Dale Posted January 17, 2003 Share Posted January 17, 2003 NYCB put out a new "face" book as I always call them. It contains new individual color photos (most of them the saw from those used in the dancer section of the web site). It's only $5 and is useful for telling new corps dancers apart. Link to comment
Farrell Fan Posted January 18, 2003 Share Posted January 18, 2003 The photos (by Paul Kolnik) are great, but the type is too small and too faint. But it's certainly worth the $5. Link to comment
boydancer05 Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 is it possible to buy this book if you dont live in new york? Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Here's the place where you can do that: http://www.nycballet.com/nycballet/books.asp Link to comment
sneds Posted January 21, 2003 Share Posted January 21, 2003 Hi! Just wanted to point out two corrections to the roster in the "Face Book". Kipling Houston, of course, has retired from NYCB. Also, Kurt Froman has departed from NYCB to join the cast of "Movin Out". (Which means that in casting lists now will just read Froman). Kate Link to comment
stan Posted January 27, 2003 Share Posted January 27, 2003 Another correction: It's Pittsburgh not "Pittsburg." I was struck by the number of dancers who come from Pennsylvania. I gather there is an outstanding school somewhere in the state. Link to comment
Mel Johnson Posted January 28, 2003 Share Posted January 28, 2003 Not to mention the Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet. Link to comment
carbro Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 The only problem with the Dancer Book is that these are "artistic" portraits, and the women are made up entirely differently from how they are on stage, and I still can't recognize most of the ones I didn't already know. I think, too, that had the photos included head and shoulders, instead of faces alone, that the dancers would be easier to recognize. The faces would be a little smaller, sure, but the line of the neck to the shoulder shows a more individually distinctive quality. More context, if you will. If I ran the universe, ,everyone would be shown head-and-shoulders in 3/4 profile. Not very interesting, but probably most utilitarian. I must remark, though, on how beautiful and radiant Darci looks. That picture alone is worth the fin. Link to comment
Manhattnik Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 One of these days, I'm going to get that book and calculate the average and median number of years' experience of the corps de ballet, and compare it with, say 10 or 20 years ago. Except it would be too depressing. Link to comment
carbro Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 I miss Delia, don't you? Link to comment
Manhattnik Posted February 3, 2003 Share Posted February 3, 2003 Delia, Nina Fedorova, Wilhelmina Frankfurt, Debra Austin, Cheryl Ware, Rene Estopinal. Oh, I'm getting all verklempt..... In those days women stayed in the company for more than a cup of coffee. Now I have to ask myself why I should bother learning who the corps dancers are, because in a couple of years most of them will be gone? Link to comment
carbro Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Why? To keep up with the intermission chat. :rolleyes: I find myself asking, "Which one was she?" but since no one has idiosyncratic qualities (I draw the "I miss" line at Margie S.), I'm still lost. :confused: :confused: :confused: Link to comment
Manhattnik Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Just ask Michael. He knows who they all are even before they're apprentices. I wish I were cool enough to come out of a performance raving about dancers in the back row of the corps whose names aren't even printed in the program yet! The morning after I'm lucky if I can remember who danced the leads. Link to comment
Michael Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 I hope to live down that alleged accomplishment along with several others, as along with everyone else I confess to having no idea at the moment who most of these kids are. I tell you what, though, I would think some of those dancers would consider taking corrective action against the photographer -- Those are some of the most unflattering photographs I've ever seen. Link to comment
Calliope Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Is it me, or does it seem all of the women have a pinkish-red streak running across their eyebrows? And who'd have thunk it, Rachel Rutherford seems to have a nose stud! Unless that was poor alterations Link to comment
Farrell Fan Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 Sebastien Marcovici's tears tattoo makes his photo look like a clown painting. Link to comment
carbro Posted February 4, 2003 Share Posted February 4, 2003 That's a tattoo? Thanks. I thought it was the effect of a printing error. Now I know the error wasn't the printer's. Link to comment
Vicarmac Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 It is a tattoo of a tear. Like the John Waters movie "Cry Baby" with Johnny Depp. Cracked my daughter and her friends up when they met him. Link to comment
E Johnson Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 Many of the principals have new photos in Playbill this month -- are these the same as in the "face book"? Link to comment
Calliope Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 If you look online at the photos with their bios. Those are the same pics in the photobook. I haven't seen the new playbills. Link to comment
Farrell Fan Posted February 5, 2003 Share Posted February 5, 2003 I haven't seen the February Playbill yet, but as of the end of January, the photos of Borree, Fayette, Marcovici, Milllepied, and Somogyi are the same as those in the face book. Photos of the other principals are, without exception, better in the face book, so I hope they will replace those in the Playbill, if they haven't already. Link to comment
Farrell Fan Posted February 8, 2003 Share Posted February 8, 2003 Now I have seen the February Playbill and, yes, almost all the photos are from the face book. The only ones which aren't are those of Hubbe, Kowroski, Martins, and Neal. Link to comment
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