More sexist crap about ballet
I was looking for a sentence in Rupert Christiansen’s article in last week’s Telegraph (‘The New Recruits to Ballet’s Boot Camp’) that might serve as an example of a new…
Gender, Mao, ballet
Performing Gender in Maoist Ballet: Mutual Subversions of Genre and Ideology in The Red Detachment of Women. Interesting online scholarly article by Rosemary Roberts which does what it says on…
Johann Strauss the African
Andre Rieu’s album of Strauss Waltzes and other bon-bons, Forever Vienna, is number 1 in the classical album charts this year, and beat Susan Boyle’s album in the top ten…
Taruskin on ballet music
One of the excitements of this year is being able to afford a volume of The Oxford History of Western Music. I snapped it up in Blackwells the other day,…
Why we need Stonewall
Out from Stonewall, FIT, a movie for schools to help combat homophobic bullying. And from me, a related rant. To help with an essay on gender, music & ballet, a…