Music for Dance Interview: Gabrielle Blair
An interview with South African ballerina, Gabrielle Blair, who started her career in ballet in the 1960’s. Here, she shares her most cherished memories as a dancer, her thoughts on the relationship between music and dance, and her wonderful talent for writing poetry. Featuring one of Gabrielle’s original and beautiful poems, titled ‘Horse Play’.
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“The trick is to compose what one wants to compose and to get it commissioned afterward.” - Igor Stravinsky
Ballet Composer Profile: Igor Stravinsky | Part 2
“In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?” - Stravinsky
Ballet Composer Profile: Igor Stravinsky | Part 1
“I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.”- Stravinsky
Ballet Composer Profile: Adolphe Adam | Part 2
“I hardly have any other ambition, in my theatre music, than to make it clear, easy to understand, and amusing for the audience.” — Adam
Ballet Composer Profile: Adolphe Adam | Part 1
“I didn’t want to do scales or read music; I always improvised.” - A. Adam
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“Music is an incomparably more powerful means and is a subtler language for expressing the thousand different moments of the soul’s moods.” -Tchaikovsky
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