Helene Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 It's Tuesday, July 11 at 7:00pm at the Crest. Link to comment
Jayne Posted June 9, 2017 Share Posted June 9, 2017 Oh happy clapping!!! I will pencil it into my calendar. Link to comment
sandik Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 On 6/8/2017 at 11:11 PM, Helene said: It's Tuesday, July 11 at 7:00pm at the Crest. My bad -- my only excuse is that I'm so excited that it's still a possibility! Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 10, 2017 Share Posted June 10, 2017 Looking forward to this. I see that the Washington DC area will be getting it on July 11 @ the Landmark Bethesda Row Cinemas, which is Metro accessible. Link to comment
SandyMcKean Posted July 11, 2017 Share Posted July 11, 2017 (edited) I saw the Ashton presentation in Bellingham, WA at the Pickford (an arts cinema house) last Sunday the 9th. What an experience for me! Altho I have been watching ballet for many decades, I'm pretty sure I've never seen an Ashton before (except maybe sometime in the '70s which is too far back to remember). I hardly know what to say. I did learn one thing.......as the name of one of BA's members declares: I am now an Ashton Fan! I don't know enough to make meaningful comments except that it seemed to me to be a wonderful bill with which to be introduced to Ashton. Three very different works from story ballet to pure abstract. I was stuck by Ashton's deep commitment to story telling; I'm not sure I've ever seen so much drama packed into ballet as Ashton is able to do. I was probably the most emotionally involved during Marguerite and Armand since we all knew that this was Zenaida Yanowsky 's farewell performance. Having recently attended the farewell performance of my most-ever admired dancer Carrie Imler at PNB, I was struck all over again by how much an audience can love a dedicated artist who gives so much of herself in the name of art and humanity. The endless standing O at the end of the video was worth the entire day. That performance of Yanowsky's still haunts me. Edited July 11, 2017 by SandyMcKean Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted July 11, 2017 Author Share Posted July 11, 2017 Thank you for sharing your impressions, SandyMcKean. You reminded me that I had neglected to post these sooner. On Frederick Ashton's choreography On Symphonic Variations On the challenges of performing Ashton's Bottom A little bit of Zenaida Yanowsky's final curtain call at Covent Garden Link to comment
sandik Posted July 12, 2017 Share Posted July 12, 2017 Saw this tonight in Seattle -- I was so glad that it played here! I've never seen Symphonic live, and though the online video versions have been lovely, this big screen experience was so much better. All kinds of moments that reminded me of Apollo, some of Nijinska, and a couple that looked like Cunningham as well (that circle of women around the principal male, tipping over in attitude back, making a kind of chain), though I doubt that was intentional. What fun! Link to comment
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