Agony & Ecstasy: A Year with ENB

[miliosr]

I didn't see this anywhere else . . .

Emergency Swan Lake rehearsal:

Difficult Romeo & Juliet rehearsal:

Creating The Nutcracker:

[bart]

Thanks, miliosr.It really helps to have the story behind that ghastly Swan Lake rehearsal. For example: Who are the dancers? Why is this last-minute rehearsal so crucial? What happens to the shy and rather stoic young woman dancing Odile?

Here is an article from The Independent that explains things.

http://www.independe...ay-2240298.html

Derek Deane is the director. He's the one who says, among other sensitive bits of criticism:

Unbelievable. Unbelievable. And I have to watch it. .... Oh, so fed up.

[miliosr]

Forgot to mention . . .

Max Westwell (Romeo in the second clip) looks a lot like a young Billy Crudup!