The Three Graces
Greetings from Prague, where I finally caught up with Chris who flew in from New Zealand on Sunday night at 10pm. By 10.20pm we’d hooked up with these two lovely…
Si no sería por la resaca…
Some of my many conundrums today have included: Why does no-one on Eastenders watch Eastenders? And… ..if soaps reconstruct geographical reality by inventing ‘Albert Square’ (for example), why haven’t they…
Is this the most articulate woman in the world?
No not you, the one in the middle. I took this at the RAD staff party last night, and promised rashly to publish it today, but look, here it is.…
Consider your sylph at home
Nicely odd to see ENB at the Festival Hall for their ‘Festival Ballet’ programme, after all these years of not being at the Festival Hall, and not doing their warhorse,…
Ballet and sex
…is the title of a very interesting lecture by veteran critic Joan Acocella available on from the University of Berkeley via iTunes (click this link to get it: Ballet and…
The bifurcating waltz, moths & Van der Merwe
Warning: this post may contain traces of moth Spent the day at Senate House Library (the music bit), on one of my regular-ish trawls for new stuff to include in…