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Royal New Zealand Ballet is already doing morning class. I'll try to link the streams above as they come. ⬆️

I'm sure they didn't wait until Sunday night to pack their bags. They're pros, and while tours can be exhausting, ten shows over eleven days is not backbreaking. Foreign tours are generally considered a perk of the job: you get to see the world, and someone else pays for it.

So they've been flying eastward on Korean Airlines rather than across the Pacific to Incheon International? I once flew to Japan via Dubai, but I began the journey in Europe.

China Airlines is a Taiwanese company. SkyTeam also includes China Eastern and XiamenAir. The European front includes Virgin Atlantic, Air France, KLM and ITA Airways, which emerged from the wreckage of Alitalia. Aeroflot was kicked off SkyTeam. Added: American Airlines is part of OneWorld, whose Chinese member is Cathay Pacific from Hong Kong. Presumably Japan Airlines also flies to China.

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

A reminder that the Bavarian State Ballet stream of Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is available today only.

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/

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

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.

New York City Ballet conducted its second tour in the autumn of 1972.

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.

Just a reminder that there is only one week left to watch Val Caniparoli's Jekyll and Hyde performed by the Finnish National Ballet.

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.

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.

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. I think her feet look perfectly fine without them. Diana Vishneva has no arches whatsoever, but she never thought it necessary to disguise this fact, nor did she let it stop her.

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.

Suzanne Farrell on her childhood "armchair":

Yes, Bell is 6'3", a good two-three inches taller than the others.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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