Steps in a polonaise rhythm: Rasmussen’s “Experiencing Architecture”
Rhythm in architecture A few years ago I was trying to write some study materials about “rhythm,” and tied myself in knots trying to connect all the different ways the…
Jonathan Still, ballet pianist
Music, dance, IT, trivia. Not necessarily in that order.
Posts about the work of ballet pianists—including stuff that might not seem immediately related (like historical dance, character, musicology, and so on)
Rhythm in architecture A few years ago I was trying to write some study materials about “rhythm,” and tied myself in knots trying to connect all the different ways the…
For no reason except that I love the story, here’s an interesting fact about the waltz in 19th century Innsbruck. According to Eric McKee (2014) after 1780, the term deutscher…
Now and again I come across resources on the web that make me wonder how it was possible to have missed them all this time. Richard Powers’ website about historical…
Thanks to Patty Noel who alerted me to the fact that Harvard now have this available online digitally. We’d both previously searched high and low for it without success, but…
Great to read Aaron Manela’s masters thesis “Arthur Saint-Léon’s The Little Humpbacked Horse in Context,” which is available online. Here’s the abstract: In this study I examine representations of antisemitism,…
I’ve just found another beautiful piece of dance research. Beauty might be an odd adjective to use, but there is something deeply attractive about the careful observation, and attention to…