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I presume this is a close relative of Derek Deane's production for English National Ballet. He initially did an in-the-round production for the Royal Albert Hall in 1997 which featured 60 swans, and it has been revived many times subsequently. It is coming back to the Royal Albert Hall this summer - details here
https://www.ballet.org.uk/production/swan-lake-round/
Later on Deane made a proscenium-arch version of Swan Lake for ENB which was suitable for touring, with more standard forces. There are quite a few differences between the versions. The "standard size" version looks as if it was drawn from his memories of earlier Royal Ballet productions. It's had various revisions over the years. At one point I think it had the Ashton pas de quatre in in it, but that went. The ENB version does have Ashton's Neapolitan dance. Here's a review from last year - googling will find you more
I don't know exactly what version Shanghai Ballet are using. Perhaps Deane has made a further hybrid version. If I had the chance to go and find out, I think I would.
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I didn't spot a thread for this, so rather belatedly here's a list
Already transmitted in 2019
Concerto / Enigma Variations / Raymonda Act 3
Coppelia
There's a taster of the Coppelia transmission here - Muntagirov's Act 3 variation
Further transmissions in 2020
Sleeping Beauty 16 January
(Casting is here as pdf)
The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering 25 February
Swan Lake 1 April
The Dante Project (New McGregor) 28 May
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National Ballet of Canada bring Nureyev's Sleeping Beauty to Covent Garden 28 July to 1 August. Presented by the Hochhausers.
https://www.roh.org.uk/tickets-and-events/the-sleeping-beauty-by-national-ballet-of-canada-details
Any thoughts about what to expect or casting ? This version hasn't been seen here for a while.
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The RB web site states that
"Frederick Ashton’s Monotones I and II .... replaces Alexei Ratmansky’s Preludes in June 2020. This is due to last minute changes in Ratmansky’s commitments with American Ballet Theater" - is this related perhaps to his new full length work for them ?
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Oddly enough, the same Ricardo Amarante work (Love Fear Loss) was performed earlier this month in London, by the Astana Ballet at the Linbury. Sadly it was recorded music rather than live, which I'm sure would be a big improvement. There was another (longer) Amarante work on the programme, A Fuego Lento, with a strong tango influence.. I think both of these might have been originally made for the Royal Ballet of Flanders.
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This was filmed last summer in Budapest, and will be shown in UK cinemas this autumn. It might be shown on tv at Christmas by the BBC.
Hayward and Bracewell are the leads.
This is the site for the film - there is a trailer available.
https://www.romeoandjulietballetfilm.com/
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Dance of the Blessed Spirits was the subject of one of the Ashton Foundation Masterclasses with Dowell, back in 2016, the film of it is available via the Foundation web site.
http://www.frederickashton.org.uk/rediscovered.html
If only they would get round to performing this at Covent Garden....
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I'd be interested to hear reports of this. Re Programme A, I did wonder if the Ashton pieces might be those featured at the recent Fonteyn gala - Pajdak did the Wise Virgins solo and Stix-Brunell a brief solo from Nocturne. Both collectors' items. Perhaps the Edmonds piece might be the solo she made for Joseph Sissens seen on World Ballet day last year. There is also a self-choreographed solo by Calvin Richardson which I recall has cropped up in galas.
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I did see it, and dug about to see if I kept any notes from then, but I didn't turn up anything. I think the response was in general very positive. Though maybe it was a bit overshadowed by the Raymonda Act 3 on he same bill. There is a review which gives you some idea
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It was done by English National Ballet in London in 2013, with Vadim Muntagirov.
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There's a lovely (quite small) book of black and white photos of Fonteyn by Gordon Anthony from 1950, which includes a number of pieces not performed any more, The depth of feeling about a number of these registers very strongly. Here's his words about The Wise Virgins.
"Fonteyn was the very personification of the dawn of womanhood. With bare feet and flowing robes she was an Italian Renaissance painting come to life. The grace and beauty of the stylised movements of hands and arms suited her to perfection, and, giving full rein to her lyricism, she appeared literally to melt from one posture to another.....she seemed to surround herself with a great tenderness and peace."
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This year's competition has just begun. The BBC web site is here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007qn4b
Usually clips of performances turn up on the site as it progresses.
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There's a number of new versions about it seems. There is one in the UK with choreography by Aletta Collins. Details here with some remarks on other versions in preparation.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-46045398
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The BBC are putting out a full day of live streaming on 5 April - Dance Passion. The full running order is here
Main page is here
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/errz3d/live/c4rp5v
Lots of different UK companies participating, in half hour or so slots, ENB, BRB, Scottish Ballet, Rambert , Akram Khan, Wayne McGregor and others. I think that these should also be available later on demand.
I don't know if this will be available outside the UK.
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This (from march 13) is available either on their YouTube channel or via the ROH website here
https://www.roh.org.uk/news/watch-live-the-royal-ballet-rehearse-romeo-and-juliet-on-13-march-2019
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I saw Wei Wang as the Creature in Scarlett's Frankenstein with the Royal Ballet last night and thought he did a really good job in the role. However, its not the sort of part that gives you many clues about how the dancer might look in other roles. I'd like to see him again. SFB will be in London in May / June with four mixed bills - the Shostakovitch Trilogy, and works from Unbound - Liang / Marston / Pita, Welch / Scarlett/ Peck. and McIntyre / Wheeldon / Dawson. Is he likely to appear in some of these and if so which ones ?
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I noticed in an article in Broadway World that Alston has accepted a position as Resident Choreographer for the next two seasons at New York Theatre Ballet. I'm glad to hear that he will still be creating work, but sorry from my point of view that it's the other side of the Atlantic.
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22 hours ago, Jane Simpson said:Which review was this, please? I've read most of those with online links and don't remember anyone putting Symphony in C down like this!
I am similarly puzzled. There is a comprehensive listing of fifteen reviews of this programme on the Ballet Association web site.
http://www.balletassociation.co.uk/Pages/news.html#Unknown
I can't see in any of those one which lauds Unknown Soldier and dismisses Symphony in C as a tutu ballet and without any mention of its cast.
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Rambert (formerly Rambert Dance Company, formerly Ballet Rambert) has put its complete performance archive online, for everything they have ever done since the beginning back in the 1930s.
http://www.rambert.org.uk/performance-database/
It is searchable by various criteria, so if you have the urge to see, for example, all works Ashton or Tudor created for the company, or which Cunningham works have been in the rep, you can search for them and details of performances. There is also a very handy timeline with links to each work. I only wish other companies had something so comprehensive.
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Very pleased to see that SFB will be at Sadler's Wells in 2019 with a generous four programmes, 29 May to 8 June.
https://www.sadlerswells.com/whats-on/2019/san-francisco-ballet/
They haven't been here since 2012 though they were frequent visitors before then.
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Some more info on this in a shared article in the Times
"Still, he accepts that “change is very much in the air and inevitably it’s the turn of other, younger talents, but older artists are a hugely important part of the dance ecology and the Arts Council doesn’t know what to do with us. There’s also a very unhealthy pressure for all organisations — even the big ballet companies — to reinvent themselves all the time and roll over backwards to do something new.” "
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Details here in this article in the NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/arts/dance/richard-alston-dance.html
This came as a surprise. He is still very active in creating work.
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On 9/6/2018 at 11:46 AM, miliosr said:
Robert Gottlieb's remembrance of Paul Taylor:
https://observer.com/2018/08/remembering-paul-taylor-dance-genius/
Interesting quote:
"Most tellingly, perhaps, he was American—which may be why he has been less appreciated in Europe and England than he has been back home. He wasn’t experimental enough for the French or comfy enough for the Brits—neither avant-garde nor traditional."
I guess I never thought about it before but Gottlieb's right: Paul Taylor doesn't have much of a presence in Europe. Laurent Hilaire programmed Aureole at the Stanislavsky not long ago but, other than that, I'm hard-pressed to name another Taylor work that has appeared on European stages in recent seasons. Maybe Taylor and Mark Morris are the same in that regard -- not having a work that's a fixture of the international repertory?
I was quite surprised to read this, at least in so far as it relates to Britain. I don't recall Taylor being reviewed on visits over here in any negative way, rather the complete opposite, with great enthusiasm. Rambert used to have a few of his works in their rep (Airs was on the bill when Sadler's Wells reopened after the rebuild). Rambert also used to do Roses. I remember that being reviewed more enthusiastically than other new works on the bill. However, that was last done here n 2011/12. Rambert have headed more towards the search for new choreographers in recent years (though still producing some Cunningham pieces). Other companies also brought his works on visits to Britain (ABT, Alvin Ailey). But I don't think any UK ballet company took up any of his work in the last 15 years or so. Maybe that's part of the decline of the triple bill in general.
I do wish the Taylor company had toured more frequently here. They certainly used to but in the last ten years or so it did fall away. I would love to see that madcap Rite of Spring again. I had assumed that the absence of the company might have had more to do with the costs of touring the UK that seems to limit the number of companies that we get to see here these days rather than any lack of enthusiasm for Taylor's work.
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I see from the Royal Ballet School list of graduate contracts this year that one is headed to the ABT Studio company - Eli Gruska. He's the only one headed to any company the US this year.
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Update: the casting for the Sleeping Beauty performance changed on the day with Fumi Kaneko replacing an indisposed Lauren Cuthberstson. You can see a brief excerpt of Kaneko's Aurora here: she was delightful.