Comments on the last edition of Your move ranged from period performances on DVD to an update on the Tsiskaridze/Vaganova story.
Hawkwoman had mixed reactions to a DVD compilation of works from the Royal Ballet's past:
"What stood out for me in memory was the exquisite rendering of Les Sylphides (kudos to all hands), the beauty of line and precision of a very young Antoinette Sibley in the Bluebird section of Aurora's wedding, which section came across as terribly British in a good way, the silliness of Le Corsaire, even with a young Nureyev doing his stunts, and how quickly I tired of La Valse. It's such a wonderful piece of music but you kind of get the point very quickly."
Geomalone loved the Royal's Nutcracker, but objected to the comic stereotyping in the Act 2 Chinese dance:
"I went with three friends who have never seen a ballet before and all the way there they kept nagging me about why I went so often. On the way home, one just looked at me and said 'I get it'. Instead of asking why I go so often, they were all asking when they can come with me next … I do wish they would lose the racist bits. The comedy 'Chinamen' are not necessary. The same choreography without the make up or pigtails would work just as well."
Skaray recalled a perfect evening at the Paris Opera Ballet:
"Just exited the Palais Garnier after watching a magnificent performance from the red box on the first tier left, just above Baryshnikov, in the upper Orchestra, who is in town filming … "
and MizQueZ posted this link to an interview with Nikolai Tsiskaridze:
"The Mouth that Roared, the Ego from Moscow goes Bolshoi – that is to say full of criticism – for his new home, Vaganova Academy. Read in Google Chrome to translate and find out how Nikolai Tsiskaridze will single-handedly save Vaganova from itself"
Let us know what dance you've been watching and thinking about over Christmas.
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