Me in conversation on a podcast
Out today on the Ballet Piano Podcast, an interview I did a couple of years ago. I’d forgotten what we talked about until I listened to it. I was surprised…
Music, time and politics in the ballet studio
Just published online, my chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Time in Music, "The politics of musical time in the everyday life of ballet dancers."
“On, Wisconsin!” and La Bayadère
What have La Bayadère and "On, Wisconsin!" got in common? Read on . . .
A year of ballet playing cards #52 (DK): Slow tendu music
For those long, slow, school-y tendus for which no music seems suitable, here's some suitable music.
Galina Bezuglaya’s second book
Perhaps you have to be as old as I am to be quite as excited about a book arriving from Russia, but it’s doubly exciting since I ordered it on…
Pianos and violins in the ballet class
When did the piano replace the violin in the ballet class in the Imperial Theatre schools? Galina Bezuglaya has some interesting answers.