Ballet trip: Hamburg Ballet Days July 2015

Friday 3 July - Sunday 12 July 2015

Hamburg  6 performances

Hamburg Ballet:  

Shakespeare Dances (Neumeier)

Death in Venice (Neumeier)

  Winterreise (Neumeier)

  Giselle (Neumeier)

  Othello (Neumeier) 

Guest company TBA

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♥ The unique experience of the ballet-every-night Hamburg Ballet Days
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Day trips to picturesque and historic Celle and Lubeck.

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Shakespeare Dances
http://youtu.be/9YsexOuOOKQ 



Death in Venice
http://youtu.be/oA9hnmL7F94


Neumeier's Giselle

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Ballet trip: Munich & Stuttgart April 2015

 
 Thursday 23 April – Friday 1 May 2015

Munich and Stuttgart (+ day trip to Augsburg) 5 performances

Bavarian State Ballet:  

Paquita (Ratmansky)

Midsummer Night's Dream (Neumeier)

Scheherazade (Fokine), Les Biches (Nijinska), Once upon an ever after (Kohler)

Bavarian State Ballet Junior Company: 

Mixed program

Stuttgart Ballet:  

All Cranko: Initials R.B.M.E, Opus 1, Concerto for Flute and Harp, 

From Holberg's Time

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Back on the schedule after a one-year hiatus, our immensely popular Munich-Stuttgart trip. If you missed your chance in 2012 or 2013, don't let another year go by without making this pilgrimage to one of the shrines of ballet. This trip sold out within a day the last time we offered it.

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Neumeier's Midsummer Night's Dream
http://youtu.be/Wj7UhpDwqMM

Scheherazade (Fokine), Les Biches (Nijinska), Once upon an ever after (Kohler)

http://youtu.be/5Tcg8_e3Bdw


Initials R.B.M.E.
http://youtu.be/0r3M1afL0-s

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Ballet trip: Vienna and Prague, March 2015

 

 Thursday 26 March – Saturday 4 April 2015

Vienna & Prague (daytrips to Bratislava and Dresden)

5 performances

Vienna State Ballet: 

 Swan Lake (Nureyev)

Slovak National Theatre Ballet:  

Romeo & Juliet (Moricone)

Dresden Semperoper Ballet:  

Giselle (Dawson)

Czech National Ballet:  

Soldiers' Mass (Kylian), Guru (Konvalinka), Stabat Mater (Zuska)

Romeo and Juliet (Zuska)

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♥ Ballet in the magnificent Vienna State Opera

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The Huffington Post with "Proof That Prague Is Europe's Prettiest City":
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/12/proof-that-prague-is-europes-prettiest-city_n_5282587.html

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Nureyev's Swan Lake
Swan Lake - Wiener Staatsballett from DelbeauFilm on Vimeo.



David Dawson's Giselle
http://youtu.be/rmbFpx1cw6k 


Soldiers' Mass
http://youtu.be/3l9lAZtyjNk

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Ballet Trip: San Francisco March 2015

Wednesday 4 March – Sunday 8 March 2015

San Francisco

2 performances

San Francisco Ballet:

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude(Forsythe), 

Variations for Two Couples (van Manen), 

  

World Premiere (Myles Thatcher), 

The Kingdom of the Shades from La Bayadère (Petipa)

 

Dances at a Gathering (Robbins), Hummingbird (Scarlett)

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What the critics say:
"The repertoire relies heavily on San Francisco Ballet’s principals to carry almost every ballet, and in Paris they showed themselves to be one of the strongest, most versatile groups in the world. The men Tomasson has nurtured are uniformly outstanding; the women, meanwhile, are all intriguingly individual, from Chung’s minute precision to the quirky versatility of Maria Kochetkova.... Where ballet goes from here is anyone’s guess, but as dancers and choreographers continue to flock to Tomasson, the tell-tale signs may well be found in California.

"

 

Laura Cappelle, Financial Times, July  21, 2014. See the whole review here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9bb74a12-10c3-11e4-b116-00144feabdc0.html#ixzz38Cc7GnZa

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 The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude 
http://youtu.be/I8mtwdAiQ1M 


Dances at a Gathering
http://youtu.be/_S7SY0bx0VQ



The Kingdom of the Shades
http://youtu.be/WooVQGLtMI0 
 

 

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Ballet trip: Birmingham and Amsterdam February 2015

 
Friday 20 February – Monday 2 March 2015

Birmingham & Amsterdam 

5 performances

Birmingham Royal Ballet:

Coppelia

Serenade (Balanchine), Lyric Pieces (Lang), In the Upper Room (Tharp)

Dutch National Ballet:

Jewels (Balanchine)

Swan Lake (van Dantzig)

Dutch National Ballet Junior Company:

Swan Lake pas de six and pas de deux (van Dantzig), Le Corsaire pas de trois, van Manen TBA, Coppelia pas de deux (Brandsen), new Binet, new Juanjo Arques

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♥ Birmingham Royal Ballet's eye-candy production of Coppélia
♥ Serenade 
♥ Jewels

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van Dantzig's Swan Lake
http://youtu.be/0P_RllDXL6o


Dutch National Ballet Junior Company
http://youtu.be/dl1kk4Hg8B0

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Ballet trip: London and Edinburgh February 2015

Friday 6 February – Saturday 14 February 2015

London and Edinburgh  4 performances

Royal Ballet:  

Onegin

Swan Lake

Ballet Black: 

Mixed Program

Birmingham Royal Ballet:  

Coppelia



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Royal Ballet Swan Lake:
http://youtu.be/1QAetb-uAhQ
 

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Ballet trip: New York January 2015

 
Saturday 17 January - Saturday 24 January 2015

New York   5 performances

Royal Danish Ballet Principals and Soloists:    
Bournonville Excerpts

New York City Ballet: 
Serenade, Agon, Symphony in C (all Balanchine)  
Symphonic Dances (Martins), The Cage, Andantino (both Robbins), Cortege Hongrois (Balanchine)  
Donizetti Variations, La Valse, Chaconne (all Balanchine)  

Mariinsky Ballet: (to be confirmed)
Cinderella (Ratmansky)

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♥ Royal Danish Ballet performing Bournonville
♥ New York City Ballet performing Balanchine
♥ Mariinsky Ballet

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Ballet trip: Copenhagen & Hamburg January 2015

Sunday 4 January – Tuesday 13 January 2015

Copenhagen and Hamburg

4 performances

Royal Danish Ballet:  
Corpus (Ekman), Etudes (Lander)

Hamburg Ballet:  
Napoli (Bournonville, staged by Lloyd Riggins)

Othello (Neumeier)

The Nutcracker (Neumeier)

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♥ Hamburg Ballet
♥ Neumeier's Nutcracker
♥ Napoli
♥ Etudes

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John Neumeier's new "Tatiana"

The Hamburg Ballet premiered John Neumeier's take on the Onegin story this week, and have just released this video of rehearsals. Can't say I'm a fan of Lera Auerbach's music (for this or the other ballets Neumeier's commissioned from her (Preludes CV, Little Mermaid), which is a shame because I love his choreography. Neumeier has said that he has wanted for a very long time to treat this story more from Tatiana's point of view than from Onegin's, as Cranko's ballet does.

Tatjana Larina
Hélène Bouchet

Eugen Onegin
Edvin Revazov

http://youtu.be/gLknqCdiAh8

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National Ballet of Canada Romeo & Juliet casting LA

All performances at the Music Center, Los Angeles. Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky.

	Juliet	Romeo	Mercutio	Tybalt	Paris	Benvolio
Thursday July 10, evening	Elena Lobsanova	Guillaume Côté	Piotr Stanczyk	McGee Maddox	Patrick Lavoie	Robert Stephen
Friday, July 11 evening	Sonia Rodriguez	Naoya Ebe	Skylar Campbell	Etienne Lavigne	Patrick Lavoie	Dylan Tedaldi
Saturday July 12 matinee	Chelsy Meiss	McGee Maddox	Keiichi Hirano	Jonathan Renna	Giorgio Galli	Christopher Stalzer
Saturday July 12 evening	Greta Hodgkinson	Guillaume Côté	Piotr Stanczyk	McGee Maddox	Patrick Lavoie	Robert Stephen
Sunday July 13 matinee	Sonia Rodriguez	Naoya Ebe	Skylar Campbell	Etienne Lavigne	Patrick Lavoie	Dylan Tedaldi

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