Places that are still there, No.1: Scoffers
It probably wasn’t called Scoffers at the time, but it looks exactly as I remember it. I stumbled across it again recently, almost 20 years after first going there. It…
Sundays like this
To the ROH studios today to play for the Ballet Black class as a result of a late night last-minute phone call from BB director Cassa Pancho who was one…
Fouettés/turns en diagonal: Mod?anská polka (Roll out the barrell)
This is day 16 in my 2007 Advent Calendar. This year, I’m giving the story behind some of the music that I’ve collected for ballet classes. All the pieces are…
Glissés: Don Quixote overture
This is day 5 in my 2007 Advent Calendar. This year, I’m giving the story behind some of the music that I’ve collected for ballet classes. All the pieces are…
Beccles
To Beccles today, via Flatford & Manningtree, to see some of my dearest friends, Alice & Andrew. The Advent Calendar might suffer until I get back, but meanwhile here’s my…
Marathon Man
A huge welcome back to London to bestest friend Chris Hampson, who’s been in New Zealand for what seems like a thousand years choreographing a fabulous new production of Cinderella…