Tag Archives: Music

A year of ballet playing cards #6 (S6): A barcarole for port de bras

Posted on May 10, 2022 2:19 pm by Jonathan Still
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This romance from Bizet’s opera The Pearl Fishers is great for an adage or port de bras, perhaps Continue reading →

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Music, time and politics in the ballet studio

Posted on December 11, 2021 12:02 pm by Jonathan Still
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Just published online, my chapter in the Oxford Handbook of Time in Music, “The politics of musical time in the everyday life of ballet dancers.” Continue reading →

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Galina Bezuglaya’s second book

Posted on October 7, 2020 4:48 pm by Jonathan Still
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Perhaps you have to be as old as I am to be quite as excited about a book arriving from Russia, but it’s doubly exciting since I ordered it on 9th July this year, and with a combination of the … Continue reading →

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A 19th century quadrille generator

Posted on April 6, 2020 4:57 pm by Jonathan Still
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I remember inwardly eye-rolling when I heard a teacher many years ago claim excitedly that her pianist “never played the same thing twice.” Call me cynical, but if you’re a pianist for ballet class, you know that if you play … Continue reading →

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Can’t tell a waltz from a tango? I have just the song for you

Posted on February 26, 2020 12:27 pm by Jonathan Still
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“I can’t tell a waltz from a tango” would be a great title for a ballet-related music course, though in all honesty, “I can’t tell a kujawiak from a redowa” would be more apposite. Songs that reference what might be … Continue reading →

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“. . . And she done the fandango all over the place”

Posted on August 16, 2019 4:52 pm by Jonathan Still
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I’ve just found another beautiful piece of dance research. Beauty might be an odd adjective to use, but there is something deeply attractive about the careful observation, and attention to  social and musical details in this particular study. It resonates … Continue reading →

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