"Carbro" has invited me to introduce myself as a new member. I got off to a rocky start with my initial post "Ballerinas and Candy Wrappers" in the forum "Everything Else Ballet". I was compared to a ballet mistress wielding a stick, and attacked for describing a dancer who opened the door for me as "classy". I will try to stick to non-controversial topics here on in. My area of interest and devotion: New York City Ballet, its dancers, George Balanchine, the School of American Ballet, and all books on Balanchine, his life and work, books on his chief dancers, etc. I have attended City Ballet for almost 30 years, and it is my great love. I'd enjoy communicating with the perceptive members of Ballet Talk about NYCB performances.

Oh...no, no..don't see it as an "atack" at all . It's actually very friendly-(here...some flowers... )-...and it gets to be even more interesting when some nice controversy shows up. (Honestly, when days pass by with not much to differs about, I start to get preocupied...and bored... )
Bienvenida!!

Yes, you listen to Cristian, he tells the truth. After all, you and I both have a deep common interest in 'perceptive people', and we will search for these together! I don't remember the part about the ballet mistress with the stick, though, and I thought I'd memorized that thread, since it was deeply stimulating while remaining less than cataclysmic.... Anyway, enjoy yourself here, because that's what it's for.

Glad to read your formal introduction, erpollock, from one 30-year watcher to another.

I hope you'll at least peruse other areas of the board. There's a lot of history here, discussion of overall trends in the art.

I don't remember the "ballet mistress" comment, either.

Welcome!

I looked up the comment in the original thread. Cristian had referred to the old generation of schoolteachers who enforced discipline with a stick, and the class behaved, but in fear. That was where I got the "ballet mistress" idea from - sorry if I misremembered, but I got the general idea.

Eileen

Ooops... so I'm the guilty one...

Welcome to Ballet Talk, erpollock.

You'll find that a number of us here go back to the City Center days. I, for one, certainly know what it is to feel a kind of ownership in this company and to feel a deep personal connection to its founder and his legacy.

Looking forward to your posts on NYCB performances -- AS WELL AS on NYCB history, please.