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This is a clip from the Teatro Municipal de Rio de Janeiro-(Brasil)-Company rehearsing SEB

I also loved Lady Gaga's performance...The girl is fierce..!

I love this clips. Is this work performed by any American company...? PDD by Aurelie Dupont and Manuel Legris http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUUftg70fEU...feature=related Mazurca by Nicolas Le Riche http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg1pPSUpiQE...feature=related Variation by Aurelie Dupont http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNuAVa0Ys2k...feature=related

I know you're looking for a book, but I thought you may find this link somehow helpful... http://www.dancebooks.co.uk/titles/5494.asp

yeeeeeeeeeah!!!!!!!!!!!!! Shawn!!!

I'm so confused with the rythms...Melissa and her partner just danced what was supposed to be a "samba", but the music was a RUMBA FLAMENCA!!

...aaah, Shawn was just deliciously cute in her cha-cha-cha...YOU GO GIRL!!!

I'm glad you liked it toeprints.. thank you!...

I love Lil' Kim...!!! yeeeah!! (I just saw her brief appearance... ) And I want Shawn to win, BTW...

Seems like an interesting project...Thanks for the info !! For those who like me think that The Truth lies within the Tube this is something definitely worthy to check...

dirac, on the third night it was Hungarian Balazs Szokolay who did the honors. A very charismatic musician, with plenty of those mannerisms pianists sometimes develop while playing...(like talking out loud with the instrument at times... ). He played Mendelssohn-(10 songs without words, Prelude and Fugue in E Minor Op. 35 No. 1 and Rondo Caprioccioso in E Major, Op. 14). All impeccable. After the intermission he played a beautiful piece by Schumann, "Papillons", and then Liszt-("Harmonies du Soir-Transcendental Etude No. 11"-, "Legend No. 2 in E Major" and "Venezia e Napoli-Annees supplement to II"). Now, during his interpretation of "Papillons" something happened. I have never heard of this piece before, and suddenly a familiar BALLET melody hits me...and VERY familiar. My mind started to process it right away and wouldn't stop...(oh, you balletomane... ). Anyway, I first crossed out Tchaikovsky, for which I never heard of him copying anybody. That left me with few other choices, so I'm thinking about...Giselle...?, No, I know Adam's score like the palm of my hand, and it doesn't go there...Coppelia...?, mm, maybe...Fille...?, I don't think so...the melody was VERY familiar, and I don't get to see Fille that often...Another clue was that I was CONVINCED right away that It was a character passage melody, not pointe...for some reason I knew that right away...then I kinda "saw" that It was like a comic fragment, and then and there...I got it. Not other that THE PARTY SCENE FROM THE NUTCRACKER...!!!, you know, when grandpa is leading the dancing with grandma with all those comic gestures imitating elderly dancing...

Oooh, yes, particularly at SOME parties...

Cheers from Miami...!!!

That's very kind...thank you, Patrick...

The thread of which productions has one seen of SL made me dig in my shelf to look for a book that I have with tons of pics of the starting days of Mme. Alonso's company. There I found what I was looking for, the data and pics that make Mary Skeaping the hand that brought SL to Cuba, back in 1954. Now, there had been precedents, like the staging of the II Act by Alonso herself in 1948, brought from BT, and the Black Swan PDD, taken from the Ballet Russes version and staged by Alonso too. Then, Skeaping staged the Act I Pas de Trois in 1952, before coming back in 1954 to stage the full length work in 4 acts. This is essentially the version that the Company still dances, with the 1948 Black Swan and the soviet happy finale. I have some questions, like... 1-Where does Skeaping version comes from..? 2-Are there any Sergeyev background on them...? 3-Is Skeaping version still danced anywhere else...? 4-How is Skeaping regarded among ballet choreography history scholars...? Thank you in advance...

Ok, so... Live SL's, I've seen... -Alonso's for CNB-(with the pro of a very cute mime scene related to the whole wedding-to-be ordeal and the cons of the happy soviet era ending , which I stopped liking after seeing the original suicidal ending) -McKenzie's for ABT. I didn't like this production, with that weird Prologue, the Alien-look/alike Rothbart and the Maypole thing... but...I liked the ending. -Villella's for MCB-(Balanchine's). Still missing Odile on that one...! On video I have... -Nureyev/Fonteyn...(very surreal...from N's makeup to the ending...) -Ulanova/Dudinskaya/Sergueev...(I can't help it... but I love it...Ulanova and Dudinskaya are unique, and the puffy tutus of the swans are lovely...plus it has a delicious vintage feeling...even with the truncated choreography) -CCBM. Oh, this are my people... , and they did their best to put up a decent production, plus I love Hayna Gutierrez as O/O on it...

...thank you, thank you, Marga...

Thank you Helene, Natasha, bart...it was a pleasure to reminisce a little bit...

Wonderful recount, Amy. Many thanks!!!

Cygneblanc, just open an account in flickr, and post the pics there. Then post the link to the pics webpage here. That's how I do it. Hope this helps! http://www.flickr.com/

I just got back, and it's REALLY late...(or very early, depending...). The night got extended... Anyways, yes...I did go yesterday, and tonight. I'm also planning on going tomorrow. Both days I've witnessed the most unbelievable talent in the hands of two very young pianists. Yesterday the night was conducted by the German Severin von Eckardstein, who has been named "The new Horowitz", after his overwhelming recitals in the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, as well as his successful debut in the Piano Hayes Series in the Kennedy Center, at DC...(Natasha...?, heard of him?) He played 3 Chopin's nocturnes, two works of Scriabin-(a Sonata and a Nocturne), a Ballade by Grieg, another work by Olivier Messiaen and a Sonata from Liszt. I was in heaven...i can't never have enough of Chopin. Tonight the experience was as powerful, with the very young American pianist Stephen Beus doing the honors. OMG...what a revelation. The somehow shy personality of this young man flipped 360 degrees once he sat and starting attacking the piano with such passion and brio that at some point I thought that he was going to fell from the stool. Honestly. He played Bach-(the English Suite in G Minor), Liszt-(Spanish Rhapsody), Mendelssohn-(Sonata in E Major) and Samuel Barber-(sonata in E-flat Minor)-and Nicolas Medtner-(Sonata Tragica). He left me breathless, particularly after his Mendelssohn interpretation. I was wondering if somebody on this board has seen him playing. Loved it. Oh, and yesterday Von Eckardstein played an encore...a piece by Prokofiev-(which i couldn't identify) Beautiful...