rg Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 I've taken the liberty to scan for Ballet Alert! the color photo from this year's Christmas card sent out by longtime ABT press officer and photographer Myra Armstrong. As her captioning notes, Armstrong's photo shows The Party Scene from act 1 of THE NUTCRACKER by Alexei Ratmansky. (The watermarked greeting is mine; it was not included on the photo pasted onto the card, which had its own message.) Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Thanks, rg! Warm wishes for happy holidays to you and everyone on BA! from south Florida! Link to comment
Barbara Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Merry Christmas to all! Link to comment
Helene Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Thank you rg -- Merry Christmas to you and all BAers who celebrate! From Pacific Northwest Ballet during rehearsals for "Don Quixote": (Kyle Davis, Maria Chapman, Liora Reshef and Jerome Tisserand, Carla Korbes and Don Q's armor, Lindsi Dec and Lucien Postlewaite, Seth Orza, William Lin-Yee, ??*, Chapman,Postlewaite, and Emma Love (blur=Seth Orza), Kaori Nakamura and Postlewaite, Jessika Anspach, Dec and Postlewaite, Laura Gilbreath. *She went by too fast in a blur) Link to comment
sandik Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 As her captioning notes, Armstrong's photo shows The Party Scene from act 1 of THE NUTCRACKER by Alexei Ratmansky. Some of those gifts are as big as the children who are holding them -- that's a visceral holiday memory! Link to comment
bart Posted December 25, 2011 Share Posted December 25, 2011 Thank you, rg. Happy holidays for all. Here are images from Miami City Ballet's "12 Days of Christmas." http://www.miamicityballet.org/blog/2011/12/22/the-12-days-of-christmas-mcb-version/ Link to comment
rg Posted December 26, 2011 Author Share Posted December 26, 2011 re: the number and size of gifts: a dance writer who who had been a youngster in the initial years of Balanchine's NUTCRACKER was chatting w/me about another production, maybe the Joffrey's?, and the large number of presents. i noted the glut of gifts to which she said: you can never have too many presents! Link to comment
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