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Monday, October 6, 2014
Save 25% on National Ballet Manon & Nijinsky tickets
Saturday, October 4, 2014
Little Dancer musical preview livestream Sunday Oct. 5
The cast and creative team behind Little Dancer, directed and
choreographed by Susan Stroman, will perform excerpts and discuss the
new show Sunday, October 5, 2014 at 7:30 pm at the Kennedy Center.Inspired by the obscure ballerina who posed for the famed Edgar Degas sculpture Little Dancer Aged Fourteen(1879-81), this new musical follows the young dancer Marie Van Goethem as she struggles in the Paris Opera Ballet and inadvertently becomes the world's most recognized dancer.
Excerpts will be performed by four-time Tony Award-winner Boyd Gaines, three-time Tony Award-nominee Rebecca Luker, and New York City Ballet principal dancer Tiler Peck. Director and choreographer Susan Stroman will participate in a moderated discussion with Lynn Ahrens (book and lyrics) and Stephen Flaherty (music).
This program will be livestreamed at guggenheim.org/live.
Performances for the Kennedy Center world premiere musical begin October 25 in the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater. Along with Tiler Peck as the young Marie van Goethem, the musical will star Boyd Gaines as Edgar Degas and Rebecca Luker as the adult Marie van Goethem.
The creative team includes set design by Beowulf Boritt, costume design by William Ivey Long, lighting design by Ken Billington, sound design by Kai Harada, and music supervision by David Loud. Shawn Gough will conduct the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.
Photo: Tiler Peck in Kennedy Center's Little Dancer.
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Friday, October 3, 2014
La Danse documentary airs this Sunday on French TVO
Frederick Wiseman's behind-the-scenes documentary about Paris Opera Ballet will air at 9 pm on TFO this Sunday, October 5, repeating at half past midnight on October 7th.
http://youtu.be/UQiFjTSyvsc
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
Video Profile of Guillaume Coté (in French)
The francophone version of TVOntario, TFO, has a 30-minute profile of Guillaume Coté on their website, available free online till November 3. I am not sure if this is accessible outside Canada.
http://www3.tfo.org/videos/00218772/guillaume-cote-danseur-et-choregraphe-ballet-national-du-canada
http://www3.tfo.org/videos/00218772/guillaume-cote-danseur-et-choregraphe-ballet-national-du-canada
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Sunday, September 28, 2014
Latest newsletter
Dear
Balletomane,
In
this newsletter:
1. Upcoming Ballet Trips: PLEASE vote
2. World Ballet Day Livestreams Oct. 1
3. Royal Ballet Broadcasts in Canada
4. Painted Girls author talks in Southern Ontario
5. Don Quixote pas de deux at Guelph Symphony Orchestra season opener
6. Bolshoi's Marco Spada available as livestream
7. Canada’s Ballet Jörgen "Ballet in the Studio"
1. Upcoming Ballet Trips: PLEASE vote
2. World Ballet Day Livestreams Oct. 1
3. Royal Ballet Broadcasts in Canada
4. Painted Girls author talks in Southern Ontario
5. Don Quixote pas de deux at Guelph Symphony Orchestra season opener
6. Bolshoi's Marco Spada available as livestream
7. Canada’s Ballet Jörgen "Ballet in the Studio"
For
more info, click on the underlined headings.
UPCOMING BALLET TRIPS
I have made some small changes to the proposed trips for next year. Please look at the program again and let me know which ones tempt you, especially if you are interested in the February trip to London, for which I would have to put tickets on hold this week. This is not a commitment. It just gives me a general idea of how many hotel rooms and ballet tickets I have to start inquiring about.World Ballet Day 5 Companies Livestream, Tuesday Sept 30 – Wednesday Oct. 1
Starting at the beginning
of the dancers’ day, each of five companies will stream
live from their headquarters.
The entire 20-hour live
stream event will be available live and free on the
companies' websites and YouTube channels
Australian Ballet -
September 30th at 7pm PT/10 pm ET :
rehearsals: Graeme
Murphy's Swan Lake
Stanton Welch's La Bayadère
Peter Wright's The
NutcrackerStanton Welch's La Bayadère
world-premiere Ostinato by resident choreographer Tim Harbour.
Artistic director David McAllister will be answering questions.
Bolshoi -
September 30th at 11pm PT / 2 am ET
rehearsals:
Jean-Christophe Maillot's The
Taming of the ShrewYuri Grigorovich's Legend of Love.
Royal Ballet -
October 1st at 3am PT / 6 am ET
rehearsals:
Carlos Acosta coaching Vadim
Muntagirov in Don
QuixoteMarianela Nuñez and Federico Bonelli rehearsing Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon
Liam Scarlett rehearsing his new The Age of Anxiety with Laura Morera and Steven McRae
Christopher Wheeldon's Aeternum
Frederick Ashton's Scènes de ballet
Ludovic Ondiviela rehearses his new ballet Cassandra
Wayne McGregor will discuss his forthcoming Woolf Works
artistic director Kevin O'Hare will talk about the forthcoming season.
National Ballet of
Canada - October 1st at 7am PT / 10 am ET
rehearsals:
Kenneth MacMillan's Manon with Anthony
DowellJohn Neumeier's Nijinsky
San Francisco Ballet
- October 1st at 11am PT / 1 pm ET
rehearsals:
Yuri Possokhov's RakUWilliam Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude
scenes from Helgi Tomassón and Possokhov's Don Quixote
Tomassón's Concerto Grosso
Viewers will be able to
engage and interact with dancers, choreographers and
coaches
After it is shown live on October 1st, the 24 hour event will not be available in its entirety. But for 48 hours after the event, you can watch each company's broadcast on its YouTube channel. After that, each company will post selected highlights from World Ballet Day.
After it is shown live on October 1st, the 24 hour event will not be available in its entirety. But for 48 hours after the event, you can watch each company's broadcast on its YouTube channel. After that, each company will post selected highlights from World Ballet Day.
Landmark Cinemas (and possibly others) pick up Royal Ballet Broadcasts in Canada
After
the
shocker announcement by Cineplex that they will not be
broadcasting
the Royal Ballet performances in Canada, I am happy to
announce that
another distributor has picked these up. All Landmark
Cinemas which
broadcast Royal Opera performances (to see list click here)
will also broadcast the Royal Ballet, even if the
individual cinema
websites have not yet been updated. In addition, the
distributor is
still negotiating with other independent cinemas,
including one in
downtown Toronto. Stay tuned to your Tours en l'air
newsletter or
check my website, www.toursenlair.blogspot.ca,
for updates.
Manon from December 6, 2014
Manon from December 6, 2014
Alice’s
Adventures
in Wonderland from January 24, 2015
Swan
Lake from April 18, 2015
La
Fille mal gardee from June 6, 2015
"Painted Girls" author talks in Southern Ontario
Cathy
Marie Buchanan, author of the bestseller The Painted
Girls, a
historical novel based on the story of Degas's "Little
Dancer",
has several appearances in Southern Ontario and one in
Niagara
County, NY, coming up. Click here
for info.
The National Ballet of
Canada's First Soloist Tina Pereira and Principal
Dancer Piotr Stanczyk will perform the Don Quixote pas
de deux as part of the Guelph Symphony Orchestra's
opening performance.
Bolshoi's Marco Spada available as livestream
Bolshoi's Marco Spada available as livestream
In case you
missed the cinema broadcast of Pierre Lacotte's revival of
the
Romantic ballet Marco
Spada
in the spring, you can now stream it
from
http://culturebox.
The story is very silly, but there is lots of great dancing from
David Hallberg, Evgénia Obraztsova, Olga Smirnova, Semion Chudin, and Igor Tsvirko
http://culturebox.
The story is very silly, but there is lots of great dancing from
David Hallberg, Evgénia Obraztsova, Olga Smirnova, Semion Chudin, and Igor Tsvirko
About 40 Tours en l'air subscribers had a
lovely exclusive visit to Ballet Jörgen earlier this month. If you
missed it, why not attend their open-to-the-public "Ballet in the
Studio" Date: October 14 at 12 noon, October 15 at 6:3. Excerpts
from our 2014-2015 repertoire will be performed. Place: Canada’s
Ballet Jörgen Studios at George Brown College.Tickets: $15-$20
available through the BJ
website.
Remember, in between newsletters, for all the latest in ballet news, please check this website regularly. You can subscribe to have updates delivered to your inbox as soon as they are posted.
Sincerely,
Katherine
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Friday, September 26, 2014
Paris Opera Ballet screenings in Toronto
| Le Palais de Cristal |
The Alliance française of Toronto has announced that it will be screening two Paris Opera Ballet performances in its cinema this year:
Saturday, January 31, 2015 - 1:30 pm -
Le défilé du Ballet de l'Opéra - La Marche des Troyens, Hector Berlioz;
(the entire Ballet organization, from the youngest student to the most senior étoile, processes onto the stage of the Palais Garnier)
Études (Lander),
Nutcracker excerpts
 |
| Karl Paquette and the corps de ballet of Paris Opera Ballet in Etudes |
Saturday, April 18, 2015 - 1:30 pm Balanchine/Millepied
Le Palais de cristal (original version of Symphony in C) - Georges Balanchine (Bizet, costumes by Christian Lacroix)
Daphnis et Chloé - Benjamin Millepied
(Ravel)
Alliance Francaise de Toronto
Toronto Downtown campus
24 Spadina Road
Toronto, ON M5R 2S7
Tel: 416 922 2014
toronto@alliance-francaise.ca
| General | $25 | |
| Members | $20 | |
| Members (under 25 / Seniors) | $20 | |
| Partners / under 25 / Seniors | $20 |
http://fr.brownpapertickets.com/event/902477
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http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2014/12/royal-ballet-manon-broadcast-in-toronto.html
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Thursday, September 25, 2014
Bavarian State Ballet to livestream new Ratmansky Paquita
Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, 6.00 p.m. (C.E.T.) (noon Eastern Standard Time)
Paquita
Choreografie: Alexei Ratmansky / Marius Petipa
Musical direction: Myron Romanul
Soloists and ensemble of the Bayerisches Staatsballett
http://operlive.de/
**You can also see this production LIVE as part of my Munich-Stuttgart April 2015 ballet trip, booking deadline January 20. More info here: http://toursenlair.blogspot.ca/2014/12/munich-stuttgart-ballet-trip-signup.html
Also livestreamed will be a mixed program including a work by Canadian choreographer Aszure Barton:
Tuesday May 19, 2015, 7.30 p.m. (C.E.T.) (130 pm Eastern Standard Time)
Der gelbe Klang / Spiral Pass / Konzert für Violine und Orchester
Choreographien: Michael Simon / Aszure Barton / Russell Maliphant
Musical direction: Myron Romanul
Soloists and ensemble of the Bayerisches Staatsballett
Bavarian State Ballet livestreams are only available live; they are not archived after the fact. Livestreams are free of charge and available online over STAATSOPER.TV.
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Why put up with the pain?
What happens when the curtain falls? Is the passion for the dance great
enough to conquer the pain and mental stress? In this beautifully shot video, 21 year-old Stephanie
Chen Gundorph Moller and Viktoria Falck-Schmidt from the Royal Danish Ballet voice their
opinion.
Behind Perfection - a film made by Henrik Sorensen from Andrea Heberger on Vimeo.
Behind Perfection - a film made by Henrik Sorensen from Andrea Heberger on Vimeo.
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