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Cliff Lee
Cliff Lee
- Position(s):
- Born:
- August 30, 1978
- Bats:
- Left
- Throws:
- Left
- Height:
- 6' 3"
- Weight:
- 190 lbs
- Major League Debut:
- 9-15-2002 with CLE
- Allstar Selections:
Clifton Phifer "Cliff" Lee (born August 30, 1978) is a Major League Baseball left-handed starting pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. Lee has also played for the Cleveland Indians, the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers.
Lee's repertoire features a four-seam fastball, two-seam fastball, a cut fastball, slider, as well as a circle changeup and a knuckle curve. Lee won the American League Cy Young Award in 2008.[1]
Professional Baseball Career
Early Career
Lee was drafted by the Florida Marlins with the 12th pick of the 8th round of the 1997 Major League Baseball Draft out of Benton High School in his hometown of Benton, Arkansas, but instead chose to attend Meridian Community College in Mississippi. Later, Lee was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 20th round of the 1998 amateur draft, but did not sign, opting to attend the University of Arkansas.
In the 2000 amateur draft, he was chosen in the 4th round by the Montreal Expos and signed in July of that year. During 2002, Lee played for Double-A Harrisburg, and compiled a 7–2 record with a 3.23 ERA in Eastern League play by mid-summer.
Cleveland Indians
In June 2002, the Expos traded Lee along with Brandon Phillips, Lee Stevens, and Grady Sizemore to the Cleveland Indians in exchange for Bartolo Colón and Tim Drew.[2]
Following the trade, Lee pitched seven games with the Akron Aeros before he was promoted to the Buffalo Bisons, the Triple A affiliate within the Cleveland farm system. He compiled a 3–2 record with the Bisons before being called-up to the Indians during September of that season. Lee made his major league debut in a start against the Minnesota Twins on September 15, 2002, giving up a lone run in 5.1 innings, resulting in a loss due to lack of run support.[3] He pitched once more that season, giving up one run in five innings against the Kansas City Royals, resulting in a no decision for Lee but a loss for the team.[4]
Lee won at least 14 games in each of his first 3 full seasons and pitched more than 200 innings in both 2005 and 2006. He finished the 2005 season with an 18–5 record and a 3.79 ERA, earning him 4th place in the AL Cy Young Award voting that year.[5] In 2006, the Indians rewarded him with a midseason, 3-year, $14 million contract extension through the 2009 season.[6]
2007 Season
In 2007, Lee suffered a groin strain during a spring training start, forcing him to begin the regular season on the disabled list. He returned to the Indians rotation in May, but struggled to a 4–9 record and a 5.38 ERA in his first 16 starts. On July 21, Lee hit Texas Rangers' right fielder Sammy Sosa in the head with a pitch on a night when the Rangers were honoring Sosa for hitting his 600th home run. The beaning sparked an altercation between Lee and Indians' catcher Víctor Martínez and led to a players-only meeting immediately after the game.[7] Lee encountered even more problems on July 26, 2007, when he gave up 7 runs in 4 innings against the Boston Red Sox. When he left the ballgame, the fans booed him and right before he entered the dugout, he tipped his cap to the fans. The next day, July 27, the struggling left-hander was optioned to Triple-A Buffalo.[8] He was called back up on September 1 when rosters expanded, but only appeared in 4 games, all out of the bullpen.
2008 Season
In 2008, Lee had a career year. Despite the Indians playing with a .500 winning percentage for the season, Lee started the 2008 season with much success. Lee was one of only eight pitchers since 1920 to win 19 or more of his first 21 decisions. He was the first Cleveland pitcher to win his first six starts since Greg Swindell in 1988. He also recorded his first career shutout on April 25, 2008, against the Kansas City Royals, allowing just 3 hits and 0 walks.[9] He had the lowest On-base percentage-against at .163 through five starts since 1909. For his efforts and success, he was named the American League Pitcher of the Month for April, when he went 5–0 with a 0.96 ERA.[10] Lee was selected to his first All-Star game in 2008, and was selected to start the game. Lee worked two scoreless innings for the American League team, surrendering only a Chipper Jones base hit and striking out three.[11]
On August 26, Lee won his 19th game of the season, yielding only 2 runs to the Detroit Tigers.[12] This victory set a new career high for Lee, besting his previous mark of 18 wins set during the 2005 season. On September 1, Lee won his 20th game of the season, throwing a shutout. He was the first Indian to reach 20 wins since Gaylord Perry in 1974.[13] In August, for the second time in the 2008 season, Lee was named American League Pitcher of the Month. He went 5–0 with a 1.86 ERA in the month. On September 12, Lee won his 22nd game, making his record 22–2 on the season. This marked the first time a pitcher had gone 20 wins over .500 since Bob Welch in 1990.[14] Overall to end the year, Lee went 22–3 with a 2.54 ERA and 170 strikeouts. He started 31 games, completed 4, and had 2 shutouts. He pitched a total of 223⅓ innings. Lee ended the season as the American League champion for both wins and ERA.
Lee's 2008 winning percentage of 88% was the twelfth best of all time, and the fourth best by a pitcher starting a minimum of 30 games, Behind only Randy Johnson, Ron Guidry, and Lefty Grove (all also left-handers). Lee's winning percentage is the second best in Indians history, behind Johnny Allen's 93.8% (15 wins, 1 loss, in 24 games) in 1937.
Lee earned several awards following his 2008 season. These included the AL Comeback Player of the Year Award, the Players Choice Award for AL Outstanding Pitcher of the Year, The Sporting News Pitcher of the Year Award, The Sporting News Comeback Player of the Year Award, and the Warren Spahn Award for best left-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball. On November 13, 2008, Lee was awarded the AL Cy Young Award. This made Lee the second straight Indian (and third overall) to win the award, following former teammate CC Sabathia, who won it in 2007.
2009 Season
On June 14, 2009, Lee took a no-hitter into the 8th inning vs. St. Louis, striking out 6 and walking 2. Lee allowed 3 hits in a complete-game shutout, improving his record to 4–6 and his ERA to 2.88.
On July 29 (just before the July 31 trading deadline), the Indians traded Lee—along with outfielder Ben Francisco—to the Philadelphia Phillies, in exchange for Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald, Lou Marson, and Jason Knapp.[15]
In his first career game with the Philadelphia Phillies, Lee pitched a complete game in a 5–1 victory. He took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and had two hits as a batter, including his first career double and a run scored. Through his first five games with the Phillies, Lee amassed a 5–0 record, 39 strikeouts in 40 innings pitched, and a 0.68 ERA.
2009 World Series
Charlie Manuel named Lee his Game 1 starter for the World Series after he posted a 2–0 record in the first two rounds of the playoffs. Lee would be pitching against his former Indians teammate C.C. Sabathia.
Lee pitched a complete game in Game 1 of the 2009 World Series, winning the game 6–1 over the New York Yankees. He allowed no earned runs during this outing.[16][17] He was the first pitcher since Deacon Phillippe in Game 1 of the 1903 World Series to pitch a complete game in the World Series with 10 or more strikeouts and no walks. Because Phillippe allowed two earned runs in his start, Lee was the first to do so without allowing an earned run.[18] In his next start (Game 5), Lee earned another victory, allowing five runs and three walks while striking out three in seven innings; the Phillies won, 8–6. The New York Yankees, however, went on to win their 27th World Series title.
2010 Season
Seattle Mariners
On December 16, 2009, the Phillies traded Lee to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for J. C. Ramírez, Phillippe Aumont and Tyson Gillies.[19][20]
Lee appealed a five game suspension handed down on him for throwing over the head of Chris Snyder during a Spring Training game.[21] Both the suspension and the accompanying fine were overturned.[22] Lee made his Mariners debut against the Texas Rangers on April 30, where he earned a no-decision in a 2–0 Mariners loss. He got his first win with the Mariners on May 11, in a 5–1 win against the Baltimore Orioles. Lee pitched 3 consecutive complete games in June. He made the 2010 AL All-Star team but attended as a Ranger. With the Mariners, Lee went 8–3 with a 2.34 ERA, an 0.945 WHIP, and a 89/6 K/BB ratio. However, the Mariners struggled, and Lee was placed on the trade market.[23]
Texas Rangers
On July 9, after a deal with the New York Yankees broke down, Lee was traded to the Texas Rangers with Mark Lowe for Justin Smoak and prospects Blake Beavan, Josh Lueke and Matt Lawson.[24]
On August 6 against the Oakland Athletics, Lee earned his 100th career win going eight innings and allowing only one run with seven strikeouts.
Lee pitched Game 1 of the American League Division Series against Tampa Bay on October 6, 2010, same day when Phillies' pitcher Roy Halladay threw a no-hitter against the Reds in Game 1 of the National League Division Series. He threw 7 innings, gave up one run, no walks, and struck out 10. There have been eight post-season pitching performances of at least 10 strikeouts and no walks in baseball history. Lee has pitched the last four, including two in the 2010 ALDS. In Game 5 of the series, Lee set the ALDS series strikeout record and tied the MLB record with 21. He pitched a complete game, striking out eleven batters and allowing one run, getting the win. Lee also has the highest strikeout since with 11 when dealing with a winner take all situation.
Lee continued his postseason mastery into the 2010 ALCS, when he allowed just two hits while striking out 13 New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in an 8–0 Texas victory in Game 3.[25] He now totals 34 strikeouts and only 1 walk in the 2010 post-season with the Texas Rangers, as of October 18. Lee has also become the first person to pitch three 10-plus strikeout games in one post-season.[26]
However, facing the San Francisco Giants' Tim Lincecum in the 2010 World Series, Lee gave up seven runs (six earned) and did not make it through five innings, en route to an 11–7 loss.[27] Lee faced Lincecum again in Game 5 of the World Series with the Giants having a 3–1 series advantage, but he surrendered a three-run home run to Edgar Renteria, which resulted in a 3–1 loss as the Giants won the series.[28]
Return to Philadelphia
On December 15, 2010, Lee signed a free-agent contract with Philadelphia for 5 years and $120 million with a vesting option for a sixth year.[29] He turned down the Yankees' seven-year offer for $148 million.[30] In returning to the Phillies, Lee said, "I never wanted to leave in the first place."[29]
On April 2, 2011, Lee's first start back with the Phillies, he pitched seven innings, allowing four hits and three runs, while striking out eleven and walking none. On May 6, he struck out a career-high 16 Atlanta Braves, allowing three runs in a 5–0 Philadelphia loss.[31] On June 28, Lee pitched a third consecutive complete game shutout in a 5–0 victory over the Boston Red Sox.[32] Lee was awarded with the National League Pitcher of the Month award for the month of June. Lee went 5-0 and had a 0.21 ERA. Lee threw 3 consecutive shutouts and had a scoreless streak of 34 innings.
On July 9, Lee hit his first major league home run against Tommy Hanson of the Atlanta Braves after an ten-pitch at-bat. Although the Phillies would eventually lose the game, 4–1, with Lee providing the only Phillies run, it was the first home run by a Phillies pitcher since Chan Ho Park in April 2009. Lee then went on to hit his second major league home run on August 10 against Ted Lilly of the Los Angeles Dodgers.[33]
Transaction History
* June 2, 1998: Drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 20th round of the 1998 amateur draft, but didn't sign.
* June 5, 2000: Drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 4th round of the 2000 amateur draft, signed on July 6, 2000.
* June 27, 2002: Traded by the Montreal Expos with Brandon Phillips, Grady Sizemore and Lee Stevens to the Cleveland Indians for Bartolo Colon and Tim Drew.
* July 29, 2009: Traded by the Cleveland Indians with Ben Francisco to the Philadelphia Phillies for Jason Knapp, Carlos Carrasco, Jason Donald and Lou Marson.
* December 16, 2009: Traded by the Philadelphia Phillies to the Seattle Mariners for J. C. Ramírez, Phillippe Aumont and Tyson Gillies. Part of a four-team trade that sent Roy Halladay from Toronto to Philadelphia, and the Blue Jays and A's receive minor league players.
* July 9, 2010: Traded by the Seattle Mariners with Mark Lowe and cash to the Texas Rangers for Blake Beavan, Josh Lueke, Justin Smoak and Matthew Lawson.
* November 1, 2010: Granted Free Agency
* December 15, 2010: Signed as a Free Agent with the Philadelphia Phillies on a 5-year, $120 million contract with a club option for a 6th year that would make the contract worth $135 million.
Lee and his wife Kristen have a son named Jaxon (4/29/01) and a daughter, Maci (4/5/03). Jaxon was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 4 months, but after undergoing treatments, is now in remission.[34] Lee remains very close friends with former teammate CC Sabathia.[35]
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9. Castrovince, Anthony (April 25, 2008). "Lee completely dominant in nightcap". MLB.com. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080424&content_id=2584406&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
10. Briggs, David (May 3, 2008). "Lee named AL Pitcher of the Month". MLB.com. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080503&content_id=2635722&vkey=news_cle&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
11. Hoch, Bryan (July 16, 2008). "Night is Young: AL walks off in 15th". MLB.com. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080715&content_id=3137808&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
12. Castrovince, Anthony (August 26, 2008). "Lee wins No. 19 for Tribe's ninth straight". MLB.com. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080826&content_id=3370842&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
13. Herrick, Steve (September 1, 2008). "Dominant Lee breaks 20-win mark". MLB.com. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/gameday_recap.jsp?ymd=20080901&content_id=3402684&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb. Retrieved September 1, 2008.
14. Gribble, Andrew (September 12, 2008). "Lee wins 22nd as Indians rout Royals Left-hander first hurler to be 20 games above .500 since 1990". MLB.com. http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080912&content_id=3464274&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&c_id=cle. Retrieved November 22, 2008.
15. Castrovince, Anthony, "Lee, Francisco traded to Phillies: Indians acquire four top prospects in six-player pact", July 29, 2009. Cleveland Indians official website; MLB.com. MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Retrieved 2009-09-29.
16. World Series Game 1 Final: Phillies 6, Yankees 1 New York Times
17. Game 1 Recap – ESPN.com, ESPN, 2009-10-29.
18. Retrosheet Boxscore: Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Boston Americans 3, Retrosheet, 2009-10-29.
19. Mariners finalize deal with Phils for Lee MLB.com
20. Baker, Geoff (December 16, 2009). "It's a done deal — Mariners acquire Cliff Lee". The Seattle Times. Associated Press (Seattle, Washington: Frank A. Blethen). http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/mariners/2010522667_mari17.html. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
21. "Yahoo! Sports – Sports News, Scores, Rumors, Fantasy Games, and more". Sports.yahoo.com. http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=Akke2oVxmGvIU26XJvjQS5MRvLYF?slug=ap-mariners-leehearing. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
22. By Doug Miller / MLB.com (April 20, 2010). "MLB rescinds Lee's suspension | Mariners.com: News". Seattle.mariners.mlb.com. http://seattle.mariners.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100420&content_id=9437930&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=sea. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
23. http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/06/18/1508573/cliff-lee-an-obvious-trade-chip.html
24. By T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com (June 29, 2010). "Rangers acquire Lee from Mariners | MLB.com: News". Mlb.mlb.com. http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20100709&content_id=12103300&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
25. Evan Grant (October 18, 2010). "Rangers 8, Yankees 0: Cliff Lee dominates Yankees; more baseball to be played in Arlington". DallasNews.com. http://rangersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/10/rangers-8-yankees-0-cliff-lee.html. Retrieved October 18, 2010.
26. Koster, Kyle; suntimes.com (October 19, 2010). "Not breaking: Cliff Lee is really, really good; suntimes.com". Chicago Sun-Times. http://blogs.suntimes.com/sportsprose/2010/10/not_breaking_cliff_lee is_real.html. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
27. Rangers get shellacked in Series debut
28. Rangers' title dreams dashed by Lincecum
29. a b Longman, Jere (December 16, 2010). "Lee Returns, Saying He 'Never Wanted to Leave'". New York Times: p. B13. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/16/sports/baseball/16phillies.html?pagewanted=print.
30. Vecsey, George (February 27, 2011). "Tosses and Turns of Yankees-Phillies". The New York Times. Archived from the original on February 27, 2011. http://www.webcitation.org/5wpI7fgKh.
31. "Lowe outduels Lee, Braves beat Phillies 5–4". sportsillustrated.com (Sports Illustrated / CNN). May 6, 2011. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/gameflash/2011/05/06/38246_recap.html?eref=sircrc. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
32. D.J. Short (June 28, 2011). "Cliff Lee delivers third consecutive complete game shutout". NBC Sports. http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/06/28/cliff-lee-delivers-third-consecutive-complete-game-shutout/. Retrieved July 02, 2011.
33. http://www.the700level.com/08/10/11/Cliff-Lee-Bashes-Second-Home-Run-of-Seas/landing_phillies.html?blockID=547082&feedID=8510&qv=1
34. Cliff Lee: Biography and Career Highlights at MLB.com
35. http://www.nesn.com/2009/10/old-friends-cliff-lee-and-cc-sabathia-set-to-square-off-in-world-series-game-1.html
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It was one of the strangest and most glorious nights in the history of University of Kentucky basketball.
Coach John Calipari's Wildcats won his first –and UK's eighth – national championship by playing a near-perfect first half and then having to hang on to an ever-shortening lead in the second half for a 67-59 victory over Kansas Monday. That got the monkey off the coach's back before a crowd of 70,913 in the Mercedes-Benz Stadium in New Orleans. It was the third biggest crowd in Final Four history.
Oddly, UK's victory came at the expense of coach Adolph Rupp's school. The late Rupp, who coached the Wildcats' first four NCAA national crowns, played at Kansas.
Now for the strange part: Kentucky's Anthony Davis, the most talented and highest rated player in collegiate basketball did not score even one point in the first half! And the big man scored just six in the second half, but in other categories he was his usual superlative self. He had 16 rebounds, five assists and three steals.
Doran Lamb scored 22 points and Marquis Teague finished with 14.
Why all the lights?
Because of TV's demands the game started late and wasn't over until just about midnight.
Concerned airline pilots have been known to ask control towers why there were so many homes with lights on at that hour. The pilots were told to relax, that it was just the Cats doing their thing.
Calipari proved once and for all that he can coach. Admittedly he had a much better group of ones-and-dones this season than when Cousins and Co. were in Lexington. At last count Calipari is one great recruit away from another possible championship next season.
Members of this year's team got along with each other and with Calipari.
Riley seeking Cal?
One report that may make UK fans squirm: Former UK star Pat Riley, who now runs the Miami Heat of LeBron James and Co., supposedly is interested in Calipari as a coach. He should have a little pow-wow with UofL's Rick Pitino about trying to coach in the NBA.
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Then there was the Bolshoi as a building. A long shot of the outside of the building. There was no explanation, so I thought - naive me! - that it must be a Potemkin village, created for a movie scene. It was the actual Bolshoi as I soon realized, amazed. To this provincial New Yorker, I always thought the Metropolitan Opera the grandest theater imaginable. Well, readers, I was wrong. The interior was as imperial as the entrance - red carpets, chandeliers, along the lines of the Met, but much more ornate, much more theatrical.
It was some time before we got past the unnecessary narrator in English and French, and finally, the ballet commenced. I was surprised at the level of costuming - it seemed every member of the cast was bewigged and elaborately hatted, as well as decorated jackets for men and trailing gowns for women courtiers. As we know, Sleeping Beauty takes a while to get going, and the Bolshoi took every passage, no cuts, danced it all, and after awhile I began to miss the Peter Martins streamlined version! When will this be over, I thought. I preferred Merrill Ashley's Carabosse to the Russian man who mugged the role at the Bolshoi - too grotesque. Ashley played her as an evil beauty, and I loved the long fingernails which the Russians dispensed with.
I realized as I absorbed the "style royale" of the Bolshoi that they act as well as dance. They are emotionally present, they do not withhold their feelings. Also, every member of the corps de ballet was chosen for beauty as well as dancing, and that is certainly not the case at New York City Ballet. The female corps in the Bolshoi are uniformly rows of very pretty girls. That is their tradition. Also, they don't need their corps de ballet to be as skllled as Balanchine's corps needs to be. The technique for every member of the New York City Ballet is very demanding, and it's impossible to choose an entire corps de ballet of beautiful girls who also can do Balanchine choreography, where every dancer has to be top notch and ready for solos. Yet on the NYCB stage all give the illusion of beauty. (I just passed the Theater Formerly Known as State, and I saw the NYCB dancers sans make up, hanging out, eating lunch - I would never realize they were dancers if I weren't so familiar with every member of the company. I could have named each one. And they were far from conventionally "pretty". They were accomplished Balanchine dancers.
So I was impressed with the ornateness of the Bolshoi theater, the production values, the beauty of all involved.
At first I thought Svetlana Zacharova was too mature for the 16 year old Aurora. You see these things on film which are not apparent in the theater. She was technically perfect and smiling, always radiant. David Hallberg I had only seen in Ratmansky's Nutcracker last year at BAM and there I sat very close to the stage and noticed his look of wonder as he accomplished a feat with his ballerina. It was as if he was amazed they did it! His entrance on the Bolshoi stage was I can only call thrilling. His leaps, his command of the huge stage. You'd never know what suppressed power he possessed as you earlier observed him pacing slowly before the performance.
In the wedding scene, I felt that Svetlana Z was more suitable for the part as she had matured with the role. I noticed Hallberg's concentration as he centered her in her pirouettes, ending in a noble pose for both.
I could have criticized the fairy tale characters, the cat without a tale and without catlike motions, Puss in Boots who never captures her, the wolf who lacked menace. But it's late and after all, it's only a fairy tale, isn't it?
If anyone saw this performance in Moscow today or the live film, I'd love to hear your responses.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 02:20 PM
Sleeping Beauty is not my favorite ballet, in part because of its length, but also because the drama of the story is muted compared with that of R&J, Giselle, or Swan Lake. I totally agree that the production was too long and there were many moments when I was just treading water waiting for the next real thing, i.e., dancing. In particular, the role of Carabosse was too long as well as plain silly (silly like Green Rothbart in ABT's Swan Lake). I much prefer the feminine evil fairy that is used at ABT. (I haven't seen NYCB's version.)
The surprise for me was Svetlana Zakharova. The only time I'd seen her before was on the DVD of Giselle with Robert Bolle and the ballet company of La Scala (I think), and I her acting didn't move me at all. In this Sleeping Beauty, I didn't care for her in Act 1, and I can't really explain why, except to say again that I wasn't moved by her acting. She wasn't especially expressive, didn't make me believe in her. Maybe she was terrified of that Rose Adagio, which didn't even include the balances of the ABT version. But in Act Il, which didn't require great acting, simply great classical dancing, she simply shone. She was exquisite, her technique thoroughly in service to the choreography, her "line" beautiful at every moment. I wonder whether perhaps she isn't a great actress but is, indeed, an exquisite classical ballerina.
The other surprise was the interview with David Hallberg BEFORE the ballet. The fact that he had the presence of mind, knowing that he would be making ballet history, to answer questions so graciously is a testament to his modesty. He is quoted in one of his online videos saying that for him, ballet is a "calling," and that is evident in his manner, his earnestness, his dedication.
It was definitely worth it to me to get up at 6:30 a.m., but I can count on the fingers of one hand (maybe half of one hand) the number of dancers I would do that for. I'm curious to see whether David's work with the Bolshoi will change his dancing in any way. What an exciting time to be a balletomane!
Posted 20 November 2011 - 02:21 PM
I felt like the production, although lavish looking, was disappointing b/c it was practically the same set throughout the entire ballet. The set was very similar to the Paris Opera Ballet, but I think the POB version (by same design team) had more set changes or the illusion of more changes. I could be wrong. I will have to go back and re-watch the Paris Sleeping Beauty. Also, I thought the mime especially when the Lilac Fairy says, "No, she won't die, rather she will fall asleep..." was too subtle. Most productions make the mime much more clear, although I guess Sleeping Beauty is so well known that we really don't need the mime to be so clear. I am surprised that I wanted more mime. The other part I hated about the set was that the Lilac Fairy came to pick up Hallberg in a boat after the Vision Scene just like in most productions, but Aurora's palace was right there staring us in the face and there was no water. The boat was floating on land. Rolling out mist did not help me think of it as water. It was the most jarring boat scene I have seen in a Sleeping Beauty. I wonder why the set designers and director did not think up something better.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 02:44 PM
As someone new to the Bolshoi (except for the Don Q broadcast), I found the overall level of dancing impressive. I try to avoid the game of "corps-spotting," but I can't help but notice the prince who was wearing a gold crown topped with a profusion of green feathers. Have no idea who he was. But I thought he had great presence.
p.s. I think previously the discussion of the moviecasts has been in the "Ballet Films" forum. Putting it in the forum for the particular company makes more sense to me and maybe will spark more discussion of the movies.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 02:49 PM
Loved the sets and costumes: big, sumptuous and kind of overwhelming, which is OK: I don't expect to be underwhelmed by the Bolshoi. That floor has to go, though. It wasn't bad looking straight on, but I feel sorry for the audience in the upper reaches. Those overhead shots seemed to be devoid of dancers; all you could see was the pattern.
Very divided feelings about Zakarova: a lot to like, but those much-discussed extensions made me cringe. And there was one jete early on that was awful: legs flung apart, no actual elevation, no forward movement, no lightness, just a mid-air 180+ split and a clunky landing; "Uh oh," I thought. But later, I think it was during the vision scene, she did a series of what looked like deliberately low jetes that were everything they should be: arced and traveling with good ballon. Her upper body and arms were lovely, but I did think she lacked delicacy and freshness in her petit allegro. On the other hand, it was a nice change seeing a Rose Adagio that didn't insist on excessive balances with the attendant wobbles; she looked relaxed and confident - no need to show off. I'd really like to see her in something else; I wonder if she's shown at her best as Aurora.
Aside from some crummy YouTube videos, this was my first view of Halberg, and he's a stunner. Even my inexpert eye could see the difference in his style from the Bolshoi men and it'll be interesting to see who ends up influencing whom the most. There were a couple of times when he seemed to need more space than the stage could provide. Very impressive.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 03:22 PM
Needless for me to point out that Mr. Hallberg was as fine as he could be. I couldn't help thinking as he made his entrance in Act II, that I was watching one of the finest dancers of our time live on the very grand Bolshoi stage.
For me personally, Ms. Zakarova did not disappoint and I noticed too that Mr. Hallberg was paying close attention to her while they were dancing their PPD, making sure she was the one shining throughout the entire coda.
I must admit that I did not like the close-up camera work whenever there was an solo. The camera literally followed the dancer/actor from one end to the next. One could lose track of the directions (in the audience) easily, and you didn't get to see what was happening on the other end of the stage if other dancers were also doing mime at the same time. I prefer to see the big picture since it's not a small stage.
Overall, I like the sets and the costumes. It was long but I enjoyed it so much I didn't even notice the time.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 03:25 PM
Posted 20 November 2011 - 03:53 PM
1. I am a fan of Svetlana, but I never imagined her as Aurora. I was very pleasantly surprised. I appreciated her in both acts. Her dancing appeared effortless. I came away feeling, more than ever, that she is a princess and a star. This version of the ballet certainly sought to showcase that.
2. I didn't know that "Sleeping Beauty" involved a chicken fairy. The yellow feathered fairy was a joy to watch.
3. The fourth prince, who wore a crown with feathers in a circle, pointing outward, was beautiful physically and in his dance. Did he perform the role of the prince in "Cinderella" in Act II, as well? What is his name?
4. I loved the fairy tale characters. They were humorous and dramatic, if a bit campy. The birds really danced like flying birds. The wolf chasing Red Riding Hood continued in character even after taking his bow, to the audience's delight. The Puss and Boots characters captured the essence of playfulness and kitty confidence.
5. Lilac lacked the presence, grace, and power with which I associate the character. I wondered if she held herself back in some manner. She hardly ever even smiled.
6. David Hallberg dances beautifully, with grace and elegance. I expected longer solos, having seen other versions of this ballet. I had some trepidations during the lifts, but this ballet does not contain many lifts. A few times he landed too far to the side of the stage, outside of the lighting. Also, the cameraman did not show his entrance on two occasions, and did not show the curtain call, to my dismay. Unfortunately, I did not see his interview, and I hope it ends up on youtube.
7. The children in Act I were wonderful. Their smiles were genuine, and their dancing was beautiful.
8. I don't like Carabosse in any incarnation. I never have understood the characterization. I do not find the character scary or innately evil, just ugly.
9. The scenery disappointed, surprisingly. The painted backdrop did not convey anything important, and was not spectacular or interesting.
10. I appreciated the forest scene. It explained the vision of Aurora in a way that I have not seen before, and really provided context that was missing for me. It helped tie the two acts together.
11. David was a bit too deferential in his kiss. That peck would not have awoken me after one hundred years of sleep.
12, The theatre contained maybe ten people. Why doesn't the distributor market this series? I can't imagine who would not have enjoyed this performance.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 04:24 PM
Other thoughts: I missed the series of fish dives in the Grand Pas de Deux - is this always the case in the Bolshoi SB?
It's the case with any Russian production. Fish dives are a Western European addition.
I caught the delay. I was only able to stay for the Prologue and Act I as I had somewhere to be (but I wanted to show up to increase the attendance numbers to encourage the new theater to keep adding the ballet productions)--I was hoping to be able to stay for at least Act II (which is usually my favorite) but the screen flashed that there would be a 30 minute (!!!!) intermission and so that would have only let me see about 15 min of Act II. I thought the Carbosse was too camp and limited in mime to be more effective. Zakharova I did not warm to--the extensions, the angularity....it's not for me. I had hoped pregnancy would soften her but it does not appear to be the case. I can imagine, though, she would be more effective in Act II, so I am disappointed I could not stay for it. I would have preferred to see Alexandrova as Lilac (though I would prefer to see her in most anything given the option), but I understand they probably have to spread the wealth to Allash. I thought she did a lovely job, though, quite secure.
I did like the patterned floors when we had a straight on shot, but whenever they did anything from a overhead angle it seemed like too much.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 05:42 PM
The children were beautifully trained, much better than our American children, even from SAB or JKO School.
Also, I'm glad I wasn't sitting in one of those balcony seats. I agree--the viewing was impossible with the floor design.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 05:48 PM
This production makes me realize once again the genius of Balanchine, to peel away all this frou-frou and have his company class practice tendus. Stripping away all the ornateness to display the choreography and immaculate technique. He was a true original; he came from this Russian imperial tradition, he drew from it but discarded it. In changing the name of his Ballet Imperial to Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2, he famously remarked, "Nothing is imperial anymore, except - except the Empire Hotel!" (referring to the hotel across the street from the theater).
Posted 20 November 2011 - 06:26 PM
After being subjected to ABT's current production, this production seems like a paragon of virtue. Sets and costumes are lavish and architecturally and period correct.
I too was disappointed by the Lilac Fairy's lack of authority and yearned for Sara Mearns but enjoyed Carabosse.
Zakharova may not be a natural Aurora but she took control after the intermission and for those of accustomed to American dancers there is so much to enjoy in the use of the upper body. Hallberg was never anything but acomplete classicist even in his interivew.
All in all a wonderful sunday morning. I can hardly wait for Le Corsaire.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 07:21 PM
King Florestan: Andrei Sitnikov
Queen: Kristina Karaseva
Princess Aurora: Svetlana Zakharova
Prince Desire: David Hallberg
Catalabutte: Vitaly Biktimirov
Four Princes Who Come Courting: Karim Abdullin, Yuri Baranov, Pavel Dmitrichenko, Vladislav Lantratov
Фрейлины, which Google is translating into "Maids of honor". I assume the Lilac Fairy's entourage: Angelina Vlashinets, Yulia Grebenshikova, Elizaveta Kruteleva, Yulia Lunkina, Svetlana Pavlova, Maria Prorbich, Olga Smirnova, Anna Turazashvili
Fairies' Cavaliers: Batr (?) Annadurdiev, Artemi Beliakov, Klim Efimov, Dmitri Efremov, Maksim Ollengeim, Denis Rodkin
Dutchess: Olga Suvorova
Галифрон, наставник принца, "Galifron" -- I think the man in the second act who's Desire's handler: Igor Simachev.
Leads in the Peasant Dance: Anna Antrolova, Aleksander Vodopetov
Carabosse: Alexei Loparevich
Lilac Fairy: Maria Allash
Fairy of Tenderness (Candid): Daria Khokhlova
Fairy of (translating as) Carlessness (A type of flower). Maybe free-spirit?: Chinara Alizade
Fairy of Generosity (Spreader of bread crumbs): Ksenia Kern
Fairy of Playfulness (Twittering canary): Anastasia Stashkevich
Fairy of Audacity (Violent): Elena Andrienko
Diamond Fairy: Anna Leonova
Sapphire Fairy: Viktoria Litvinova
Gold Fairy: Maria Vinogradova
Silver Fairy: Anna Tikhomirova
White Cat: Yulia Lunkina
Puss in Boots: Igor Tsvirko
Princess Florine: Nina Kaptsova
Bluebird: Artem Ovcharenko
Little Red Riding Hood: Anastasia Stashkevich
Wolf: Alexei Koryagin
Cinderella: Daria Khoklova
Prince of Fortune: Karim Abdullin
Conductor: Vasily Sinaiski
By the "yellow" one, do people mean the Fairy of Playfulness from the Prologue or the Gold Fairy from Act III.
Posted 20 November 2011 - 07:38 PM
Posted 20 November 2011 - 08:03 PM
I had the same thought. I enjoyed the performance thoroughly, but when I thought about bringing friends, I couldn't help but feel that ballet -- this ballet, anyway -- is an acquired taste. I kept thinking about the Mariinsky Jewels. It strikes me as more immediately appealing to the modern eye, and if I were bringing non-ballet friends, it would be Balanchine all the way.
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Do there exist families of isomorphism classes of groups $G_{s}$ such that $\forall s\in[0,1], |G_{s}|=\mathfrak{c}$, where $\mathfrak{c}$ is the cardinality of the continuum, and for any $a,b\in[0,1], a\neq b$, $G_{a}$≇$G_{b}$?
I think you are asking if there are families $\{G_t:t\in[0,1]\}$ of Lie groups of positive dimension whose elements are non-isomorphic in pairs.
There are examples of curves of non-isomorphic Lie groups in the class of nilpotent groups. In fact, as soon as the dimension is greater or equal to $7$, there are continuously-many non-isomorphic filiform Lie algebras, so the same thing happens for groups (filiform Lie algebras are "maximally non-abelian" nilpotent Lie algebras) This is discussed in detail, for example, in the book by Goze on Nilpotent Lie algebras.
As the dimension grows, we find families of unbounded dimension. In general, the nilpotent part of the world is filled with many, many examples.
Apparently the question was about bicontinuous isomorphism classes of Lie groups, and that question was answered by Mariano Suarez-Alvarez. Now, I suspect that many of these Lie-groups are in fact isomorphic algebraically, just not by a bicontinuous isomorphism.
Let me answer the question literally: There is a family of continuum many, pairwise non-isomorphic groups of size continuum. Actually, there is such a family of countable groups.
Namely, let $\mathbb P$ denote the set of prime numbers. For each infinite set $S\subseteq\mathbb P$ let $G_S$ be the direct sum of the abelian groups $\mathbb Z_p$, $p\in S$. The groups $G_S$ are pairwise non-isomorphic since if $S,T\subseteq\mathbb P$ and $p\in S\setminus T$, then $G_T$ has no element of order $p$ but $G_S$ does.
Now, the groups $G_S$ are countable. If you want size continuum, you can either take the cartesian product instead of direct sum, or simply multiply everything with $\mathbb R$. In either case you get a family of pairwise nonisomorphic groups of size $2^{\aleph_0}$.


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From: Terry Dontje (Terry.Dontje_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-20 12:18:31
I've talked with both Brian and Rich about the measurements and they are
ok with the new findings. I also have not received any other comments
to the negative on putting 1097 into the v1.2 branch. So I would like
to instruct Tim Mattox to bring over the 1097 change to v1.2 branch and
make a new 1.2 RC.
Terry Dontje wrote:
> Nikolay and Community,
> Sorry to be so late in responding to your email but I've been working
> with Pak to determine whether my hasty decision as RM yesterday was
> hasty or not. To answer your question, we are still trying to determine
> if the message queue support can go in or not and the below is my
> perspective on whether we should.
> Community,
> A couple things have transpired in the last 24 hours from when we had
> our concall. As Jeff surmised earlier this morning Pak did accidentally
> have debugging enabled which did skew the numbers quite a bit. After
> making sure debugging was disabled for both builds (v1.2 and the tmp
> branch with the message queue fixes) we then fretted over the numbers.
> It looks to me that there is quite a bit of variance in the numbers that
> the OSU latency, IMB latency and mpi_ping all produce.
> For example in using the OSU latency tests we say the MX MTL have a .01
> us difference between v1.2 and the tmp branch (in favor of v1.2).
> However the mean, trimmed mean and median have about .02-07us difference
> (in favor of the tmp branch). To me the data looks pretty much the same
> and the fact that we are measuring the averages (ie none of the tests
> pick out the minimum value) makes these numbers even more hard to really
> nail down IMHO. I've essentially seen this affect for the other tests
> (IMB and mpi_ping).
> For the SM timings using the mpi_ping tests we have seen a range of
> average latencies from 1.47-1.5 us for both the tmp and v1.2 so they
> seem like moral equivalents to me. Rich Graham has led me to believe
> that he might get more consistent numbers but we are not able to and so
> I can only deduce that the numbers are essentially the same.
> In conclusion I believe both the CM PML (MX MTL) and the SM BTL
> performance is about the same between the tmp branch and v1.2. Because
> of this I would like to request that the 1097 cmr be put into 1.2.4. If
> others disagree with my assessment above I think a discussion will need
> to ensue and I would welcome further testing by others that may show
> that the changes have regressed performance (or not). I would like to
> set a timeout of 12 noon ET for others to comment whether these new
> findings puts our fears at ease. At that time if not descenting
> comments have been received I would like to ask Tim to pull in these
> changes and rebuild 1.2.4.
> thanks,
> --td
> Nikolay Piskun wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Just to verify, before I'll start testing this, there will be no
>> message queue debugging support in this version, correct? This all
>> goes to 1.3 release.
>> Best Regards,
>> P.S. It looks like it is time for us to be more formally involved in
>> this work.
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August 02, 2012
Kayli Vee Levitan's best tea spots in Cape Town
Kayli Vee Levitan
I am Kayli Vee Levitan.
A Durbanite living in Cape Town, and absolutely loving it.
I still say things like "Spraaite" and "fyish".
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Taking time out for yourself in Cape Town can take many forms. You can take a walk on the beach, enjoy a spa treatment, tuck into gourmet food and wine or sip on a perfect brew with a few sweet treats to delight you at high tea.
Often the perfect way to catch up with friends or loved ones, high tea not only offers an afternoon of exciting new teas and treats that delight the eyes and palate, you can also enjoy all of this while admiring the splendour of your surroundings.
I sampled a few high teas on offer around the city and found a few gems.
The Table Bay Hotel
Time: 12h30 – 17h30
The Table Bay Hotel was my lucky high tea number one. For R185 per person the first course is savoury; mushroom quiche, salmon quiche, vegetable wraps and a range of sandwiches. The second course features plain, currant and red pepper scones served with strawberry and stunning grape jam, lemon curd and clotted cream. The third course is a buffet of cakes, tarts and hot desserts. With each course you choose from a list of 1 000 teas, which is no easy task.
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Location: Table Bay Hotel, V&A Waterfront
Contact: +27 (0)21 406 5000
Website: www.suninternational.com
Vista Bar & Lounge at The One&Only
Time: 14h30 – 17h30
The One&Only's Vista Bar surprised me. I always thought that it was unnecessarily pretentious, but their high tea for R145 per person was lovely.
It was a relatively simple buffet with a lovely selection of savoury pies, sausage rolls, sandwiches and quiches as well as petit fours, cakes and tarts. We were taught about the 30 or so teas on offer and were able to make an educated choice, rather than a random one. With book in hand, we sat munching happily watching the rain hit the lagoon and I was happy to change my opinion about the Vista Bar.
Location: One&Only Cape Town, V&A Waterfront
Contact: +27 (0)21 431 5800
Website: www.capetown.oneandonlyresorts.com
Kirstenbosch Tea Room
Time: 8h30 – 17h00
As this was the only high tea I went to that was not hosted in a hotel, it was quite a different experience.
Unless previously arranged for 12 guests or more, there is no high tea buffet.
The Kirstenbosch take on high tea is an English Tea for Two for R120. You have a choice of either egg and horseradish, cheese and tomato or cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches, as well as a selection of cakes, mini quiches and biscuits to choose from.
I quite liked the fact that there is somewhere to go for a simple, mini high tea, and that you can amble around the gardens afterwards.
Location: Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens
Contact: +27 (0)21 797 4883
Website: www.ktr.co.za
The Taj Hotel
Time: 14h00 – 18h00
The Taj Hotel does not want any competition, so they created a completely different high tea offering.
Every two months the theme of their high tea changes. For R95 per person we had a refillable food stand stocked with Indian savoury delicacies including samoosas, tikka chicken pies and spiced biscuits, as well as sweet delicacies including cardamom cheesecake, condensed milk and pistachio squares and buttery almond biscuits. The sweet and spicy masala tea was the perfect accompaniment.
Finally, I had a pot of the most delicious tea I've had the pleasure of drinking, "Blooming Richness", a Chinese Flower Bud show tea, which arrived in a tight little bud and bloomed into a gorgeous flower.
The theme from 1 August is South Africa, so prepare yourself for some koeksisters, melktert and other South African favourites.
Location: The Taj Cape Town, Wale Street, Cape Town
Contact: +27 (0)21 819 2000
Website: www.tajcapetown.co.za/blog
The Mount Nelson Hotel
Time: 14h30 – 17h30
Probably Cape Town's most well-known high tea venue, The Nellie was the last venue on my journey.
Served on the Windsor Table, guests spill out on to the patio and into the garden. For R185 per person you are offered an extensive buffet. My favourites were the salmon wraps, spinach muffins, roast beef sandwiches, baby crumpets, apple crumble with clotted cream and the chocolate and banana pie.
I roamed the table a few times looking for scones and couldn't find any, but considering how much I have eaten over the past few weeks, it was probably for the best. The setting itself is lovely and I was so lucky to be there on a warm, sunny day.
Location: Mount Nelson Hotel, Orange Street, Gardens
Contact: +27 (0)21 819 2000
Website: www.mountnelson.co.za
The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa
Time: 14h00 – 18h00
Created for, but not limited to, two people sharing, the 12 Apostles high tea at only R195 per stand is a reasonable treat. Hosted in the warm and inviting Leopard Room and balcony, each stand is served with two drinks and a range of sweet and savoury nibbles.
The highlights for me were the pastrami, wholegrain mayo and rocket sandwich, the chicken and roasted almond roll and the light shortbread.
The atmosphere is so relaxing that we lost ourselves in the afternoon and only realised once it was dark outside that it was probably time to go home.
Location: The Twelve Apostles Hotel and Spa, Camps Bay
Contact: +27 (0)21 437 9000
Website: www.12apostleshotel.com
I was concerned that the venues would offer the same experience but each venue offers something special – The Table Bay Hotel is an extravagant and opulent treat; The 12 Apostles Hotel and Spa is affordable and so inviting; Vista Bar and Lounge at One&Only is high-end affordability, Kirstenbosch Tea Room is simple and perfect for the whole family; The Taj Hotel is such a different but well-priced experience with brilliant service; and the Mount Nelson is a Cape Town favourite.
I have eaten enough cake and sandwiches and drunk enough tea to keep me going for a while. As much as I loved sitting down to high tea in all the venues, my body is very happy that it's over. My mind, however, is ready for the next one.
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Walter Gorean appreciation by John Percival
Posted 07 August 2009 - 05:39 PM
Posted 06 June 2011 - 04:07 PM
80 ballets !!! ".... why have they disappeared ... ? This is always an interesting question in the arts. It has particular poignancy with ballets of previous generations, where so much depends on memory of the participants who are now gone. I had a similar feeling when reading the very long list of Fokine's forgotten pre-Diaghilev ballets in Lynn Garafola's book, and when thinking about Alexandra's post (on another thread) of an article she wrote about Camargo and the ephemeral quality of long lost dance performances.
In all he created some eighty or so ballets.
[ ... ]
There are many of these and other creations by Gore which would have been well worth preserving as examples of his creativity, so why have they all disappeared? It isn't that they couldn't be done successfully without their original casts; that was demonstrated time and again, however much they showed of the special qualities of the creators. But because Gore's own companies died when he did, and because he moved frequently between other troupes, the works haven't been preserved. So many of the ballets by Britain's choreographers (yes, even some by Ashton and Tudor among them, and pretty well all the excellent output of Peter Darrell) have been allowed to disappear; Walter Gore's ballets are prominent among our losses an extreme example but by no means the only one.
There's a sadness here. Ballet has no museum buildings in which to display living, moving ballets on the wall. It's not possible to present them frozen under spotlights.
Are there any reliable sources for Gore's ballets, or other lost ballets of tihs period in Britain? Any agencies that are devoted to preserving and reconstructing them?
To answer your last question. I agree about lost ballets but Walter Gore's Eaters Of Darkness I am happy to inform you, is NOT lost. I have written elsewhere on this site about Walter Gore and his "Eaters Of Darkness", which I notated in Benesh Movement Notation while I was resident choreologist for the Harkness Ballet.
You probably don't think of notation as a "reliable source" but should tell you that ballets are reconstructed and staged all over the world through Benesh notation. I'm not pushing Benesh Notation but It's a fact that I'm surprised is not known here. All the Royal Ballet repertory is documented in Benesh by, I believe, several choreologists on staff. The same with most European companies. Perhaps less now with world economy the way it is. American companies can no longer afford the luxory of a staff choreologist. They use video, which is a marvelous tool but a notated score is much more complete in detail. (compare musicians and actors without a written score) Ideally, both should be used together.
Anyway, for what it is worth, there exists my notated score of Eaters, lodged at the Institute of Choreology and I believe also at the Dance Notation Bureau. I also have the original along with pictures of Walter rehearsing it in Barcelona, with the Harkness dancers. Look for my posting about Walter on this Ballet Talk website.
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Posted 17 June 2011 - 01:59 PM
Eaters of Darkness was presented by the Chicago Ballet in the mid 1970s and I saw it then. What I recall of it is that it was very powerful and unusual to my somewhat untrained (!) eye at the time. The only dancer I remember in it was, I think, Carmen Mathe, but I would have to check that.
You say Eaters Of Darkness was presented by the Chicago Ballet in mid 1970s. First of all, do you mean Ruth Page's company in Chicago. I am not familiar with the "Chicago Ballet". Do you recall who staged it? Was it Walter Gore himself. That seems the most logical as he had staged it for the Harkness Ballet in 1970 and it was possibly still fresh in his mind. Did his wife Paula Hinton dance the lead? You see, I am curious because I had notated it in 1970 while doing it in Spain and Portugal. See my other postings on this thread about Walter.
Perhaps you have an old program that you could find out about these questions.
The filmed version of Eaters on this thread is from Germany. They filmed it shortly after the Harkness staging, with the same cast, probably released around 1971.
Posted 17 June 2011 - 05:15 PM
Posted 17 June 2011 - 08:27 PM
i was there but as a student; i recall seeing the ballet but not who staged it. at the time, however, ben stevenson was the director so perhaps that was the connection? alas i have no program. also there was richard and christine ellis? that is the only guess i can make. however i am fairly certain that no dancer other than a chicago ballet dancer was used. "chicago ballet" was the name of ruth page's company during that period in the 1970s.
OK, thanx. That makes sense because Larry Long was a ballet master at Harkness during that time period and he also was Ruth Page;s right hand man. After she died he took over her company, then HE died! Sorry tale. I understand when we are young we don't usually bother to keep programs.
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Posted 26 July 2011 - 11:02 AM
Thanks in advance of hearing from you.
Posted 26 July 2011 - 11:16 PM
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Posted 27 July 2011 - 08:49 AM
I am lucky enough to have seen Winter's Night, Victim, Eaters of Darkness and two other of Walter Gore's works on films held by Batsheva Rothschild. There was a friend of Batsheva's visiting that evening some 35-40 years past, and she revealed that two of Gore's works that the Bat company was to stage would be staged by someone other than Walter Gore or Paua Hinton; a Sven Norrlander who was coming from Hong Kong at the Cmtesse de Hoechst's. Now that I am trying to assemble a writing on Walter Gore I run again and again into the Sven N name. I find he had worked all over the planet and staged any number of different choreographer's works for them in ballet and modern form. Now I want to find out about this type of person who is trusted to stage others works. Is Norlander out there and willing to talk or has anyone else have anything to share about Norrlander or other artists who have enjoyed this kind of meritous trust?
Thanks in advance of hearing from you.
I also have never heard of Sven Norriander but that doesn't mean he doesn't exist or is not legit.. He no doubt is a re-constructor of other choreographer's works, either those living or dead. As a rule, the re-constructor is a notator or has a close relationship with the choreographer in question and is familiar with the work and is named in the choreographer's will or trust as inheritor of his works.. Dance notators, or "Choreologists" go all over the world staging from the written scores that they have done or those notated by another choreologist. They have the rights to do this and the rights come along with the notation of the score. This has been proven the most accurate and reliable way rather than relying on memory.becasue every detail is documented in the score. Staging from a video is a tremendous help but not as accurate as a written score; the same way you wouldn't want to stage an opera from just listening to a recording of a particular performance.
My guess is that Mr. Norriander performed in these works or assisted in their re-staging as a ballet master, etc. and so the choreographer gave him the rights to re-construct the work. Or perhaps he is a qualified notator and has notated the works. You could check with the Institute of Choreology in London or the Dance Notation Bureau in NY and find out if they are registered there. Just going around and staging another's works, unless you have this kind of permission or legal rights would be an infringement of copyright and is illegal. It is basically theft. Agnes de Mille always had quite a time dealing with that.
Posted 27 July 2011 - 10:17 AM
Thank You, Richka
I will now try these leads that you have shared. The charge that Norrlander was a master criminal secret ballet-stager is a major hoot, and worth writing up on its own. These charges should cause him to stand up from wherever he is now hiding to respond, and then i will interview him. Another responder has shared that Sven Norlander appears exceptionally in at least three dance films, one of which is Danses Concertantes, suggest another lead, rather more difficult to search out.
That you have and share so willingly such deep love for and understanding of dance and dancers is deeply heartening and a treasure.
Posted 27 July 2011 - 10:48 AM
Thank You, Richka
I will now try these leads that you have shared. The charge that Norrlander was a master criminal secret ballet-stager is a major hoot, and worth writing up on its own. These charges should cause him to stand up from wherever he is now hiding to respond, and then i will interview him. Another responder has shared that Sven Norlander appears exceptionally in at least three dance films, one of which is Danses Concertantes, suggest another lead, rather more difficult to search out.
That you have and share so willingly such deep love for and understanding of dance and dancers is deeply heartening and a treasure.
Welcome to Ballet Alert and thanx for the compliment. I see you reside in Santa Barbara, CA. Are you familiar with State Street Ballet and its Director, Rodney Gustavson?
Posted 27 July 2011 - 02:59 PM
Thank you for the welcome greeting.
While Santa B is the county, my home is up in tiny Montecito's hill country. I rarely go to Santa Barbara or see ballet anymore, and the last I remember of Ballet in Santa Barbara was one of those please donate thingy's where I was introduced to someone named Tamara, the family name escapes me now, who was directing something and a fellow who was introduced as her then visiting choreographer but who intimated oddly that he was committed to making sandwiches commercially. I remain hopeful this was an in-joke that still escapes me but is remembered. His name was, I seem to believe, a Mark Wild. This was a bit ago.
Posted 27 July 2011 - 08:33 PM
Bay Area balletomanes will be familiar with the work of Mark Wilde, who was associated with the Pacific Ballet of San Francisco and with Oakland Ballet. He choreographed a sensationally successful version of Ravel's "Bolero" which Oakland Ballet danced frequently as the finale to an evening's dances.
Bolero (1974)is kind of post-mod Etudes/Grand Pas Classique designed to display the classical technique of the whole company. It's set on a bare stage with barres in place, with the back walls showing, a step-ladder that reaches into the flies, and trees of lights in plain view. The ballet proceeds like Etudes from academic exercises to moves of increasing complexity and difficulty, with the rising excitement of Ravel's music to rachet-up the levels of challenge to the truly formidable. Beautifully constructed, clear, honest, wonderful ballet. The dancers used to perform it in practice clothes, which let the accuracy of their placement, their finesse in transitions, and the musicality of their dancing create the transformation of them from Oaklanders (black, white, Asian, and of all body-types) into noble, god-like ballet-stars. It was a sensationally effective piece for the company -- it made the whole city proud of them, and it was easy to tour in both senses, since audiences everywhere loved it and them, and all the costumes could go into a suitcase or two. It was re-costumed later in bright-colored unitards, which also worked.
WIlliam Huck's "Oakland Ballet: the first 25 years" lists 8 ballets in Oakland's rep, ranging from Concerto Grosso #1 in G to Brahms Intermezzi, La Valse, Afternoon of a Faun, Jazziana, The Sirens, and Concert Waltzes (with Raoul Pause).
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