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holonar

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  1. A friend of mine dealt with transition by going into flying, a field related in its physicality, but divorced from the ballet world he'd lived for so many years. I dealt with transition by falling back on my secondary career and becoming a web and print designer as well as a board assistant. My transition has been a bit painful because I am still around the studio and have to keep fighting my desire to line up at the barre or stretch out for grand allegro. I know I can't do it physically, but the need is still there. Leaving with a career-ending injury is leaving without closure.
  2. The article has expired, so unfortunately Lewis Segal's opinion is hard to comment on. I don't know what San Francisco is doing that works, but part of our problem is the supremacy of an Artistic Director and a Board which don't put the dancers front and centre. Audiences want to know about the performers (scandals and all) -- hockey does that very well -- not about the administrators. Maria Callas and Rudolph Nureyev excelled at this, keeping attention on the stage, not on the politics. Is it inappropriate to suggest that as long as Boards insist on using the Artistic Director to do their function (raising money, promoting the company), then micro-managing Artistic decisions (hiring, repertoire, season content), ballet cannot go forward?
  3. Is this being made public outside of Russia and this forum?
  4. Brydon had one of those wonderfully contradictory reputations. Outside of the "circle" he was seen as a party animal; within he was seen as a hard-working popularizer of ballet, touring small communities and mixing up the repertoire. It's a pity that contemporary technical requirements make touring too expensive.
  5. volcanohunter I have been corresponding via phone, email and personal visits with David for the past five years (after being his student in various studios from 1987-1999). He would have loved your observations. Until the last year or so, his sense of humour was as wicked as ever. I also agree with (a) the lateness of his OC and (b) his memoirs. On (a), I was amazed at the number of professional who came forward and the wondrous things they had to say about him. On (b), Meridith, his wife, has spoken with me about continuing work on his biography, which of course would require talking with more people who knew him. Would you care to correspond on this? Gunnar Blodgett Edmonton
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