Tours en l'air organizes ballet-themed escorted holidays to see the best companies perform great ballets in beautiful places. You can join a trip from anywhere. A highly knowledgeable balletomane who has enjoyed 100s of performances in over 20 cities around the world,I speak English, French, and German, and am a Travel Industry Council of Ontario certified Travel Counsellor. I also teach ballet appreciation courses.
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Last night, after 30 years with the Stuttgart Ballet, Sue Jin Kang had her farewell performance in Onegin.
No one knows how to celebrate better than the Stuttgart Ballet. On every seat in the sold out house there was a sign with a big red heart and "Danke Sue Jin". After every member of the company had come on stage and presented her with a rose, and balloons had cascaded from the flies, we were given the signal to hold up our signs, and this was the result. I would like to add my thanks to Sue Jin for many many incredibly moving performances over the years and wish her all the best in her new position as artistic director of the National Ballet of Korea.
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Come and see this magnificent opera house for yourself on my exciting Bordeaux-Toulouse trip in July 2017. A seat is already on hold for you in the orchestra level for a performance of Romeo and Juliet!
Why
you really want to go to the South of France next July
Paris-Amsterdam
trip April 30 – May 10
All
2016-17 trips
National
Ballet of Canada Winter's
Tale in
New York: casting
Ballet
in US Cinemas this summer
Discount
on events at T-buds Tea Lounge in Toronto
Videos
PLEASE
READ YOUR NEWSLETTER! I saw a lot of you at Frankenstein
who
could have entered my contest to win free tickets but apparently
didn't know about it.
Why
you really want to go to the South of France next July
Wine.
Gourmet meals. Art. Beautiful medieval villages and impressive
castles. Farmers' markets. Striking landscapes. Gardens. Prehistoric
cave paintings. UNESCO World Heritage Sites. A magnificent opera
house. And, for aviation buffs, the possibility to visit a brand new
aviation
museum and the Airbus
assembly line to see a super jumbo A380 under construction. Did I
mention wine?
Oh,
and ballet TOO!! This is a fabulous trip if you love ballet, but it's
also the ideal trip if you have a travelling companion who is less
keen on ballet (I don't understand it myself, but I gather such
people do exist).
As
usual, let me know if you want to be kept updated about this trip. It
will likely be booking this summer, and the signup deadline may be
very short indeed because of ticketing policies in Toulouse.
Paris-Amsterdam
trip April 30 – May 10
This
will be booking in August and there are already over 30 people on the
priority mailing list. You need to be on this if you have any
interest at all in this trip, as otherwise it may be completely
booked up before you even get the newsletter. NO COMMITMENT REQUIRED
AT THIS POINT. Draft itinerary is here:
http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2016/07/amsterdam-and-paris-ballet-trip-may-2017.html
All
2016-17 trips
If
you haven't done so yet, please look at all my proposed 2016-17 trips
and let me know which ones you would like to be on the priority
mailing list for. Click here for the details:
http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/p/upcoming-ballet-trips.html
National
Ballet of Canada Winter's
Tale in
New York: casting
In
case you missed them the first time around, three performances from
the Lincoln Center at the Movies series are returning to U.S. cinemas
this summer:
San
Francisco Ballet's Romeo
& Juliet starring
Maria Kochetkova on Tuesday, August 9 all starting at 7:00 pm local
time. A list of cinemas for each showing can be found by clicking on
the grey "more info" button and then on the "Theater
Locations" tab once you click on the link above for each
performance.
Discount
on Events at T-Buds Tea Lounge
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for somewhere nice to host a family birthday party, wedding or baby
shower or other event? Or do you need catering? T-Buds in North
Toronto is happy to offer Tours en l'air subscribers up to 20% off
catering or special events. I can recommend the food highly and their
prices are already very reasonable even without the discount. Please
contact me for details.
Videos
The
exquisite pas de deux from Jerome Robbins' In
G
(which you can see on our Amsterdam-Paris trip!)
Jurgita
Dronina,
now of National Ballet of Canada, and Mathias
Heymann
of Paris Opera Ballet in Grand
Pas Classique
(those relevés on one foot in her solo make my ankles hurt just
watching them!)
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Amsterdam
and Paris
in
Tulip Time
30
April – 10 May 2017
11
days, 10 nights
3
ballet performances + 1 optional
The
world's first ballet company,
Paris
Opera Ballet, plus Dutch National Ballet in an all-Balanchine
program, and its Junior Company performing works by
the three major
Dutch choreographers,
Hans
van Manen, Rudi van Dantzig, and Toer van Schayk
Amsterdam
Sunday
April 30 AMSTERDAM
Arrive
Amsterdam. Check in to hotel, a few minutes walk from
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam.
Monday
May 1 AMSTERDAM
1030
am: Private guided tour of the highlights of the Rijksmuseum (1
hour). Afternoon at leisure. Evening: 3-course welcome dinner
followed by performance of Dutch National Ballet Junior Company:
works by the
three major Dutch choreographers, Hans van Manen, Rudi van Dantzig,
and Toer van Schayk, plus 3 other works.
Tuesday
May 2 AMSTERDAM
Day
at leisure
Wednesday
May 3 AMSTERDAM
Noon: Depart by
private coach for the spectacular Keukenhof Garden
1240
pm: Arrive Keukenhof. Visit Keukenhof (about 90 minutes). Evening performance
of Dutch National Ballet: Apollo,
Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Tarantella, Theme and Variations
(all Balanchine)
830am: Check out
of hotel. Transfer by luxury washroom-equipped private coach to
Paris. Noon: Arrive Ghent, Belgium. 12-minute cruise by private boat
along the river from coach park to central Ghent. Lunch, followed by
private guided 90-minute walking tour of historic Ghent, with a visit
to St. Bavo's Cathedral and van Eyck's masterpiece “The Adoration
of the Mystic Lamb”. Free time to stock up on Belgian chocolate,
have a waffle or a cherry beer at an outdoor cafe, or stroll along the canals.
Day
at leisure. Evening: 2-course dinner before Paris Opera Ballet
performance: In G
(Robbins), La Valse
(Balanchine),
Bolero
(Cherkaoui) at the historic Palais Garnier opera house.
Day
trip by private coach to Claude Monet's house and garden at Giverny.
Private guided tour of the Musée des Impressionismes. Lunch. Return
to Paris. Evening at leisure.
Le Moulin de Fourges restaurant
Gardens at Giverny
Claude Monet's house
Tuesday
May 9 PARIS
Day
at leisure. Guided tour of Paris Opera
Garnier before farewell dinner.
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All performances at the David H. Koch Theatre, Lincoln Center *Debut All
casting subject to change For more information and to buy tickets, visit LincolnCenterFestival.org or go to the David Geffen or Alice Tully Hall box offices or call Center Charge at 212 721 6500.
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