Crispycat Recordings: Modern is best when it comes to dance...

Friday, September 21, 2018

Modern is best when it comes to dance...

Playlist
Yes - Fly From Here (Alt Version)
Yes - Heaven & Earth
Uriah Heep - High And Mighty
J S Bach - Orchestral Suites & Concertos (Menuhin)
Ulsamer Collegium - Dances from Terpsichore
Muddy Waters - The Anthology 1947-1972
The Fatback Band - Essential 70s Funk Recordings
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Songs Of Freedom
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Scott Fields Feartet - Haydn
Jean-Luc Ponty - Enigmatic Ocean
Uriah Heep - Innocent Victim
Uriah Heep - Outsider
Uriah Heep - Celebration
Uriah Heep - Fallen Angel
Uriah Heep - Firefly
Uriah Heep - Spellbinder
Uriah Heep - July Morning (Single)
Uriah Heep - Lady In Black (Single)

A lovely morning...

First thing - to the dentist, taking an amble along our 31 years ago now street, past our 31 years ago now flat...

Not such a great day but nothing that really matters...

A meet up with the EP at 5, for some drinks with chums, then a burger for the two of us and a drive up to the Festival Theatre for an evening of dance...

...choreographed in the main by Richard Alston, who gave us a pre-performance talk re the first "set" which comprised pieces from the last 50 years...

...collectively entitled "Mid Century Modern"...

The nine dancers made their way through around half a dozen different pieces from across the decades, set to the music of Monteverdi, Bach, Handel, Ravel (arr. Grainger) and Schubert...

Next up, two pieces to the music of Steve Reich, the first, to a Fourtet remix of "Drumming", was "Detour", choreographed by Alston's colleague, Martin Lawrance...

...the second, Alston's own "Proverb", set to a vocal piece by Reich...

The third part of the performance left me a little cold due to its more traditional nature dance-wise - set to a live rendition of Brahms' "Hungarian Dances" - not my favourite piece of classical music...

All in all though, a brilliant display of modern dance...

Here's a taster...

A walk back to the car and home...

Excellent evening...

Today's artwork, "Two Dancers"...

Highlight of the Day : The ballet...

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