Young classical choreographers
As some of my dancing friends reach their early thirties, I often wonder at what point the press will cease to call them ‘young’ or ‘upcoming’. But I’ve discovered that…
Music to have a coup d’état by
“During the 1991 coup attempt in Russia…Moscow TV programmes gave way to a looped broadcast of Swan Lake. the coup collapsed two days later amid mass protests and divided military…
Raymonda revisited
“From Saracens to Socialites” is an interesting article in The Australian about Stephen Baynes’ new production of Raymonda for Australian Ballet which opens in Melbourne on Tuesday. Corrie Perkin in…
Hello Kitri
Hello from Tokyo, where I landed this morning to give a course on dance accompaniment. Of the many things that I’m already liking about the city, it’s these colourful machines…
Anna Raeburn on Tamara Karsavina
Very pleasantly surprised to hear Anna Raeburn choosing Tamara Karsavina as the person of her choice in Radio 4’s Great Lives series . Of all the people to choose a…
Telescopic squeegees
One of the side-effects of being an obsessive web-searcher is that after a while, you find it ever easier to second-guess manufacturers’ names for things that before you would have…