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a performance centred on the story of an international rugby match set in Twickenham. the story traces the fortunes of both teams as the score wavers first in favour of one team and then the other.
it portrays the skills of rugby players, (in what is a beautiful gruelling game – artistic and passionate
in a brutal bloody way) with ballet, the discipline which teaches self discipline, correct body placement, strength, and gracefulness.
the dancers glissade across the stage during the magnificent tries, a releve movement during the lineouts and a quick pas de deux leads to a full scrum.
the dance of the sugarplum fullback is the highlight of the evening only matched by the rousing music interspersed with traditional rugby songs – the audience loves to join in with the rowdy choruses.
on a technical point, by stuffing lambswool into the points of the ballerinas shoes, can assist kicking power in that vital last conversion.
no performance is the same, a different finishing scoreline every evening and matinees on Thursdays keeps everyone happy.
Rugbyllet
http://www.geocitie...nnie/rugballet.html
like this? [FarmerJohn, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Who could do Mother Ginger?
http://www.austinch.../arts_feature2.html
How many linebackers fill a skirt? [hollajam, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
physical theatre rather than ballet...but
http://www.culturev...2/AloneItStands.htm
seriously good piece of theatre which brings rugby to the stage. and even better if ur Irish ! [etherman, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(?) N@N in tights
http://www.viscom.o...aststockinghead.gif
Armed and extremely dangerous. [Nick@Nite, Oct 21 2004]
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I cannot imagine anything quite so unweildy as two International Class forward packs performing a pas de deux. |
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Second rowers are traditionally 200cm (6'8") and 120kg (265lb), front rowers around 185cm and 120kg. |
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Get all 16 of them in the air at once and they'd demolish the stage on landing. |
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Even the backs (small, fast men) are bigger than you think. Wendell Sailor is 6'4" and 240lb. |
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chap with your name on our team - related? amazing game! |
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Ah, you make the impossible po-ssible. |
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Giant flocking road cones in tutus come to mind. |
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Complete with tutus in team colours, and leotards emblazoned with crass advertising no doubt? |
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Flankers could do it. Nevermind them louts in the first and second row. |
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thank you [farmer] - thats so nice. |
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I would especially like to see flankers flanking under the skirt of Mother Ginger...[link] |
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FarmerJohn, I would like to see an illustration of that "Prima" as the one punted. |
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<bitter & twisted> You could also do a version of Swan Lake, with the England cricket team playing the swan as it lays down and dies about halfway through the show </bitter and twisted> |
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This sounds very familiar...I swear it's been used in an ad campaign. |
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V. different idea but Nike had an ad in S Africa before the 1999 World Cup which opened with a bunch of Scottish runners, barefoot & dressed in white a la Chariots of Fire, trotting down a beach, then sprinting back in the other direction a few seconds later chased by Springboks. |
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Also. The reverse of sorts. American Express did an ad with Mikhail Barishnokov (sp?) playing air guitar in a Chuck Berry style duck walk while jumping off a dock. |
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But I can't remember the rugby ballet ad... |
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Thanx, I linked one on yours also. |
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looks at Nick@Nite in a *funny* way. hmmmph. |
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Curry, it's "sweet". As in, that would be a sweet thing to see. Often pronounced "shweet". |
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sweet was deliberate - hot doctor, so there - clever clogs.
BTW chose the ballet with care too, for the *ouch* factor... |
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shame on you [Nick] I can just see you in tights. |
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one would certainly consider a pas de deux with that person - bliss. but I do worry about your visualising male genitalia anywhere in that picture my dear. have you seen your optician lately? just a 10 minute check is so important.. |
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missing you FJ. well done Wales! |
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Missed that. Shame the Welsh went down. They played a better game, on the night. |
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Howlett knew it was forward, but he took the points. |
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This reminds me of a Skit I have been threatening to choreograph at my community theater with for years now. The Big & Tall Men's Ballet. |
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