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melwil1. I feel like I've been away for ages. My new modem's dead, so I'm using Matt's computer at the moment. My chair is more comfortable.
2. Alas this means that I'm not on chat :(
3. I went to the Queensland Ballet's Vis-a-Vis program on Saturday night. If you live in South East Queensland and have even the slightest interest in ballet, I suggest you look at attending one later in the year.
The performance is held at the company's rehearsal rooms - a place I know well from endless vacation schools and ballet exams. The set up is great - the seats are close to the performance space and the crowd is small enough to make it feel quite intimate. The artistic director just walks around before the perfomance saying hi to everyone.
The focus of Saturday's performance was movement. We got a flashy pas de deux (a competition type piece) and a beautiful solo that had me in tears. Then a great improvisation piece and excerpts from Don Quioxte and A Midsummer Night's Dream (I have never laughed so much at a ballet - a slow motion, classical cat fight complete with hair pulling!). After intermission was an unfinished piece which is going to be beautiful, some dancer choreographed dancing, more Don Quioxte and an excerpt from the brilliant Passion which is one of the best portrayals of the Easter story I have ever seen. (The original was performed in a Cathedral - I wish I'd seen it)
Each piece was introduced by the artistic director, and he often included some demonstrations to show how movement was changed. The closeness was interesting too - when you learn you are told that you should make ballet look easy - but we were so close that we could hear the heavy breathing at the end of each piece.
BTW - the male dancers of the Queensland Ballet are really, really good looking . . .
A review is here
4. I've had a couple of lazy days. Unfortunately I haven't done any of the writing I wanted to do. As for Wing Swing - I don't seem to have anything.
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new_atalanta about The Chalet School - You can read it here. It's very readable even if you don't know the series. The community's makeover seems to be going great so far - but we'd love some new members - we're so close to 100 members!!
6. Yesterday was ANZAC day, which I know is an iffy/ho hum day to most Australians on my friends list. However, my sister had a great post here.
7. I'm about 7 books behind on reviews. I'll get there *g*
Off to write. I must write. I will write . . .
2. Alas this means that I'm not on chat :(
3. I went to the Queensland Ballet's Vis-a-Vis program on Saturday night. If you live in South East Queensland and have even the slightest interest in ballet, I suggest you look at attending one later in the year.
The performance is held at the company's rehearsal rooms - a place I know well from endless vacation schools and ballet exams. The set up is great - the seats are close to the performance space and the crowd is small enough to make it feel quite intimate. The artistic director just walks around before the perfomance saying hi to everyone.
The focus of Saturday's performance was movement. We got a flashy pas de deux (a competition type piece) and a beautiful solo that had me in tears. Then a great improvisation piece and excerpts from Don Quioxte and A Midsummer Night's Dream (I have never laughed so much at a ballet - a slow motion, classical cat fight complete with hair pulling!). After intermission was an unfinished piece which is going to be beautiful, some dancer choreographed dancing, more Don Quioxte and an excerpt from the brilliant Passion which is one of the best portrayals of the Easter story I have ever seen. (The original was performed in a Cathedral - I wish I'd seen it)
Each piece was introduced by the artistic director, and he often included some demonstrations to show how movement was changed. The closeness was interesting too - when you learn you are told that you should make ballet look easy - but we were so close that we could hear the heavy breathing at the end of each piece.
BTW - the male dancers of the Queensland Ballet are really, really good looking . . .
A review is here
4. I've had a couple of lazy days. Unfortunately I haven't done any of the writing I wanted to do. As for Wing Swing - I don't seem to have anything.
5.
aldenmacrae has contributed a great essay to new_atalanta about The Chalet School - You can read it here. It's very readable even if you don't know the series. The community's makeover seems to be going great so far - but we'd love some new members - we're so close to 100 members!!6. Yesterday was ANZAC day, which I know is an iffy/ho hum day to most Australians on my friends list. However, my sister had a great post here.
7. I'm about 7 books behind on reviews. I'll get there *g*
Off to write. I must write. I will write . . .
