Aurelie Dupont.

Lilac Garden or Pillar of Fire?

Lilac Garden

Stars and Stripes or Union Jack?

S&S

The Red Poppy or Gayne?

Gayane.

Nureyev's biographers:

Solway or Kavanagh

Kavanagh.

Alina Cojocaru or Tamara Rojo?

Oops sorry double post.

Alina

Arne Villumsen or Ib Andersen?

Arne Villumsen.

Jiri Kylian or Nacho Duarte?*







*Not that I'd actually choose either.

Nacho Duarte


Warhorses:

Nutcracker or Swan Lake

Swan Lake

Jumps:
Very high with heavy landings or lower (much lower) with soft landings

Neither; very high with soft landings, pretty please?

Lincoln Kirstein or Lucia Chase?

Lucia Chase.
Famous "set number" dances: "Singin' in the Rain" or "Cheek to Cheek"?

"Cheek to cheek". (specially if danced by Roland Petit Ballet Luigi Bonino and CBN Loipa Araujo, as i saw it in 2000 )

Back to the XIX Century, Thaikowsky and "Swan Lake":

To listen to-(NO DANCING INVOLVED)- the music of:

1877 "PDD for Two Merry Makers" ...
or
Drigo's revised 1895 "Black Swan PDD"

Ok, so this was a too dense of a question,i know. Still, i'll live it just in case somebody out there can actually make a comparisson between this two versions of the same music for two different PDD's in terms of musicality values instead of choregraphic needs.

So, second round!, and this time is about...
Argentineans!!!
so
Julio Bocca or Maximiliano Guerra?

So, second round!, and this time is about...
Argentineans!!!
so
Julio Bocca or Maximiliano Guerra?
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Bocca

Fonteyn/Nureyev or Sibley/Dowell

Sibley/Dowell

Midsummer Balanchine or Midsummer Ashton?

Balanchine

Fokine Firebird or Balanchine Firebird?

Closing my eyes and listening to the music.


In a dancer of either gender:
Strong technique + facial plainness
or
beauty + technical weaknesses?

Balanchine
Martins Swan Lake or Balanchine Swan Lake?
(Will NYCB ever do the latter again?)

One would only hope, drb.

Balanchine. His one-act condensed version any time, over four acts of Martins. It's not the quantity but the quality.



Lavrovsky Romeo or MacMillan Romeo? (...the Martins is not a choice here)

MacMillan

Ulanova/Zhdanov R&J film or Fonteyn/Nureyev R&J film?

Ulanova/Zhdanov

To clap or not to clap (in the Raymonda "clapping variation"...POB ballerinas clap forcefully vs. Russian ballerinas simulate soft clapping)

soundless

Vishneva or Lopatkina?

Vishneva

"Big Red" Ekaterina Kondaurova or "Big Red" Uliana Lopatkina?

Kondaurova.

Ballet sons:
Nilas Martins or Chris d'Amboise?

Closing my eyes and listening to the music.

Ballet brothers: Kaisers or Ottos?

That's two Kaisers vs. three Ottos? Or is there a third Kaiser? Help me with this.

Yes, we do seem to have reached something of an impasse. Canbelto? Ray? What do we do?

The third Kaiser...is that like the fifth Beatle? Zeppo Marx?

The Fifth Beatle.
Ivan Vasiliev or Herman Cornejo?

Cornejo.

First or 3rd girl Bizet?

First.

Diana Adams role or Violette Verdy role in "Liebeslieder Walzer"?

Violette

Matthew or benjamin Stewart?

Hellooooooo. Paul is still waiting for his answeeeer!

Matthew Stewart

Romeo or Juliette????

For me? Romeo!

Dances at a Gathering or Chopiniana/Les Sylphides?

Les Sylphides!

Fountain of Bakchisarai or Stone Flower?

Four Otto brothers: David and William (NYCB), Phillip (Milwaukee Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, and PNB), and the youngest, Eric (was ABT, NYCB, Met Opera Ballet in 2007). Both William and Eric Otto also performed in musical theater, Eric in "Movin' Out" on Broadway and tour. I don't remember the show William was in or whether it was Broadway and/or tour. According to the SAB Alumni Directory, William Otto is Artistic Director of New Haven Ballet, a position that his brother Phillip held before he moved to Alabama to head the Huntsville Ballet. I suspect they have the wrong brother listed, since the New Haven Ballet homepage lists Noble Barker as AD (site updated a few weeks ago).

According to this article from this past June, there are five dancing Kaiser brothers, other links show four of whom danced in ballet: Russell (NYCB, now on Boston Ballet faculty), Roy (Pennsylvania Ballet), Kevin (Pacific Northwest Ballet), and Dan (Pennsylvania Ballet). Ken performed in Off-Broadway musicals and teaches tap at the school he runs in Tacoma.

So there were four ballet dancing brothers apiece for the Ottos and Kaisers.

There were also two Otto sisters. Deborah Otto-Jones teaches on the faculty of Saratoga Ballet Academy, for which David Otto is Artistic Director. I thought she danced professionally, but I can't find any link on the Internet for her as a performer. There's also a Christine Otto listed on the faculty of Saratoga Ballet Academy, but don't know the relation, if any. There's no mention of any sisters in any of the Kaiser links I found.

When poking around, I learned that both David and William Otto attended North Carolina School of the Arts and that the Kaisers grew up in Federal Way, Washington, just south of Seattle. Both Kevin and Ken Kaiser are in the Puget Sound area.

Those Ottos make formidable ballet presence! Thanks, Helene! Going into the next generation, they should be able to make their own family company. "Otto Ballet" has a nice ring to it!


Fountains!

Which Nutcracker waltz, Snowflakes or Flowers?

Snowflakes. (If they don't dance all that well, just toss more confetti!)

The Mice in Nutcracker or Kastchei's monsters in Firebird?

The Mice! (More charm, more strategy!)

Flying birds - Bluebird or Firebird?

bluebird, if assuming that Florine stays as a princess, so yes, the male character.
Veronika Part, Solist caliber or Principal material...?

Principal, in a big company with big and varied rep.

Do you prefer the girl in Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun to be aware or (and to encourage) what's going on with the boy? or to aware to be in something of a trance?

Something of a trance

Guest Choreographer for a ballet company

Twyla Tharp or Mark Morris

I guess i have to pick Morris, but just by process of elimination!!!
Carabosse. Dudinskaya-(Sergueiev's)- on pointe or Van Hamel-(McKenzie's)- in character shoes?

Van Hamel-(McKenzie's)- in character shoes
Because I think Carabosse should be in character shoes

Jewels - NYCB or MCB

Oh, THAT i know about-(saw them both)...! MCB, of course
Perfect entrechats: Nureyev or Soloviev?

Soloviev.

Sizova's or Kolpakova's Aurora?

Sizova, from what I've seen.

Giselle who descends to the grave via a trapdoor or Giselle who walks offstage?

Trapdoor-(careful she doesn't get stuck with overstuffed tutus, a la Mme. Alonso! )
Hilarion portray: well intentioned good guy in love trying to unmask Albretch's lies or madly in love bad guy who's green of envy of the 2 lovers happiness display...?