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Mashinka

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  • Connection to/interest in ballet** (Please describe. Examples: fan, teacher, dancer, writer, avid balletgoer)
    Long time ballet fan and former modern dance administrator
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    LONDON
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  1. Interesting article about Carey Mulligan in the film https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68216440
  2. The film's title defeated an ITN newsreader who pronounced it as May Estro. Such bloopers are becoming increasingly common in Britain.
  3. I saw this film with a couple of friends and we loved it. It is very much about his private life, but there is a great deal of his music all the way through. Bernstein did a lot of work for BBC TV, not just conducting but interviews and lectures too. I must have seen some way back in the 60's but so great was Bernstein's personality and enthusiasm that I still remember them vividly. Superb acting, I hope some sort of award might be in the offing.
  4. I wish the Royal Ballet would bring it back, but the management and Kobborg apparently fell out big time. In the meantime what do we get? More bloody Manons.
  5. I believe Prisca Zeisel is an Austrian national, her behaviour is disgraceful. Regarding Cyprus, I remember hiring a car from a firm that turned out to be Russian run and later stayed at a hotel with a number of Russian staff.
  6. You mention munitions. Yesterday I was told that the company is being asked to donate (I doubt voluntarily) to a bomb to be inscribed 'from the Bolshoi'. I found that hard to believe, after reading the above post I no longer doubt it.
  7. I was planning to watch it on TV, but with no coronets, ermine or bling, there doesn't seem much point. Kate is too old to wear a weath of flowers, but it would be nice if she cut her hair or piled it up for the occason.
  8. Monarchs have held the title defender of the faith since the pope bestowed it on Henry VIII. However a few years later Henry ditched the faith when he turned the country protestant and looted all the religious institutions. So D of F is actually totally meaningless.
  9. Much of the scaling down is to do with security concerns. Unfortunately London is a hot spot for terrorism and the police don't have the resources to deal with the kind of celebrations that took place in 1953. The cost is estimated at a mere 100 million pounds, a piddling amount compared to the welfare state, but the net income from tourism etc. will cover that cost.
  10. The practice started during lockdown and the Rome Opera weren't handing out cast sheets either in 2021, but their is no excuse now.
  11. This article doesn't specifically relate to dance, but the balletic image made me feel physically sick https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65347833
  12. It all seems greatly removed from Britten's Gloriana created for the last coronation.
  13. As a working class woman I can never buy into the belief that opera and ballet are elitist.
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