Le Petit Prince casting

 

The National Ballet of Canada presents the world premiere of Le Petit Prince starting June 4 at the Four Seasons Centre in Toronto. Choreography by Guillaume Côté, original score by composer Kevin Lau, sets and costumes by designer Michael Levine, lighting by David Finn and video designs by Finn Ross.

	Le Petit Prince/ The Little Prince	L’Aviateur/The Aviator	La Rose/ The Rose	Le Serpent/ The Snake	Le Renard/ The Fox
Saturday June 4 @ 730 pm	Dylan Tedaldi	Harrison James	Tanya Howard	Xiao Nan Yu	Sonia Rodriguez
Sunday June 5 @ 2 pm	Félix Paquet	McGee Maddox	Heather Ogden	Svetlana Lunkina	Rui Huang
Wednesday June 8 @ 730 pm	Dylan Tedaldi	Harrison James	Tanya Howard	Xiao Nan Yu	Sonia Rodriguez
Thursday June 9 @ 2 pm	Skylar Campbell	Piotr Stanczyk	Kathryn Hosier	Tina Pereira	Jurgita Dronina
Thursday June 9 @ 730 pm	Dylan Tedaldi	Harrison James	Tanya Howard	Xiao Nan Yu	Sonia Rodriguez
Friday June 10 @ 730 pm	Félix Paquet	McGee Maddox	Heather Ogden	Svetlana Lunkina	Rui Huang
Saturday June 11 @ 2 pm	Skylar Campbell	Piotr Stanczyk	Kathryn Hosier	Tina Pereira	Jurgita Dronina
Saturday June 11 @ 730 pm	Dylan Tedaldi	Harrison James	Tanya Howard	Xiao Nan Yu	Sonia Rodriguez
Sunday June 12 @ 2 pm	Félix Paquet	McGee Maddox	Heather Ogden	Svetlana Lunkina	Rui Huang

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Paris and The Netherlands in Tulip Time 2017 – RESPONSE REQUESTED

Last year this trip sold out to 25 people on the priority mailing list on the day the brochure was released in August. If you are at all interested in the 2017 trip, even tentatively, you need to be on the priority list. Send me an email at toursenlair@gmail.com.

This is not a commitment. A visit to the amazing spring garden at Keukenhof and to Monet's house at Giverny would be included. You can always add on extra time in either city yourself if you wish.

April 30 – May 8

Paris and Amsterdam (stop at Ghent on the way between the two cities)

Paris Opera Ballet: In G (Robbins), La Valse (Balanchine), Bolero (Cherkaoui)

Optional performance of Walkaround Time (Cunningham), Trio, Workwithinwork (both Forsythe)

Dutch National Ballet: All Balanchine: Apollo, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Tarantella, Theme and Variations

Dutch National Ballet Junior Company: Mixed Program

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Royal Ballet Giselle & Frankenstein at Bloor Cinema Toronto

 

The Royal Ballet: Giselle

Sun, May 29 3:00 PM Buy

Ballet on Screen: Exquisite productions of beloved ballets from The Royal Ballet.
The greatest of all Romantic ballets, Peter Wright’s production of Marius Petipa’s classic is a tale of betrayal, the supernatural and love that transcends death. Giselle, a peasant girl, has fallen in love with Count Albrecht, who has told her he is a villager named Loys. Her discovery of his true identity has devastating consequences.
Includes one 15-minute intermission.
Tickets: $16 (Members: $12, $10, Free)

Run Time:	135 min
Director(s):	Peter Wright
Country:	UK
Released:	2016
Featuring:	Choreography: Marius Petipa after Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot
	Music: Adolphe Adam revised by Joseph Horovitz
	Scenario: Théophile Gautier after Heinrich Heine
	Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Cast:	Marianela Nuñez as Giselle
	Vadim Muntagirov as Albrecht
	Itziar Mendizabal as Myrtha, Queen of the Wilis

The Royal Ballet: Frankenstein

Sat, Jun 25 12:30 PM Buy
 

The Royal Ballet’s Artist in Residence Liam Scarlett has become known for ballets that marry highly expressive movement, sophisticated musical response and dark psychological depth. Now, he creates his first full-length work for the main stage with Frankenstein, a period adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic tale of morality and our craving for love, companionship and understanding.
Includes one 15-minute intermission.
Tickets: $16 (Members: $12, $10, Free)

The Bloor Cinema is located at 506 Bloor St. W. @ Bathurst, Toronto   416.637.3123.

  
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Royal Ballet in Cinema 2016-17

The Royal Ballet has announced its 2016-17 season.  Dates listed are for cinema broadcasts in the UK. Dates for Canada and the US have not yet been announced. For Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema see this post: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2016/04/bolshoi-ballet-cinema-broadcasts-2016-17.html
Tours en l'air is looking at a trip to London in October 2016 to see the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Northern Ballet, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre. If you're interested please email me at toursenlair@gmail.com

Live

Anastasia

2 November 2016

Kenneth MacMillan’s full-length ballet is a compelling exploration of identity in the turbulent wake of the Russian Revolution.

The Nutcracker

8 December 2016

The Royal Ballet celebrates Peter Wright’s 90th birthday with his much-loved production of this beautiful classical ballet, danced to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score.

Live

Woolf Works

8 February 2017

The first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music by Max Richter, inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf.

Live

The Sleeping Beauty

28 February 2017

Celebrate 70 years of The Royal Ballet’s landmark production and enter an enchanted world of princesses, fairy godmothers and magical spells.

Live

Jewels

11 April 2017

Now celebrating its 50th year, George Balanchine’s sparkling ballet still shines with all the brilliance of the gemstones that inspired it.

Live

The Dream / Symphonic Variations / Marguerite and Armand

7 June 2017

The Royal Ballet brings its celebrations of 70 years at the Royal Opera House to a close with a mixed programme of works by its Founder Choreographer Frederick Ashton.

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My fave ballet videos from March and April

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Great time-lapse video on the making of a tutu, from Royal Swedish Ballet. 17 hours in 4 minutes!
https://youtu.be/fIlot_yc8xQ

If you like Russian ballerinas performing 19th-century classical ballet, this one's for you (38 minutes)

https://youtu.be/21lO3Egqmrw

Birmingham Royal Ballet ballerinas trade their pointe shoes for wellies:

http://www.rnlivideolibrary.org.uk/getvideo.aspx?vid=RKodo7uM

Cincinnati Ballet's latest recruit:

https://youtu.be/54SBHobALBQ

One of the highlights of our Paris trip (yes, it's Mathieu Ganio):

https://youtu.be/TcdvkoSx-8c

Lovely trailer from Spain's national ballet company for Jerome Robbins' In the Night:

https://vimeo.com/157991135

A fab Paris Opera Ballet Myriam Ould-Braham & Mathias Heymann in Sleeping Beauty grand Pas de Deux

https://youtu.be/8JOiwtvDsEs

More POB: Emmanuel Thibault in the Giselle peasant pas de deux first variation:

https://youtu.be/2EEt3Ga9v24

Wig making at Dutch National Ballet: we were fortunate to be given a tour by the head of the department and learned some interesting trivia: the most expensive colour of hair is... grey!

https://youtu.be/AoD4TJKPZg8

The Mariinsky's Evgenia Obraztsova and Vladimir Shklyarov (who is moving to the Bayerische Staatsballett in Munich this fall) in Ondine

https://youtu.be/c9kSqNXwfuk

English National Ballet emerging dancer award:

https://youtu.be/AlHcBg2Qyng

The divine Ulyana Lopatkina of the Mariinsky in the Russian Dance from Swan Lake:

https://youtu.be/IFqMNsEnJsU

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Ballet in Cinema - Royal Ballet Frankenstein

The Royal Ballet
Frankenstein (Scarlett)
Sunday, May 22, 2016 , 1255 pm

The Royal Opera House site is not always reliable so please check with the listed cinemas.

Ontario:

Cineplex Cinemas Yonge Dundas
SilverCity Yonge Eglinton

Cineplex Cinemas Queensway
Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk
Cineplex Cinemas Scarborough Town Centre
Cineplex Cinemas Vaughan

SilverCity Newmarket

Galaxy Cinemas Barrie

Galaxy Cinemas Collingwood

Galaxy Cinemas Guelph

Cinemas 12 IMAX Kitchener

Cineplex Odeon Westmount, London

Cineplex Odeon Devonshire Mall, Windsor

Silvercity Thunder Bay

Galaxy Belleville

Cineplex Odeon Gardiner's Road, Kingston

Landmark 24 Kanata

Cineplex Odeon South Keys, Ottawa

SilverCity Gloucester

Landmark Cinemas 10 Orléans

Quebec:

Cinéma Cineplex Odeon Quartier Latin Montreal

Cineplex Odeon Brossard

Western Canada:

SilverCity Polo Park, Winnipeg

Cinemas 16 IMAX Country Hills Calgary

For more locations in Canada, click here: http://www.roh.org.uk/search/screenings?location=&showing=5120

enter Toronto as your location then zoom out. Click on the titles of the ballets to bring up the locations.  

The Loft Cinema, Cobourg, has two upcoming ballets:

Giselle Saturday 21 May 2016

Frankenstein Saturday 25 June 2016

Several cinemas in the US will be showing The Sleeping Beauty in June and a few will be showing Giselle in May. Please click here for locations, enter “New York” as your location, then zoom out. Click on the titles of the ballets to bring up the locations.

http://www.roh.org.uk/search/screenings?location=&showing=5120

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Possible Fall trips LONDON and NEW YORK – RESPONSE NEEDED

Birmingham Royal Ballet in Moor's Pavane

Possible Fall trips LONDON and NEW YORK – RESPONSE NEEDED

I keep getting requests for ballet trips to London and New York, and the following are both possible this fall but I need to know now if there is interest, as I would have to shuffle my fall teaching schedule. PLEASE LET ME KNOW ASAP (toursenlair@gmail.com) IF YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED. This is not a commitment; it is just a way for me to gauge if there is enough interest for me to pursue these further.

 

Friday October 7 – Friday October 14 (8 days, 5 performances)

includes Canadian Thanksgiving

London

Royal Ballet

La Fille mal Gardée (Ashton)

Birmingham Royal Ballet

The Moor's Pavane (Limon), Shakespeare Suite (Bintley), Wink (Jessica Lang)

The Tempest (Bintley)

Northern Ballet

Romeo and Juliet (Maillot)

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre

Exodus, Four Corners, Revelations (Ailey), After the Rain pas de deux (Wheeldon)

This would also include a visit to Jane Austen's house. My current rough estimate for this is about $3500 Cdn per person double occupancy,

not including airfare (currently about $1000 Cdn from Toronto)

Friday October 14 – Saturday October 16 (3 days, 3 performances)

New York

New York City Ballet

New Lovette, New Lopez Ochoa, New Walker, New Peck, Everywhere We Go (Peck)

Dances at a Gathering (Robbins), Firebird (Balanchine)

Glass Pieces (Robbins), Thou Swell (Martins), Stars and Stripes (Balanchine)

My current rough estimate for this is $1700 Cdn per person double occupancy, not including airfare (currently starting at $326 from Toronto, but with significant variations depending on time of flights)

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Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur (Quebec) – RESPONSE NEEDED

 

Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur (Quebec)

The program has been announced, and Tours en l'air is looking at a trip to support Guillaume Côté. Please let me know ASAP (toursenlair@gmail.com) if you would be interested in either of the hotel options below. This is not a commitment; it is just a way for me to gauge if there is enough interest for me to pursue this further. 
 

Wednesday August 10 - Saturday August 13, 2 performances (plus one optional)

Guillaume Côté and dancers of the National Ballet of Canada:

The Story of us (Marcelo Gomes, World Premiere, with Heather Ogden) 
Venom (Côté) 
The Sleeping Beauty prince's solo  
Dance me to the end of love (Côté)

Solos and pas de deux from the classical, neoclassical and contemporary repertoires:

• Guillaume Côté – National Ballet of  Canada
• Heather Ogden – National Ballet of  Canada
• Misty Copeland – American Ballet Theatre
• Blaine Hoven - American Ballet Theatre
• Nehemiah Kish – The Royal Ballet
• Yuhui Choe – The Royal Ballet
• Anne Plamondon - Independent artist
• more dancers TBA

Optional performance:

Louise Lecavalier and Frédéric Tavernini in So Blue.

I am looking at the following package:

Coach transport from Toronto to Saint-Sauveur including shuttle between hotel and performance venue

Lunch on the way to Saint-Sauveur and back

1 dinner in Saint-Sauveur

3 nights hotel

Ballet tickets

Day trip into Montreal from Saint-Sauveur

My current estimate for this trip is:

$1650 per person double occupancy, $225 in addition for guaranteed single occupancy – 4-star hotel, not including breakfast

The package price could be reduced by about $300 (and would include breakfast) if we stay at a 3-star hotel, but this hotel has

 no elevator

 a walk up a short but very steep hill to the entrance from the street (access is level from where the bus would drop us off)

For a description of the Saint-Sauveur experience, please click here: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2011/08/festival-des-arts-de-saint-sauveur.html

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English National Ballet Emerging Dancer livestream 17 May

 

Emerging Dancer to be live streamed on Tuesday 17 May

The annual competition Emerging Dancer will be live streamed for the first time on Tuesday 17 May 2016 from the London Palladium.
As well as being able to watch the full programme of performances, audiences will also get an insight into the competition, with interviews from some of the artists involved plus additional backstage access and behind the scenes videos.

Go to http://emerging-dancer.ballet.org.uk/ for the livestream, starting 225 pm Eastern Standard Time.

Vital to English National Ballet’s commitment to developing and nurturing young talent within the Company, Emerging Dancer sees six finalists perform in front of a panel of eminent judges.  The winner of the Emerging Dancer Award will be announced at the end of the evening alongside the recipient of the People’s Choice Award, which is voted for by members of the public.

This year’s Emerging Dancer also sees the introduction of the Corps de Ballet Award, which recognises an exceptional Artist of the Company that has gone above and beyond the call of duty.

Joining Tamara Rojo, Artistic Director of English National Ballet, on the judging panel this year are:

Sir Matthew Bourne
Viviana Durante
Thomas Edur CBE
Russell Maliphant
Oxana Panchenko
Morgann Runacre-Temple

The finalists will perform a pas de deux, followed by a solo. 

Isabelle Brouwers and Erik Woolhouse: Talisman pas de deux
Jeanette Kakareka and Daniele Silingardi Black Swan pas de deux
Rina Kanehara and Cesar Corrales Diana and Acteon pas de deux.

Solos:

Isabelle Brouwers : new piece choreographed by Charlotte Edmonds

Jeanette Kakareka : solo from Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Requiem for a Rose 

Rina Kanehara: Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo’s Black Swan solo

Cesar Corrales : Contrabajo para un hombre solo by Maximiliano Guerra

Daniele Silingardi : the opening from John Neumeier’s Spring and Fall

 Erik Woolhouse: Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s Eros Redux

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