Marina- your complimentary words regarding Brooks Landegger and Taylor Naturkas from Miami City Ballet are even more extraordinary considering that was the very first time they ever danced MSND or the Divertissement and they are each 21 years old!
Thanks for your thoughtful commentary. Just a couple of factual quibbles:
1. The SAB dancers are not the last on stage. That honor goes to Puck, flying upwards, and Butterfly and her compatriots, who surround him prior to takeoff. The SAB children are all upstage, out of sight behind scenery, flashing their firefly lights.
2. Puck does not sprinkle Titania with a love potion - Oberon does. Puck is responsible for both bringing the hapless Bottom to Titania’s feet, and for mistakenly placing the love potion in the eyes of the wrong male lover, Lysander, when he should have applied it to Demetrius’ eyes.
Yes, I realize that in the very last moment Puck rises up from the stage surrounded by the butterflies, but the little ones are there behind the trees, and that final scene is dominated by their swarming and swirling onstage, so I allowed myself the liberty. You're quite right about Titania's dousing with the love potion. Puck places Bottom next to her, but it is Oberon who has sprinkled the magic just a moment before.
I love the Esther Perel quote in here, the commentary on music, and the patience with which you give each cast their due observation. Wish I could see it! But this was wonderful to read.
Marina- your complimentary words regarding Brooks Landegger and Taylor Naturkas from Miami City Ballet are even more extraordinary considering that was the very first time they ever danced MSND or the Divertissement and they are each 21 years old!
Thanks for your thoughtful commentary. Just a couple of factual quibbles:
1. The SAB dancers are not the last on stage. That honor goes to Puck, flying upwards, and Butterfly and her compatriots, who surround him prior to takeoff. The SAB children are all upstage, out of sight behind scenery, flashing their firefly lights.
2. Puck does not sprinkle Titania with a love potion - Oberon does. Puck is responsible for both bringing the hapless Bottom to Titania’s feet, and for mistakenly placing the love potion in the eyes of the wrong male lover, Lysander, when he should have applied it to Demetrius’ eyes.
Yes, I realize that in the very last moment Puck rises up from the stage surrounded by the butterflies, but the little ones are there behind the trees, and that final scene is dominated by their swarming and swirling onstage, so I allowed myself the liberty. You're quite right about Titania's dousing with the love potion. Puck places Bottom next to her, but it is Oberon who has sprinkled the magic just a moment before.
And there are 6 little children bugs who run forward from the group upsatge and kneel around the butterflies as Puck rises
straight from the mouth of the ultimate expert! Thank you Dena. I feel totally vindicated. :-)
I love the Esther Perel quote in here, the commentary on music, and the patience with which you give each cast their due observation. Wish I could see it! But this was wonderful to read.
thank you Alice! I love that Esther Perel quote