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Rock

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  1. On 9/21/2022 at 7:12 AM, MarzipanShepherdess said:

    Regarding Danny Ulbricht as the Jester: huge applause from the audience, my friend commented after that he "stole the show". It's definitely a minor role, but he nails it perfectly from the technique to the comedy. I don't know much about company politics and have no knowledge of whether or not he may resent doing these Jester-type roles as a senior principal. But I guess I think of the "no small roles, only small performers" cliché. Why not keep hitting it out of the park in these smaller solo roles even though he's a principal?

    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.

     

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

     

  4. 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. 

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