Advent calendar 2007
If you can call three years running a tradition, then I’d like to welcome you my traditional ‘Advent Calendar’. This started in 2005 as a little project to acknowledge the…
Tokyo 2007 gallery (well, a little one)
This time last week, I was lecturing in Tokyo, but it already feels like two months ago. It was such a lightning visit (oh, how I loved telling people I…
Prague 2007
It’s that time of year again, and I’m no less surprised by the joy of waking up to the view on the left from my appartment window in Prague. I’m…
Article 19
Although it’s not a site I read regularly, I’ve always rather admired the contemporary dance focused Article 19 for being maverick and edgy. On a day like today when I’m…
Playing for Mark Morris
Just back from what’s turned out to be an annual stint for the last three years, playing for The Mark Morris Dance Group company classes on their flying visits to…
Anton Simon’s Souvenir de Bal and that Corsaire variation
For year’s I’ve been intrigued by the music for the female variation from Le Corsaire (the one with the Italian fouettés at the end), noting that just very occasionally, you…