Lizbie1 Posted May 10, 2021 Share Posted May 10, 2021 I have the brochure for the new season. Ballets are: Play (Ekman) Le Rouge et le Noir (Lacotte) Rhapsody (Ashton) / l'Après-midi d'un Faune (Eyal) / Rite of Spring (after Nijinsky) Don Quixote Body and Soul (Pite) Uprising / In your rooms (Schechter) La Bayadère Carmen / Another Place / Bolero (Ek) Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine) Giselle I know we haven't had the official announcement but as the news is very much out there to previous subscribers (with no caveats!) I hope it's OK to post this. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 11, 2021 Share Posted May 11, 2021 Ashton’s Rhapsody! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 What’s happened to their Mayerling premiere? Costumes and sets made, rehearsals in full swing, due to premiere in May 2020? Obviously cancelled by the pandemic. After all that financial outlay you’d think they would need to put that on? And that they’d want to ? It was fully sold out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FionaM Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 On 11/05/2021 at 12:05, Jeannette said: Ashton’s Rhapsody! is this new to Paris? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 9 hours ago, FionaE said: is this new to Paris? I saw it there at POB in the mid/late 1990s with Letestu & Martinez...the first time with the now-standard designs with bright primary colours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Paris used the Patrick Caulfield designs, didn't they? - though I read somewhere that they wanted a new design and weren't allowed to. (A pity!) The RB dropped the Caulfield version after a few years and it's now done in the Jessica Curtis version from 2005. It will be interesting to see which one Paris uses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeannette Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Kumakawa’s company in Japan also uses the Caulfield designs, as seen in their DVD starring Kumakawa & Yoshida. Fabulous performance! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizbie1 Posted May 14, 2021 Author Share Posted May 14, 2021 It'll be the Caulfield designs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FLOSS Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 My recollection is that pretty much everyone was dissatisfied with the original designs for Rhapsody but the subsequent history of the designs created for it suggests some uncertainty about what should replace them. As Ashton's nephew owns the ballet the uncertainty is all his and I have some sympathy for him. Finding designs which support the dancers rather than diverting attention from them or reducing their visibility and presence has proved surprisingly difficult. The first replacements were the bright Bauhaus inspired Caulfield ones which got in the way of the performance by drawing far too much attention to themselves were no improvement on the original designs. Then the Curtiss ones went to the other extreme and were far too pastel, self- effacing and apologetic. I seem to recall that the designs by Jessica Curtiss were in turn replaced in 2012 by ones which are a little more assertive and owe a great deal to the original designs created for the ballet. In fact I think we were told at that point that although the costumes for the original production had been credited to William Chappell they were to all intents and purposes by Ashton himself as Chappell had proved incapable of producing any designs because of his age. It will be interesting to see which designs are used in Paris. I hope that we now have an authorised final version. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted May 14, 2021 Share Posted May 14, 2021 Yes, - sorry - I'd forgotten about the last redesign - 'William Chappell, recreated by Natalia Stewart'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jam Dancer Posted December 1, 2021 Share Posted December 1, 2021 I’ve recently located to Paris and haven’t seen POB in many years. I thought I’d dip my toes in with the Ashton/Eyal/Nijinsky programme this evening - December 1st. Unfortunately my 1st impression wasn’t great - hated the costumes and staging and this cast struggled with Ashton. Marc Moreau danced the male lead and it was rough going all the way through. The supporting male corps struggled as well. The female lead was danced by Sae Eun Park - lovely dancer but I didn’t get lots of Ashton. The back bends were not from the waist and a bit hunched… Ehe Eyal version of Faunes looked much better on the dancers if POB. Now heading back to see Le Sacré du Printemps. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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