Tag Archives: choreography

Playing for ballet class tip #21: Make friends with a notator

Posted on December 21, 2012 12:55 pm by Jonathan Still

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 go, it’s a notator, whether the system they write in is Labanotation or Benesh … Continue reading →

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Playing for ballet class tips #13: Make space for dancing

Posted on December 13, 2012 9:03 am by Jonathan Still

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 with allowing the dance to speak, giving it room to do what it does and let … Continue reading →

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Dancing to words

Posted on April 6, 2011 10:18 pm by Jonathan Still

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 a lot, ever since, about ten years ago, I saw a pas de deux … Continue reading →

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Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive

Posted on March 28, 2011 7:44 pm by Jonathan Still

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 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Interactive site has excerpts of dance performances going back to the … Continue reading →

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Ebb and Flow

Posted on July 11, 2010 9:08 am by Jonathan Still

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 men, Flow. I always have to remind myself how young these dancers are. When … Continue reading →

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Let’s have a Kristen McNally evening!

Posted on June 27, 2010 1:11 pm by Jonathan Still

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 over at Ballet.co that she’s keen to put on an evening of her work … Continue reading →

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