dans Theater isn't inconveniencing itself either:
Statement incident Marco Goecke (ndt.nl)
I'm not surprised. My guess would be that ticket sales are up. People are probably curious to see what the fuss was about.
To me this is a non-apology. In effect, "but she's a bigger bitch than I am" or "she made me do it."
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The Bavarian State Ballet has decided not to dump Goecke's works.
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53 minutes ago, California said:
A group of us at one performance wondered if we might ask Ratmansky for his autograph as he was sitting nearby - but what could he sign? Our tickets?
This is a really good point. And at some performances I've attended, there haven't been physical tickets. Furthermore, if the ticket is on the Ticketmaster app, it's impossible to take a screenshot of the barcode for quicker retrieval, and I've been in a situation, where the code stubbornly refused to be scanned.
I guess we're expected to ask for group selfies instead of autographs now.
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A figure-skating version of The Snow Queen with Laura Lepistö in the title role and 50-somethings Susanna Rahkamo and Petri Kokko as the wizards. English subtitles for the Finnish narration can be turned on.
Available until 9 April 2023.
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PNB is having a flash sale for the March 23rd performance of the Boundless program.
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I'm assuming it was an act of premeditated hooliganism. A new production was premiering that night, so Goecke had good reason to believe that the FAZ critic would be there.
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Bringing a bag of dog poo into a theater foyer doesn't exactly sound like an "impulsive" action. Did he happen to see the critic entering the theater as he was walking his dog and decide, "alright, I'll show her!"?
(Can we cancel his twitchy ballets while we're at it?
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Verdi's Falstaff from Florence, with John Eliot Gardiner conducting. The production by Sven-Eric Bechtolf stars Nicola Alaimo as John Falstaff, Ailyn Perez as Alice Ford and Sara Mingardo as Mrs. Quickly. The video is available on demand until 10 June 2023.
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2 hours ago, nanushka said:
I loved Marcelo Gomes' Carabosse in Ratmansky's production at ABT.
Ratmansky's version of Carabosse is completely devoid of glamour, though. It's not difficult to understand why no one would invite her to a christening, she's more witch than fairy. I think the shift to a Carabosse played by a young, glamorous woman has underscored her almost membership in the sorority of fairy godmothers and why she is so bitter about being excluded.
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Generally speaking, the male Carabosses I've seen have come across as merely grotesque, more caricature than character. Marcia Haydée's is perhaps a bit different. She devised the role for Richard Cragun, and it has more of a glamorous drag queen tinge.
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Finals plus awards ceremony
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Oh, I'm not sure about the "on foot" part unless you are a dedicated alpinist.
I once asked a concierge whether San Francisco had developed an app to map out the flattest route from point A to point B. Better to take the bus. 
However, the Asian Art Museum is close to the opera house and doesn't involve a steep climb.
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Stanczyk is indeed a very intense artist. Strangely, I don't have particularly strong memories of his Leontes, but I do remember his Diaghilev. He is among the finest Hilarions I've seen. He was sensational as Neumeier's Stanley Kowalski. I remember a Sleeping Beauty in which he and Sonia Rodriguez saved a fish dive that was about to go south. But I have a particularly strong memory of an Onegin with Greta Hodgkinson in Ottawa. Stanczyk, who'd danced Lensky most of his career, is not really a natural Onegin, and his performance wasn't refined or subtle. At that point Hodgkinson was not especially convincing in the first two acts. But her third act was thoroughly marvelous, and Stanczyk brought his Clark Gablesque power and virility to the final scene. I've seen a lot of starry Onegins in recent years, but that was the only performance that blew the roof off the theater and left me quaking at the end.
P.S. Recent National Ballet of Canada posts have made a lot of Guillaume Côté dancing Ratmansky’s Romeo, a part he originated, for the last time this season. Both Stanczyk and Côté graduated from the National Ballet School in 1998, and both of them have had very nasty injuries. So I'm inclined to think that Côté's retirement won't be that far behind.
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2 hours ago, Helene said:
I don't have the few I bought anymore to see whether those booklets were subsidized by advertising.
Booklets at the Royal Opera House, Paris Opera, La Scala and others include advertising, some more than others, invariably of the upscale variety, usually on the front pages of the booklet and sometimes the back cover. Some, like the Bolshoi included ads only from the theater's sponsors, so it looked more like an acknowledgement than anything else. (I'm guessing these are a lot less multinational than they used to be.)
I love the cast sheets at La Scala because they look just like the theater's characteristic beigey-yellow posters, printed on cardstock, with an ad on the back, of course.
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On 2/4/2023 at 8:00 AM, California said:
How about a poster in the lobby with casting and we could take a picture of it instead. European theaters sell beautiful, glossy, full-color programs, but I guess American audiences can't be counted on to buy those after getting free ones all these years.
I hate digital programs. Just like I resent tickets that can be accessed only through an app. I particularly dislike a hard-copy program with a QR-code instead of a cast list. It's not that I can't access it; my Android phone copes just fine. But I refer back to old programs surprisingly frequently, and I'll be damned if I can find the digital programs of shows I saw a year ago. (If they insist, companies ought to have an archive of all digital programs which is easily accessible from their website menu.)
The cast list posted in the lobby is standard practice in Japan. Printed cast sheets are also handed out (very basic, printed on an ordinary sheet of white paper), in addition to the souvenir programs on sale. (As of a few years ago, anyway, there was never a shortage of glossy leaflets for that and dozens of other shows. In fact, everyone was handed a big, fat packet wrapped in plastic. The theaters helpfully provide recycling boxes into which you can dump the whole thing.)
The fat, glossy programs are a more practical idea in repertory companies, where (evening-length) ballets return periodically and the programs aren't necessarily reprinted for every run.
A number of companies/theaters ostensibly eliminated printed programs as a Covid precaution - and then never brought them back.
I suspect a lot also depends on whether or not a theater has an in-house printing shop.
Asking North Americans to pay for a glossy program would probably be a very tough sell. Most companies that once produced glossy season booklets with photos of dancers and repertoire have since eliminated them, because they weren't economically viable. In any case, the volunteers running the National Ballet of Canada's gift shop told me so plainly.
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Highlights reel and finalists' variations
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Day 5 - semifinals
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Day 4 highlights - Nicolas Le Riche coaching classical variations
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Congratulations to her!
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Day 3 highlights - Monique Loudières coaching classical variations
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I once asked a concierge whether San Francisco had developed an app to map out the flattest route from point A to point B. Better to take the bus. 
New York City Ballet 2022-2023 season
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