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Kafka-esque
In art as in life, there is no such thing as being faithful enough. Fidelity is an absolute. It cannot...
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A Surrealist Cinderella
Tick, tock. Tick, tock. Sergei Prokofiev’s beautifully eerie time keeping score. Tick, tock. Tick, tock. A row of conical hedges...
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The Last of the Romantics
“I continued for a long time to live in that delightful but short-lived state where love and innocence can co-exist...
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Of a Feather
If this work were a postcard I found whilst searching for collage material, I would see no room left in...
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Bella Figura
I read ballet through the prism of art, my background training. And it is by holding this prism before your...
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Finding Your Inner Monster
Monstrous is misshapen. It is disgusting and ghastly. It is hideous and grotesque. The opposite of lovely—any thesaurus can give...
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Ritual & Dance
On a warm March evening, myself and a handful of other curious souls climbed the narrow steps of the aptly...
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Dance, for the time being
Organs, teeth, flesh, bone. Part indestructible, part fallible. That the body is a marvellous tool none would deny. All this...
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Where There's Smoke . . .
There are some nights when the weather plays its role as if part of the performance. This was the case...
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The Shock of the New
The history of art, music, ballet, opera, and literature is one dotted with the curious, bewildered, shocked receptions of the...
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Becoming Odette
It is circles I see, and always have, whenever I listen, and often I do, to Piotr Illyich Tchaikovsky’s “Swan...
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