Hints and tips:
...Spirits revived when Oleg Ivenko, star of The White Crow, gave a larky reading of the folk-inflected Gayane pas de deux....
...Snap SECTOR: SOCIAL MEDIA / HQ: SANTA MONICA, US Snap was hit by a freeze in the digital advertising market when the pandemic first took hold but the social media group has since recovered to post record...
...And she loves MacMillan’s pas de deux, which are notoriously difficult, full of complex lifts and jumps, and long — a true test of a dancer’s stamina and technique....
...I saw Agassi, I saw Monica Seles. I saw all these great champions come through and practise. And I woke up every morning and couldn’t wait for my alarm to ring at 6.30am and go and have my lesson.”...
...Rich food for dance; ripe recipe for faux pas, in every sense of the words. In the event, as Saturday night’s triple bill showed, bright success....
...His PA looks on sympathetically. I’m not sure whether the expression is sympathy for me or for him. Perhaps both. The crumpled paper has got him going, though....
...“Isn’t ‘Monica,’ ” Dad teases, “looking after you properly?”...
...Marriott is everywhere musical in his response to Debussy – the writing for Benjamin and Whitehead in Des pas sur la neige is as potent as the music’s bleak, muffled sonorities....
...That decision is entirely justified: Deborah MacMillan, his widow, and Monica Mason, the company’s director, have long believed that the early demise of the original – a total flop many aver – consigned...
...Wheeldon has also turned down Monica Mason’s offer to become resident choreographer at the Royal Ballet....
...Far from retreating to a secluded beach hut to count her tabloid and TV payoff, Rebecca Loos seems to be doing far better financially now than when she was a PA....
International Edition