sandik Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 exchanges at the box office can be made up to 24 yrs before the performance. Now that takes some planning! Link to comment
angelica Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 exchanges at the box office can be made up to 24 yrs before the performance. Now that takes some planning! Thank you for my laugh of the day! Link to comment
nysusan Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 exchanges at the box office can be made up to 24 yrs before the performance. Now that takes some planning! Thank you for my laugh of the day! ha-ha, my bad! Did anyone go to the box office for the first day of subscriber exchange week? I had matinee tickets so I decided to wait until later in the week. I know the line can be really loooong on the first day. Link to comment
abatt Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I arrived at 2:45 PM yesterday and there was no line at all. Was in and out within minutes. Link to comment
mimsyb Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 I arrived at 2:45 PM yesterday and there was no line at all. Was in and out within minutes. Also got there about 1:30. It moved really quickly and I was able to get everything I asked for. (and better seats in most cases than my subscription. Go figure). Talked with friends for a bit and by the time I left around 2:30 there was no line at all. They even closed a few windows. Link to comment
abatt Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Casting update: McRae is Osipova's Giselle partner Murphy Whiteside pick up the June 9 SB vacated by Paloma Hammoudi gets the SL lead with Hee Seo Promotion for Hammoudi now seems like just a matter of time Herrera gets Bolle as her Giselle partner instead of the previously scheduled Whiteside. Surprised we haven't seen the press release yet from ABT re another guest artist (McRae). I liked him very much when he was last at ABT in Corsaire. Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Have McRae and Osipova danced together before? Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Yes, and they danced Giselle together a couple of weeks ago in Moscow. Link to comment
kbarber Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Have McRae and Osipova danced together before? They just danced Giselle together at the Bolshoi. Link to comment
Kaysta Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Casting update: McRae is Osipova's Giselle partner Murphy Whiteside pick up the June 9 SB vacated by Paloma Hammoudi gets the SL lead with Hee Seo Promotion for Hammoudi now seems like just a matter of time Herrera gets Bolle as her Giselle partner instead of the previously scheduled Whiteside. Surprised we haven't seen the press release yet from ABT re another guest artist (McRae). I liked him very much when he was last at ABT in Corsaire. I LOVE McCrae! I'm seeing him in London in Fille (where he is also dancing with Osipova) and I'm super excited. I might have to get tickets for this now Link to comment
NinaFan Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 Just took out my subscription letter and it says mailed exchange requests must be received at least 1 week prior to the performance date but exchanges at the box office can be made up to 24 yrs before the performance. Thank you nysusan. It seems hit and miss whether the exchange information comes with the trios/create your own series. I'm so glad we still have 24 hours. Years ago, I think it was a week, and I would hate to go back to that. Thanks again for checking. Link to comment
Josette Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 The Australian Ballet has announced that Stella Abrera is guesting as Giselle with them on April 13 and 15, 2015, at the Sydney Opera House. Link to comment
abatt Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Good for Stella. Too bad Australia is so far from NYC. I'd love to see it. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Congratulations to her. But keeping in mind Abrera's own experiences with ABT, I hope she isn't depriving a deserving Australian Ballet dancer of an opportunity. Link to comment
mimsyb Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Congratulations to her. But keeping in mind Abrera's own experiences with ABT, I hope she isn't depriving a deserving Australian Ballet dancer of an opportunity. Like "Cinderella", if the shoe fits..........In this case , said shoe is on the other foot. I, too, would love to see her as "Giselle". Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 I'm so glad to see Abrera performing this role again, but if only in NY... For what it's worth, according to the Australian Ballet's website, she is the only female guest artist who will be performing Giselle in Sydney, in two out of twenty performances. Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 If anybody wants tips on where to stay affordably near the Sydney Opera House, PM me. The AB is becoming the company where ABT ballerinas can go to fulfill wishes that can't come true at home. Ditto Houston...there is a connection. Link to comment
Helene Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Australian Ballet is a wonderful company. We don't see them very often in North America, sadly. They performed "La Fille mal gardee" in Seattle to open the 1994-5 season, as part of the PNB subscription. The AB is becoming the company where ABT ballerinas can go to fulfill wishes that can't come true at home. Since New Zealand no longer is, with Stiefel gone. Link to comment
ABT Fan Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Casting update: Thomas Forster has been given the "TBA" in Les Sylphides on May 11 and 14. Hooray! Link to comment
Josette Posted March 20, 2015 Share Posted March 20, 2015 Great news and another HOORAY for Tom Forster's being given Les Sylphides! Link to comment
Plisskin Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Whelp, guess it wasn't Paloma's decision after all. She basically had no choice. It was Sleeping Beauty or a matinee Giselle: “It wasn’t my choice to retire with ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ” she says, in the lyrical rhythms of a light Argentine accent. “I don’t feel comfortable with it. . . . I wanted to do something that I’ve done a lot with ABT. “I’ve been here for 24 years and it’s been my life, and I really wanted to retire with something that meant something special to me,” she continues. “It was not very nice that I didn’t have a choice. It was like, ‘You have to retire in this production.’ ” Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/these-star-ballerinas-are-retiring--graceful-and-grateful-to-the-last-dance/2015/03/20/62f0ef6a-cf24-11e4-a2a7-9517a3a70506_story.html Also love, how Xiomara put ABT on blast for using all of those guest artists: “Julie, Paloma and I don’t perform as much as we should.” She faults ABT’s practice of bringing in guest artists to headline performances at the Met. “All the guests take a lot of performances from you. It’s hard to keep in shape when you’re only doing one performance now and then,” she says. “You get to a point where you say, ‘Let’s see what else is possible.’ I have been very faithful, and it was my dream company, but it’s time to move on.” Overrall, that Washington Post interview is pretty insightful. Especially the things Xiomara and Paloma said. Sounds like ABT is as dysfunctional as many already know it to be from past exit interviews, the hiring of a plethora of guest artists, questionable promotions, and the list goes on... Link to comment
abatt Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Very revealing article. Such terrible treatment of Paloma. No room in the schedule for her to retire in something she was comfortable in! How rude of McKenzie. Yes, the earth would have stopped spinning if we had been deprived of a performance by Hee Seo or Boylston to make room for Paloma on the schedule. Link to comment
Helene Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 Very revealing article. Such terrible treatment of Paloma. No room in the schedule for her to retire in something she was comfortable in! How rude of McKenzie. Yes, the earth would have stopped spinning if we had been deprived of a performance by Hee Seo or Boylston to make room for Paloma on the schedule. Given McKenzie's statement Regarding Paloma’s decision to withdraw from her June 9th performance of ‘The Sleeping Beauty,’ I was taken by surprise that she would allow us to advertise her farewell performance in the ballet for six months before informing me that she would refuse to appear in it. is it surprising that he didn't go out of his way to accommodate her? Link to comment
miliosr Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 I would make one minor response to Reyes' comment about the guest stars. In the case of Julie Kent, the guest stars weren't her opponent -- age was. And ABT did go out of their way at times to accommodate that by programming things like Lady of the Camellias, which had a distorting effect on the repertory. That being said, there have been so many unhappy departures in recent years. Sad! Link to comment
abatt Posted March 21, 2015 Share Posted March 21, 2015 These comments by the departing Reyes mirror what Corella said in the period leading up to his retirement- that Kevin wasn't offering him much to do even though Corella was ready, willing and able to dance. Yes, I agree that McKenzie went out of his way to keep Kent on the roster. The accommodation was not so much in the selection of works for the company, but in allowing her to repeatedly make significant modifications to the choreography of the classics in order to continue to appear in these ballets. I think that the "easier" works benefitted others in the company too, not just Kent. As an example, Vishneva was a big advocate of Lady of the Cams. too. Link to comment
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