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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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Tag: choreography

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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 21, 2012 12:55 pm
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    Playing for ballet class tip #21: Make friends with a notator

    If there’s one kind of person in the ballet universe who can really understand where you’re coming from as a musician, and where you need to ...
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  • Advent calendarDanceMusicPlaying for ballet class
    By Jonathan Still
    December 13, 2012 9:03 am
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    Playing for ballet class tips #13: Make space for dancing

    You’ll sometimes hear dancers and choreographers talk about music having ‘space’ for dance, or being ‘spacious’, and although it’s difficult to define, it’s something to do ...
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  • DanceMusic
    By Jonathan Still
    April 6, 2011 10:18 pm
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    Dancing to words

    Interesting blog by Eleanor Turney in the Guardian about dancing to words, and what makes it work or not work. It’s a topic that interests me ...
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  • Dance
    By Jonathan Still
    March 28, 2011 7:44 pm
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    Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive

    It’s not often that I get really excited about a dance website, but this is one HUGE mother of an exception. Launched today (I think) the ...
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  • DanceMusic
    By Jonathan Still
    July 11, 2010 9:08 am
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    Ebb and Flow

    To the Peacock Theatre yesterday afternoon to see ENB school’s performance. Well, to be honest, mainly to see my friend Chris Hampson’s new piece for the ...
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  • DanceMusic
    By Jonathan Still
    June 27, 2010 1:11 pm
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    Let’s have a Kristen McNally evening!

    Now you know how I feel about the wonderful work of choreographer Kristen McNally (see previous post), so I’m delighted to see from her just-published  blog ...
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  • Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    It’s nearly ten years since I first heard and blogged about Mary [Mollie Bagot Stack] and her Women’s League of Health and Beauty—an organization so successful that they had shows ...
  • DanceMusic

    Which was the first ballet to be rehearsed to piano?

    It's hard to find out when people first rehearsed ballet with piano rather than violin. An article from 1963 might have the answer.
  • IT

    OCR errors and ballet

    Optical character recognition (OCR) errors in pdfs can cause some pretty fundamental problems of understanding. Here's one from ballet.
  • Music

    Brahms, Tchaikovsky and the polysemic hairpin

    Following on from an earlier post about Tchaikovsky's hairpins, today I learned about the Brahmsian hairpin too.
  • MusicMusicologyPlaying for ballet class

    More background on the party scene song in The Nutcracker

    Since writing about Bon Voyage Cher Dumollet nine years ago, I've found out a lot more. Here are some sources.
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