Month: July 2025

I’ve had an ambivalent, lifelong engagement with exercise and movement, striving to balance an enquiring mind with an increasingly anarchic body. But alerted to dance historian Marion Kant’s online lecture, Rudolf von Laban, Reactionary Modernist (Insiders Outsiders Festival, October 2020) based on her revelatory book, Hitler’s Dancers: German Modern Dance and the Third Reich, I […]

I’m on the rack again. Glancing at my watch.  Silently willing the hour away, willing my life away until that evanescent moment when I’ll feel integrated, body and soul. Body, mind and soul. Currently, my mind is urging my body to stretch beyond its habitual capacity. Mind over matter. Remembering the insouciant ballet years of […]

In search of Sassoon House, former jewel in the crown of Enfield’s Trent Park, I stumble into a 413-acre estate `of mature farmland’ engulfed by a rash of Berkeley Homes. Scene of my third movement and drama year at Trent Park Training College fifty years ago, the site now resembles a Monopoly board of click-together […]