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Thanks so much for the heads up. I have always wanted to see a ballet of Cranko's.

Saturday, 25 June 2011 3D Dance looks Skywards with Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake by Ismene Brown This article has an interview with FIONA MORRIS where she elaborates on the process of 3D filming: Link

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A new post by Ballet Bag on musicality. Link

CATcerto. ENTIRE PERFORMANCE. Mindaugas Piecaitis. Soloist is Nora The Piano Cat

This website includes commentaries (with English translations) on nine works by Jerome Bel.

How old was Alonso was when she danced her last Giselle?

Opus Arte today celebrated its tenth anniversary with the announcement that it is to release the highly anticipated DVD recording of The Royal Ballet’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon & featuring Royal Ballet Principal Lauren Cuthbertson in the title role. Release date : 26 September on Opus Arte DVD and Blu-ray Link

This link was posted on BT for Dancers in response to a question about the "use of ballet". It struck me as relevant to your thoughts, hunterman0953. It is an excerpt from a welcome address given to parents of incoming students at The Boston Conservatory on September 1, 2004, by Dr. Karl Paulnack, director of the Music Division. What follows is part of the talk I will give to this year's freshman class when I welcome them a few days from now. The responsibility I will charge your sons and daughters with is this: "If we were a medical school, and you were here as a med student practicing appendectomies, you'd take your work very seriously because you would imagine that some night at two AM someone is going to waltz into your emergency room and you're going to have to save their life. Well, my friends, someday at 8 PM someone is going to walk into your concert hall and bring you a mind that is confused, a heart that is overwhelmed, a soul that is weary. Whether they go out whole again will depend partly on how well you do your craft. You're not here to become an entertainer, and you don't have to sell yourself. The truth is you don't have anything to sell; being a musician isn't about dispensing a product, like selling used cars. I'm not an entertainer; I'm a lot closer to a paramedic, a firefighter, a rescue worker. You're here to become a sort of therapist for the human soul, a spiritual version of a chiropractor, physical therapist, someone who works with our insides to see if they get things to line up, to see if we can come into harmony with ourselves and be healthy and happy and well. Frankly, ladies and gentlemen, I expect you not only to master music; I expect you to save the planet. If there is a future wave of wellness on this planet, of harmony, of peace, of an end to war, of mutual understanding, of equality, of fairness, I don't expect it will come from a government, a military force or a corporation. I no longer even expect it to come from the religions of the world, which together seem to have brought us as much war as they have peace. If there is a future of peace for humankind, if there is to be an understanding of how these invisible, internal things should fit together, I expect it will come from the artists, because that's what we do.

I think they mean limited range -- "The entire compass of tones; the entire compass of tones of a voice or an instrument. [1913 Webster]" Link

Youtube: Alice in Wonderland - The Caterpillar & The Mushroom Link

Link to blog entry from June 28, 2009 "Manhandling Manon" by Philip Kennicott (culture critic of The Washington Post and monthly columnist for Gramophone).

3 year old Alexei Orohovsky dancing the Esmeralda variation. This was posted on BT4D. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

This book looks interesting: Backstage at the Revolution: How the Royal Paris Opera Survived the End of the Old Regime by Victoria Johnson (2008) Link

"On the Trail of Ruth St. Denis is a historical dance documentary that re-creates, in the present day, the extraordinary journey through India in 1926 of the great American interpretive dancer Ruth St. Denis. In the film, the camera follows British-Australian dance artist Liz Lea as she follows in the footsteps of one of the 20th century’s greatest artistic innovators – a woman who could count amongst her students the silent film star Louise Brooks and the legendary dance choreographer Martha Graham. Trekking across modern day India, self proclaimed “dance detective” Liz Lea attempts to uncover the long lost trail of Ruth St. Denis and, along the way, recreates some of the dances which brought St. Denis notoriety and fame so many years before…" Link

Hi Tanja, have you seen this youtube clip? I also really liked him in Anyuta. He is well cast as the tall handsome lover.

Interview with Cory Stearns ("Cupcakes & Conversation" on Ballet News).

Here is a quote from the interview where he speaks from the heart about the loss in retirement. Link

Unfortunately this podcast won't be available for very much longer... Link Broadcast on BBC Radio Wales, 5:30AM Wed, 12 Jan 2011 Only available until 6:02AM Wed, 19 Jan 2011 Value Judgements - Series 14 - Episode 5 Ballet dancer Jonathan Cope has had a glittering career. He talks to Phil George about his love for dance, and about the time when his sense of vocation deserted him.

An interesting discussion about narrative vs abstract ballets... Classical ballet and contemporary dance Jan 14, 2011 As the Royal Ballet rehearses Christopher Wheeldon's Alice in Wonderland, its first new full-length ballet in 15 years, Peter Aspden talks to Royal Ballet principal Tamara Rojo, Sadler’s Wells artistic director Alistair Spalding and FT critic Clement Crisp. Does Alice represent a return to traditional values? Are ballet companies doing enough to encourage new work? And, what is the relationship between classical ballet and contemporary work? Produced by Griselda Murray Brown Link

Thanks for posting these. I hope you can leave them up a little longer. Do you know who the gentleman is in the rehearsal segments with Rojo and Acosta? It was so interesting to hear the interview with the two dancers talking about the Kingdom of the Shades.

Does anyone know if there are plans to produce a dvd of Peter Boal’s new staging of Giselle?

Two films that I enjoyed recently were: Jacob the Liar (1975) by Frank Beyer (German) Description from Netflix After Life (1999) by Hirokazu Koreeda (Japanese) Description from Netflix

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