Tours
en l'air participants have had two great ballet experiences this
summer: the all-you-can-eat ballet festival in Stuttgart (I admit I
had a major fan-girly moment when I ran into Mathieu
Ganio
at the elevator in our hotel) and the ever-charming
Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur, where the group was thrilled to
have Guillaume Coté drop in and
chat at our pre-performance dinner and we all got to mingle with the
dancers at a post-performance reception. Now it's time to look ahead!
In
this newsletter:
Three
Ballet trips NOW BOOKING:
October
2016 New York
May
2017 Paris-Amsterdam
July
2017 Toulouse-Bordeaux
Update
on other 2017 trips
Canada's
Isadora Duncan and Mata Hari
Vote
for your favourites in Dance Magazine's People's Choice Awards
News
for fans of Guillaume Coté and Heather Ogden
Videos
October
2016 New York Ballet Trip Booking Now. Signup deadline September 2
May
2017 Paris-Amsterdam Ballet Trip Booking Now. Signup Deadline
September 10
July
2017 Toulouse-Bordeaux Ballet Trip Booking Now. Signup Deadline
September 20
Update
on other 2017 trips
Be
sure to let me know if you are interested in any of the following (no
commitment required) as they are currently languishing for
insufficient interest. I need 20 people expressing even a tentative
interest, or I abandon the planning on a trip.
February
1 – 5 (4 days)
San
Francisco
San
Francisco Ballet
Haffner
Symphony (Tomasson), new Jiří Bubeníček, In the
countenance of kings (Peck)
Seven
Sonatas
(Ratmansky), new Possokhov,
Pas/parts 2016
(Forsythe)
February
24 – March 5 (10 days)
Berlin
and Dresden (day trip to Leipzig)
Berlin
State Ballet
Multiplicity
(Duato)
Onegin
(Cranko)
Castrati
(Duato), Petite Mort (Kylian), Secus (Naharin)
Dresden
Semperoper Ballet
Swan
Lake
Leipzig
Ballet
Van
Gogh (Schroder)
May
20 - 30 (11 days)
Prague
& Vienna (day trips to Dresden, Brno, and Bratislava)
Dresden
Semperoper Ballet
Symphony
in C (Balanchine), Forgotten
Land (Kylian), Quintett
(Forsythe)
Vienna
State Ballet
Swan
Lake (Nureyev)
Firebird
(Kaydanovskiy), Petrushka (Peci), Movements to
Stravinsky (Lukacs)
Ballet
of the National Theatre of Brno
Game
Over (Svobodnik)
Ballet
of the National Theatre of Slovakia
Giselle
BOOKING
OCTOBER 2016
The
following trip needs a few more expressions of interest:
March
8 - 12 (5 days)
Sarasota
and Fort Lauderdale
Sarasota
Ballet
Scènes
de ballet, The Two Pigeons (both Ashton)
The
Sarasota Ballet is internationally recognized as the top current
ballet company for Ashton
Miami
City Ballet
Walpurgisnacht
Ballet (Balanchine), The
Fairy’s Kiss (Ratmansky),
Polyphonia
(Wheeldon)
The
following trips have plenty of interest but I can't do anything about
them until January, when the tickets are released for sale:
April
1 - 12 (12 days)
Zurich
and Munich
Zurich
Ballet Junior Company
Un
Ballo (Kylian), new Favre, new TBA
Zurich
Ballet
Swan
Lake (reconstruction of the original
Petipa version by Alexei Ratmansky)
Stanislavsky
Ballet
Mayerling
(MacMillan)
Bavarian
State Ballet
Spartacus
(Grigorovich)
Symphony
in C (Balanchine), Adam Is (Barton), In the Night
(Robbins)
Romeo
and Juliet (Cranko)
La
Fille mal Gardée (Ashton)
Bavarian
State Ballet
Junior
Company: Mixed
Program
May
11 - 19 (9 days)
London
An
American in Paris (Wheeldon)
Royal
Ballet
Mayerling
(MacMillan)
The
Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (Forsythe),Tarantella
(Balanchine), Strapless (Wheeldon), New Scarlett
Northern
Ballet
Casanova
(Tindall)
plus
possible other performances by Birmingham Royal
Ballet and/or English National Ballet
TBA
Canada's
Isadora Duncan and Mata Hari
Canadian-born
dancer Maud Allan’s story reads like a modern-day tabloid …
filled with libel suits, murder and tempestuous love affairs. A
provocative and charismatic dancer, Maud was renowned for her unique
“dance interpretations” and her scandalous Salomé costume. Find
out more about her at Dance Collection Danse in Toronto.
Vote
for your favourites in Dance Magazine's People`s Choice Awards
The
National Ballet of Canada`s Rob Binet has been nominated in the
“Emerging Choreographer” category.
News
for fans of Guillaume Coté and Heather Ogden
The
National Ballet of Canada has announced that Guillaume and Heather
are expecting their second child in January 2017. Another cutie, no
doubt, to keep Emma Rose company!
Videos
The
Royal Danish Ballet's Alban Lendorf
in the Black Swan pas de deux:
The
National Ballet of Canada's Jurgita Dronina
in The Sleeping Beauty
One
of the highlights of my summer was seeing Jurgita dance the grand pas
de deux at the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur. Not to be missed!
https://youtu.be/g4m9NHgmX4U
From
Ballet Met (Columbus, Ohio)
Company
B
I
had fun this summer compiling a talk about ballets set to popular
music (you can book me to give it, if you like). One of my faves is
Paul Taylor's Company
B. Here's
American Ballet Theatre's Joseph
Phillips (now
dancing with the Vladivostok Mariinsky) as the Boogie-Woogie Bugle
Boy of Company B https://youtu.be/9xwyJSLh77A
for
more fabulous
ballet-themed
escorted vacations,
ballet
appreciation courses, and more
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