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We got to our new home safe and sound, but it was a very bumpy trip.
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ballet blog with occasional diversions
Thanks for stopping by.
We got to our new home safe and sound, but it was a very bumpy trip.
It appears all posts have been saved. We’ll be painting, wallpapering and moving stuff around in the coming weeks.
7 responses to “Landlord white is not our favorite color”
Glad to hear this…Merde with getting the curtain up ✨️
Thanks, Jennifer.
Best of luck for making your new digs just the way you want it!
Hi there, Pudd,
Please continue to allow me to continue to access Haglund’s Heel blog. I adore reading your reviews and other comments. I’m a putt-putt too.
But alas and alack, I’ve been dealing with intractable back and calf pain for many years now and I think my in person attendance at the ballet is over. I’m relying on you to paint your extraordinary pictures of performances so that I can see with your eyes.
I hope you are well, and look forward to staying in touch, even if from afar.
Myrthie
Thanks, Everyone. Fingers crossed that we can make something nice of this mess.
H.
Greetings, Haglund! While you have been putting up wallpaper, buffing floors and hanging chandeliers fit for the set of any grand ballet, I went to Houston for the September 14 matinee of “Onegin” performed by Houston Ballet. Cranko’s genius for finding the right metaphor in movement to express a specific emotion or state of consciousness is a perpetual amazement. These communications register immediately but linger and accumulate until the work’s shattering final moments that summarize every moment preceding. The Onegin was a soloist named Gian Carlo Perez, a secure supportive partner but a little green in the role and as yet lacking the stage savvy to compel attention when the choreography does not dictate he be its focus. Eric Best was a moving Lensky, never maudlin nor overwrought. There was an announcement by management of substitution but this was not specified and my inquiry has not been answered, so I assume that Tyler Donatelli was the marvelous Olga who brought such innocence to the role that one understood that her flirtation with Onegin that enrages Lensky to the point of challenging Onegin to duel was utterly without malice or any understanding she was playing with fire. Of Jessica Collado’s Tatiana, what can one offer but gratitude for perfection? Would that ABT bring this great work to the Met again sooner rather than later. By the way, the portrait of Spessivtseva you have put over the fireplace is a wonderful touch.
Eulalia, thank you so much for this report. I’ve been watching Instagram for clips of the cast that was led by Yuriko Kajiya and Aaron Robison — not much available so far. I would just die to see those two as guest artists in Onegin or Manon at ABT.