Blogging has been suspended for the last few weeks, as the demands of paperwork and accounts for my professional body PCPA have taken the time set aside for blogging out of my week. Normal service should hopefully now resume and in returning, I realise how much I have missed having time to sit down and write this blog. My last blog promised to thank my fellow Dark Angels individually, for the wonderful time they gave me in Spain, and this last week I had occasion to meet one of them Charlotte Halliday at a wonderful event organised by her marketing company Noble Ox at the Scottish Malt Whisky Society’s home in Leith. It was a lovely chance to meet Charlotte again and to sample some wonderful whisky. I am going to resist the temptation to blog on the night and the construing of whisky, it is a blog I’ll undoubtedly do one day, and I am going just thank my fellow Dark Angels collectively.
And so I am going to turn to Saturday night and the opening film of the Edinburgh Dance Film Festival ‘Shall We Dance’ at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. It was a real treat to which the audience including me responded with a spontaneous round of applause at the end. For me it was the sheer delight of watching the dancing of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, particularly Astaire. Indeed I would go further, it is the joy of watching Astaire do anything, for if you want to see the ease, freedom and lightness of movement that Alexander work aspires to then one can do no better than watch him not just dance, but walk, sit and even sing. But it is dancing that marks him out and here’s a clip from when he is 51. Just watch the ease of movement, the athleticism and think of the sheer strength this requires, particularly when he is dancing in and on the piano. It is also worth noting his muscular development or lack of it in the conventional sense, it is something Sir George Trevelyan noted about Alexander.
And so I am going to turn to Saturday night and the opening film of the Edinburgh Dance Film Festival ‘Shall We Dance’ at the Edinburgh Filmhouse. It was a real treat to which the audience including me responded with a spontaneous round of applause at the end. For me it was the sheer delight of watching the dancing of Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, particularly Astaire. Indeed I would go further, it is the joy of watching Astaire do anything, for if you want to see the ease, freedom and lightness of movement that Alexander work aspires to then one can do no better than watch him not just dance, but walk, sit and even sing. But it is dancing that marks him out and here’s a clip from when he is 51. Just watch the ease of movement, the athleticism and think of the sheer strength this requires, particularly when he is dancing in and on the piano. It is also worth noting his muscular development or lack of it in the conventional sense, it is something Sir George Trevelyan noted about Alexander.
I cannot resist a second clip this time Shall We Dance itself, where Astaire and Roger’s tap dance on roller skates, look at Astaire in particular. How is this for co-ordination and use, it only gets better when they are wearing normal shoes. Enjoy!
watching Mr. Astaire is definetely quite an inspiration! I only wonder how did he get that obviously free and fluent without having a Richard in the neighbourhood!
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