The best Ballet Day present has just arrived. Monotones casting with both Part (Monotones II) and Abrera (Monotones I)!!
fondoffouettes
The best Ballet Day present has just arrived. Monotones casting with both Part (Monotones II) and Abrera (Monotones I)!!
Haglund
That is GREAT news, FoF. Stella and Veronika will be da bomb in Monotones.
But I don’t see Boylston as anything but a detriment to any cast of Monotones which requires such perfect ensemble work – one of her great weaknesses. Videos from as recently as last summer from Vail in which she was one of three muses in Apollo showed her not to be improved in this respect at all. Her arms were out of whack with the other two; her timing was out of whack; she bobbed her head up and down when she was supposed to be walking in a perfectly straight line with the others. I just don’t “get” her lack of discipline. Murphy, Teuscher or Hamrick would have been much better. Melanie, by the way, previously danced the lead in Monotones II in ABT II. And it’s odd seeing Boylston continue to be listed above Abrera in an alphabetical cast listing.
Also, why can’t ABT list at least the principal dancers & soloists in each cast of the new Morris piece since they’ve known who they would be for several weeks?
Haglund
That is GREAT news, FoF. Stella and Veronika will be da bomb in Monotones.
But I don’t see Boylston as anything but a detriment to any cast of Monotones which requires such perfect ensemble work – one of her great weaknesses. Videos from as recently as last summer from Vail in which she was one of three muses in Apollo showed her not to be improved in this respect at all. Her arms were out of whack with the other two; her timing was out of whack; she bobbed her head up and down when she was supposed to be walking in a perfectly straight line with the others. I just don’t “get” her lack of discipline. Murphy, Teuscher or Hamrick would have been much better. Melanie, by the way, previously danced the lead in Monotones II in ABT II. And it’s odd seeing Boylston continue to be listed above Abrera in an alphabetical cast listing.
Also, why can’t ABT list at least the principal dancers & soloists in each cast of the new Morris piece since they’ve known who they would be for several weeks?
J
I was convinced that Tom Forster would be cast in Monotones, and there he is!
J
I was convinced that Tom Forster would be cast in Monotones, and there he is!
Haglund
Yes, J. Think of all those long legs in that cast!
Haglund
Yes, J. Think of all those long legs in that cast!
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The best Ballet Day present has just arrived. Monotones casting with both Part (Monotones II) and Abrera (Monotones I)!!
The best Ballet Day present has just arrived. Monotones casting with both Part (Monotones II) and Abrera (Monotones I)!!
That is GREAT news, FoF. Stella and Veronika will be da bomb in Monotones.
But I don’t see Boylston as anything but a detriment to any cast of Monotones which requires such perfect ensemble work – one of her great weaknesses. Videos from as recently as last summer from Vail in which she was one of three muses in Apollo showed her not to be improved in this respect at all. Her arms were out of whack with the other two; her timing was out of whack; she bobbed her head up and down when she was supposed to be walking in a perfectly straight line with the others. I just don’t “get” her lack of discipline. Murphy, Teuscher or Hamrick would have been much better. Melanie, by the way, previously danced the lead in Monotones II in ABT II. And it’s odd seeing Boylston continue to be listed above Abrera in an alphabetical cast listing.
Also, why can’t ABT list at least the principal dancers & soloists in each cast of the new Morris piece since they’ve known who they would be for several weeks?
That is GREAT news, FoF. Stella and Veronika will be da bomb in Monotones.
But I don’t see Boylston as anything but a detriment to any cast of Monotones which requires such perfect ensemble work – one of her great weaknesses. Videos from as recently as last summer from Vail in which she was one of three muses in Apollo showed her not to be improved in this respect at all. Her arms were out of whack with the other two; her timing was out of whack; she bobbed her head up and down when she was supposed to be walking in a perfectly straight line with the others. I just don’t “get” her lack of discipline. Murphy, Teuscher or Hamrick would have been much better. Melanie, by the way, previously danced the lead in Monotones II in ABT II. And it’s odd seeing Boylston continue to be listed above Abrera in an alphabetical cast listing.
Also, why can’t ABT list at least the principal dancers & soloists in each cast of the new Morris piece since they’ve known who they would be for several weeks?
I was convinced that Tom Forster would be cast in Monotones, and there he is!
I was convinced that Tom Forster would be cast in Monotones, and there he is!
Yes, J. Think of all those long legs in that cast!
Yes, J. Think of all those long legs in that cast!