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A little refresh & update on live-streams and screenings:

Wednesday 4/25 @ 8PM (EDT) – Ballet Next will live-stream its event at Manhattan Movement & Arts Center on its website:  http://www.balletnext.com/  Performers will be Michele Wiles, Charles Askegard, Kristi Boone, Misty Copeland, Ana Sophia Scheller, and Georgina Pazcoguin.  They will dance choreography by Brian Reeder, Askegard, and Margo Sappington.

Friday 4/27 @ 3PM & 7PM – the movie Joffrey – Mavericks of Dance opens a run of several days at Cinema Village in New York.  Former Joffrey company members and Dance Magazine's Wendy Perron will host several Q&A sessions on selected dates.  You can purchase tickets in advance here.  A list of upcoming screenings in other cities can be found here.

Sunday & Monday 4/29-30 @ 7:30PM (EDT) – The Guggenheim's Works & Process Series presents a preview program of ABT's Spring Season at the Met Opera House which focuses on the characters at the hearts of the ballets including an excerpt from Firebird performed by Misty Copeland.  The program will be live-streamed both nights at:  http://www.ustream.tv/worksandprocess

Royal Danish Ballet @ the Gugg's W&P – Utroligt!

Well, if you missed tonight's live or live-streamed presentation of Works & Process at the Guggenheim, you missed one of W&P's best dance programs.  Featuring the Royal Danish Ballet with commentary by John Meehan and Nikolaj Hubbe, the program had a huge amount of dance and charm.  Haglund has his tickets to the RDB's presentation at Lincoln Center in June, and hopefully you have yours, too.

Hubbe is an engaging speaker and Meehan is an easy facilitator.  He drew out of Hubbe that the RDB has engaged Alexei Ratmansky for a commission next year.  Hubbe also identified several young European choreographers who he is investigating for work - the next generation so-to-speak.

Hubbe noted that the Danish trek to NYCB included Stanley Williams, Erik Bruhn, Ib Andersen, Adam Luders, Peter Martins, and himself.  It's hard to believe that the Danish women haven't migrated to NYCB in greater numbers, because they are fantastic.  Beautiful, soft, pliable feet that articulate the steps with crystalline clarity.  Gosh, the last Danish woman to make her mark on the New York dance stages was Toni Lander at ABT, wasn't she?  Anyway, the women were incredible, and La Sylphide in June is going to be a "Do Not Miss" event.

GODE NYHEDER!  If you missed tonight's program, you have another chance to see it tomorrow night at 7:30 pm (Eastern U.S.).  Click here tomorrow night:

 http://www.ustream.tv/channel/worksandprocess

The program content is listed in Haglund's earlier post here.

Guggenheim Works & ProcessRoyal Danish Ballet – Live-Stream Event

Haglund wants to get this posted right away so that The New York Times dance writers won't be disappointed when they come trampling over his blog looking for something to write about. 

Bad news:  The March 20th and 21st Guggenheim Works & Process presentations of the Royal Danish Ballet are sold out.

Good news:  The event will be LIVE-STREAMED on the Guggenheim Works & Process website on both dates.

At 7:30 pm (Eastern Time U.S.) on Sunday, March 20th and/or Monday, March 21st, please click on this link to join the audience from the comfort of your own couch with your own wine and your own sizable sandwich:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/worksandprocess

This is going to be jam-packed with dance.  The Works & Process folks sent Haglund the following program rundown:

PANEL
Nikolaj Hübbe
John Meehan
 
CAST
Susanne Grinder (Principal)
Gudrun Bojesen (Principal)
Amy Watson (Principal)
Kizzy Matiakis (Soloist)
 
Jean-Lucien Massot (Principal)
Thomas Lund (Principal)
Ulrik Birkkjær (Principal)
Nikolaj Hansen (Soloist)
Alban Lendorf (Soloist)
Alexander Stæger (Soloist)
 
PROGRAM
Excerpts from Bournonville Variations
Music: Bournonville schools arranged by Martin Åkerwall
Danced by Alban Lendorf, Ulrik Birkkjær, Thomas Lund, Nicolai Hansen, Alexander Stæger
 
Excerpts from Lost on Slow
Music: Antonio Vivaldi
Choreography: Jorma Elo
Costumes: Annette Nørgaard
 
2nd movement
Danced by Kizzy Matiakis, Amy Watson, Jean-Lucien Massot
 
4th movement
Danced by Jean-Lucien Massot
 
The Jockey Dance
Music: C. C. Møller
Choreography: August Bournonville
Costumes: Jens-Jacob Worsaae
Danced by Thomas Lund, Alban Lendorf
 
Excerpts from A Folktale
Music: N. W. Gade, J. P. E. Hartmann
Choreography: August Bournonville
Pas de sept
Danced by Gudrun Bojesen, Susanne Grinder, Kizzy Matiakis, Amy Watson
Ulrik Birkkjær, Nicolai Hansen, Alexander Stæger
 
Excerpts from La Sylphide
Music: H. S. Løvenskiold
Choreography: August Bournonville
Costumes: Mikael Melbye
 
The Window Scene
Gudrun Bojesen, Ulrik Birkkjær
 
The Death Scene
Gudrun Bojesen, Ulrik Birkkjær
 
Excerpts from Napoli
Music: E. Helsted, H. C. Lumbye, H. S. Paulli, Ole Bull
Choreography: Nikolaj Hübbe
Costumes: Maja Ravn
 
Pas de Deux from 1.act
Susanne Grinder, Alexander Stæger
 
The Tarantella
All

There will be an opportunity for online viewers to Tweet with one another during the program @worksandprocess.  The March 20th Chat Moderator will be NYCB's Ashley Bouder, and the March 21st Moderator will be Candace Thompson of The Winger and DIY Dancer.

Don't miss this great program.