Advent 22: How to lead someone off stage
Another gem from Mark Morris. It was in a rehearsal for Drink to me only with thine eyes and there was this bit where a guy had to lead a…
Advent 21: I got rhythm, I got matches…
Around the same time as the Gary Harris/Indian River Music story, Kevin Richmond was playing Scrooge in Christopher Hampson’s Christmas Carol. So there we all were, in the National Youth…
Advent 20: What a difference a D makes
Today’s golden moment also concerns Mark Morris and Les Patineurs, it so happens. I was playing the waltz from Meyerbeer’s Le Prophète (better known as the pas de trois from…
Advent 19: Trills and spills
In a class for Mark Morris’s company a couple of years ago, I was playing the waltz from l’Étoile du Nord (that has to be someone’s nickname, surely?) better known…
Advent 18: Say it with cut Flowers
Actions speak louder than words, and this post is about an ‘action’ rather than a one-liner. It’s topical, since I happened to be swanning around at the opening night of…
Advent 17: Going up…
This is one of my favourite tales of ballet misunderstandings, but the context takes so long to describe that it’s almost untellable verbally. Let’s start with the main characters –…