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In a live performance... Giselle: Lorna Feijoo, Lorena Feijoo Albrecht: Rolando Sarabia, Osmay Molina,

If going for live performances then... Quuiteria: Viengsay Valdes, Lorena Feijoo and Jeanette Delgado Basilio: Rolando Sarabia, Carlos Acosta and Renato Panteado

Allow me to ask a couple of questions: Dancers whom we ought to have seen very recently live in the role or others whom we have seen in the past in the role and haven't perform it either in a while or not anymore and are still roster members...? Only live performances or video also...? In any case, if going for live performances, then.. Fee Dragee: Lorna Feijoo, Alihaydee Carreno, Jeanette Delgado Prince Coqueluche: Osmay Molina, Rolando Sarabia, Renato Panteado

I appreciate your kind words, bart, but really...there's not too much that I can say here, unless I go on-(once again)- in an unnecessary, never ending raging monologue on programming-(which everybody ough to be sick of reading about from me by now). Every bitter word I wrote about the program, I realize, was in direct correlation with my limited personal taste, so it doesn't necessarily represent what the choreographers intended, and certainly nor the majority's taste, according to the audience reaction. What for Levin was an "explosive", "energetic" and "intense" experience, for me was a bland, dragging and ultimately a boring one. But again...there're no secrets on this. Things like Duo Concertant are totally out of my understanding-(my bad here, I accept it), and others like Scarlett's work never fail to leave without a trace in my memory. Delgado's fouettes in DQ and Panteado's solo in D#15 were nice though, although the pairing of the former with Guerra was unfortunate.

...and THOSE never-ending ondulations get on my nerves like craaaaaaaazy!!

I agree about Lucy Liu's. I actually had her in my list, but then...it is mostly about HER wearing the dress what turned me off. That dress needs someone like Grace Kelly or Sarah Jessica Parker...meaning, either a Princess-like lady like the former or an uber-fashionista like the latter. The dress is wonderful, but i don't think she has enough personality to wear it. Moore's was beautiful too, but it is not a fantasy/Hollywood-glamour dress. It is best suited for a night at the opera maybe. She wore it STUNNINGLY though. Totally agree with Hough, but I tend more toward the dramatic colors or black. Now, allow me PLEASE to substitute Longoria's by Glenn Close's and Hudson's with Naomi Watts', which i just discovered. Both wore Zac Posen

Worst dressed... Rachel Weizs in Luis Vuitton Elena Bonham Carter in Dolce and Gabanna Jessica Chastain in Calvin Klein

Didn't watch the thing, but browsing online I came out with my three "Best Dressed" picks... Taylor Swift in Donna Karan Eva Longoria in Pucci Kate Hudson in Alexander McQueen Coming up..the worst ones...

Darling...I INVENTED senior moments!

Wait...Koundarova ended up showing up..?

1/12. Program II, Miami. (Edited: Whole thing deleted. Too much bitterness on it, so not fair to those who enjoyed it/will enjoy it. They bravo'ed it, and that along with the fact that revenue was definitely collected from a full house, it is more than enough for them to call it a success, for which I think that's the norm...) I'll let my gentler peer bart to do a more gracious review than the one I just erased. Thank God that 1- I can keep jumping on a plane and 2-Youtube exists.

I wonder if they presented the original gorgeus backdrop in the recent staging in Havana for Valdes/Gounod, and the headpiece for the ballerina and bonette for the danseur. I had been told before that the complete film of the performance existed, but had never seen any footage. It that's the case, then the ballet is well preserved.

My pleasure. Lorna holds a special place in my Cuban ballet view years. Even though I was still able to see the older golden generation ofCuban ballerinas, it was really during Lorna's era when I could really had a real understanding of what I was watching, and so her dancing lighted up the subject for me. As per height, she's pretty average...not short, not uber tall.

Looking at the T&V clips, one of the things I can tell now is the way ballerinas have slowed down the crazy sequences of super fast chainee turns during that second solo. There is something in the way Alonso does the turns-(which are very characteristic of hers also during Giselle's Pas Seul final seconds)-by almost not looking at all around, arms very close and folded to her body, tiny space between steps and LOTS of speed...VERY centered and precise. That's one detail I see missing now from the variation. All the other footage is precious too. Nijinska's Fille with Kriza, the ballerina in Petroushka, her 1957 appearance at the Bolshoi, the pics in Fall River Legend, Billy the Kid, Aleko, Chopiniana alongside Markova, and many others with different partenaires at times-(Dolin, Massine, Youskevitch, Romanoff, Robbins, Eglevsky, Bruhn, Kriza, Semenov, etc...).

...and priceless footage of T&V also..! Opening sequence: 25:37 to 26:17 Alonso's second variation. 27:00 to 27:38 ...and a beautiful pic of the final tableaux with the original opulent backdrop. Stunning.

Thanks for posting, MH. A very interesting detail comes with the feud initiated between Massine and Kirstein when both offered Alonso a contract in 1939, the first one as a leading dancer and the second in the corps, utimately resulting in Alonso's decision to stay with Ballet Caravan. Vintage "Apollo" from 22:01 to 22:06...!

I was just mesmerized with this Odette a few minutes ago, and thought about sharing my experience. Never have I seen such a detailed interpretation.

It is still somehow sad to see a dancer just gone in such silence...

The photo looks more mid-century to me than the 60's-70's Soloviev era, but I could be wrong....Also the dancer doesn't looks as bulky as S. in the leg area, but then, I could be wrong again.

Could be Tereshkina too, for a change...

Oh, dear bart...I love how you always put things in such nice, respectful perspective. Kuddos for you! I know I get too cranky about programming, always expecting what I know won't ever happen, so I guess whereas you factually work your mind with what you have, I keep having silly fantasies on Petipa. But then, of course I will end up having a good night at the ballet. MCB dancers are beautiful to watch, and they certainly have given me great pleasure all this years, and I really expect to get much more from them along the way. So bring the Scarlett, people...challenge Cubanmiamiboy!!

Unfortunately no...but I've seen clips of her Sylphide...I think with the Bolshoi...? Wonderful indeed.

...if you don't have a great jump, don't even try it. BTW, If I could ever see Osipova's "Flames.." jetes in this, I could then die in peace...

Oh yes...

...if you don't have a great jump, don't even try it.