This was the busiest week and the one in which my jaw hit the ground more often than medical advice recommends (metaphorically speaking, obv). Tuesday 27 April Ballet Nacional de Cuba’s Magia de la Danza is selection of the company’s greatest hits, starting with a scene from Giselle that simultaneously made me look forward to […]
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IDFB 2010 week 1
Over the past month I went to 18 performances as part of International Dance Festival Birmingham. I figured I should probably write about them. Monday 19 April Things kicked off with Dancing the Waterways at midday – there were speeches, David Massingham flung a bottle of champers against the side of a canal barge and […]
Moseley Folk Festival 2009
Last weekend was given over to Moseley Folk. A couple of days in the company of Birmingham’s boho middle-class, where children running riot is, weirdly, actually quite a good thing. As with last year, I only caught the headliner on Friday night – that being Saint Etienne. No, not very folky, but the organisers play […]