“Push a little button”
This is the nicest story I’ve come across for a long time. Ninette was a student on a course I taught on the BA (Hons) in Dance Education at the…
Gender, Mao, ballet
Performing Gender in Maoist Ballet: Mutual Subversions of Genre and Ideology in The Red Detachment of Women. Interesting online scholarly article by Rosemary Roberts which does what it says on…
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? It oozed with latent…
Tooting swimming times again
Update on 29th July 2012 – DCL leisure at last have a really good online timetable for all their pools, including Tooting. You can filter the timetable for lane swimming,…
The eff-word again
So much for the ineffability of music: from Arthur Philips at The Believer, Dancing about architecture, a wonderful article about music and writing. It pushes all my buttons at once,…
The Tooting heron
This wonderful heron visits our end of Tooting now and again. It’s a wonderful sight. The only one I’d ever seen before moving here was a concrete one in the…