Slow tendus Malcolm Williamson – Blue Moon
This is day 4 in my Dance Inspirations Advent Calendar (II) Why Blue Moon and Malcolm Williamson? It’s simple. When I first met and worked with Malcolm in Angoulême in…
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…