kbarber Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Genius at Play | September 6–16, 2018 Interplay Music by Morton Gould Choreography by Jerome Robbins Fancy Free Music by Leonard Bernstein Choreography by Jerome Robbins Glass Pieces Boston Ballet Premiere Music by Philip Glass Choreography by Jerome Robbins The Nutcracker | November 29–December 30, 2018 Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography by Mikko Nissinen Full on Forsythe | March 7–17, 2019 Artifact Suite Choreography by William Forsythe Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Eva Crossman-Hecht World Premiere Choreography by William Forsythe Blake Works I North American Premiere Choreography by William Forsythe Music by James Blake Coppélia | March 21–31, 2019 Music by Léo Delibes Choreography by George Balanchine Cinderella | May 10–June 8, 2019 Music by Sergei Prokofiev Choreography by Sir Frederick Ashton Rhapsody | May 16–June 9, 2019 ELA, Rhapsody in Blue World Premiere Music by George Gershwin Choreography by Paulo Arrais Yakobson Miniatures Choreography by Leonid Yakobson Rodin Music by Claude Debussy, Alban Berg Pas de Quatre Music by Vincenzo Bellini Vestris Boston Ballet Premiere Music by Gennadi Banshchikov Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2 Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Choreography by George Balanchine Link to comment
its the mom Posted February 8, 2018 Share Posted February 8, 2018 Timing is a bit different this year due to Hamilton being at the Opera House from mid-September through mid-November. The fall program has been pushed to early September and the Nutcracker run has been shortened. I am not terribly excited about this programming. Link to comment
sandik Posted February 9, 2018 Share Posted February 9, 2018 I'd love to see the Forsythe program in March -- I have to see what I can manage traveling. Link to comment
its the mom Posted February 10, 2018 Share Posted February 10, 2018 1 hour ago, sandik said: I'd love to see the Forsythe program in March -- I have to see what I can manage traveling. I am interested in Blake Works and will be very happy to see Ballet Imperial. Link to comment
miliosr Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Florimond Lorieux has announced on his Instagram feed that he's returning to the Paris Opera Ballet after two years with Boston Ballet. Link to comment
its the mom Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 1 hour ago, miliosr said: Florimond Lorieux has announced on his Instagram feed that he's returning to the Paris Opera Ballet after two years with Boston Ballet. A lifetime contract is hard to give up. I think the dancers are only permitted a certain amount of time away before relinquishing the lifetime contract. I may be wrong. Maybe somebody else knows the time frame associated with this. Link to comment
miliosr Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 10 hours ago, its the mom said: I think the dancers are only permitted a certain amount of time away before relinquishing the lifetime contract. My understanding is that the dancers at the Opera are guaranteed a sabbatical year. Further leave after one year may be at the discretion of the director (as appears to have happened here.) Link to comment
miliosr Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Boston Ballet has updated its roster for the 2018-19 season. Derek Dunn is now listed as a principal: https://www.bostonballet.org/Home/Global/Profiles/Artists/Principal-Dancers/Derek-Dunn.aspx Eris Nezha has departed to become a principal at Los Angeles Ballet: https://losangelesballet.org/dancers And. as noted previously, Florimond Lorieux has returned to the Paris Opera Ballet after two years with Boston Ballet as a soloist. Link to comment
its the mom Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 1 hour ago, miliosr said: Boston Ballet has updated its roster for the 2018-19 season. Derek Dunn is now listed as a principal: https://www.bostonballet.org/Home/Global/Profiles/Artists/Principal-Dancers/Derek-Dunn.aspx Eris Nezha has departed to become a principal at Los Angeles Ballet: https://losangelesballet.org/dancers And. as noted previously, Florimond Lorieux has returned to the Paris Opera Ballet after two years with Boston Ballet as a soloist. Derek has been a great addition to this company. However, he is fairly short, and there are only a few women he can partner in classical works. Nezha joins his wife, Petra Conti, in LA. Lorieux will be missed. He is beautiful on stage. It will be interesting to see how Kapitonova fits into the company. Link to comment
CharlieH Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Kapitonova is a real gem - Ratmansky’s first Odette/Odile when his Swan Lake recon premiered. I was sorry when I read about her recent departure from Zurich. Now we know where the Swan has landed. Link to comment
its the mom Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 Yes, I was surprised she was leaving Zurich. It seemed as if she was pretty much a star there. Link to comment
miliosr Posted July 31, 2018 Share Posted July 31, 2018 (edited) 11 hours ago, its the mom said: Nezha joins his wife, Petra Conti, in LA. Lorieux will be missed. He is beautiful on stage. I find Nezha's trajectory slightly odd -- La Scala to Boston Ballet to Los Angeles Ballet. Maybe he and his wife really want to live in LA? I hope things work out for Lorieux back in Paris. But he still has the obstacle of the annual competition and I don't know if he's really the one they want to promote. (Compared to, say, Marc Moreau and Jeremy Loup-Quer.) Edited July 31, 2018 by miliosr Link to comment
Marta Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 3 hours ago, miliosr said: I find Nezha's trajectory slightly odd -- La Scala to Boston Ballet to Los Angeles Ballet. Maybe he and his wife really want to live in LA? I hope things work out for Lorieux back in Paris. But he still has the obstacle of the annual competition and I don't know if he's really the one they want to promote. (Compared to, say, Marc Moreau and Jeremy Loup-Quer.) As someone else wrote, I'm not terribly excited by their season. That's an understatement. I'm happy to see Balanchine, although not Coppelia as I just saw it at NYCB, and maybe the Forsythe. Conti and Nezha were two of my favorites at Boston and I'm sorry they've left. I really don't understand why, but perhaps they weren't getting the roles they'd expected to get. I'm interested to see Kapitonova. Link to comment
sandik Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 (edited) Have you seen the Yakobson before? He's still relatively under-programmed here in the states -- I wish I was going to get a chance at it. Edited August 1, 2018 by sandik Link to comment
Marta Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 6 hours ago, sandik said: Have you seen the Yakobson before? He's still relatively under-programmed here in the states -- I wish I was going to get a chance at it. I've seen some of the Yakobson at Boston Ballet. I really like his work, but I thought BB's interpretation of it was just too pretty and superficial. There are some very good clips of his work on youtube. Link to comment
sandik Posted August 1, 2018 Share Posted August 1, 2018 I still feel very underinformed about his choreography -- envy you your access! Link to comment
Marta Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 Your comment reminded me that I'd read a review of a bio of Yakobson -- although I didn't read the book. In case you haven't seen it, here it is: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/23/books/review-like-a-bomb-going-off-leonid-yakobson-and-ballet-as-resistance-in-soviet-russia.html Link to comment
sandik Posted August 2, 2018 Share Posted August 2, 2018 I've got it and think it's worth the read. I'm old enough to remember when there were all kinds of choreographers out there whose work we knew primarily (or in some cases only!) through written description -- considering the incredible amount of dance on the internet right now, there are still a few who are really only available in real time and space. I think this shift has changed how some of us watch the art form. Link to comment
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