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From going thru the still available tickets for each performance has anyone been able to formulate an estimate of how well the Summer Season is selling in general?

The revival premiere was danced by Sara Leland and Bart Cook.

Isn't that Miriam Miller?

If Ulbricht is one of the best ever in the Sonnambula Jester, and he's available, why not have him do it? In the first week - Tuesday and Friday - that's all he has for the week. Without those two Jesters he wouldn't be out there at all, for an entire week. What a waste. Having him do it is a gift for the audience. To see what that variation is supposed to look like and how it momentarily lightens what is a very somber ballet.

Thank you so much Canbelto. How did this slip past me? Just ordered from Amazon. Very grateful to you.

What about Petipa? Is there a good biography about him out there? I feel I know so little about his life. French. Brother. Daughter was a dancer. That's about it. Was he fired from the theatre? Why? I'd love to know more.

I think Cerrudo is following Hope Muir as the AD of the Charlotte Ballet.

Is it all about money? Selling tickets? What they think will sell?

Chun Wei Chan

Helene - Can you clarify what you're referring to when you say "But if NYCB didn't survive past 1950, I don't know how it would be looked at now." Do you mean the company or the works? Assume you mean how the company would be viewed this many years after its demise.

How do you contribute to their fund? Never did that before.

He's such an elegant dancer. How was his partnering? How was his coda?

You might be forgetting that the Royal Danish Ballet also withdrew a ballet of Scarlett's stating, without details, that it was due to inappropriate behavior with members of their staff.

I thought Miriam Miller did the PDD. She did both places?

Hahaha. A little more sass. You paint a vivid picture.

Kowroski used to be sensational in Slaughter. Well known in it.

Did anyone see the Abi Stafford retirement program?

Oh yea to cobweb. The description is almost as beautiful as the ballet.

I went back to the NYT article to make sure I read it right. Yup, "for years" greeting her in class Ramarsar was "tweaking my nipples." In company class. In front of oh easily 40-50 other people. No one batted an eyelash. Am I the only one who has trouble with that? Those aren't little girls. Those are professional women. I don't believe for a minute plenty of them wouldn't have said something - to GP, to Amar, to the AD and the ED.

I thought Sofia Coppola's film was thrilling. It's the first time, with maybe the exception of a couple of Fred Astaire movies, that I felt the camera was adding rather than subtracting. I had the most trouble with the Liebeslieder excerpt - which I also think was natural lighting - but having watched it several times I felt the camera angles from rings above added contrast to the close-ups. I also liked the "space" - the feeling of one couple alone in the ballroom. Like 'after the ball.' I liked the camera inventiveness most in the Peck piece. To see that fascinatingly unique, elegant dancer from every which way added much to my enjoyment. The Divertimento was also beautifully filmed. Nothing tricky and like a breath of fresh air. The company looks wonderful.

Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros has passed away in Peru of Covid. He was 63. https://socialmiami.com/socialmiami-remembers-jimmy-gamonet-de-los-heros/ https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/obituaries/article249568088.html

What's unfortunate is that some audience members might have read or watched all that stuff so when they get in there and they're actually watching ballet dancers ballet dancing they think those smiles are fake. Forced. Which is untrue. Those people WANT to be out there. It feeds them. It's what they live for. And they didn't work 12 hours that day and they're not starving themselves and they're not miserable. They're happy. They're thrilled to be performing.

It's so tiresome isn't it? The same story over and over - they starve themselves, they're treated horribly, they're all miserable - all of which isn't true at all.

I'll bet that's the same person. How sad they've both passed. He used to speak very highly of her. Thought she was a wonderful person and wonderful teacher.

It's an unusual name and Sean used to talk about his bff in SF. I wondered if it were the same person.