Juliet

Definitely not as colorful an odyssey, but easier to schedule: Cojucaru and Kobborg are doing this at Kennedy Center in Washington on June 22nd......

I also love this photo of Tanaquil LeClercq because it's so different from the usual ballet poses. I don't know which role she's dancing, but she looks so gorgeous, yet quirky. It's enchanting.

Looks as if she was clowning during the photo shoot..the costume is Bouree Fantasque and the shoot was with Jerome Robbins..there are others online as well as in books.....

I attended a RNO concert in NY earlier this month.....the program was Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky. Stravinsky's arrangement of selections from Sleeping Beauty, Baiser de la Fee, and Suite # 3. The encores were Garland Waltz and Rose Adagio.

It was an absolutely splendid concert. The orchestra has a recording of Suite #3 which is not quite as invigorating as a live performance, but pretty close!

MUCH easier to use....I just bought a new vacuum cleaner through it......

As rg said, I'll be happy to have anything with LeClercq in it....I like all the Rumer Godden novels involving ballet. She did some excellent ones for children, as well as adults. For a few years she taught dance.....

Thank you, rg, for the alert as to availability of this video.

Saturday matinee and evening, for my money.

Looks as if Washington will see the debut of Sylve in Whelan's trademark role in Union Jack. I wish her well.....

Looking forward to hearing reports on the performances!

Run, no, FLY to see Sofiane Sylve in this. Thursday and Saturday nights next week.

Very different than Bouder (whom I love.)

Every tiny gesture so well thought out, strong and fantastical and mysterious...words fail me....

go see her. I've never seen a Firebird like her.

If you don't have it, a chance to get this valuable source.....

REPERTORY IN REVIEW: 40 Yrs New York City Ballet HCDJ

Item number: 4607283137

Better Valentine's present than chocolates.....

Tzigane was done with a slightly smaller cast, (two side couples) on Milennium stage last fall at KenCen. It was superb---Magnicaballi was the best I have ever seen her and the levels of dancing and energy were 150% of what I expected. Farrell knows how to coach, no doubt about it.....a superb performance.

Berkshires mugginess is not on a par with the Washington summer, as Jacob's Pillow is not situated in a swamp like Washington. Sounds like a great getaway to me.....interesting dance offerings! AND---not too far from Saratoga, so a trip to SPAC to see NYCB is a definite possiblity for a great dance-oriented vacation!!!!!

He said it best. Thanks, Michael--

I agree, and it is the obvious solution. No critic is going to suggest this, in print at least, however. They'd never get another callback from the press office, let alone tickets....this critic went as far to suggest casting changes as possible, but it will never happen, despite this gentle hint.

It's Hilarion in Giselle.

She evidently was a guest on an Australian radio program on March 10, 2005. Settled in Australia in 1999, according to the radio bio.

The dancers are evidently without unemployment benefits, too.

Wonder if Palmquist would have been so quick to reject Michael Kaiser's offer to help ("it's too soon to mediate") if he had been denied benefits. I wonder just what he deems sufficient time. This gets worse and worse......

I saw it that way too. And then some, as Michael says.

Abi Stafford was definitely out of sync with the other three ballerinas in the final section, and the travel on the diagonal was not up to her usual technical standard. Is this bashing? No. But I saw what I saw.

Another night, another performance.......

I am glad to read the interim agreement that was proposed to TWB management by the dancers.

Such a horrible situation.

"As for her segment, when Caroline Kennedy introduce her dancers to perform Divertimento No. 15, the camera gave us a side shot of Farrell with her hands to her mouth. Clearly she was surprise her dancers was going to perform in her honor."

What I said was in reference to the above statement, Jack. Didn't make myself clear--sorry!

Sometimes they do rebroadcast the Honors programs, so we might be lucky--

ViolinConcerto is right-- some of the reaction shots must have been responses to something entirely different. Certainly she knew that Divert was being performed. She and the dancers worked on it during and at the end of the KenCen run.

Well, it certainly zipped along at a good clip---quite speedy, but wasn't the dancing good? What we could see of it! Too far away, for the most part, but the costumes looked nice in the long shots.....colours and patterns read quite well on television.

Dancing was quick, clean ... corps was beautifully articulated ....Ansanelli looked wonderful and I shall miss her greatly.....

"So I'm a little confused. Is her company made up of students, or is it professional?"

Ian, they are professionals. Many of them dance with other companies, others schedule their engagements around SFB, others dance with Farrell and have been with her for a while. She has definite things which she wants to see in her dancers and which she requires from them--watching the performance tonight, it is evident that they give her 150% effort and commitment.

Any reports? Or are you all still in shock....

It left me more than misty-eyed....I cried through a good bit of it...the bodies change, the spark remains.....

I plan to see it again and buy the DVD. All praise to the filmmakers for preserving the memories. I was too young to have seen these performances but recall thinking as I pored over old programs and souvenir books how very tough this life must have been and how dedicated to the art the dancers were. Even today touring is so hard, the life so unsettled....it was an inspiring film for me.

Really, I cannot recommend it too highly.

Somehow....I thought he'd beat it......

He gave us all so much.....

I am so sorry.

http://www.nycitycenter.org/events/event_d...vent_code=KOD06

I believe it is going to other sites as well.

I think it sounds like a circus, but I am sure I'll go, nevertheless!

Something pretty and festive--a dressy suit with a sparkly pin, or long pants with a dressy fancy top, or frankly, whatever she wants and feels nice in. No jeans. Holidays are a good chance to dress up!

There will be lots of children in party clothes. If she parks under Kennedy Center, she won't have to be outside, so no worry about ruining fancy shoes. (Be advised, though, that parking is $15 )

There is a shuttle bus that runs to the Metro Station at Foggy Bottom, if she takes Metro and doesn't want to walk in bad weather. The Metro stop is quite close, however.

Delightful image, Michael! I'll have to make sure to see it.....