1841 and all that
I finally made the effort to park my car in Longham Post Office on the way back to London this morning and photograph Longham United Reformed Church, something I’ve meant…
Institutional Racism & Swanilda’s Friends
Another day at the University of London Library , this time, to retrieve some dances from Tchaikovsky’s opera Cherevichki which were used in Cranko’s Onegin. I only know that because…
Italian ballets
That old party game ‘name five famous Belgians’ is a little unfair on the Belgians. A more difficult game is ‘name five Italian ballets’, I’ve discovered. Until, that is, I…
Skip, change of step
I often feel extraordinarily privileged to have such illustrious friends in the ballet world, particularly when I want an answer to a simple question, and can just pick up the…
The joy of libraries and my Czech mate Czerny
It’s not often that I get goosebumps sitting in a library, but I came pretty near to it yesterday on a trip to the University of London Library. I have…
Magic and Mazurkaphobia
You’d think I made it up, wouldn’t you? Well I didn’t. Taming a Tartar; or, Magic & mazourkaphobia, “an operatic, romantic, magical, semi-burlesque, terpsichorean burletta, in two acts, founded on…