miliosr Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 Hooray -- the POB has relaunched its Web site. Now you can actually see profile pictures and read bios for dancers below premiere rank. I wish so many of the dancers weren't wearing black in their photos, though -- it's like Dracula started a ballet company. Nevertheless, this new Web site is a big improvement over the last one. The POB is no longer in competition with ABT for the title of 'Worst Web Site' in ballet! (I see Artur Allard is listed as Arthur Raveau. Did the programmers not get the message about the name change or did he change his name back?) Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 I'm very glad to hear it. Every quadrille deserves a separate page. Hopefully the gloomy photos won't last forever. Link to comment
silvermash Posted September 1, 2015 Share Posted September 1, 2015 I like these pictures Link to comment
miliosr Posted September 5, 2015 Author Share Posted September 5, 2015 To make the whole Arthur Raveau a.k.a. Artur Allard situation even more comical, Millepied has a picture on his Instagram feed of AR/AA (with Laura Hequet) rehearsing Opus 19. Except that the tag on the picture refers to AR/AA as PierreArthurRavaud!!!!! The good news is that AR/AA looks like he is completely healed from his Fall injury, which forced him to miss the remainder of the 2014-15 season. Link to comment
naomikage Posted September 6, 2015 Share Posted September 6, 2015 Pierre Arthur Ravaud guested in Kyoto Ballet's Romeo and Juliet in August as Tybault and there were no signs of injury in him. Heloise Bourdon (as Juliet), Karl Paquette (Romeo), Axel Ibot (Mecutio), Yanik Bittencourt (Benvolio), Christophe Duquenne (Paris) and Monique Loudieres (Lady Capulet) also guested in this production. Link to comment
miliosr Posted September 6, 2015 Author Share Posted September 6, 2015 Good to read that Christophe Duquenne hasn't given up on performing even though he has reached the retirement age at the POB. Link to comment
miliosr Posted September 9, 2015 Author Share Posted September 9, 2015 Surfing through the company profiles on the revamped Web site has been an interesting experience. The etoiles' pictures are all loaded as are those for many of the sujets. But only one of the premieres has their picture loaded. Make of it what you will. Link to comment
silvermash Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 they even already changed the Etoiles pictures for brand new ones by another photographer! I thing the site is still "in progress". They are fixing bugs everyday ... Link to comment
miliosr Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 I do like the new pictures of the etoiles compared to the old ones. Karl Paquette's photo really brings out the architecture in his face. But why isn't anyone smiling? Only Emilie Cozette and Mathieu Ganio manage something within hailing distance of a smile. Link to comment
silvermash Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 Well you can see from the costumes they are wearing that they are impersonating ballet characters: Onegin doesn't smile nor Le Jeune homme! Link to comment
miliosr Posted September 10, 2015 Author Share Posted September 10, 2015 Well you can see from the costumes they are wearing that they are impersonating ballet characters: Onegin doesn't smile or Le Jeune homme! Oh, pay me no heed. I always want everything to be like a 20th Century Fox musical from the 40s or 50s! Will the French see Onegin and Le Jeune Homme again under Millepied? We shall see. Link to comment
cinnamonswirl Posted September 10, 2015 Share Posted September 10, 2015 they even already changed the Etoiles pictures for brand new ones by another photographer! I thing the site is still "in progress". They are fixing bugs everyday ... The new ones are by Dorothée Gilbert's husband. Link to comment
miliosr Posted March 28, 2016 Author Share Posted March 28, 2016 According to Pierre-Arthur Raveau's Instagram feed, he's now billing himself as 'Arthus Raveau'. And Dorothee Gilbert's husband, James Bort, has compiled his photos of the etoiles in a book titled, naturally, Etoiles. Link to comment
kbarber Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 I wonder how many variants of Pierre Arthur Raveau he can go through. I will be interested to see how he is listed in the program. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted March 29, 2016 Share Posted March 29, 2016 It's beginning to look like an eccentricity. Link to comment
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