capybara Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Lovely idea. I got the wrapping off my La Bayadere BluRay but I will play it tonight. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonty Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 (edited) I got sidetracked by Mr Font into watching something else. I did manage to grab a fascinating 30 minute documentary on R & J on Youtube, featuring Rojo and Acosta among others, and narrated by Jonathan Cope. And what an excellent narrator he was too. Am happy to join in another one, but Saturday is not a good night for me. Any chance of a matinee performance? Edited March 29, 2020 by Fonty 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 Yes, I did wonder whether Saturday was actually a good night, or whether people were more likely to arrange other things then. Perhaps we should run a poll ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard LH Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 3 hours ago, capybara said: Lovely idea. I got the wrapping off my La Bayadere BluRay but I will play it tonight. Hope you enjoyed it capybara, we certainly did.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted March 29, 2020 Share Posted March 29, 2020 23 minutes ago, alison said: Yes, I did wonder whether Saturday was actually a good night, or whether people were more likely to arrange other things then. Perhaps we should run a poll ... No sooner (well, hardly) said than done: Do please respond 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted March 30, 2020 Share Posted March 30, 2020 Sounds like everyone had a grand time! Just reading this thread brings smiles. Dear Hubby & I will try to join next time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard LH Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 Our Event yesterday evening celebrated Akane Takada's 30th birthday by watching a couple of her rehearsal Insights (as Perdita from The Winter's Tale, and as Mathilde Kschessinska from Anastasia, with James Hay) and then a couple of Ashton masterpieces - Les Patineurs from 2010 where Akane was a delightful Blue Girl, and finally from 2017 as a wonderful Titania in The Dream. (Steven McRae on dazzling form in both as well). Akane and Steven's final virtuoso PDD is just so beautiful, and gets deserved prolonged applause from the audience. I regard this version of The Dream as an exemplar of the perfect ballet - brilliant choreography, lovely music, fantastic staging, plenty of magic, humour, and sensuality, and amazing dancing, all packed into less than an hour, so that it leaves you wanting more ! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted April 19, 2020 Share Posted April 19, 2020 1 minute ago, Richard LH said: I regard this version of The Dream as an exemplar of the perfect ballet - brilliant choreography, lovely music, fantastic staging, plenty of magic, humour, and sensuality, and amazing dancing, all packed into less than an hour, so that it leaves you wanting more ! Me too. Although I would ideally have liked a more experienced cast, but circumstances didn't allow. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I've just attended a matinee performance of Northern Ballet's 1984 in my living room. I'm never quite sure how live performances will translate onto the small screen and actually this production transforms very well. I'd forgotten just what an imaginatively brutal production it is. IMHO it's a terrific interpretation of such a very bleak novel. The corps scenes are mostly people at the repetitive drudgery of work interspersed with the quite intimidating hate sessions. Toby Batley as Winston Smith shows what an incredibly expressive dance actor he is going from the drudgery of work and life, through the hate sessions, the hope, love and ultimately despair and betrayal. Of course, Martha Leebolt as Julia walks on stage, breathes and all is well with the world. Javier Torres is utterly sinister and brutal as O'Brien, showing yet again what a powerful presence he has. The end, where Winston Smith's name is erased from the screen is incredibly moving. All in all this was a terrific afternoon at the ballet. This production is currently availably via YouTube as part of Northern Ballet's Pay As You Feel digital season (although I have, of course, got the DVD). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jan McNulty Posted April 24, 2020 Share Posted April 24, 2020 I've just spent the noon matinee blissfully watching Ballet Black's House of Dreams, choreographed by Michael Corder to music by Debussy. It really is a sublime piece of choreography for 2 couples with individual duets and ending up with all four dancers. I have often thought with the Michael Corder story ballets I have seen that there are too many steps and not enough dancing but with this piece he has melded the steps to the music so beautifully I was transported to McNulty heaven. The four dancers were just sublime. Highly recommended. (I'm not sure how long it is available for). 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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