Music at Rambert
Very nice article about music at Rambert from the magazine of the ISM. Great to see all the big topics (what’s music for? how do choreographers & composers work together?…
Missing Nutcracker? Have a Cher Dumollet singalong
I’ve been looking for this for ages, a rendition of the French children’s song Bon voyage cher Dumollet, the contredanse-like bit in Act 1 of The Nutcracker which is usually…
Music in ‘Alone in Berlin’
I remember listening to a lecture on teaching by the philosopher David Carr, in which he noted (I’m paraphrasing what I remember, so I hope I’m not misquoting) that literature…
A fat lot of good ‘choice’ is….
You know it when you see it, but how hard it is to come up with it yourself: a bank of data just sitting there on a plate (literally, in…
Trololo, it’s meme heaven
Thanks to Maria via Facebook for this one: And if you’re thinking what on EARTH is that, that’s just what I thought, while recognizing instantly that this had all the…