"La Selfie"

[kbarber]

an attempt to market ballet to the iPhone generation? No, an interview by a not-very-knowledgeable blogger with Colleen Neary and Thorvald Christensen about LA Ballet's upcoming performances in Seattle. Good for a chuckle.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/peoplescritic/2014/06/21/interview-thordal-christensen-and-colleen-neary-los-angeles-ballet/

[Helene]

ArtsJournal entitled its link to it, "An Almost Hilariously Awkward Interview Of The Los Angeles Ballet’s Artistic Directors."

http://www.artsjournal.com/2014/06/an-almost-hilariously-awkward-interview-of-the-los-angeles-ballets-artistic-directors.html

The one-time performance takes place the Friday before the week of July 4th, and many of the colege students have gone for te summer. Tickets are ~$40-99, including the TicketMaster per-ticket fee (>$10/ticketfor the top-priced tickets), but not the per-order fee. All tiers of the 2900-seat McCaw Hall are up for sale.

Although there was an ad in PNB's "Giselle" program, and Doug Fullington gave a mention during the "Giselke" pre-performance talks, tying it it historically, there wasn't much publicity that I saw about a month out.

[Helene]

It's been cancelled, according to the Ticketmaster site:

http://www.ticketmaster.ca/los-angeles-ballet-presents-la-sylphide-seattle-washington-06-27-2014/event/0F004C9EAF8A8CC4?artistid=1531708&majorcatid=10002&minorcatid=12&tm_link=artist_msg-0_0F004C9EAF8A8CC4

(I'd expect it to drop off the site after Friday.)

[sandik]

I think that's the wrong link!

[kbarber]

Helene, is that the link you meant to include? It's for the Napa Valley gala. Which of these has been cancelled? LA Ballet in Seattle or Napa Valley?

[Helene]

My apologies -- I fixed the link. It's the LA Ballet Seattle performance that's been canceled. I had the Napa Valley link in memory from adding it to the calendar.