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Wood stove in greenhouse
We have installed a small potbellied stove in our small greenhouse( will put bigger ones in our bigger houses down the road) We are having trouble with smoke blowing back into the greenhouse. Has anyone done this, and what have you done to prevent this problem?
web4deb. Do you use a woodburning stove in a greenhouse? Any tips would be helpful. Thanks
Sorry, I don't heat my greenhouse. But a wood burning stove (or any furnace that uses gas or wood )needs an air source. Most houses are leaky and large enough to get enough air through the doors and windows. My new house is so tight, I have to have an air exchanger to bring in fresh air.
What usually causes problems for me is when the flue pipe is not sealed properly or partially blocked. You should have the pipe extend a few feet above any obstacle(incl. the greenhouse) within a few feet.
Granted you will still have some back-smoking on overcast or rainy days if your draft is borderline. When starting a fire place lots of crumpled newspaper and smaller kindling in to get a good initial draft.
I never saw a greenhouse that was as tight as web4deb's. Usually there is plenty of makeup air. But your pot bellied stove may be a poor choice for greenhouse because it is not a very airtight stove and therefore relies on a more positive flue draft. Therefore, if you want to use it make sure that your flue pipe is fairly tall and is fit together tight at all joints, then burn your stove hot constantly.
bmoser, What kind of stove do you use in your gh? What size is your gh and what size stove. The gh we have this stove in is a 14ft. x 8ft. house for starting seeds. We are putting up 4, 50ft. houses in Mar. We found kits that you can use to make stoves out of steel drums to use in the bigger ones. The little potbelly was something I bought a garage sale to use as a plant stand, but thought I would use it to put a little heat in the small one,I have used an electric heater in the past
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I use a wood stove to heat a 10"x10" greenhouse that I use to start seeds for transplant and grow spinach direct. The GH is not airtight but holds heat really well. My early problem was overheating until I learned how to regulate the wood and air flow in my stove. The type of wood and amount of air supplied to the stove is going to determine the amount of heat and smoke. Seasoned/dry wood burns hot and produces less smoke than green/wet wood but seasoned wood also burns fast and is hard to prevent overheat. Green/wet wood requires a good bed of hot coals to start burning and will produce significant smoke during the fire up process. However, the green/wet wood has a relatively slow burn rate and once it gets hot produces a minimal amount of smoke. The described smoke problem has to be associated with the wood type, air regulation, or a combination of wood type and air regulation. All wood stoves have one common need. They all need a good engine (flue) to make them work. Without a good flue system to create air draft "it ain't gonna work"! Every wood burning stove has its own unique characteristics. Doors, lids, cracks, holes, etc can change the way a stove burns. Even the way wood is stacked into the stove can effect the draft pattern. You might say that the wood stove is somewhat fickled and sometimes downright frustrating but if you provide its needs and treat it right your wood stove will serve you well.
I am so happy I stopped in the forum..We are attaching another 10 x 12 Hfgh this spring and are placing our wood stove we took out of the house and placing in it the two ghs...We are hoping during the really cold Wi nights we would be able to use it to heat to keep the heating bills down...I am concerned over how dry the heat is though..I was hoping if we didnt use it too much it wouldnt do too much harm on the plants and seedlings? Barb
To help with the humidity why not get a couple steel drums, put an auto fill mechanism on them and stick them really close to the wood stove? They may even help in regulating the heat output. Absorbing heat when you're running on the hot side and releasing heat then you get on the cool side. Not sure if just a couple drums would cut it for that purpose though. You'd probably have to surround it with drums for the temperature regulation aspect to work out very well.


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the Russian countermeasures.could be as wide spread as Cuba, Columbia, Afganistan, Syria, Lebanon, Iran,as well as Ukraine. to name a few. is Mr Warenington willing to sacrifice himself, his family and his neighbors on the idiotic belief that ' nothing can hurt us, WE ARE THE AMERICANS!'
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I went to a garage sale over the weekend and got a wonderful deal on board games. I ended up with 13 name brand games (Boggle Jr., Tripoly, Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, Knowledge, The Bionic Man, etc.). All are in excellent condition with all of their pieces! My kids were thrilled. Just had to share.
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If I were so lucky to fall upon games I have THE idea I want to use them for. I am so imaptiently waiting for yard sale season to hit! I was at a friends house, her basement has been converted into a games room, complete with all the games from when we were kids to the now games that are tried and true, only hitch is....... they are all on the walls! She took all the boards and stuck them all over the walls, the play money and the cards are the space fillers between the boards and all the little men and dice that came with the games are now funky mobiles and accents on the light pulls!! It is so awesome a sight that I instantly knew what all those old board games that no one wants from yard sales can be used for! She even used them on the two game tables she has down there, she peeled off the printed paper off the boards and mod podged it to the top of the tables! Oh and the boxes that the games came in, if they had a box, were also flattened and adhered to the walls.
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It's the time of year when card shops, chocolatiers and florists go into overdrive. Valentine's Day is here. To celebrate we've picked out our favourite romantic ballets, famed for their passionate pas de deux and amorous adagios:
Romeo and Juliet
Ultimately doomed, yes, but Kenneth MacMillan's stunning adaptation of William Shakespeare's iconic play deserves its place at the top of any Valentine's Day ballet list, such is the allure of (possibly) the greatest love story ever told. A lesser choreographer might struggle to reflect the passion and lyricism of the Bard's writing in movement, but in creating moments like the intensely tender Balcony pas de deux, MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet is as vital and thrilling as the play it was based upon:
The Sleeping Beauty
Marius Petipa's iconic Sleeping Beauty offers up an enchanted world of princesses, fairy godmothers, magic spells and a charming prince, the ballet includes many memorable moments including technically demanding choreography such as the famous - and influential - Rose Adagio. But for heartwarming romanticism, few moments beat the Awakening scene, in which dashing Prince Florimund breaks Aurora's spell-induced slumber:
Don Quixote
Packed full of sunny Spanish flair, Don Quixote shifts the focus from bumbling knight Don Quixote - as in Cervantes's 17th-century novel - to the sparky relationship between young lovers Kitri and Basilio. Ludwig Minkus's score incorporates some appropriately Iberian touches, including seguidilla and habanera rhythms, and the clack of castanets, as seen in this pas de deux from Act II:
La Fille mal gardée
Frederick Ashton's pastoral ballet may appear whimsical on first glimpse, but La Fille mal gardée packs a virtuoso punch, featuring some of its creator's most brilliant choreography. Inspired by Ashton's love of the Suffolk countryside, it contains a series of energetic pas de deux for Lise - the wayward daughter of the title - and her farmhand lover Colas. Chief among them is the pas de ruban, a ribbon dance that captures the elan of young love:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
The most recently-created inclusion on this by no-means-exhaustive list, Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is largely faithful to the source material of Lewis Carroll's much-loved novel. One addition in the balletic adaptation however, is the inclusion of a love interest for Alice, who is depicted as a teenager instead of the younger girl of Carroll's original text. Jack (otherwise known as the Knave of Hearts) is on the run for stealing the Red Queen's tarts and sweeps Alice off her feet, culminating in a tender, loving pas de deux in the penultimate scene:
Something of a wildcard (to put it mildly) in this list, MacMillan's intense adult drama Mayerling is an exploration of the darker side of love based on the true story of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary, who, following a downward spiral of drug abuse and violence, committed suicide with his mistress Mary Vetsera in 1889. The Prince's emotional decline is charted through a series of shocking, highly-charged pas de deux, which push the limits of classical ballet:
Which are your favourite romantic ballets?
La Fille mal gardée runs 16 April-5 May 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production is staged with generous support from Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet, the Paul Ferguson Memorial Fund, Celia Blakey and Marina Hobson OBE and Peter Lloyd.
Ahead of The Royal Ballet tour later this year, the New York ballet world came out in force to welcome Royal Ballet Director Kevin O'Hare, Royal Ballet Artistic Associate Christopher Wheeldon, and Royal Ballet Principals Edward Watson and Lauren Cuthbertson for a special preview screening of The Winter's Tale at the Crosby Street Hotel in New York last night.
The forthcoming tour in June marks the first time The Royal Ballet has performed in New York for more than a decade, and some 37 years since the last performance in Chicago.
The Winter's Tale, which was critically acclaimed on its premiere in 2014, is based on Shakespeare's dark drama of love and loss. It will be shown in more than 400 cinemas across the US from 17 February 2015. Read audience reactions to the opening night and to the live cinema relay.
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Much to Christopher's surprise, Kevin presented him with the Critic's Circle Award for Best Classical Choreography, which he had brought over from London. Christopher won the award for in January but, currently working in New York for the opening of his latest work An American in Paris, had been unable to collect it.
The event also included an introduction from Kevin and a Q&A session with Christopher, Lauren and Edward.
'Last Season was our biggest year so far, with cinema audiences doubling to more than 700,000 attending around the world,' he said. 'It's a great way for people to get to see our work and this Season we'll be screening ballet into more than 400 cinemas across the US.'
Edward Watson as Leontes, Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione and Federico Bonelli as Polixenes in The Winter's Tale © ROH / Johan Persson, 2014
Steven McRae as Florizel in The Winter's Tale © ROH / Johan Persson, 2014 in The Winter's Tale © ROH / Johan Persson, 2014
Edward Watson as Leontes and Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione in The Winter's Tale © ROH / Johan Persson, 2014
Bennet Gartside as Leontes, Valeri Hristov as Polixenes and Marianela Núñez as Hermione in Act I of The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Beatriz Stix-Brunell as Perdita and Vadim Muntagirov as Florizel in Act II of The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Beatriz Stix-Brunell as Perdita and Vadim Muntagirov as Florizel in Act II of The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Bennet Gartside as Leontes and Marianela Núñez as Hermione in Act III of The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Marianela Núñez as Hermione and Dancers of The Royal Ballet in Act I of The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Beatriz Stix-Brunell as Perdita and Vadim Muntagirov as Florizel in Act III of The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Edward Watson as Leontes, Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione and Federico Bonelli as Polixenes in The Winter's Tale © ROH / Johan Persson, 2014
Edward Watson as Polixenes, Zenaida Yanowsky as Paulina and Dancers of The Royal Ballet in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione and Dancers of the Royal Ballet in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Valentino Zuchetti and Dancers of The Royal Ballet in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Sarah Lamb as Perdita and Steven McRae as Florizel in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Thomas Whitehead as Polixenes' Steward and Federico Bonelli as Polixenes in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione and Edward Watson as Leontes in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Lauren Cuthbertson as Hermione and Edward Watson as Leontes in The Winter's Tale, The Royal Ballet, © ROH / Johan Persson 2014
Other productions to be screened in the US include Royal Ballet classic Swan Lake on 19 March, and the quintessentially English ballet La fille mal gardée on 6 May.
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How do you tell a story without words? If you've ever been embarrassed by how bad you are at charades, you'll know it's no easy feat. But choreographers have been doing it for centuries – sometimes with mime but also without, giving dance its own eloquence. They've sought inspiration from a remarkable range of sources – whether folktales, literature, real life or their own imaginations.
The most longstanding literary ballet must be Don Quixote. Miguel de Cervantes's novel, published 1605–15, has been inspiring ballets since at least 1743, when an unknown choreographer mounted Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse for the Paris Opera. He was the first of many, though the version with the most longevity has proved to be Marius Petipa's 1869 version (used by Carlos Acosta in his production for The Royal Ballet). Balletic Don Quixotes tend to sacrifice Cervantes's philosophical consideration of the human condition for a cheerful rendition of one of the novel's many absurd episodes – in Petipa's, where Don Quixote helps two young lovers get together despite the wishes of her parent.
Another of the oldest ballets still going strong is Jean Dauberval's 1789 La Fille mal gardée (though modern audiences know it best through Frederick Ashton's 1960 version). Unlike Don Quixote, the origins for this are entirely obscure – suggested sources includes an opera of the same title but with a different story and different music, or an 18th-century print of a mother scolding her child. Slim pickings indeed. You might recognize the story, though: Lise loves impoverished Colas; Lise's mother wants her to marry wealthy Alain; the lovers find a way (this time without a wandering knight's help) to get the mother to forget Alain and give her blessing to their wedding.
In fact, much like commedia dell'arte, 19th-century ballet tended to use the same recognizable characters in different contexts – a handy tool for audiences to figure out what's happening. In a ballet fantastique you could expect to find the hero, the good woman, the bad woman and various mischievous magicians to keep the plot going. Petipa's 1877 La Bayadère is a prime example. He took his story from the ballet Sacountala, created by his brother Lucien in Paris in 1858, which itself was based on a 5th-century Sanskrit play by Kālidāsa. None of that really matters, though: all it adds is local colour for a story where the demure Nikia loves the heroic Solor who is tempted by the extremely bad Gamzatti who, with the help of the scheming High Brahmin, eventually brings about her and everyone else's deaths, with the lovers united in paradise.
The same character tropes underpin a key preoccupation of 19th-century ballet – fairytale, determined by the Romantics' obsession with folklore. Théophile Gautier's libretto for Jules Perrot and Jean Coralli's 1841 ballet Giselle was inspired by Heinrich Heine's account of a Slavic folktale, in which the ghosts of jilted maidens dance to the death any man they come across. Tchaikovsky's three balletic masterpieces also have fairytale origins – the Russian-inflected German fairytales of Swan Lake, Charles Perrault's fairytale 'La Belle au bois dormant' for The Sleeping Beauty, and a section of an E.T.A. Hoffmann folk-inspired story for The Nutcracker (director Ivan Vsevolozhsky providing Tchaikovsky's reading list for the last two).
As ballet diversified in the 20th century, so did its influences. Leading the way was the Ballets Russes, who drew not only on a more ambiguous kind of folklore (The Firebird) but also the real world (Les Noces), myth (Daphnis et Chloé) and much else besides. Special mention should also go to Kenneth MacMillan, who adapted familiar tales (Romeo and Juliet, Manon), uncovered less well-known works (Las hermanas), drew on real-life stories (Mayerling, Isadora, Anastasia) and created entirely original works (The Judas Tree).
MacMillan was swimming against the tide, but choreographers today have almost completely free rein – from Christopher Wheeldon's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Will Tuckett's The Wind in the Willows to Liam Scarlett's The Age of Anxiety and Wayne McGregor's Woolf Works. The stories these choreographers use might be different, but they're driven by the same desire as their forebears – to tell a captivating story through movement.
Don Quixote runs 25 November 2014–22 January 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production is generously supported by The Friends of Covent Garden.
The Wind in the Willows runs 26 November 2014–17 January 2015. Tickets are still available.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland will be broadcast live to cinemas around the world on 16 December 2014. Find your nearest cinema.
Swan Lake runs 10 February–9 April 2015. Tickets are still available.
The production is given with generous philanthropic support from Celia Blakey, Doug and Ceri King, and Peter Lloyd. Original Production (1987) and revival (2000) supported by The Linbury Trust.
La Fille mal gardée runs 16 April–5 May 2015. Tickets go on general sale on 27 January 2015.
The production is generously supported by Mrs Aline Foriel-Destezet, the Paul Ferguson Memorial Fund, Celia Blakey and Marina Hobson OBE.
Frederick Ashton was one of the most influential dance figures of the 20th century and his works remain a key part of The Royal Ballet's repertory today.
In celebration of its Founder Choreographer, the Company is currently performing a mixed programme including four of Ashton's finest works: Scènes de ballet, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, Symphonic Variations and A Month in the Country. La Fille mal gardée, Ashton's final full-length ballet, will also be performed later in the Season.
To coincide with the mixed programme, BBC Arts has taken a closer look at the choreographer and a career that came to define ballet's 'English style'.
A profile of Sir Frederick Ashton
Watch friends and fellow professionals, Kevin O'Hare, Christopher Carr, and Steven McRae, share insights on Ashton, including footage featuring the choreographer himself, both performing and creating:
The 'Fred Step' in super slow motion
Watch Royal Ballet Soloist Francesca Hayward perform Ashton's signature 'Fred Step' in super slow motion:
Extracts from works featured in The Royal Ballet's Ashton Mixed Programme
Watch archive films from Royal Opera House performances of Ashton's Scènes de ballet, Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan, Symphonic Variations and A Month in the Country.
Deborah Bull on Frederick Ashton
Read the article by writer, broadcaster, and former Royal Ballet Principal, Deborah Bull, about Ashton's life and works, and her first memory of the master choreographer.
The Royal Ballet's mixed programme of Ashton's works runs until 12 November 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>
I enjoyed Scènes de Ballet much more tonight than in previous runs. A meticulously rehearsed corps and vibrant 4 solo boys #ROHashton
— Karen McLernon (@BBB_Mrs) October 18, 2014
#RohAshton faves this eve: very chic Scènes de Ballet w/ Sarah Lamb & @_stevenmcrae & disciplined corps de ballet comme il faut + Month <3
— The Ballet Bag (@theballetbag) October 18, 2014
I want to love Scènes de Ballet far more than I do but, shallowly, I can't get beyond the costumes #rohashton
— Nellie (@knit2pointe2) October 18, 2014
Thank you Sarah Lamb & @TheRoyalBallet for tonight's #ROHAshton Performance! It's always a pleasure! pic.twitter.com/MLI5g4CeBe
— Steven McRae (@_stevenmcrae) October 18, 2014
Loved Scenes de ballet not sure about Brahms waltzes although impressive petal control from Helen Crawford #ROHAshton
— Gill Dunn (@gilltweet) October 18, 2014
#rohashton Symphonic Variations just creamy. @MNunezOfficial, @YasmineNaghdi, Choe, Muntagirov all excellent, as was the music.
— Michael Potter (@MichaelPotter) October 18, 2014
#ROHAshton @TheRoyalBallet Superb Ashton bill! Symphonic V. cast SUPERB!!! @MNunezOfficial beautiful @YasmineNaghdi very impressive debut!
— NinaF. (@NinaFinmann) October 18, 2014
.@MNunezOfficial after performing in Frederick #Ashton's 'Symphonic Variations' at @RoyalOperaHouse. #ROHAshton pic.twitter.com/xnOUDKg2LK
— Leena Hassan (@leenahassan) October 18, 2014
Really enjoyed symphonic variations tonight at #ROHAshton - seen it a few times but never loved it that much before. Bravo @TheRoyalBallet !
— Alice Clay (@AliceClay) October 18, 2014
#ROHAshton - Month needs to be preserved on film with the always dramatically wonderful Zanowsky a consummate Ashton dance actress - heaven
— Pat Heath (@TheMemeSays) October 18, 2014
The full breadth of emotion was wrung from A Month in the Country by the whole cast and orchestra. Stunning. Yanowsky, McGuire :) #ROHAshton
— Chris (@ManInSeatD26) October 18, 2014
An amazing #ROHAshton tonight. What more pleasure could you have than dance, watch and be moved by the genius of Sir Fred! @RoyalOperaHouse
— Gary Avis (@balletboy09) October 18, 2014
Press Reviews:
Guardian ★★★★★
Telegraph ★★★★
Financial Times ★★★★
Arts Desk ★★★★
Bachtrack ★★★★
What did you think of The Royal Ballet's Ashton mixed programme?
Scènes de ballet is part of The Royal Ballet's mixed programme of Ashton works, performed until 12 November 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>
One of the many treasures in the Royal Opera House's Collections department is an invaluable set of letters written by Frederick Ashton, Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, to the American dancer Richard Beard, and donated to the Collections by Beard.
In one written on 29 January 1948, Ashton describes the creative process behind Scènes de ballet, less than two weeks ahead of its premiere on 11 February.
Ashton made ingenious use of Euclidean geometry in Scènes de ballet, and later described its 'distant, uncompromising beauty which says I am here, beautiful, but I will make no effort to charm you'.
But in this tender letter to a man who would later become his lover, Ashton suggests the ballet had a more passionate inspiration (although the rising pavilion he mentions would not make it to the premiere): 'in the apotheosis the man & woman are united in bliss & rise on the lift… away from all the slander of the world & live for each other only, & they are in a sort of fantastic pavilion of love'.
The letter includes sketches and descriptions of the costumes – the hats worn by the female corps de ballet are described as 'a cross between a greek column & a toreador's hat!'.
It was not all plain sailing with designer André Beaurepaire, though; Ashton hints at working through 'all [the ballet's] problems not the smallest of which has been Beaurepaire'. But the letter also contains a touching description of Ashton's fellow choreographer George Balanchine: 'I was pleased at his hand of friendship for I admire him beyond all other choreographers'.
Ashton made Scènes de ballet an homage to Marius Petipa, choreographic counterpart to Tchaikovsky – the perfect partner for Stravinsky's Tchaikovsky-inspired score. Ashton describes the choreography as 'very classical[;] naturally my own particular extension of the classic vocabulary with moments I think of poetry & real beauty & very much on a grand scale & a certain mystery & elegance & an aristocratic air to it all… very different things & new things I hope.'
Ashton also sent a newspaper clipping, showing him at a New Year's Ball. Also enclosed were some of Beaurepaire's set designs and a photo of himself.
Lastly, Ashton dedicates the ballet to Beard: 'All of it, my darling, for what it is worth, I dedicate to you with my love.'
Envelope of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page one of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page two of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page three of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page four of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page five of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page six of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page seven of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page eight of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page nine of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page ten of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Page 11 of Frederick Ashton's letter to Richard Beard, 29 January 1948. Reproduced with permission of Anthony Russell Roberts
Dearest Dick,
Our letters always seem to cross which means that we think of each other simultaneously & I like that, but then it only means that I wait for you to write again & hope you will write again & you don't; when I can't wait any longer to hear from my beloved I have to start & here I am pen in my hand & heart & mind with you.
I have as you can guess been very busy not too busy to think of you as you say of me but unable to take up my pen as I have to be right to communicate with you – somehow & naturally I have been obsessed with my new ballet & all its problems not the smallest of which has been Beaurepaire, but I have all the time thought of what you said & carried your orders to me in my head & tried to carry them […]
Is it good enough for him, would you kiss me tenderly and say "you did well today". I am getting to the end of it & today I went through it. I have still one of Margot's variations to do & naturally bits here & there to improve on. I use 12 girls & 4 boys & 2 principals. I always have my seasonal obsession as you know but in no way do I carry it out in the ballet and nor is there any implication of myself in it as there is
in your ballet, only that in the apotheosis the man & woman are united in bliss & rise on the lift (you know what I mean the stage level rises up) away from all the slander of the world & live for each other only, & they are in a sort of fantastic pavilion of love. Which rises & rises while another part of the stage, in front of them, with architecture on it, descends at the same time making their rise look even higher. It is quite effective
& curious you should say in your lovely letter that it should "all sink to oblivion before their eyes". The set is finally a very good set as such but not really suitable for this ballet, more for a Greek play but it is grand, the costumes I have had much trouble with him over in fact we almost quarrelled he is tiresome & superficial & the French desire to astonish is tiresome to me who prefers things to be right
rather than outré – & elegant rather than chic – but by dint of simplification I have I hope arrived at something. I have now one costume for the girls & one for boys instead of all different or 4 sets as I thought of as are fine & I have so fixed them now that all embellishments can be cast off if necessary at the dress rehearsal. The girls may wear hats like this, they look well on – of black velvet encrusted at the side with pearls & diamonds sewn tightly together. Pearl earrings & pearl chokers
They look a cross between a greek column & a toreador's hat! Tutu of pale blue & white & a bodice like this. The boys sort of Sylphide jackets rather chinese & rather Joseph's coat of many colours. Margot in yellow – and her hair perfectly plain & diamond choker & earrings.
The choreography is very classical naturally my own particular extension of the classic vocabulary with moments I think of poetry & real beauty & very much on a grand scale & a certain mystery & elegance & an aristocratic air to it all. I have not done a pas-de-deux for Margot but an adagio with 5 boys with very different things & new things I hope.
All of it, my darling, for what it is worth, I dedicate to you with my love.
Balanchine has invited me to come & do something for ballet society immediately after but I can't as we have to go to Holland in March. I was pleased at his hand of friendship for I admire him beyond all other choreographers […]'
Scènes de ballet is part of The Royal Ballet's mixed programme of Ashton works, performed until 12 November 2014. Tickets are still available.
ROH Collections are currently cataloguing the Richard Beard Collection of correspondence, so that it can be made available to a wider audience of researchers.
Find out more about the work of ROH Collections and browse the Collection here.
'Arabesque, fondu, coupé, petit developpé, pas de bourée, pas de chat'. This sequence is the Fred Step – one of the most famous motifs in ballet. It takes its nickname from The Royal Ballet's Founder Choreographer, Frederick Ashton, who included this enchaînement in almost all his ballets.
Though it is known as his choreographic signature, Ashton himself often referred to the sequence as the 'Pavlova', acknowledging the prima ballerina from whom he borrowed it. Ashton had first seen Anna Pavlova perform in Peru – the land of his birth – when he was just 13, and later described how her performance inspired him: 'She injected me with her poison and from the end of that evening I wanted to dance'. The Fred Step was originally part of a gavotte that Pavlova performed to 'The Glow Worm', part of an operetta by Paul Lincke. After Pavlova's death in 1931, Ashton – who thought of her 'when I'm working all the time' – came to regard it as his talisman.
The Fred Step is clearly recognizable in several of Ashton's most famous ballets. In A Month in the Country, it is danced by Natalia Petrovna and her admirer Rakitin. As he leads her offstage (from 3:36 in the following clip), the enchaînement perfectly illustrates the to and fro of their chattering.
The Fred Step is also clearly presented in Cinderella, given by the Dancing Master as he prepares the Ugly Sisters for the ball, and in Enigma Variations, danced several times by Isabel and Arnold during their pas de deux.
But more often than not it is difficult to spot the Fred Step. This is because Ashton often 'hid' the sequence – giving it to small groups of soloists or to the corps de ballet rather than the principal dancers, burying it amid other action and even adapting its steps for different contexts.
Below (and available at a larger size through the Flickr link) is the Benesh notation for the 'classic' Fred Step from A Month in the Country, followed by sequences from the ballerina's first solo in Scènes de ballet and a group section in Symphonic Variations. These detailed records of movement make it possible to recognize that the Scènes and Symphonic sequences derive from the Fred Step. Both begin with the distinctive arabesque, fondu, developpé and change of direction before diverging from the 'pure' Fred Step – the Scènes version ends with an entrelacé, while the Symphonic concludes with three entirely different steps performed concurrently by the dancers.
It's very easy to overlook the Symphonic version of the Fred Step – the simultaneous and slightly different versions of the Step, along with the completely still solo ballerina downstage, all conspire to distract the eye. But on closer inspection, this is clearly an exquisitely complex and very much deliberate quotation of Ashton's lucky charm in the ballet often regarded as his masterpiece (visible from 5:54 in the following clip).
These are just a handful of the great Ashton works that include the Fred Step. Which ones have you spotted?
The Royal Ballet's Mixed Programme of Scènes de ballet / Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan / Symphonic Variations / A Month in the Country runs 18 October–12 November 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>
A number of cast changes and additional casting for The Royal Ballet's autumn Season have been announced.
Due to injury, Olivia Cowley will replace Lauren Cuthbertson for performances of Cassandra on 30 and 31 October and 1 November.
Helen Crawford will replace Lauren Cuthbertson for performances of Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan on 18 and 28 October and 4 and 11 November. Romany Pajdak will dance the role for performances on 22 October and 5 and 12 November.
Vadim Muntagirov will replace Matthew Golding in Symphonic Variations for performance on 18 October. Reece Clarke will dance the role for performances on 4, 5, 11 and 12 November. Further casting can now be found on the production page.
Casting has also now been confirmed for Ceremony of Innocence and The Age of Anxiety. Details can now be found on the production pages.]]>
In any short profile of Isadora Duncan you'll find the phrase 'pioneer of modern dance' in the first sentence. She also had a profound influence on ballet, and her ideas continue to inform the way we conceive and understand dance today. Yet various aspects of Duncan's life – from her Wagnerian philosophizing to her many terrible personal tragedies, including her own gruesome death – have conspired to sensationalize Duncan's memory. So who was the real Isadora?
Let's start with a bare biography. Duncan was born Dora Angela Duncan in San Francisco in 1877. She had no formal training but her solo performances in Paris in 1900 launched a sensational international career that continued to her death. She had a daughter by theatre reformer Gordon Craig in 1906 and a son by sewing-machine millionaire Paris Singer in 1910. Both children drowned in 1913 when the car they were travelling in rolled into the Seine. Duncan's style subsequently transformed; some saw grief for her lost children, others the influence of her growing weight and alcohol dependence. She married Russian poet Sergei Esenin in 1921, who left her in 1922 and committed suicide in 1925. Duncan died in 1927 when her long scarf caught in the open spokes of a car driven by her lover.
That's enough to get her into the newspapers – but what about her influence on the dance world? Duncan got her first job in 1896, with a New York dance company run by Augustin Daly. She probably briefly studied ballet around this point as well, and quickly developed what would be a lifelong dislike of the hierarchy of theatre work and what she saw as the 'mechanical' imposition of ballet steps. Far more attractive to Duncan was Delsartism – a distinctively US understanding of the teachings of singing teacher François Delsarte, which proposed a system for connecting movement within the body.
Delsartism in part laid the foundation for Duncan's own philosophy, although she was also influenced by Hellenic aesthetics, Wagner's theories of Gesamtkunstwerk (total work of art) and Walt Whitman's transcendentalism, to name just a few. Duncan argued that 'the natural language of the soul [is] the movement of the body'. Her movements were simple and semi-improvisational, finding inspiration in the natural world – while her dancing communicated not a story but her own expressionist and highly individual response to the music. She wanted to dance 'not in the form of a nymph, nor fairy, nor coquette, but in the form of woman in its greatest and purest expression… no longer at war with spirituality and intelligence, but joining them in a glorious harmony'.
Duncan believed that every soul longed to express itself in dance, and that dance should be an essential part of modern living. To this end she founded several schools – including in Moscow, with the support of the new Communist government. But none of the schools survived, and seemed only able to produce pale imitators of Duncan's highly individual style. Many have seen in this an expression of the self-contradiction at the heart of Duncan's philosophy: a belief both in the universal applicability of her teachings and in the idea of a 'chosen few' who could enact them.
But if her style could not be learnt, her influence could and can still be felt – most obviously in the free movement of modern dance, and more generally in the use of both art music and abstract movement in dance. Her 1905 tour to Russia had a tremendous impact on the future course of the Ballets Russes: Mikhail Fokine recalled how 'Duncan reminded us of the beauty of simple movements', while Sergey Diaghilev said 'we do not deny that Duncan is a kindred spirit. Indeed, we carry the torch that she lit.'
The 'real' Isadora Duncan is lost forever; we can never truly understand that effect of her dancing, despite the excellent efforts of dance historians to re-create her highly personal style. We will never see what Frederick Ashton called her 'immensely strong personality that came right across the footlights and held the audience and compelled them completely'. But her influence on the whole world of dance remains more than tangible.
Frederick Ashton's Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan appears in The Royal Ballet's Ashton mixed programme, which runs 18 October–12 November 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>
Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet
Frederick Ashton was born in Ecuador in 1904 and trained with Leonid Massine and Marie Rambert. He created his first ballet aged just 21 and became chief choreographer at the Vic-Wells Ballet (now The Royal Ballet) in 1935. Over the next 50 years he produced some eighty works that came to define the 'English style'. Many of these remain key pieces in the Company's repertory.
Refreshing Tradition – Scènes de ballet
Ashton created Scènes de ballet in 1948, to a score by Stravinsky. The score is Stravinsky's homage to Tchaikovsky – and so accordingly Ashton makes his ballet a celebration of Marius Petipa, Tchaikovsky's choreographic counterpart. The ballet follows the structure of a typical classical finale, and even references the famous Rose Adage from The Sleeping Beauty. However, Ashton gave Scènes a chic modern twist by giving the corps de ballet brilliantly striking patterns inspired by Euclidean geometry.
Ashton's Muses – Five Brahms Waltzes in the Manner of Isadora Duncan
Ashton had several muses throughout his career – most famously Margot Fonteyn. Another figure who had an enormous impact upon his work was the American dancer Isadora Duncan. Ashton first saw Duncan dance when he was just 17, and was immediately transfixed. In Five Brahms Waltzes (1976), created several years after her death, he aimed to recapture Duncan's unique, carefree style of dancing, while at the same time drawing on the particular talents of Lynn Seymour, who created the role.
The English Tradition – Symphonic Variations
Symphonic Variations is widely regarded as one of Ashton's masterpieces. It was the choreographer's first ballet created for the enormous Royal Opera House main stage; and rather than a grand narrative ballet, he went against the trend by opting for pure, abstract ballet that celebrates dance itself. The result is a work that perfectly encapsulates the English tradition, integrating fleet footwork and expressive épaulement with lyrical, musically sensitive choreography to César Franck's score.
Poetry in Movement – A Month in the Country
Ashton was inspired to create A Month in the Country when he saw a production of Ivan Turgenev's five-act play of the same name at the National Theatre. The resulting ballet – one of Ashton's last works for The Royal Ballet – won immediate acclaim for its skilful distillation of the play into just 40 minutes of choreography. The ballet, set to music by Chopin, is most celebrated for its four pas de deux, which portray the conflicting and tangled emotions aroused by a young tutor's arrival in a Russian household.
The Royal Ballet's Ashton mixed programme runs 18 October–12 November 2014. Tickets are still available.]]>


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Tomato branches breaking and tomatoes falling
Large heavy branches are bending and breaking and unripe fruit is falling off the vine. What can I do at this point?
What is supporting the plants, the branches? Is there a cage of some sort in there or just that plastic netting in front of them?
If there is no cage then the branches, especially the ones with fruit on them, need to be tied up to something. I don't know if the plastic netting would hold the weight or not so is there some way you can rig up some stakes to tie the branches to?
In the 1st 2 pics you can see the cheapo cages that his (or her) plants have grown out of. The next 2 with the netting are in containers on the deck.
I can't really tell from these pics what the best way to support would be.
Could you take a couple of more pics from different angles of the plants not on the deck? Can't see how they're planted in those 2 shots.
What Dave said. Tomatoes, especially indeterminate ones need constant upgrades as far as supports go. Yours obviously outgrew those little cages, so you need to play catch up to accommodate their staking needs. Next year you might want to rethink those cages altogether ;)
Perhaps look into florida weave for this year. Just need some sticks and twine. If you're not into twine, I got myself these this year for tying and they are awesome: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_12?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=velcro+plant+ties&sprefix=velcro+plant%2Caps%2C188
I got them for under $5 for 75 foot roll. And I think you can reuse them for a few years.
Here is a link that might be useful: velcro ties
This is the setup but this pic was taken over a month ago for the plants really got huge. I guess I need to have my husband cut some more of the bamboo from the front yard to use as stakes, but the problem is that the roots are so extensive that it's hard to dig into the ground. Will this damage the plants?
That helps a lot to see what is going on in the bed but my questions were really directed at the container plants in the last pictures.
As bk said above next year you are going to need to substantially revise that support system in the bed. The ring things are a waste of money.
About all you can do this year that I can see is to cut some more long stakes or set up a modified florida weave system for the bed.
The container plants I can't help you with given the pics.
Do yourself a favor and make some CRW cages for next year. They will solve the problem for both the bed and the containers.
Definitely have hubby cut some more bamboo to use as
stakes. Then you could tie them together for better
structural integrity. Tie the vines to the stakes.
Same principal I use for my PVC cages. But if you have
lots of bamboo that size, I'd use those.
Here's a tip to pound those stakes into the ground. Get
a piece of pipe big enough to go over the stakes. Put
a cap on one end. Then slide the open end over the bamboo
and pound away. Mark them so you know when you've a foot
or so into the ground. Works like a charm with my PVC.
I'd also cut the bottom of the bamboo on an angle (say 45 degrees or so). That will help it penetrate the roots.
Below is a link to my PVC cage page, just in case you're
interested. They work wonderfully in a small urban garden
like yours appears to be.
Here is a link that might be useful: The Matkey tomato cage
dave, you mentioned crw cages. what are these?
Just search 'CRW cages' here for all sorts of discussions in pictures of them. Basically, cages made from rolls of concrete reinforcing wire.
If you Google them you can see all the pictures of them many of us have posted here and find all kind of info on how to make them.
Here is a link that might be useful: CRW cage pictures