Pliés Pat Neary – Tonight from West Side Story
This is day 3 in my Dance Inspirations Advent Calendar (II) Some of the greatest dancers and teachers I’ve met have one thing in common at least: their mind is…
Pliés Belinda Quirey – Minuet in B minor J S Bach
This is day 2 in my Dance Inspirations Advent Calendar (II) The more I think about the Minuet in B Minor from Bach’s suite BWV 1067, the less I think…
Warm-up à la Jackie Barratt: – Georgia on my mind
This is day 1 in my Dance Inspirations Advent Calendar (II) I’d only have to play a couple of chords of Georgia on my mind for warm-up and Jackie Barratt…
Welcome to Advent Calendar II
During Advent of last year, I wrote tributes to the people of the dance world who’d been an inspiration to me as a musician, and called it my Dance Inspirations…
Dance accompaniment in the news!
Keys to the ballet: Ramona Pansegrau takes her seat as music director of the Kansas City Ballet. Heartening to see an article devoted to the joys, skills and triumphs of…
How to create dummy text in Word
There’s a nifty little trick in Microsoft Word which enables you to generate paragraphs of dummy text using the sentence ‘The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog’. In…