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Thanks for the link, Kathleen! I see that Peck does single, simple fouettes instead of the more complex combination that's usually the norm...?

There used to be a now defunct video of Reyes/Corella, which has been one of the BEST interpretations I've seen. The way he caught Reyes on those iconic fish dives almost with her forehead on the floor was just out of this world.

"The Boob/Twerking Pas"...

Streep is nominated again. She has made so much fun of herself for being the actress with the most losses in the history of the awards...

Oh, wow....I see Feijoo is still dancing the role..! Good for her..!! She's been dancing it , I would say easily, for some 20 years now...

Runner ups. Best Dress: Amy Adams in Atelier Versace JLo (45!) in Zuhair Murad Leslie Mann in Kaufmanfranco Worst Dressed; Keira Nightley in Chanel Zosia Mamet in Andrew Gn. Lena Dunham in Zac Posen

Best: Diane Kruger in Emilia Wickstead Worst: Rosamund Pike in Vera Wang

And I tell you what sells in Miami. The ballroom Tharp does, as well as flamenco, salsa and Cirque du Soleil. Miami City Ballet has the Balanchine legacy that Villella brought, but it is a fact that the city has never been/is not/won't ever be identified with the artform, we like it or not. If it is still surviving, it is really a miracle-(and quite coming from an ample dose of stubbornness on Villella's part, aside from his devotion to Balanchine). This miracle is definitely beginning to disappear.

Yes, it starts at 1:45:40 http://youtu.be/tPrQTVgkHnM?t=1h45m38s 1:46;40, actually...

This company is going downhill. Let me rephrase that. It is becoming "Morphoses", the short lived project of Lopez/Wheeldon. I went to the matinee performance today, and you're right. It doesn't feel AT ALL like going to the ballet. Welcome to the new Miami City Ballet.

From the MCB website... "MCB’s second program of the season brings to life George Balanchine’s famous words “See the music, hear the dance” with Twyla Tharp’s Nine Sinatra Songs, Paul Taylor’s Mercuric Tidings and George Balanchine’s Symphony in Three Movements." (Yawn in my book), but I will still go tomorrow, I can't help it...I like pointe shoes..(Symphony in three movements) http://www.miamicityballet.org/event/hear-the-dance-2015-01-11-mat

It is interesting how the Balanchine Trust works. Symphony in C appears in the list just with the said title, whereas Ballet Imperial has Piano Concerto # 2 in parenthesis (no the other way around). Valse Fantaisie only lists the 67 version, whereas the NYCB site also aknowledges the 1953 completely different first version with Diana Adams, Melissa Hayden, Tanaquil Le Clercq and Nicholas Magallanes.

For what I can tell, Symphony in C takes a different turn than those of other morphed Balanchine ballets: Ballet Imperial-(changes just in costumes), Apollo-(choreo cuts but no choreo changes)-or Valse Fantaisie-(two completely different ballets set to the same music). Symphony in C has indeed various changes from Palais-(both choreographic and costume wise)..., but they are basically the same ballet.

I just sat and started watching both side by side, with less than a second of a difference, watching first a little sequence of the Kent one and then followed by the POB. Well...since the very first accords of the first movements, whole sequences of steps are totally different. If both versions come from Balanchine, he heavily re choreographed it from "Palais" to "Symphony"...

Spoiler alert: Expect NIghtley's ever present "period" faces...

I went last night to see this. keira Nightley is on it, so aside from her fixated, predictable onscreen demeanor for period films, it is a great final product. I envision Academy Award nominations and winnings for Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing.

Not really. Russian SL, Bayadere and Nutcracker do not honor the original libretto, and this is in both Mariinsky and Bolshoi. Well, that is my opinion! My opinion is that Russia productions of the classics are the best ... Odette and Siegfried don't commit suicide, and instead she's turned into human form forever and ever. Solor doesn't die and instead ends up embracing a ghost. Clara becomes Fee Dragee and...oh well... You did not read the whole of my answer to you further up this thread... Actually, I did. And after having seen countless productions of the classics by both Western and Russian companies, I still think they do not own the ultimate versions of them...at least those I mentioned. For once, they are misleading in their story telling for those who don't know what the librettist intended.

Not really. Russian SL, Bayadere and Nutcracker do not honor the original libretto, and this is in both Mariinsky and Bolshoi. Well, that is my opinion! My opinion is that Russia productions of the classics are the best ... Odette and Siegfried don't commit suicide, and instead she's turned into human form forever and ever. Solor doesn't die and instead ends up embracing a ghost. Clara becomes Fee Dragee and...oh well...

Edited: Double post

Not really. Russian SL, Bayadere and Nutcracker do not honor the original libretto, and this is in both Mariinsky and Bolshoi.

Will think about it...

Later on in CNB some other couples did a variation of this detail. Instead of Giselle tossing the lily she would get on pointe, in low arabesque pointing the lily upward, to which Albrecht would grab it from her in a middle of a grand jete. @29:38

I think I saw at least Carreno grabbing the lily mid air a couple of times. That was even before he went to dance with ABT.

Thanks for the info!...and Merry Christmas

A much interesting rendition of Ivanov wonderful adagio by Hayden/Villella on this Christmas Day... Merry Christmas!