Advent calendar 2014: A christmas carol ballet class
It’s time for my advent calendar again. In a change from the usual verbiage I’m just going to upload a free downloadable christmas carol for ballet class every day until…
Operation safeway? On your bike, Met Police.
In a break from my usual wittering about music and stuff, here’s some advice to the Metropolitan Police, after watching them loiter around the junction of Upper Tooting Road and…
A little sensory history of ballet classes
A piece I wrote to conjure up the musical world of the Royal Academy of Dance when I was new to ballet, back in 1986. Call it a sensory history…
Études (ballet) – the sources for Riisager’s score
A commenter who’d read one of my posts about my searches for the Czerny sources for Riisager’s ballet Etudes (see this post, too) asked if I’d ever made a list…
Liveness, Hawaiian arm exercises, and a bit of sensory history
Scrolling through The Art of Dancing (1919) on Forgotten Books, I came across a quaint-sounding exercise, Basic Hawaiian Arm and Italian Body Exercises Combined To Promote Arm and Body Grace.…
Playing for ballet class tips #25: respect the ritual
Class has a ritual, liturgical quality to it, particularly in a company. It is daily, it happens at a particular time, with such religious regard for punctuality that a teacher…