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volcanohunter

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  1. 1 hour ago, California said:

    Trivia of the day: Judging from several Instagram Stories, ABT dancers are now on an 18-hour flight to China. From their postings: corps members fly economy (Roxander) and principals business/first (Cornejo)

    At many companies business class is part and parcel of principal contracts. But often only if the trip is longer than a certain distance.

  2. I don't yet see it on the main site, but the National Ballet of Ukraine is opening up the event to in-person visitors (much like what the Staatsballett Berlin does), as well as streaming online. Class on stage, rehearsals of The Forest Song, Spring and Fall and Five Tangos, plus online appearances from Alexei Ratmansky, Nina Ananiashvili, Vladimir Malakhov, Alexandre Riabko and Alexander Zhembrovskyy. Starting at 14:00 EET/8:00 am Eastern, absence of air-raid sirens permitting.

    https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy3tnvVAKJA/

  3. The World Ballet Day site has broadcasts listed in chronological order and apparently adjusts to your time zone, both of which are super useful.

    This is the schedule so far according to Eastern time.

    31 October

    6:00 - 7:30 pm: Royal New Zealand Ballet
    7:30 - 10:30 pm: Australian Ballet
    10:30 - 11:30 pm: Queensland Ballet
    10:30 - 11:00 pm: Sydney Dance Company (Instagram)
    10:40 pm - 12:00 am: National Ballet of Japan
    11:00 pm - 1:00 am: West Australian Ballet

    1 November

    12:00 - 1:45 am: K-Ballet Tokyo
    12:30 - 2:00 am: National Ballet of China
    1:00 - 3:00 am: Singapore Ballet (Facebook)
    4:00 - 4:45 am: Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
    4:00 - 4:30 am: Ballet de Barcelona (Vimeo)
    5:00 - 6:30 am: Semperoper Ballett Dresden
    5:00 - 6:30 am: Sibiu Ballet Theatre
    5:00 - 6:00 am: Estonian National Ballet
    5:00 - 6:00 am: Korean National Ballet
    5:00 - 5:45 am: Bangkok City Ballet
    5:30 - 6:00 am: Norwegian National Ballet (Vimeo)
    5:55 - 7:00 am: Paris Opera Ballet
    6:00 - 7:00 am: Cape Town City Ballet
    6:00 - 6:40 am: Sofia National Ballet
    6:00 - 6:30 am: Polish National Ballet
    6:00 - 6:15 am: ISTD (Instagram)
    6:30 - 6:45 am: Finnish National Ballet
    6:30 - 6:45 am: Royal Swedish Ballet
    7:00 am - 12:00 pm: Royal Ballet
    7:00 - 9:30 am: Bavarian State Ballet (class); part 2 (rehearsal)
    7:00 - 8:00 am: La Scala Ballet
    7:00 - 7:30 am: Staatsballett Hannover (website)
    7:15 - 8:00 am: RAD
    8:00 - 10:00 am: Joburg Ballet
    8:00 - 10:00 am: Ballet Indonesia
    8:00 - 10:00 am: National Ballet of Ukraine
    8:00 - 9:30 am: Stuttgart Ballet
    8:00 - 9:00 am: English National Ballet
    8:00 - 9:00 am: Hong Kong Ballet
    8:30 - 11:00 am: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
    9:00 am - 1:30 pm: Orlando Ballet (Facebook)
    9:00 - 10:30 am: BalletX (Facebook)
    9:30 - 11:30 am: [School of] Philadelphia Ballet
    9:30 - 11:00 am: Washington Ballet (Instagram)
    9:30 - 10:00 am: Northern Ballet (Royal Ballet stream)
    9:45 am - 2:45 pm: Texas Ballet Theater
    10:00 am - 5:00 pm: Ballet Arkansas
    10:00 - 11:30 am: Miami City Ballet (Instagram)
    10:00 - 10:45 am: Vienna State Ballet
    10:00 - 10:15 am: Alonzo King Lines Ballet
    10:00 - 11:15 am: Ballet West
    10:30 am - 12:30 pm: Boston Ballet
    10:30 am - 12:30 pm: National Ballet of Portugal
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Dutch National Ballet
    11:00 am - 12:00 pm: Istanbul State Ballet (Instagram)
    11:00 - 11:15 am: Royal Danish Ballet
    11:30 am - 12:30 pm: New Adventures
    12:00 - 1:15 pm: Staatsballett Berlin
    1:00 - 2:30 pm: Smuin Contemporary Ballet
    1:00 - 1:15 pm: National Ballet of Canada
    1:45 - 2:00 pm: Ballet BC
    2:00 - 3:45 pm: Hungarian National Ballet
    2:00 - 3:00 pm: Ballet Nacional de Cuba
    2:00 - 3:00 pm: Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico
    2:30 - 5:30 pm: San Francisco Ballet
    3:00 - 5:15 pm: American Ballet Theatre (class); part 2 (rehearsal); part 3 (studio co.)
    3:00 - 3:30 pm: Pacific Northwest Ballet
    3:30 - 6:30 pm: Acosta Danza (Facebook)
    4:00 - 5:30 pm: Birmingham Royal Ballet; part 2
    5:00 - 5:30 pm: Houston Ballet
    5:30 - 7:00 pm: Kansas City Ballet
    6:00 - 8:00 pm: São Paulo Dance Company
    6:00 - 6:30 pm: Ailey II
    7:00 - 7:45 pm: Les Grands Ballets Canadiens

  4. San Francisco Ballet contributed a couple of hours last year, though to be honest I never got around to watching them because I started with the eastern-most companies and didn't make it to the Westcoast before the videos came down.

  5. Perhaps what Gelsey Kirkland didn't appreciate when she was told to "just dance," and the same goes for Darci Kistler when she was told to "be herself," was that their dance personalities were incredibly strong. They were extremely compelling by nature, and the same advice wouldn't work for less inherently captivating dancers.

  6. 4 hours ago, BalanchineFan said:

    I HATE the Bizet tutus. While they look beautiful, they don't function well for the choreography.  When the ballerina does penché arabesque the tutu turns itself inside out. It happened to Maria Kowroski every time.  I think it was Gia Kourlas who described the look as "Hello sailor!" Is that  the unseemly aspect you describe?

    Yes. The music is exalted in the best French way, the ballerina as empress stands center stage, and then this happens:

    Extensions are part and parcel of ballet, but not infrequently I find myself wondering why the principal woman is providing a 360°-view of her underpants, especially in those ballets, where beautiful manners and the glorification of the ballerina lie at the core of their aesthetic.

  7. 1 hour ago, MRR said:

    Unity Phelan lacks some of the majesty and grandeur for second movement, and her extension in a la seconde and nose-to-knee penchee could be higher. 

    I didn't see these performances, but one of the qualities I like most in Phelan is that she doesn't muck with placement. It's so rare nowadays. I'd rather she not start tilting her pelvis in an attempt to hoist her leg higher. It's unseemly in a white tutu and tiara, even in a Marc Happel tutu.

  8. Isabella Boylston definitely has no need of them. I am sorry Sarah Lamb feels compelled to use them. She wears them even with bare legs and footless tights, when the enhancers are impossible to hide.

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    I think her feet look perfectly fine without them.

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    Diana Vishneva has no arches whatsoever, but she never thought it necessary to disguise this fact, nor did she let it stop her.

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  9. 1 hour ago, choriamb said:

    I never had an opportunity to see Murphy in the role, but I'll bet she was equally good or better.

    I never saw Semionova in the ballet, but I remember a very fine performance with Murphy and Maxim Beloserkovsky at City Center 23 years ago. In particular he did really beautiful things with his croisés and épaulement in his first solo. That's what has stayed with me most vividly. But I also remember her allegro being very clear.

    The ballet looked cramped on that stage. By 2000 dancers were a lot taller than they had been in 1947.

  10. 41 minutes ago, ABT Fan said:

    So, was he considered a poor fit for Etudes and The Dream after being initially cast? I would find that hard to believe. What gives ABT?

    Bell is very tall, and Ashton's Oberon was conceived for a small, slight and very speedy dancer. I'm guessing the original soloists in Etudes were also not particularly tall. I can't say whether Bell is a poor fit for those roles, but he isn't an obvious fit.

  11. The company posted a little clip of Indiana Woodward in Who Cares? She had a bit of trouble with her fouettés, and I don't know whether it was the skirt, Vanessa Williams singing too slowly or perhaps the cumulative effect of too many danged distractions.

    https://fb.watch/nxCY604Sz5/?mibextid=NOb6eG 

    Meanwhile, the company and the press are busy trying to sell those dresses as "elegant" and "sophisticated." :whistling:

    https://www.surfacemag.com/articles/carolina-herrera-new-york-city-ballet-fall-fashion-gala-2023/

  12. 3 hours ago, yukionna4869 said:

    This is how the new costume looks in motion:

    https://www.instagram.com/reel/CyEkqlbOYXE/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

    Oh yuck. That's not nice. Those jeweled and sequined panels really weigh down the skirt. 

    3 hours ago, fondoffouettes said:

    A recent Instagram post from NYCB lists the history of the costumes as Karinska (1970), Ben Denson (1983), and Santo Loquasto (2013). So, I'm presuming it's the Denson design.

    I remember those designs having bigger stones around the neckline, at least initially, but by the time of the big Balanchine gala of 1993, Viviana Durante wore that design exactly.

  13. 1 hour ago, Helene said:

    I'd need to see them move and in context before finalizing my opinion.  They strike me as an attempt to indicate Fred and Ginger, but a lot of the choreography does not.

    My thoughts, too. I immediately wondered whether the length of skirt interferes with the choreography of "My One and Only" in particular.

    P.S. On the other hand it appears the women were bare-legged, which would be decidedly un-Fred and Ginger and more "Barbie crashes the prom", as per Kourlas.

  14. 44 minutes ago, Dale said:

    I thought that the open class was just a fund-raising thing. I doubt it will happen more than once a season.

    Even the august Paris Opera Ballet does it now. I suspect the National Ballet of Canada does it (once annually) to attract new audiences. Tickets to its shows can cost up to $279 CAD. In comparison $10 to watch company class on stage is a steal. Frankly, I get the impression that the dancers are used to it already. Inevitably a couple of the men will get into a batterie-off, but for the most part nobody seems to be "performing" or especially distressed about falling out of a pirouette.

  15. I apologize if someone has already mentioned it elsewhere, but David McAllister's production of Swan Lake for the Finnish National Ballet can be viewed on demand until 17 November 2023. The stream is free of charge but requires creating a free account with the theater.

    Hanako Matsune is Odette, Violetta Keller is Odile, Michal Krčmář is Siegfried in Acts 1, 2 and 4, and Jun Xia is Siegfried in Act 3. Henry Gray is Rothbart. The designs are by Gabriela Týlešová. (:pinch:)

    https://oopperabaletti.fi/en/stage24/video/swan-lake-recording/

     

  16. The Bavarian State Ballet will livestream Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland on Sunday, October 15, at 19:30 CEST or 1:30 pm Eastern. 

    The stream will then be available on demand for 24 hours starting on Saturday, October 28, at 10:00 CEST (4:00 am Eastern).

    https://www.staatsoper.de/en/tv 

    The ballet is scheduled to star Madison Young as Alice, Jakob Feyferlik as Jack, Shale Wagman as the White Rabbit, Elvina Ibraimova as the Queen of Hearts and António Casalinho as the Mad Hatter.

    https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productions/alices-adventures-in-wonderland/2023-10-15-1930-13958

  17. @SandyMcKean had already established this, but today PNB sent out an email stating:

    "PETITE MORT starts streaming Thursday October 5, and subscribing to the full Digital Season is the only way to enjoy this (and other) performances. Single-ticket access to digital performances is not available for all 2023/24 season programming. Subscribe to the digital season today and don’t miss a moment!"

    https://pnb.prospect2.com/index.php?action=social&chash=44c4c17332cace2124a1a836d9fc4b6f.608&nosocial=1

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