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Bruceadmin

30-05-08, 06:00 AM (GMT (BST))
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"Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
 
  
How many years have you been seeing dance?

This is for discussion about the latest Mini-poll.

A factual question and so hopefully easy to respond. We've asked this before and when the voting is done I'll do some comparisons.


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  RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? DaveM 30-05-08 1
     RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? billboyd 30-05-08 2
  RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? Margaret 30-05-08 3
     RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? JMcN 30-05-08 4
         RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? tortie14 30-05-08 5
  RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? Diandri 30-05-08 6
     RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? Anjuli_Bai 30-05-08 7
         RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? Ballet_Fan 30-05-08 8
  RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? alison 30-05-08 9
     RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? Michael LL 30-05-08 10
         RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? Robert 30-05-08 11
             RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance? jenny dunx 01-06-08 12

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DaveM

30-05-08, 09:12 AM (GMT (BST))
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1. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   darn - I'm on a cusp of 5-6 years. Better call it 5 then...


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billboyd

30-05-08, 09:32 AM (GMT (BST))
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2. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   I was over 50 when I saw my first ballet - Derek Deane's Nutcracker danced by the ENB at the Coliseum. That was almost 10 years ago and I'm now well and truely hooked!

billboyd


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Margaret

30-05-08, 09:55 AM (GMT (BST))
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3. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   I saw my first ballet in 1950 (International Ballet). I have been seeing ballet since then, when I have been able, much more frequently since I have been retired.

Margaret


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JMcN

30-05-08, 10:04 AM (GMT (BST))
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4. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   I saw LCDT in 1976 and for my first few years really only went to see contemporary dance (mainly LCDT and Rambert but many other small companies long since lost from memory). I occasionally got dragged to ballet and found it boring. My overnight conversion happened at a performance of Onegin at the London Coliseum on 26th May 1984 (Marcia Haydee and Richard Cragun).

I started travelling to see ballet in 1985 and have just become more and more addicted to watching the art.

It's frightened the life out of me to realise that I have been watching dance for over 30 years and been serious about watching ballet for the last 24 of those years (and I've only just turned 24!!!).

Janet McNulty


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tortie14

30-05-08, 10:59 AM (GMT (BST))
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5. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   LAST EDITED ON 30-05-08 AT 11:00 AM (GMT (BST))
 
Since about 7 years old - taken to see Cinderella with Fonteyn, and Ashton and Helpmann as the Ugly Sisters - sat in the front row of the Grand Tier in my best party dress - blissful experience.


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Diandri

30-05-08, 12:26 PM (GMT (BST))
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6. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   I consider my ballet going to have started when I saw Mayerling in 1992 at the extra matinee they put on as a tribute to MacMillan after his death. Mukhamedov danced & I've been hooked ever since & its lucky it started with that ballet as I was 15 at the time & if it had been Giselle or Coppelia I probably would not have returned.

The interesting thing is that apparently my mum took me to see Nureyev dance when I was about 4/5, but have no recollection of that which is a shame. Though I do have a very definite memory of seeing an ENB Nutcracker at a school matinee show aged about 7.

I shudder to think how much my ballet going has cost me financially over the years, but its been worth every penny & long may it continue.


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30-05-08, 02:19 PM (GMT (BST))
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7. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   My first recollection of ballet is a pas de deux on Omnibus - hosted by Alistair Cooke. I was glued to the tiny TV screen (black and whitet) it was around 1954. Have no idea who the dancers were or what they were dancing, but I was mesmerized. I do remember that the costuming was something like short tunics.

The first performance I attended was in 1962 at the beautiful classical theater - Philadelphia's Academy of Music. Bolshoi Ballet with Raissa Struchkova dancing Walpurgis Night. When she threw herself backward across the front of the stage into her partner's waiting arms.....not only was she "caught" but so was my new husband. I was hooked from the opening bars of music.

When I talked him into buying tickets, he told me that he would sit back and take a nap. Nap while the Bolshoi dances? Silly man. He's as smitten as I.


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30-05-08, 05:16 PM (GMT (BST))
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8. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   LAST EDITED ON 30-05-08 AT 05:16 PM (GMT (BST))
 
I used to do ballet when I was six and continued untill about
12.

The first ballet I saw performed was Swan Lake when I was six
(1994) with the Moscow City Ballet. I have contiuned having a strong interest in dance and now I am nearly 20.


Jamila Mendes


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alison

30-05-08, 05:26 PM (GMT (BST))
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9. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   Well, since the early 70s for me, which makes it 31-40. OTOH, I didn't start going on an even semi-regular basis until 1989, which would make it 11-20 ...


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Michael LL

30-05-08, 06:03 PM (GMT (BST))
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10. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   40 years, since Festival Ballet Nutcracker in 1968, and I suppose before that on TV. Regular visitor from 1972. Now I feel ancient!


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Robert

30-05-08, 10:53 PM (GMT (BST))
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11. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   LAST EDITED ON 30-05-08 AT 10:54 PM (GMT (BST))
 
I saw the Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin company(later Festival Ballet and now ENB)dance Les Sylphides in 1948 or 1949. I did not go through choice. I and a friend went to the theatre every week no matter what was on, even ballet!! I have earlier childhood memories of seeing ballet with my parents or to be correct my mother, my father stayed in the bar for the ballet! I became really interested and involved in ballet and dance from 1952 onwards mainly with the Sadlers Wells company but I also saw Ballet Joos, Roland Petit’s, Ballet de Paris,Antonio, Martha Graham, and Katherine Dunham, as well as the NYCB in the 1950s, Whilst a student I worked on the scenery for the Walter Gore Pamela Hinton company.
Now I really feel ancient!!!


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jenny dunx

01-06-08, 00:09 AM (GMT (BST))
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12. "RE: Mini-poll: How many years have you been seeing dance?"
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   I think it must be about 44 years for me. I was never taken to ballet as a child, but went with a friend to Covent Garden to see Nadia Nerina and David Blair in Giselle in 1963 or 1964. We loved it and we went as regularly as we could afford on our tiny salaries, seeing not only the Royal, but Ballet Rambert and visits by the Kirov. The Royal Ballet was wonderful in the 1960s and we loved Svetlana Beriosova and Donald Macleary, a glamorous young Anthony Dowell and of course the unforgettable beauty and magnetism of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev.


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