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Jonathan Still, ballet pianist

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  • By Jonathan Still
    March 26, 2010 10:12 pm
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    Mark Simpson: “the world’s most perceptive writer about modern masculinity”

    I have been saying this ever since I bought It’s a queer world in 1996, and I say it every time I read another book, another ...
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    By Jonathan Still
    March 7, 2010 8:22 am
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    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 ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    February 19, 2010 7:58 am
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    Jan Moir and ‘orchestration’

    I suppose we shouldn’t be surprised: how likely was it that Jan Moir would get her knuckles properly rapped for her nasty article on Stephen Gately? ...
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  • Dance
    By Jonathan Still
    January 23, 2010 8:47 pm
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    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, ...
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  • Music
    By Jonathan Still
    January 17, 2010 12:16 pm
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    What Grove didn’t tell you…

    What a treat: from the Electronic Musical Review, the entire, unexpurgated text of Philip Brett & Elizabeth Wood’s Lesbian and Gay Music that was edited down ...
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  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classMusicPlaying for ballet class

    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.
  • A Year of Ballet Playing CardsFree sheet music for ballet classPlaying for ballet class

    A year of ballet playing cards #51 (DQ): A coda medley

    What is a coda in ballet? Here are 10 pages of codas, and links to seven famous ballet codas you have to know.
  • DanceMusic

    The wonderful Library of Dance

    The Library of Dance is an enormous collection of historical dance sources, including hundreds of vintage dance manuals that include tunes.
  • Dance LegendsMusic

    Madge Gillings and Mrs Bagot Stack on record

    The Women's League of Health and Beauty Exercises—music from the early 1930s, and a beautiful documentary, all online.
  • 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.
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