Playing for ballet class
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A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music
For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music. -
A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley
What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know. -
More background on the party scene song in The Nutcracker
Since writing about Bon Voyage Cher Dumollet nine years ago, I've found out a lot more. Here are some sources. -
Galina Bezuglaya’s second book
Perhaps you have to be as old as I am to be quite as excited about a book arriving from Russia, but it’s doubly exciting since ... -
Pianos and violins in the ballet class
When did the piano replace the violin in the ballet class in the Imperial Theatre schools? Galina Bezuglaya has some interesting answers. -
Tamara Karsavina on music
In "Theatre Street," Karsavina makes several references to the soundworld of her dance training and rehearsal. Here is a collection of them.
