2016-17 Tours en l'air Ballet Trips - updated

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 outstanding ballet, wonderful side adventures, surprises, 
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all due to your excellent planning."
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Please note I have eliminated the January Budapest-Vienna trip and replaced it with a May Prague-Vienna trip. See below for details. 
 
Another great season of fabulous ballet, beautiful sights to see, delicious meals, and friendly balletomanes to meet and share it all with. Please “vote” now for any trip you might be interested in and available for in 2016-17.

We are approaching the “elimination round” of the annual 

Tours en l'air destination popularity competition.

For those of you who are new to the process, this is how it works:

1. See below the complete list of all the trips I have determined are doable and exciting.
2. Send me an email to toursenlair@gmail.com (do not simply hit REPLY to this post) to tell me which ones might suit you, even if later you may have to decline. Please list ALL the trips you might go on. I will not interpret this as meaning you will go on all of them! If you would really like to go on a ballet trip next year and Paris-Amsterdam is your first choice, I highly recommend you give a second choice as well, since the Paris-Amsterdam trip is likely to sell out. Once I see which trips have sufficient interest, I will proceed to the detailed planning and pricing of those trips.
   
   I cannot give estimates on costs at this point; to be able to do that I actually have to plan every detail of the trip, reserve hotel rooms, charter buses, etc. etc.
    
   You are not committing yourself to anything; it's just a way for me to eliminate any trips for which people aren't available (since I have no idea when you all are free to travel). No point doing all that planning only to find out that no one, for instance, can go to San Francisco in February anyway! 
   But if you ARE interested in a trip, let me know; 
   insufficient expressed interest will cause it to be  
   removed from the schedule.
   Once you're on the list for any given trip, you get priority when booking officially opens, and you also get to have some input during the planning process concerning your preferences. Some of my trips sell out, so you want your name to be in there!
   
   Over 150 people have now enjoyed the exhilarating and unique experience that is a Tours en l'air Ballet Holiday.
   It's your turn in 2016-17! 
   Remember, you can join a trip from anywhere in the world. 

  

2016

August 10 - 13, 4 days, 2 performances
 
Saint-Sauveur, Quebec

BOOKING JUNE 2016

Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur

 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

October 14 -16

New York

New York City Ballet

New Lovette, New Peck 1, New Walker,

New  Lopez Ochoa,
 
Everywhere We Go (Peck)


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


Glass Pieces (Robbins), Thou Swell (Martins),

Stars and Stripes (Balanchine)


THIS WILL BE OUR ONLY NEW YORK TRIP IN

2016-17


2017


 


February 3 - 5

San Francisco

San Francisco Ballet

HAFFNER SYMPHONY (Tomasson),

JIŘÍ BUBENÍČEK WORLD PREMIERE,

IN THE COUNTENANCE OF KINGS (Peck)



SEVEN SONATAS (Ratmansky),

YURI POSSOKHOV WORLD PREMIERE,

PAS/PARTS 2016 (Forsythe)

BOOKING NOVEMBER 2016 


 

February 24  - March 5 (10 days)

Berlin and Dresden (day trip to Leipzig)

Berlin State Ballet


Onegin (Cranko)


Castrati (Duato),  Petite Mort (Kylian),  

Secus (Naharin)


Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness

(Duato)


Dresden Semperoper Ballet 

Swan Lake 


Leipzig Ballet
   
Van Gogh (Schroder)



March 8-12 (5 days)

Sarasota and Fort Lauderdale

 
Sarasota Ballet

Scènes de ballet (American premiere),

The Two Pigeons (both Ashton)


Miami City Ballet

The Fairy’s Kiss (Ratmansky),

Walpurgisnacht Ballet (Balanchine), 

Polyphonia (Wheeldon)



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), 

In the Night (Robbins), Adam Is (Barton)


Romeo and Juliet (Cranko)


La Fille mal Gardée (Ashton)

     
Bavarian State Ballet Junior Company

Mixed Program

BOOKING JANUARY 2017

April 30 - May 10 (11 days)

Amsterdam and Paris
 
Dutch National Ballet Junior Company

Mixed program
 

Dutch National Ballet

 All Balanchine: Theme and Variations,

Tarantella, Stravinsky Violin Concerto, Apollo


Paris Opera Ballet

In G (Robbins), La Valse (Balanchine),

Bolero (Cherkaoui)

BOOKING AUGUST 2016



 
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 other

 companies TBA

BOOKING JANUARY 2017


May 20 - 30 (11 days)
 
Prague and 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), Movements to Stravinsky (Lukacs), Petrushka  (Peci)

Ballet of the National Theatre of Brno
Black and White (Radacovsky)

Ballet of the National Theatre of Slovakia
Giselle

BOOKING FALL 2016

June 30 - July 10

 South of France:

Toulouse and Bordeaux

Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse

Les Sylphides, MC14/22 (Ceci est mon corps) (Preljocaj)

Ballet de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux

Romeo and Juliet (Jude)
BOOKING SEPTEMBER 2016
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Le Petit Prince reviews

Performances of Guillaume Côté's Le Petit Prince by The National Ballet of Canada in Toronto, June 2016: 

Martha Schabas, The Globe and Mail
"How much money do you need to spend on a ballet to disguise colourless choreography, thematic incoherence and a void of any real artistic thought, impulse or risk?"
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance/theatre-reviews/national-ballets-ambitious-le-petite-prince-falls-flat/article30283389/

Michael Crabb, Toronto Star
"It would seem problematic to base a ballet on a book whose most famous line proclaims, “What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Undaunted, National Ballet of Canada principal dancer Guillaume Côté in his first evening-length choreography has adapted French author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s beloved fable Le Petit Prince into a dazzling spectacle of worthy intentions and mixed outcomes."
 https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2016/06/05/national-ballet-adaptation-of-le-petit-prince-rarely-stirs-the-soul-review.html

Penelope Ford, Fjord Review 
"The trend towards set-heavy ballets in new commissions continues, with the design and flow of “Le Petit Prince” reminiscent of Christopher Wheeldon’s overstuffed “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”—we can get over it, but it speaks to a larger concern, one of audiences, and shifting priorities in the ballet world. In the bid to attract a new and younger crowd to the theatre, are companies turning their backs on choreography in favour of wow-them design?"
(http://www.fjordreview.com/le-petit-prince-from-outer-space/) 

Oksana Khadarina, DanceTabs 
"I am happy to report that the new production, even if not perfect, offers plenty to enjoy: from the clever stage decorations, attractive costumes and impressive visual effects to inspired dancing by the company’s incredibly gifted and committed cast." 
(http://dancetabs.com/2016/06/national-ballet-of-canada-le-petit-prince-toronto/)

Denise Sum, Danceview Times 
""Le Petit Prince" reflects a somewhat troubling trend towards new full-length ballets that feature well-known, familiar narratives with stylish designs and special effects, but hollow choreography and a lack of substance. Still, every performance of "Le Petit Prince" was sold out, so perhaps the NBoC is responding to a demand. Time will tell whether this production will stand the test of time or if it will be looked back on as an expensive experiment once the novelty wears off."
 (http://www.danceviewtimes.com/2016/06/lost-in-translation.html#more) 

Self and Soul:The National Ballet’s adaptation of Le Petit Prince is a journey back to childhood 

by Daniel Baird, The Walrus
"While Saint-Exupéry’s tale and Côté’s ballet subtly diverge, and Côté takes advantage of how hard it is for us to follow a story unfolding in time without words, they share a common aim: restoring the wonder of childhood amidst the noise and fragmentation of modern life." 
http://thewalrus.ca/self-and-soul/#.V2KymQiDRn5.facebook

A Wild Way Home in Le Petit Prince

 By Mark Mann
"no doubt ballet lovers will be more than happy with Côté’s interpretation."

http://www.thedancecurrent.com/review/wild-way-home-le-petit-prince#.V2fx0Sf85UY.facebook
 

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Livestream from Amsterdam THIS WEDNESDAY

Martin ten Kortenaar rehearsing Merge

 

 

 

Livestream of mixed program from Amsterdam

Dutch National Ballet will be livestreaming their stage rehearsal for their upcoming program
https://youtu.be/PiUdVHWx1U4


https://youtu.be/n3RpbXw7S1Y
 

Year of the Rabbit -Justin Peck
Overture – Donald Dawson
CRANE - George Williamson
Merge - Ernst Meisner
this Wednesday at 8 pm European Time, 2 pm Eastern Time, noon Mountain Time, 11 am Pacific Time. It will be on their facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HetNationaleBallet/timeline

If you would like to see Dutch National Ballet live, why not join my Tours en l'air trip to Paris and Amsterdam next May? For more information on it and other upcoming ballet trips, click here:
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Le Corsaire Livestream from Munich June 12

The Bavarian State Ballet will be streaming the matinee performance of Le Corsaire, starting at 3:00 pm CET (9:00 am Eastern, 6:00 am Pacific), Sunday June 12.
 
https://youtu.be/h-fKGALUdYI
 

Medora Daria Sukhorukova
Gulnare Mai Kono
Conrad Tigran Mikayelyan
Ali Maxim Chashchegorov
Birbanto Matej Urban
Lankedem Norbert Graf
Seyd Pasha Vittorio Alberton
Pas des Odalisques I Nicha Rodboon
Pas des Odalisques II Luiza Bernardes Bertho
Pas des Odalisques III Alisa Scetinina   
View the livestream over this link:

https://www.staatsoper.de/en/staatsopertv.html?no_cache=1

If you would like to see the Bavarian State Ballet live, why not join my Tours en l'air trip to Munich next April? For more information on it and other upcoming ballet trips, click here:
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Guillaume Côté documentary on Radio-Canada TV

The documentary Le Vertige de L'Étoile, following a year in the life of National Ballet of Canada star Guillaume Côté, will air on Radio-Canada (French CBC) on Saturday 4 June at 9 pm and will be available online after that. It will also air on the CBC Documentary channel on Monday 6 June at 7 pm.

https://youtu.be/387IUsIYNgk

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Royal Ballet Frankenstein @ Bloor Cinema ticket giveaway

Courtesy of the Bloor Cinema in Toronto (Bloor, just east of Bathurst), Tours en l'air has ten pairs of tickets (value: $32 per pair of tickets) to give away. Only one pair of tickets per entrant.

THE ROYAL BALLET: FRANKENSTEIN

SAT JUNE 25 - 1230 PM

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.

To enter: email me at toursenlair@gmail.com pasting 
FRANKENSTEIN
into the subject line.

Please enter exactly as shown and do not put anything else in the subject line.

Contest closes June 22.

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