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Oooooooh, yes... , and then wait 'till you are actually IN ...you'll look back wishing to have that extra time to read that you had pre-med school... Good luck!!

I don't really know that much about Wikipedia and its sources, but i've noticed mistakes and incorrect information in many of its entries...

I saw his company in Havana when i was a kid, and i perfectly remember how much did i loved them... RIP, Mr. Moiseyev

please!

Some years ago i saw a "Dracula" ballet. It was staged by Laura Alonso, (Mme. Alicia Alonso's rebel daughter, who has her own classical ballet company in Havana, in open opossition to her mother's). It was a very "sui generis" performance, with lots of special effects, including our annoying old friend the smoking machine...

Good job indeed, Cristian! and I hadn't seen it when you wrote it 3 months ago, so thanks to dirac for putting up a new article which I haven't had time to read yet. This is quite fascinating, and I had no idea anything like this existed--one of the few examples of something that is both 'inspiring' and 'inspirational', which is not so frequent an occurrence. My pleasure. I'm happy to spread the word on the works of this wonderful company. As i said earlier, these dancers are truly professionals, and i wish them the best . Good luck! thank you, dirc, for the link..

Carbro, i know you are refering to horror-themed ballets, but i'll quote you to refer to unintended horrific movies. eg,.Jenniffer Lopez's "Gigli" (wasn't that horrific...? )Boo!

HI, dancerboy...i really wish you the best luck. This is one my favorite ballet pieces, (Fokine is my idol), and i hope you can capture the esence of the romantic feeling that lies deep inside this short but lovely story... He,He...BTW, seems that we always have opposite views about certain topics. I can't contain myself to declare that my role model for this part is Misha,(i find his mannerisms on this piece fascinating, (giving the obvious masculinity that usually caracterize his dancing), and the last one on my list would be your first one, Malakhov ...Talk about personal taste..! Still, i sincerelly hope you the best...Keep us informed and again, good luck!!

And often does. After count 16, most Odiles who do multis (single-single-double, etc.) revert to straight singles. Give me an old fashioned ballerina that can deliver good 32 singles with a perfect 90 degrees a la second, and i'll be happy. If well done, they go perfectly with the 4/4 tempo

I went to the theatre...the day after the performance!!.. so there i was standing by myself wondering why was the place closed and empty, 'till i double checked the ticket's date . This is embarassing...

I'm convinced that Miami has an stigma...it will take a lot of time and effort to change the minds of those who can't admit that MCB is a cultural force strongly sustained by Eddie and his wonderful troupe...

Good God! Talk about torturing a score! They might as well have stuck to the original substitution. (And if I remember the Kavanagh's Nureyev bio correctly - I'm too lazy to go check - Margot was not at all happy about it.) Yep...the Adagio was from the "Tchaikowsky Pas de Deux", Sigfried's variation from the "Pas de Deux for two Merry Makers",Odile's solo is one of the variations from the "Pas de Six", and the Coda from the "Pas de Six" too...so yes, talk about torturing a score...!

That's an easy pick for me... Polanski's trilogy: Repulsion (1965)-(I'm a big fan of Deneuve )-, Rosemary's Baby (1968), and The Tenant (1976). Talk about the horrors of apartment-dwelling ! Boo!! Wait...! What about Michael Crichton's 1978 "Coma" ? Does it applies as a horror movie...? I remember that when i first saw it as a kid, it scared the hell out of me...The intense paranoia that pervades the film is similar to that of Rosemary's Baby. Never suspected that yars later i would end up in the field...

Now that we're back to the SL mood, ( ) and the 32 fouettes, i hope to find out how it is possible that the first time that the steps were done in this ballet was by Legnani in the february 1894 Ivanov staging ...of the likeside act!! I've seen clips of Fonteyn and Nureyev doing the BSPP using the Adagio from the original music (TPDD) and the Coda from the "Pas de Six", and she does 27 fouettes followed Nureyev doing pirouettes a la second.

Words taken out of my mouth! Although there are a lot of very skilled and accomplished ballet writers on Ballet Talk, many of us are just enthusiastic amateurs. Writing down what we've seen actually improves the eye for future performances. And it helps others, too. I know bart...i have somebody who's dying to join BT, but she finds the technical writing too intimidating...i'll try harder to convince her to step in...

Well said!..Go MCB!!!

I was recently watching a video of Lorna Feijoo dancing "Ballo de la Regina" -(in an unlicensed production in Havana)- back when she was still a principal with BNC. This is an interesting video, because as it was filmed by a friend with a hidden camera right at the performance, shows in detail the moment when Feijoo , in a middle of a simple bourees sequence, took a clatter nasty fall. She seemed dazed for a fraction of a second, but made a fast recovery in the middle of the audience's massive applause, and finished her sequence more brilliant than ever. This performance, in its official version, had this part cut off and edited, so those who weren't there will never know that it happened. I'm sure the experienced BT's have witnessed similar situations with well know dancers. I'm curious to know about it: who was involved ?, during which ballet ?, what was the the ballerina/dancer/ audience's reaction ?... Please, some stories!

Wow... There are worse images I could think of WOW!!

This has happened before, and once the stage was so obscured it was hard to see some of the dancing. Are smoke effects that difficult to get right? (Maybe we need a thread about smoke-effect disasters and similar disasters we have seen.) bart, that would be a great idea to start a thread on this subject !. I personally hate the smoking machines..

Wow...

Wow...i'll never forget Leibniz Monad's theory as long as i live. It gave me a great deal of a hard time on a Philosophy final

That's an easy pick for me... Polanski's trilogy: Repulsion (1965)-(I'm a big fan of Deneuve )-, Rosemary's Baby (1968), and The Tenant (1976). Talk about the horrors of apartment-dwelling ! Boo!!

Thank you. Good point, bart. But well, being the case that "The story of Clara" was the only Nutcracker reference that certain local audience could have access to, i guess we would be talking about the only town in America where there's not at least a little school performance of the "real thing", (and that would be another controversial topic, of how "real" some "classical" Nutcrackers are out there...). In that case, if NOTHING is offered, isn't it better to have the chance to see SOMETHING, even if it doesn't apply for "The Real Thing" title...?