Jack Reed Posted September 26, 2016 Share Posted September 26, 2016 (edited) These events take place on a small semi-permanent stage at one end of the Grand Foyer at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and are not only live-streamed, but in recent years, archived as well, among the other Millennium Stage videos on kennedy-center.org, for viewing on demand. I expect the repertory to include excerpts from the repertory of the upcoming Eisenhower Theater shows over the October 21-23 weekend, all Balanchine ballets: Gounod Symphony, Danses Concertantes, and Stars and Stripes. Tickets for these Eisenhower Theater shows are available here: http://www.kennedy-center.org/calendar/event/BRBSB#tickets Millennium Stage previews are free (every day of the year at 6:00 PM, with different performers each day). Edited October 6, 2016 by Jack Reed Link to comment
pherank Posted September 27, 2016 Share Posted September 27, 2016 Thanks for the notice, Jack. Hopefully I'll be available at (presumably) 3pm PST. Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted October 5, 2016 Author Share Posted October 5, 2016 Anyone who misses it may find it through this link to the Millennium Stage Archive or through my first link above. Link to comment
pherank Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 I was able to watch most, but not all of the live broadcast. Definitely fun to watch the Concertantes and Gounod excerpts. I really enjoy these coaching sessions (the Gounod presentation), and it goes well with all the World Ballet Day footage we have to watch. I was definitely left wanting to see more of Gounod. Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted October 13, 2016 Author Share Posted October 13, 2016 (edited) For those who couldn't watch the live stream, or could only watch part of it, it's up for viewing on demand in the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage archive. When you get the video playing, you can nudge the progress button in the bar at the bottom of the video window left or right to navigate (or press your space bar to stop it where it is). Here are some playing-time points where the three ballet excerpts begin: [04:02] Danses Concertantes (three numbers out of eight altogether) [04:02] March The cast of fourteen appear in groups - four trios and a pair - in the order they will appear in in the middle of the ballet; in the full performance, this number is followed by a pas d'action for all of them, and then four pas de trois, a pas de deux, and a finale to a repeat of the March. Here, we skip ahead to the third and fourth pas de trois, and stop there. (The pas de deux pair here are Valerie Tellment-Henning and Kirk Henning.) [05:52] "Blue" pas de trois Jane Morgan Claire Stallman Ted Seymour [08:15] "Red" pas de trois Melanie Riffee Katie Gibson Ian Grosh [12:59] Gounod Symphony (second movement, Allegretto, out of the three on the program) Natalia Magnicaballi Michael Cook Melanie Riffee Lauren Breen Audra Johnson Claire Stallman Amber Neff Bethany Lowrie Cassidy Hall Katie Gibson [24:15] Stars and Stripes pas de deux adagio Allynne Noelle Thomas Garrett I may be able to post more details here as time goes by; others with information like this - in particular, those with dancer identifications - feel free to post or to PM me. Edited October 15, 2016 by Jack Reed Added details about Danses Concertantes and more casting Link to comment
Emma Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Allynne Noelle was so beautiful in Emeralds last year. I hope can see her in Stars & Stripes this year. Link to comment
Jack Reed Posted October 15, 2016 Author Share Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) You can see her and Thomas Garrett's Millennium Stage Preview performance of the "Stars" pas de deux adagio right now, if you like. The video of the preview is up on the Kennedy Center web site, and if you open that page and let the video load into your computer (indicated by the black "thermometer" column creeping toward the right in the progress bar at the bottom of the video window), then (using your computer's cursor) you can move the white button there over until the running-time number (at the left end of the bar) says 24:15, and they will dance for you. The fact that Noelle and Garrett were in the Preview suggests pretty strongly that they will dance at least some of the weekend performances in the Eisenhower theater over the weekend of the 21st through the 23rd, so you should have some chance. I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the whole repertory there myself. I have a "posting in process" here myself, where I try to provide a guide to that video. As I get information, I edit it in there. Edited October 15, 2016 by Jack Reed Link to comment
vipa Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Thank you Jack Reed. Do you know if Suzanne ever danced Stars pad de deus. I'm just curious. I would guess not. Link to comment
rg Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 Repertory in Review's list of subsequent casts of its NYCB catalog of works, which came out in 1977, does not list Farrell for the Fourth Campaign, so it might be safe to assume that she didn't dance the pas de deux. Link to comment
pherank Posted October 15, 2016 Share Posted October 15, 2016 (edited) From the Gounod Symphony rehearsal: "Now you dance because of him, not for him." -that's an interesting distinction, and I wonder if the dancers even understand what the difference would be. Edited October 17, 2016 by pherank Link to comment
sandik Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 On 10/15/2016 at 4:35 PM, pherank said: From the Gounod Symphony rehearsal: "Now you dance because of him. not for him." -that's an interesting distinction, and I wonder if the dancers even understand what the difference would be. That is indeed interesting. The further we get from the living choreographer, the more we know them through their works rather than through their direct influence. Link to comment
pherank Posted October 17, 2016 Share Posted October 17, 2016 1 hour ago, sandik said: That is indeed interesting. The further we get from the living choreographer, the more we know them through their works rather than through their direct influence. Farrell at least still has Mr. B's voice in her head. Very possibly this is a remark he made long ago. Link to comment
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