Pity we went to print before I could grab @LondonBallerina Lauren Cuthbertson's latest tweets from rehearsals (she's dancing Alice on opening night), which involve the Duchess, a frying pan and a foot - hers. "Lesson learnt.... dont get your foot hit by a pan if you wanna get on point any day soon :(" and then "it wasnt hot.... the duchess did it in the kitchen scene!! Booooo!!!!" The Duchess is being danced by one Simon Russell Beale. Off with his head? Left, Lauren in Balanchine's Serenade.
Here's the video trailer at the ROH site. There's more info, too, in a section aptly entitled READ ME. And here is the site for booking.
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Interesting. I have not heard much about Talbot. What sort of music does he compose? Stylistically , I mean.
He's extremely versatile, Andrew - difficult to put in a nutshell, but for starters (and I may be wrong, and he may disagree) I'd say very colourful, rich instrumentation, rather filmic, highly atmospheric, sometimes very beautiful, sometimes sort of post-minimalist... Here's an extract from 'Chroma', a ballet by Wayne McGregor for which he wrote the music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM6khttzWEM
Voluptuous sound. Difficult to separate it from the dance sequence, though.
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