Spandau Ballet

Cinderella Ballet The cultural experience I chose to attend was the Gwinnett Ballet Company’s presentation of Cinderella. This experience was the first time I had ever been to a ballet or any kind of live play. I am the type of person who enjoys the outdoors, playing in the mud, hunting and fishing, and I am a tomboy by most people’s standards. When I was getting ready to go to the ballet, I was not sure what to expect, I felt as though I was going to be out of place. I thought only prim and…

December around the world: A holiday party, a magical gift, toy soldiers to fight the King of Mice, swirling snowflakes and a fantastic voyage to the Kingdom of Sweets to meet the beautiful Sugar Plum Fairy. On December 19th, 2015, the Greensboro Ballet performed their rendition of this story, the Nutcracker, at the Carolina Theatre of Greensboro. Every year, they always have the showing of the Nutcracker with new people dancing the multitudes of different characters. Every year, giving a new…

Ballet Folklorico could never be expressed fully only on a canvas one needs to actually practice it dance it and perform it see the faces of the audience of how astonished they are of all the turns and steps being conveyed on the stage. One could ever have…

young male ballet dancers during rehearsals and referring to some of the female ones with the four-letter word that begins with a “c,” as an informer, and as co-founding choreographer, with George Balanchine, of the New York City Ballet. Any man known for so much must have been a great man or a great scoundrel, or both. When I came to New York in 1988, Balanchine was already dead five years, but Jerry Robbins and City…

Over at NYCB, for the past three weeks night after night houses have been heavily sold and celebrities (Mandy Patinkin, Tommy Tune, and countless ballet luminaries from the past like Mikhail Baryshikov, Patricia McBride, Wendy Whelan, etc.) have been spotted at many performances. The Jerome Robbins Centennial Celebration was certainly a box office success. I didn't get to every all-Robbins performance but I did see three programs (Interplay/The Cage/Other Dances/Fanfare, In G Major/Afternoon of…

1) Spandau Ballet: “True” The song had a dreamy melancholy quality to the sound. The lyric about the pill and the slow rhythm does make it seem as if the singer is on drugs, or at least relaxed from downing half a bottle of wine. To me, this is a mix of unrequited love and the difficulty of the writer to express it. When the saxophone starts playing in the instrumental break, that's when you really feel it. This song sounds like it’s about a person who fell in love with someone they had a fling…