Natalia Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Today's the big day...less than an hour from now. I wonder what the Mariinsky & others will be dancing next season? Live streaming of the announcement @ 11AM Eastern: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAC3O25syk Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Intro music....this jazz singer sounds as if she's in serious pain.... Link to comment
abatt Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 http://sputniknews.com/art_living/20160301/1035611155/russian-ballet-US.html Sputnik News: Mariinsky to bring Ratmansky's Little Humpbacked Horse to US in Jan 2017. Link to comment
abatt Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 All info here: http://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/SpecialEvents/SeasonAnnouncement Slim pickin's, in my opinion. Usually the Bolshoi comes every 3 years. Their last visit to the KC was in 2014. How disappointing they are not on the roster. Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Misty Copeland & Justin Peck to "co-curate" the 4th Ballet Across America Festival in Spring 2017. Details forthcoming. Q-Tip named Artistic Director for Hip-Hop Culture. Link to comment
Emma Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Suzanne Farrell and San Francisco back to back in the Fall. ABT, Mariinsky, and Ailey back to back to back in the Winter. And they wonder why students rarely show...we're too busy for this! Link to comment
maps Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 http://www.kennedy-center.org/pages/SpecialEvents/SeasonAnnouncement 2017: The retiring from Washington Ballet Septime Webre didn't get the international press and accolades of Peck but does good choreography in narrative [and other] ballets. Cincinnati Ballet Nutcracker? Trock? Hamburg plus others? FYI Riverdance is at Wolf Trap this summer . Why not ABT every summer and...ABT Ratmansky Nut has moved to the West Coast- Segerstrom December 9-18, 2016. Is it anywhere else? http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/arts/dance/new-york-will-lose-ballet-theaters-nutcracker.html The Kennedy Center has an annual slot for a Nutcracker over Thanksgiving. Why not ABT annually? Link to comment
abatt Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Does Alina Cojocaru dance in Hamburg's Little Mermaid? That is probably the only circumstance that would motivate me to come to DC to see the production. Cojocaru does a lot of work with the Hamburg, but I don't recall that Mermaid is part of her rep. Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Meh. Where the heck is the Mikhailovsky's LAURENCIA...or any Russian company performing a 19th-or 20th-C classic with beautiful painted sets & luxurious costumes? Where is the Bolshoi? As for the Mariinsky...sorry but the sets for Ratmansky's LHH can be rolled up into a duffle bag (El Cheapo all the way). Cute ballet & it's already been seen in NY. Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Best news of all, to me: the Suzanne Farrell Ballet's reconstruction/revival of Balanchine's GOUNOD SYMPHONY. Yeah! No NYCB??? Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Does Alina Cojocaru dance in Hamburg's Little Mermaid? That is probably the only circumstance that would motivate me to come to DC to see the production. Cojocaru does a lot of work with the Hamburg, but I don't recall that Mermaid is part of her rep. I believe not. It's a shame that Hamburg won't be bringing the award-winning LILIOM, which *does* star Cojocaru. Link to comment
Emma Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Best news of all, to me: the Suzanne Farrell Ballet's reconstruction/revival of Balanchine's GOUNOD SYMPHONY. Yeah! No NYCB??? In June. At least its separated from the Winter Ballet Block! Link to comment
Natalia Posted March 8, 2016 Author Share Posted March 8, 2016 Good. I didn't see NYCB listed on the slide at the conference...must be in the press release. I'll be saving money next year. Only items of interest are TSFB's GOUNOD SYMPHONY recon, the Ballet Across America series, ABT (if there is a mixed bill) and NYCB (if mixed bill...not for yet another round of MIDSUMMER or something like R+J!!!). I'll travel to NY for the Mik's LAURENCIA. Link to comment
sandik Posted March 8, 2016 Share Posted March 8, 2016 Marc Bamuthu Joseph (June 5-11, 2017) is well worth the attention, and I'm very curious about Michelle Dorrance's new work with Toshi Reagon (October 5-6, 2016) In the not-dance category, DJ Spooky's revisioning of Birth of a Nation is supposed to be quite astonishing (May 23, 2017). And Joyce diDonato -- no need to say more (May 2, 2017) Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted March 9, 2016 Share Posted March 9, 2016 (edited) Best news of all, to me: the Suzanne Farrell Ballet's reconstruction/revival of Balanchine's GOUNOD SYMPHONY. ... To me, too. Any performance of Balanchine as authentic as an appearance of this troupe promises is very good news these days. And his Gounod Symphony is fun, not least for letting us hear how much Gounod liked Beethoven and Haydn: I might better have pointed out when I first posted that we hear the energy and humor typical of their music as soon as Gounod's gets under way, and the ballet reflects those high spirits. It is good to think of seeing this ballet again, and if this Chicagoan seems to be a kind of Balanchine carpet-bagger among the DC residents expressing their disappointments here I sympathize with them. It's mainly by traveling that I can find the performances that are missing from my life otherwise, and so I examine the schedules as they appear, hoping against hope. Edited March 10, 2016 by Jack Reed Link to comment
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