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Maybe reading is unnecesary altogether...Who knows..?

...so she just left Balanchine, got married and moved with Bejart...let's see...(oh, and surprise for me, in between she danced a full Swan Lake as a guest artist somewhere, in which she collapsed during the black swan coda. I wonder if there's any pic of her in the black tutu ). For those of you who read it already...does it gets more interesting...?

I can't get enough of the Vasiliev/Alonso production. Here both of them emulate to see which portrays a better "mad scene". After hers, and her death, his proceeds...a total, fully display of violent madness after witnessing Giselle's death, running around in despair, trying to attack Hilarion...desperately sobbing at Giselle's foot...Definitely, this scene requires masculinity...that's why Nureyev doesn't quite looks convincing to me in this sequence...

Oh,you would be surprised how common this phenomenom is...dissapointing indeed. Two books that reflects your point of view are Kirkland's and Farrell's (both of them not even being able to get a high school diploma), so do the math...2 plus 2 is almost always 4.

I should add that, as someone noticed earlier here, Farrell was specifically talking about the classic tutu...I personally have seen few of those at MCB ("Bourree Fantasque", "Pas de Dix" , "Tarantella" , "Nutcracker" and "Diamonds"...and that's it, (if mem. serves, which I'm doubting lately). In Havana Mme. gave me "Waltz Academy", "Theme and Variations" and "Sylvia PDD" , so my personal recollections goes just up to 8 works. Oh!, yes, CCBM did "Stars and Stripes PDD" also during last season, so counts now goes up to 9 Now, the new MCB season will add up, with "S.in C" and "Swan Lake", which I'm especially intrigued. Note: I found very interesting the pic of Mme. Danilova in the early Coco Chanel classic tutu design for her muse in Apollo, along with bathing caps and everything-(Mme. stated that Chanel felt horror for human hair in full display). Mme. Alonso's Apollo kept the caps, but had the now standard loose museline costumes. BTW, thanks a lot for all the info provided.

I'll take this personal. (It's really sacred over there), so Thank you! BTW...now i can't really wait to see her Giselle when they'll do it down here next...

I'm shocked this is underrated. It's a masterpiece! I'm not sure I'd describe Waters as underrated. He’s a cult figure, which isn’t quite the same thing. If we we were talking about one of his less-heralded efforts, then the adjective might qualify, but "Female Trouble" is one of his best-known titles, I think. I actually thought about the title because every time i address the filmmaker, people seems just to know something about Hairspray, and sometimes Pink Flamingos...I still think that the less known Female Trouble-which i think is better than the other two-doesn't get that much talked about...

Am i the only one who likes Besmertnova's ?

So here is part of my efforts to get more balanchinized. This question came to me after reading a certain passage on Farrell's book, in which she starts describing her view of "Diamonds". She said that D. "...was the only tutu ballet Balanchine ever made on me", and then she mentions "Ballet Imperial" and "Theme and Variations" as the only other two examples of tutu works . Now, i know that appart from Theme and Variationshttp://www.ballet.co.uk/images/rb/jr_theme..._flying_500.jpg and Ballet Imperial: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-an24795607-v, there are all the Raymonda choreograhies (Pas de Dix, RV, Cortege Hongrois http://www.nycballet.com/uploadedimages/Co...es/cortege.jpg) One of my favoites Bourree Fantasque http://balletbookstore.com/ballerina/pic/lecler01.jpg Silvia PDD http://www.kcdance.com/Images/u/umkcSrA07_4921a_g_p.jpg plus Apollo, in its earliest incarnation:http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/3346531.jpg...55A1E4F32AD3138, Symphony in C http://www.ballet.co.uk/images/nycb/pk_sym...e_still_500.jpg, Tarantella: http://www.nycballet.com/uploadedImages/Co...otes/tarant.gif, Stars and Stripes http://www.ballet-dance.com/200407/article...b-dth-stars.jpg Swan Lake: http://www.nycballet.com/uploadedImages/Co.../swanlake-b.jpg and Waltz Academy http://balletbookstore.com/ballerina/pic/alonso03.jpg ...but i know-(or suppose)-that there should have been more, which are either lost or were later re fashioned into a tutu-free work-(like "Apollo"). I'm sure many of you will know of some of this choreographies. Can i have some names...? Thanks in advance:

All of the above.

Wasn't that he didn't have access at the time to the original "lost Act" score...? I wonder what's the fate of this piece of music, and if exist in some russian vaults why it doesn't get used nowadays in modern productions of Bayadere

...and particularly if the fouettes and sautees on pointe are "finito" already...That's why Alonso does intermezzo between I and II, but unifies III and IV, (well, in reality, III and a short Epilogue). It's like saying..."Please, don't go...it will be over already in two minutes"

Thanks, rg...! i'm in...

Oh, same here...But a new tatoo is coming...!

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Well, living in South Beach is like being in a perpetual Tattoo Parlor...and the city itself is infested with hundreds of this establishments. I see all kinds of tats in daily basis-(the majority of people here are shirtless most of the times ), and beautiful designs are being displayed constantly. This is a plus if they are being showed on a great body. I particularly like the old fashion ones, and those that portray pin-up girls...

What do you mean by that...?, Aren't more all less all Act III's endings the same, i mean, everybody being laughed at by Rothbart and daughter, followed by their quick escape and the always overly dramatic fainting Queen...? That's if you use the original Act listing order from 1877. The 1895 Petipa/Ivanov version--which is the basis for many modern productions of Swan Lake--lists it as Act I (two scenes), Act II and Act III. I tend to follow the Petipa/Ivanov act listing. I knew about this order, but i've never seen a production in which Act I and the following Lakeside are done without intermission...Which company does it nowadays...?

Ha...talk about tattoos in Miami City Ballet!. One of "Our Show" works had the boys all shirtless...wow, all the principals, Jeremy Cox, Isanusi, Sarabita...they all had all kinds of tats, and they all looked great BTW ...(Cox's is a little sun surrounding his umbilical site.. ) Oh, and yes...i like tats...

What do you mean by that...?, Aren't more all less all Act III's endings the same, i mean, everybody being laughed at by Rothbart and daughter, followed by their quick escape and the always overly dramatic fainting Queen...?

Now, THAT'S a Giselle i would love to see...

Uuh...maybe just because it was Mr. Prokofiev vs. some ghost people...?

BTW, recently a friend sent me the link to his infamous european "Vogue" photo shoot... Members of this forum: Have you seen it?

I believe that in terms of ending the ballet, there's a big divergence between versions produced in the West (which has more or less a tragic ending) and the version produced in the former Soviet Union and China nowadays. I believe it came down to two reasons: 1) the objections of Soviet-era censors I mentioned above and 2) the Russians felt a "happy" ending better suited the music at the end, which ended in a C major signature. The story with the soviet censors always leaves me thinking, considering that those same censors didn't want the original happy ending that Prokofiev had in mind for his Romeo and Juliet!...Anyways, it's also interesting to note that the tragic ending has to be really well done in order to be credible. Not everybody realizes or understand this "happy" character of the reunited soul, along with that happy C key. ( I personally think somehow one has to have some kind of belief system or certain degree of knowledge of the after life theories in order to "get" this). When The Cuban Classical Ballet of Miami did it, they used the suicidal events, and then, the dead couple made a final appearance in the top of an awful pro that i guess was trying to resemble some clouds of something...(they didn't have the required equipment to do it the way ABT does, which is less confusing). Anyways, the poor Cubans looked like a happy couple in a top of a wedding cake. No good.

I was 11/12 when i read it. It was my first serious book, and i remember vividly being caught reading it under the table while in class, and asked to stepped in front of everyone to turn it to the teacher. I hated her.