by day the blue will pale down into white where it touches the white of the land, after sunset it has a new circumference-orange, melting upwards into tenderest purple. but the core of blue persists, and so it is by night. then the stars hang like lamps from the immense vault. the distance between the vault and them is as nothing to the distance behind them, and that farther distance, though beyond colour, last freed itself from blue. -e.m. forster (a passage to india)
Showing posts with label royal ballet company. Show all posts
Showing posts with label royal ballet company. Show all posts
the royal ballet performed this afternoon at 2:30 (7:30 pm london time) for the first time in seven months. i bought a streaming ticket for $16.
the director, kevin o'hare . .
principal dancer, lauren cuthbertson (seven months pregnant-exciting news!)
marianela nuñez and vadim muntagirov dancing the act iii pas de deux of don quixote . .
marianela's smile sums up the dancers' feelings for the evening . . it was incredibly wonderful to watch a live ballet performance again.
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i made two things for dinner tonight which i haven't made in years: dilly brown rice (with fresh dill) and rice balls. i hadn't meant to make the rice balls, but my first batch of rice was so wet and sticky that i couldn't use it for the kidney bean and rice salad, and when i tried rolling it out between my hands, it stuck together so well that i was inspired. i rolled them in gomasio and we dipped them in ume plum vinegar. i used to always have ume paste in the fridge, and would put a dab in the center of the ball. however, ume plum paste is so expensive that i haven't bought it in a long time. i used to get it from the park slope food coop, which always had a good price that wasn't too expensive. i'll have to take notice again when out shopping in different stores, what the price is.
i was incredibly excited for woolfworks to premiere on the royal ballet's youtube page today at 7 pm london time, 2 pm new york city time.
chanda was the lucky one to see this performed on january 21, 2017, when she was in london. you can see photos from her visit here (look for pics of eva and family!).
max richter composed the music and wayne mcgregor choreographed.
these little snippets don't do it justice, but they're fun to see . .
this is the beginning of the final section . .
which you can see in rehearsal above (posted on the royal ballet's youtube channel in april of 2015)
it's a very beautiful and sad ballet, and alessandra ferri is luminous (to quote one of the reviewers) in the main role. it's on the royal ballet's youtube page until july 10th, and i highly recommend that you watch it before it goes. in a review i read, the writer mentions how the ballet is one she will never tire of seeing, and i have to agree.
for amelie's last night i was able to get tickets to the joyce's ballet festival. tonight's program was curated by the royal ballet's artistic director, kevin o'hare, and it featured dancers lauren cuthbertson, sarah lamb, marcelino sambé and several others whom it was very exciting to see.
amelie's favorite piece was the pas de deux danced by calvin richardson and joseph sissens and choreographed by christopher wheeldon . . i think my favorite was (surprisingly) the wayne macgregor piece titled qualia and danced by sarah lamb and edward watson. i also really liked liam scarlett's asphodel meadows. (it was the first time i saw romany pajdak dance and she was beautiful.)
delicious coffees from the shop across the street from their airbnb (monocle).
scandanavian breakfast at the monocle (a radio station, a magazine, and also a "lifestyle" company).
tea at cafe concerto . .
a selfie with a london bus . .
another coffee from the monocle . . i think they went there often . . !
a selfie in front of buckingham palace . .
morgana was excited to visit liberty of london. our local craft store carries their fabric and morgana was happy to browse their shelves.
i'm not sure what she intends to sew with this, but it's very pretty.
on the last minute they got tickets to the royal ballet's alice for saturday night. morgana says it's her favorite ballet and she was incredibly happy to be at the theatre, even though it was standing room.
today there was a homeschooling field trip aboard the schooner pioneer.
the boat was built in 1885 as a freighter to haul sand in delaware bay. she's unusual in that her hull is made of iron, not wood.
she has a volunteer crew that operates out of the south street seaport museum and gives tours to school groups and the public.
they sailed from pier 16 . .
around downtown manhattan . .
to the statue of liberty.
she's just beautiful on the water, and the passengers get to help hoist the sails. one of the mates calls: "heave ho!" and the crew answers "two" or "six." chanda can't remember why. i'll have to ask my friend and fill this in.
members of the crew for this afternoon.
they also sailed beneath the brooklyn bridge which chanda and my friend found particularly exciting. it's just not a place that one often goes . . !
disembarking . .
it was also such a beautiful and warm day to be out on the water.
after ballet class chanda and morgana had tickets to see an american in paris, the musical for which christopher wheeldon won a tony (best choreography).
we've seen many of his ballets including cinderella and alice in wonderland. chanda also really likes the actress who plays the lead character, lise, in the show, as she is a first artist with the royal ballet company. she returns this weekend to london after being on broadway for a year and m and c were happy to finally get tickets to see her.
set for the opening scene . . morgana loved the character of the pianist the best and thought the actor was very good.
here's leanne cope! they had fun getting autographs after the show.
here's an interview with leanne and a backstage tour of the palace theatre.
for my birthday we bought tickets to see the royal ballet's final performance in the new york state theatre at lincoln center. i was filming the fountain when something flew by . .
what was it?
it was chanda!
bathroom break in avery fisher hall . .
it started out as a cool day with a lot of clouds . .
while waiting for the performance time we had lunch at maison kayser on broadway at 76th street . .
morgana and i had onion soup . .
chanda had an omelette . .
petite tarts for dessert . .
and then we visited central park where it steadily grew more and more humid as the hours crept by . .
until we were all hot and sticky and they had to cool off before going into the theatre with gelato from l'arte de gelato . .
both lauren cuthbertson and marinela nuñez performed in the first piece by wayne mcgregor, infra.
marinela nuñez and federico bonelli after dancing christopher wheeldon's aeternum, our favorite piece of the evening.
my view from the mezzanine for the first half of the night.
and then i moved into the orchestra and morgana sat upstairs for the second half. it was a magical birthday.
