Birdsall Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 https://www.scfta.org/events/detail.aspx?id=16825 Link to comment
California Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Apparently this is the dance subscription for 2017-18: Mariinsky + one modern, one Tango, Ailey: https://www.scfta.org/Subscriptions/Packages.aspx?seasonID=577 Link to comment
Josette Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 And the Mariinsky is dancing in Segerstrom Concert Hall and not in Segerstrom Hall, which is odd. Link to comment
ksk04 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 I know this isn't the right thread, but what about the Bolshoi that was linked maybe a week ago? Horrible season. Link to comment
Josette Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) I have had a subscription for 17 years, but I can't see spending nearly $500 for this programming when I can go up to San Francisco or Seattle for excellent ballet. I assume that ABT is doing Nutcracker but it's outside the subscription. The Mariinsky did a Fokine evening several years ago with Firebird and Scheherazade and some other ballet (probably Chopiniana). What is going on? Edited June 4, 2017 by Josette Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 (edited) 46 minutes ago, Josette said: What is going on? A tour on the cheap? 1 hour ago, ksk04 said: I know this isn't the right thread, but what about the Bolshoi that was linked maybe a week ago? Horrible season. It's not listed on the Segerstrom site yet, but the Bolshoi had announced that it would bring Maillot's The Taming of the Shrew on July 17 & 18 and Possokhov's A Hero of Our Time on July 21 & 22 (m/e). Page 59 of the PDF:http://www.bolshoi.ru/upload/medialibrary/101/10149b16ff60c2403a87f9acf04bd93c.pdf ABT's Nutcracker runs December 7-17. https://www.scfta.org/events/detail.aspx?id=16858 Edited June 4, 2017 by volcanohunter Link to comment
Josette Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 Thank you for the reassurance, volcanohunter. Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 12 hours ago, Josette said: And the Mariinsky is dancing in Segerstrom Concert Hall and not in Segerstrom Hall, which is odd. Petrushka, Firebird and Scheherazade's decors call for a proscenium type stage. In the Concert Hall, they can do ballets that could be pulled off with a plain dark background and simple props, like a chair...e.g., Spectre, Dying Swan, Chopiniana & Polovtsian. Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 14 hours ago, California said: Apparently this is the dance subscription for 2017-18: Mariinsky + one modern, one Tango, Ailey: https://www.scfta.org/Subscriptions/Packages.aspx?seasonID=577 Meh. Even the Bolshoi's offerings are relatively El Cheapos. I've seen both Taming and Hero and, while the choreographies are superb, the sets are relatively simple & overly reliant on projections. (The spa in part 3 of Hero looks great, though.) Easier to tour than the classics, I suppose. Link to comment
ksk04 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 11 hours ago, Josette said: I have had a subscription for 17 years, but I can't see spending nearly $500 for this programming when I can go up to San Francisco or Seattle for excellent ballet. I assume that ABT is doing Nutcracker but it's outside the subscription. The Mariinsky did a Fokine evening several years ago with Firebird and Scheherazade and some other ballet (probably Chopiniana). What is going on? I won't be renewing my subscription if this this actually the dance season. I left halfway through the tango program the last time it was here--not interested. Link to comment
Natalia Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 I don't like the national trend of minimizing or watering down classical ballet by interjecting modern and Broadway into so-called Ballet-Dance seasons. That's precisely my beef with the Kennedy Center. As it is, one of the offerings of any season, anywhere in America, is NUTCRACKER. So how many offerings does that leave for the true balletomane? To give the few remaining slots to Ailey or the Trocks or "Red Shoes" road tour is to take away from the presentation of ballet. I guess that presenters have crunched the numbers and are purposely reducing the number of old-fashioned pure ballet presentations in a given season, to stay in the black & not lose money. Hold on to your precious DVDs if you want to see ballet. Link to comment
sandik Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 This isn't my home turf, and so I don't have any inside information about their marketing strategy, but I did notice that, on their main website's drop-down menu, "ballet" is a separate listing (as are "modern dance" and "dance"), so they do think of those as distinct entities. Interestingly, the upcoming Giselle by the La Scala company is the only group in that category right now -- the Eifman company, the Maryinsky, and a gala for Festival Ballet Theater are all listed under "dance." Link to comment
Drew Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 1 hour ago, sandik said: This isn't my home turf, and so I don't have any inside information about their marketing strategy, but I did notice that, on their main website's drop-down menu, "ballet" is a separate listing (as are "modern dance" and "dance"), so they do think of those as distinct entities. Interestingly, the upcoming Giselle by the La Scala company is the only group in that category right now -- the Eifman company, the Maryinsky, and a gala for Festival Ballet Theater are all listed under "dance." Do you mean that for the segment of the audience (however small) that only looks under the "ballet" listings, it wouldn't be obvious that there are other major ballet events coming? If that is so, then it would seem like a good idea to fix that...whatever their marketing strategy. But I too have no inside information... Link to comment
ksk04 Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 2 hours ago, sandik said: This isn't my home turf, and so I don't have any inside information about their marketing strategy, but I did notice that, on their main website's drop-down menu, "ballet" is a separate listing (as are "modern dance" and "dance"), so they do think of those as distinct entities. Interestingly, the upcoming Giselle by the La Scala company is the only group in that category right now -- the Eifman company, the Maryinsky, and a gala for Festival Ballet Theater are all listed under "dance." Yes and the subscription is a "Dance" subscription, not ballet, but still I think the offerings are poor as a general dance subscription. I wonder if there has been a fallout with Ardani? Is Ardani still doing Mariinsky and Bolshoi tours? Link to comment
sandik Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 1 hour ago, Drew said: Do you mean that for the segment of the audience (however small) that only looks under the "ballet" listings, it wouldn't be obvious that there are other major ballet events coming? If that is so, then it would seem like a good idea to fix that...whatever their marketing strategy. But I too have no inside information... It certainly might work that way -- especially if you were just looking for ballet offerings. But I haven't spent much time with their website, so don't know how it's organized. It could be that everything is nested underneath the season, so that next year's stuff doesn't match this year's listings. In general, though, venues that present mostly touring groups will make big categories, so that "dance" includes a wide variety of groups. I'd want to look at the rest of the LA area presenters before I made a value judgment about this particular series, though. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 4, 2017 Share Posted June 4, 2017 One of the things I've noticed from doing the Calendar is that unless PACs do a website overhaul, the categories remain static. I go in each year hoping to find lots of ballet in the ballet category, but, alas. Link to comment
pherank Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 20 hours ago, Josette said: I have had a subscription for 17 years, but I can't see spending nearly $500 for this programming when I can go up to San Francisco or Seattle for excellent ballet. I assume that ABT is doing Nutcracker but it's outside the subscription. The Mariinsky did a Fokine evening several years ago with Firebird and Scheherazade and some other ballet (probably Chopiniana). What is going on? You're definitely better off just picking one or two individual programs to see - the subscription doesn't make sense. This kind of presentation always makes me feel like I'm at a gala. And I generally prefer mixed rep programs, but when it's a visiting troupe performing 4 or more pieces, it can feel unfocused. Both Petipa/Ivanov and Ballets Russes works benefit from conscientious stagings. The Ballets Russes stagings should be close to the originals as the stagings were so much a part of the uniqueness of those ballets. Link to comment
maps Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 (edited) delete Edited June 7, 2017 by maps moved Link to comment
AB'sMom Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I've complained to Segerstrom before about their website. Often nothing comes up under Classical Ballet. Everything just gets listed under Dance. So, if one were to search only for ballet it would appear that nothing is on the schedule. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 5, 2017 Share Posted June 5, 2017 I really appreciate this: I've looked under "Ballet", have gotten depressed, and have moved to the next venue. Link to comment
ksk04 Posted June 14, 2017 Share Posted June 14, 2017 SCFTA website now shows that the Mariinsky will perform in the regular theater (Segerstrom Hall), not the concert hall. Yay? Still not renewing Link to comment
ksk04 Posted September 7, 2017 Share Posted September 7, 2017 We have casting! https://www.scfta.org/events/detail.aspx?id=16825 Quote Thursday, October 12 at 7:30 p.m.Chopiniana Oxana Skorik (Seventh Waltz) Xander Parish (Mazurka)Le Spectre de la Rose Vladimir Shklyarov (Le Spectre de la rose) Svetlana Ivanova (The Maiden)The Swan Ekaterina KondaurovaSchéhérazade Viktoria Tereshkina (Zobeide) Kimin Kim (Golden Slave)Friday, October 13 at 7:30 p.m.Chopiniana Anastasia Kolegova (Seventh Waltz) Timur Askerov (Mazurka)Le Spectre de la Rose Philipp Stepin (Le Spectre de la rose) Xenia Ostreikovskaya (The Maiden)The Swan Oxana SkorikSchéhérazade Ekaterina Kondaurova (Zobeide) Vladimir Shklyarov (Golden Slave)Saturday, October 14 at 2 p.m.Chopiniana Yekaterina Osmolkina (Seventh Waltz) Philipp Stepin (Mazurka)Le Spectre de la Rose Vasily Tkachenko (Le Spectre de la rose) Yana Selina (The Maiden)The Swan Viktoria TereshkinaSchéhérazade Oxana Skorik (Zobeide) Xander Parish (Golden Slave)Saturday, October 14 at 7:30 p.m.Chopiniana Anastasia Kolegova (Seventh Waltz) Timur Askerov (Mazurka)Le Spectre de la Rose Kimin Kim (Le Spectre de la rose) Svetlana Ivanova (The Maiden)The Swan Oxana SkorikSchéhérazade Viktoria Tereshkina (Zobeide) Vladimir Shklyarov (Golden Slave)Sunday, October 15 at 1 p.m.Chopiniana Yekaterina Osmolkina (Seventh Waltz) Philipp Stepin (Mazurka)Le Spectre de la Rose Vasily Tkachenko (Le Spectre de la rose) Yana Selina (The Maiden)The Swan Oxana SkorikSchéhérazade Ekaterina Kondaurova (Zobeide) Timur Askerov (Golden Slave)Sunday, October 15 at 6:30 p.m.Chopiniana Oxana Skorik (Seventh Waltz) Xander Parish (Mazurka)Le Spectre de la Rose Vladimir Shklyarov (Le Spectre de la rose) Svetlana Ivanova (The Maiden)The Swan Ekaterina KondaurovaSchéhérazade Viktoria Tereshkina (Zobeide) Kimin Kim (Golden Slave) Link to comment
CharlieH Posted September 8, 2017 Share Posted September 8, 2017 This dovetails with the Mariinsky's week of La Bayadere in DC, so I see a lot of overlap with the leading casts in DC. Big difference is that the wonderful male leads, Shklyarov & Parish, are appearing only in California. Would it be too much to hope that they may also detour to Washington, DC? Selina, Ivanova, Ostreikovskaya, Stepin, Vasily Tkachenko - all wonderful soloists. Perhaps they, too, will be winding their way to Washington, DC's La Bayadere the following week? Link to comment
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