Ian Macmillan

Links – Monday 25 July, 2016 Review – New York City Ballet/Justin Peck, Scherzo Fantastique & others, Saratoga Springs: Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Preview – Bolshoi Ballet ‘s London Visit, Opening Tonight: Tass via RBTH Feature – What makes Cuban ballet Cuban? Carrie Seidman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune Interview – NYCB’s Robert Fairchild, on A Chorus Line: Susan Reiter, LA Times Feature – Dance Ink, a performance in print: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Review – Grit Performance Company, GRIT, Sarasota: Carrie Seidman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Links – Sunday 24 July, 2016 Review – The Strictly Prom, London: Jeffery Taylor, Sunday Express Previews – Edinburgh International Festival Fringe, 2016: Five Shows, Donald Hutera (Scroll down as required), The List

Links – Saturday 23 July, 2016 Reviews – Australian Ballet, Cinderella (Ratmansky), London: Clement Crisp, Financial Times Jann Parry, DanceTabs Graham Watts, Londondance Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard - Gallery – Foteini Christofilopoulou, DanceTabs - Summary of yesterday’s reviews, Valerie Lawson, Dancelines Review – New York City Ballet, Balanchine, New York-Paris, Paris: Jade Larine, Fjord Review Tour Reviews – Bangarra Dance Theatre, OUR land people stories, Perth, Canberra: Michelle Potter, The Age Dylan James, Australian Stage Feature – Hannah Fischer, National Ballet of Canada: Pia Catton, Wall St Journal Reviews – The Strictly Prom, London: Marianka Swain, Arts Desk Rachel Ward, Telegraph Review – Dance groups at Latitude Festival: Rachel Elderkin, Londondance Review – Chicago Human Rhythm Project, JUBA! Tap Performances: Laura Molzahn, Chicago Tribune Diaries: - Next week around UK: Judith Mackrell, Guardian - And around Boston: Karen Campbell, Boston Globe Review – The Assembly, From the Source Series, Long Beach: Jeff Slayton, SeeDance And to finish, we give you: Xander Parish, Impresario & Holiday Planner: Sherelle Jacobs, Telegraph

Links – Friday 22 July, 2016 Reviews – Australian Ballet, Cinderella (Ratmansky), London: Mark Monahan, Telegraph Neil Norman, The Stage Lyndsey Winship, Evening Standard Hanna Weibye, Arts Desk David Jays, Guardian Vera Liber, BTG Alexandra Desvignes, Bachtrack Emma Cann, BWW Review – Ismene Brown, Spectator - Rambert & Garsington Opera, The Creation - Australian Ballet, Swan Lake, London Interview – NYCB’s Georgina Pazcoguin & Cats: Andrew Blackmore-Dobbyn, Huffington Post Preview – National Ballet of Canada, The Winter’s Tale, NY: Brian Schaefer, NY Times Review – Hubbard Street Dance, Five-part Bill, Jacob’s Pillow: Martha Sherman, Danceviewtimes Feature – Stuttgart Principal Kang Sue-jin’s last performance: Staff, Korea Times US Diary – New York Listings, 22-28 July: Staff, NY Times Feature – St Petersburg Ballet Theatre, Australian Tour: Valerie Lawson, Dancelines Film – Ohad Naharin, Mr Gaga: Deborah Jones, Blog News – Minnesota Ballet costumes lost in storm damage: Kim Schneider, Duluth News Tribune Review – Dancing on the Edge Festival, 2016, Various, Vancouver: Rachel Silver, Dance Current

Bridie: Neil Norman, reviewing for The Stage, seems on your side: https://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/2016/cinderella-review-at-london-coliseum/ Edited to say that, a little unusually, a number of papers have reviews up already: Hanna Weibye, Arts Desk: http://www.theartsdesk.com/dance/cinderella-ratmanskyaustralian-ballet-london-coliseum Mark Monahan, Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/dance/what-to-see/australian-ballet-coliseum-review-the-quest-for-the-perfect-cind/ Lyndsey Winship, Evening Standard: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/arts/cinderellaaustralian-ballet-review-a-hint-of-realism-beneath-the-silliness-a3300941.html I'll leave it at that for the rest of the day - see tomorrow's Links.

I wouldn't normally bother folks, but our Magnolia Grandiflora, hanging on in entirely unsuitable soil, has today opened a single flower! Something of no consequence to those of you with a more acid soil, perhaps, but it's MOST unusual here, I can assure you all. So, to celebrate, here it is:

Blossom: I'm pleased that you enjoyed the show, but that 'fantastic' in the thread title might have to be moderated out should it emerge that others don't quite see the show in that light - just saying, as they say.

Links – Monday 11 July, 2016 Review – Alexei Ratmansky’s Firebird and his years at ABT: Lewis Segal, LA Times Review – E-Side Dance Company, Outshine Quad Bill, HK: Natasha Rogai, SCMP Arachnids – A new species of spider named after Li Cunxin: Amy Mitchell-Whittington, Brisbane Times

Links – Sunday 10 July, 2016 Reviews – Hofesh Shechter Company, barbarians trilogy, London: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Luke Jennings, Observer Jeffery Taylor, Sunday Express Feature – Dada, and Anarchy in Pointe Shoes: Alastair Macaulay (scroll down), NY Times Tour Review – Houston Ballet, Romeo and Juliet (Welch), Melbourne: Gracia Haby, Fjord Review Feature – Character Dancers: Dance isn’t only for the young: Deborah Jones, FollowSpot Blog Review – Amy Seiwert/Imagery, Use Your Words Quad Bill, SF: Allan Ulrich, SF Chronicle Review – Chicago Dance Crash, Evil & Good, Chicago: Laura Molzahn, Chicago Tribune Preview – Monstah Black, HYPERBOLIC!, NY: Melanie Brown, DanceTabs Review – Marrugeku, Cut the Sky, Melbourne: Liza Dezfouli, Australian Stage Review – DELIRIOUS/Edisa Weeks, To Begin the World Over Again, NY: Joel Benjamin, TheaterScene Did you know? Wayne Sleep’s hair is a problem: Rosanna Greenstreet, Guardian

Links – Saturday 9 July, 2016 Review – New York City Ballet & Paris Opera Ballet Programmes, Paris: Laura Capelle, Financial Times Feature – Dancing Juliet – 3 Dancers Reflect: Sarah L Kaufman, Washington Post Feature – Twyla Tharp and Dancers look back: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Feature – Post-Performance Talks – Yes/No?: Jonelle Seitz, Fjord Review Review – Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards & Colleagues, And Still You Must Swing, Becket, MA: Siobhan Burke, NY Times Review – Dusan Tynek Dance Theater, Tethered Light, Logbook, Romanesco Suite, NY: Brian Seibert, NY Times Review – Gauthier Dance, Mixed Bill x5, Becket, MA: Janine Parker, Arts Fuse Review – Jack Ferver, I Want You To Want Me, NY: Deborah Jowitt, Arts Journal/DanceBeat Diary – Next week in London & High Wycombe: Judith Mackrell, Guardian Exhibition, and more – Degas, and Dance of the Brolgas: Tony Wright, The Age

Links – Friday 8 July, 2016 Review – Venice Biennale Danza 2016, Various Companies: Sanjoy Roy, DanceTabs Review – Natalia Osipova, Qutb, Silent Echo, Run Mary Run, London: Gerald Dowler, Classical Source Delayed Review – Birmingham Royal Ballet, Shakespeare Triple Bill, Geoff Read, Seen and Heard Review – Gauthier Dance, 5 contemporary pieces, No female choreographer, Becket, MA: Siobhan Burke, NY Times News – Baryshnikov Center Fall Season, NY: Michael Cooper, NY Times Diary – New York & Jacob’s Pillow, 8 – 14 July: NY Times Review – Marrugeku Theatre, Cut The Sky, Melbourne: Cameron Woodhead, The Age Reviews – Footnote Dance Company, Transfer, Wellington; Sarah Caterall, Dominion Post Donna Banicevich Gera, Theatreview

There's now a similar offer for Cinderella: http://www.standard.co.uk/esrewards/save-20-on-tickets-to-cinderella-a3285276.html (I've altered the thread title accordingly.)

Links – Thursday 7 July, 2016 Obituary – Desmond Heeley, theatrical designer, Houston Ballet: Andrew Edmondson, Houston Chronicle Review – Paris Opera Ballet, Of Any If And, Approximate Sonata, Blake Works I, Paris: Laura Capelle, Financial Times Review – Baltic Dance Theatre, Death & The Maiden, Tristan & Isolde, Gdansk: Graham Watts, DanceTabs Reviews – Natalia Osipova & Sergei Polunin, Qutb, Silent Echo, Run Mary Run, London: Ismene Brown, Spectator Jim Pritchard, Seen and Heard Review – Jack Ferver, I Want You to Want Me, NY: Leigh Witchel, Danceviewtimes Review – Akram Khan/Big Dance 2016, Trafalgar Square Event: Josephine Leaske, Londondance Reviews – John Heginbotham & Amy Trompetter, Fantasque, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson: Robert Greskovic, Wall St Journal Deborah Jowitt, Arts Journal/DanceBeat Preview – Tap City Festival, New York: Gia Kourlas, NY Times Preview – Marina Fukushima, Family Seasons, SF: Pam Grady, SF Chronicle Conference – Arab Dance Platform, Beirut: Dena Davida, Dance Current

Today's Times 2 has a middle-pages spread on Australian Ballet ahead of their London visit.

Haydn's Messiah? Are you sure?

Links – Sunday 26 June, 2016 Review – Birmingham Royal Ballet, Shakespeare Triple Bill, Birmingham: Luke Jennings, Observer Review – SFDanceworks, Concerto 622, Lickety Split, Joe & Ida, Z, SF: Claudia Bauer, DanceTabs Review – Chamber Dance Project, Mixed Bill, DC: George Jackson, Danceviewtimes Review – LA Dance Project, Triple Bill, London: Vera Liber, BTG - Gallery: Foteini Christofilopoulou, DanceTabs Review – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Lincoln Center Season, NY: Deborah Jowitt, Arts Journal/DanceBeat Review – Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Double Bill, London: Jeffery Taylor, Sunday Express Review – Lingalayam & Taikoz, Chi Udaka, Sydney: Jill Sykes, The Age Review – Bootleg Theater, Home Grown Triple Bill, LA: Jeff Slayton, SeeDance Review – Israel Ballet, Swan Lake, Tel Aviv?: Ruth Eshel, Haaretz

A bit of calm, please. I certainly qualify on Scottish ancestry and grannies back into the mists of time, but I can't help on passports - possibly as there won't have been Scottish ones since around 1707.

Although it was probably on the cards, it sounds like a great night - though I do wonder how it looks when Juliet is clearly much older than her Nurse? Perhaps it wasn't clear? (I only mention this as, at least 10 years ago, we had access to a TV Arts channel that regularly played Bolshoi performances including Madame Bessmertnova as Juliet. In close-up, I did think the age difference very odd indeed.)

Links – Saturday 25 June, 2016 Reviews – American Ballet Theatre, Romeo and Juliet (Ferri's return), NY: Marina Harss, DanceTabs Alastair Macaulay, NY Times Reminiscence – The Bolshoi Visit to London in 1956: Clement Crisp, Financial Times Interview – Secrets of the Bolshoi - The life and times of a Soviet claque: Oleg Krasnov, RBTH Reviews – Birmingham Royal Ballet, Shakespeare Triple Bill, Birmingham: David Jays, Guardian Lynette Halewood, DanceTabs Reviews – Venice Dance Biennale: - Various Groups: Judith Mackrell, Guardian - Shobana Jeyasingh Dance, Outlander: Sanjoy Roy, Londondance Photo Feature – Australian Ballet dancers & Degas: A New Vision: Melbourne: Priscilla Frank, Huff Post Feature – A family tree from de Valois to Ashton to van Praagh: Valerie Lawson, Dancelines Preview – Melbourne Ballet Company, Divenire Triple Bill, Touring: Michelle Potter, The Age Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival Review: - Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Silent Ghost, Re:play, Huma Rojo, Becket, MA: Ken Ross, MassLive News – Sir Matthew Bourne receives Royal Award: Carmel Smith, Londondance Diary – UK, Next Week: Judith Mackrell, Guardian NZ Tour Preview – Nederlands Dans Theater: Dionne Christian, NZ Herald Review – SFDanceworks, Joe & Ida, Lickety Split, Concerto 622, Z, Portrait, SF: Allan Ulrich, SF Chronicle Review – Susan Marshall, Chromatic, NY: Gia Kourlas, NY Timesh Review – River to River Festival, The Set Up: Kapila Venu, NY: Brian Seibert, NY Times Review – Ballet BC, Outdoors in Live at the ‘Bolt, Burnaby: Janet Smith, Straight.com Feature – Special Needs Dance Teaching in Sarasota: Carrie Seidman, Herald-Tribune

The NYT has now put up Mr Macaulay's review: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/arts/music/review-alessandra-ferri-american-ballet-theater-romeo-and-juliet.html

Another Link, this time from Dance magazine, although it looks like a collection of excerpts from other articles of recent weeks on the topic: http://dancemagazine.com/views/35001/

No sign of Macaulay yet - Bruce is in first with an enthusiastic review by Marina Harss: http://Review – American Ballet Theatre, Romeo and Juliet (Ferri), NY: Marina Harss, DanceTabs

From tomorrow's Links - anybody interested in Mr Crisp's reminiscences of the first 1956 visit to London? https://next.ft.com/content/e7335f00-36fd-11e6-9a05-82a9b15a8ee7

.... and, at the risk of going off-thread, even better here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ballerinas-pose-alongside-degas-iconic-ballet-paintings-the-world-applauds_us_576c58d4e4b0f1683239060f

This article has appeared on The Stage's website, but I doubt that it adds anything at all of substance at this early stage: https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/2016/brexit-what-does-it-mean-for-the-arts/?platform=hootsuite