Performance at The Hungry Mind
It is now both officially and meteorologically autumn, and so I can say with one hundred percent accuracy that the new rehearsal season has started. Cue the head cold. But of course. Anyway. New rehearsal season! Most prominently, rehearsals with no less than three fabulous dancers: Florence Rapati, Thami Fisher and Pallas Sridevi, who we have cunningly lured out of retirement yet again... Pallas was actually the one that came up with it – she teaches ballet classes at The Hu
Gaspard de la Nuit - A Modern Dance Performance premiered in Oslo
Gaspard de la Nuit is one of the milestones within piano literature. When Ravel dreamed it up in 1909, he specifically set out to compose something more difficult from Balakirew's still-notorious Islamey. The result of that endeavour consists of three pieces, based on three poems from the French poet Aloysius Bertrand's 52 poem cycle "Gaspard de la Nuit". Ondine, the first in the trilogy, is the story of a water nymph, attempting to seduce a mortal man to come to her realm. S
