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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Communications Black Out
We will not have access to the Internet for one week while we're conducting classes in Charleston, WV. Schools with upcoming classes should have our cell phone number. If you have an urgent question, please contact us in that way. Please note, we also have very intermittent cell phone reception in Charleston-- so you may have to leave a voice mail message and it may be a few days before we can get back to you.
If you are calling about classes in July or August, we would ask that you wait a week and contact us then. We have not yet planned our itineraries for those months. We will be e-mailing you with the directions we will be taking later in the month.
If you have any questions as to whether or not we have you on our schedule, please consult the calendar through the link at the side. All our confirmed classes should be listed.
If you are calling about classes in July or August, we would ask that you wait a week and contact us then. We have not yet planned our itineraries for those months. We will be e-mailing you with the directions we will be taking later in the month.
If you have any questions as to whether or not we have you on our schedule, please consult the calendar through the link at the side. All our confirmed classes should be listed.
Friday, June 12, 2009
Premier Pas
There is a tradition that our tours begin with terrible weather, the better to test our mettle. Last winter, we started in a blizzard in Northvile, Michigan. Interestingly our tour will end in late August in Northville as well.
Yesterday, we headed from Michigan to Ohio past some favorite cities we will unfortunately not be visiting this year. As we gazed out through the water fall of rain, Valery Lantratov asked me about Monroe, Lincoln Park and Maumee.
In spite of our travel challenges, it was a great pleasure to begin in one of our favorite studios, Upstage Downtown Dance in Celina, Ohio. This is our third visit to the studio, the last time was in February, and our itinerary has usually brought us in through Indiana rather than from the North. We had the opportunity to get a nice view of the lakes surrounding this jewel of Western Ohio.
In class, Valery unveiled his new music and new combinations. It was a great beginning, and today we're off to Sidney, Ohio for two classes in a new studio for us , Sharon's school of Dance.
Yesterday, we headed from Michigan to Ohio past some favorite cities we will unfortunately not be visiting this year. As we gazed out through the water fall of rain, Valery Lantratov asked me about Monroe, Lincoln Park and Maumee.
In spite of our travel challenges, it was a great pleasure to begin in one of our favorite studios, Upstage Downtown Dance in Celina, Ohio. This is our third visit to the studio, the last time was in February, and our itinerary has usually brought us in through Indiana rather than from the North. We had the opportunity to get a nice view of the lakes surrounding this jewel of Western Ohio.
In class, Valery unveiled his new music and new combinations. It was a great beginning, and today we're off to Sidney, Ohio for two classes in a new studio for us , Sharon's school of Dance.
Monday, June 8, 2009
We May Be Coming to Your Town
Valery Lantratov arrives in the U.S. tomorrow. We're looking forward to meeting many of you on the road. In the meantime, enjoy this behind the scenes video from the Bolshoi Ballet. (It's in Russian)
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Follow Our Travels on Twitter
It is hard to believe that we start another U.S. tour in a little more than a week. We always enjoy keeping you informed of our travels. In the past, we wrote extensive blog articles about all of our cities and studios. Unfortunately, this does get to be time consuming and hard to maintain. During the last tour we simply had no time for those kinds of updates. So we're trying something new and have started a Twitter account. We will provide brief updates of our journey on Twitter and Facebook and only the occasional blog posting about where we've been. We hope you will "follow" us and "friend" us.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
On the Road Again
Yes, it is almost that time again. Valery Lantratov arrives from Moscow on June 9th and another tour begins. We will be focusing our attentions primarily on the Midwest this time around. We will be visiting a couple of new states: Missouri and Iowa. Be sure to watch this space as we report on our travels.
We have updated the calendar, so you can see where we will be going by following the link to the right.
We still have one or two gaps that we are trying to fill. The first is June 10th. We have availability in Detroit, MI/Toledo, Ohio metro areas, if you would like to kick off our tour please contact us.
We have availability in the Richmond, VA or Virginia Beach area on June 23.
We are still hoping to fill July 5 in Scranton/Wilkes Barre/Allentown/Binghamton, NY and July 9 in the Buffalo, NY area.
Our biggest gap is the week of August 10-14. If you have a studio located anywhere between St. Louis, MO and Traverse City, MI there is a good chance we can fit you in. Indiana want us?
Contact us at lauralee@doublevpromotions.com to book any of these dates. If we talked about having a class at your studio, but you did not return a contract to us, please note that we did not hold these dates for you. Please double check our calendar if you have any doubts as to whether or not we are coming. Also note that many of the class times are still to be announced.
In the next week we will be contacting all our scheduled studios to confirm times and directions. Please be patient, the process will take a while, we have more than 80 studios to get to. If you have any special requests for your classes please try to get them to me before Friday. I will be speaking to Valery Lantratov in Moscow on Friday evening, and would like to tell him anything he will need to know to prepare.
If your class was recently added, we would like to request that you get the contract and deposits back to us as soon as possible. We would like to have all of those logistics wrapped up by the end of the week so that we can focus on our routing and travel plans.
In the meantime, please enjoy this video of a boy's class at the Bolshoi Academy.
I am also sharing this pdf version of Dance Now, which I recently discovered on line. The magazine features a long interview with Alexei Ratmansky on leaving his position as Bolshoi Ballet artistic director. I pass it along because it is interesting and because of the brief mention of Vladislav Lantratov, Valery's son, who Ratmansky calls "promising."
We have updated the calendar, so you can see where we will be going by following the link to the right.
We still have one or two gaps that we are trying to fill. The first is June 10th. We have availability in Detroit, MI/Toledo, Ohio metro areas, if you would like to kick off our tour please contact us.
We have availability in the Richmond, VA or Virginia Beach area on June 23.
We are still hoping to fill July 5 in Scranton/Wilkes Barre/Allentown/Binghamton, NY and July 9 in the Buffalo, NY area.
Our biggest gap is the week of August 10-14. If you have a studio located anywhere between St. Louis, MO and Traverse City, MI there is a good chance we can fit you in. Indiana want us?
Contact us at lauralee@doublevpromotions.com to book any of these dates. If we talked about having a class at your studio, but you did not return a contract to us, please note that we did not hold these dates for you. Please double check our calendar if you have any doubts as to whether or not we are coming. Also note that many of the class times are still to be announced.
In the next week we will be contacting all our scheduled studios to confirm times and directions. Please be patient, the process will take a while, we have more than 80 studios to get to. If you have any special requests for your classes please try to get them to me before Friday. I will be speaking to Valery Lantratov in Moscow on Friday evening, and would like to tell him anything he will need to know to prepare.
If your class was recently added, we would like to request that you get the contract and deposits back to us as soon as possible. We would like to have all of those logistics wrapped up by the end of the week so that we can focus on our routing and travel plans.
In the meantime, please enjoy this video of a boy's class at the Bolshoi Academy.
I am also sharing this pdf version of Dance Now, which I recently discovered on line. The magazine features a long interview with Alexei Ratmansky on leaving his position as Bolshoi Ballet artistic director. I pass it along because it is interesting and because of the brief mention of Vladislav Lantratov, Valery's son, who Ratmansky calls "promising."
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