This week sees the end of the academic year for the postgraduate students who have been studying on the Piano for Dance Course which links Scottish Ballet Company http://scottish ballet facebook with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland  https://www.rcs.ac.uk/postgraduate/masters-music-mmus/piano-dance/. Despite terrible disruption to their work, they have created the most inspiring improvisations for dance together which I hope […]

The beautiful dancers of Scottish Ballet https://www.scottishballet.co.uk have managed to keep Class going online throughout this lockdown and now enjoy a well-deserved 5 week break. When they return, main company musician Brian Prentice and I will share Class 4 times a day! (2 each, with around 8-10 dancers in each Class). We will be live […]

It has been a strange experience in lockdown, watching our diaries as dates come and go. Since March I have been dismayed at some wonderful gigs that did not come to pass but todays was intended to fly from UK to NYC and visit the wonderful Mark Morris company where Sarah Lucas and Robert  Boston […]

I am eternally grateful for some beautiful artists who are happy to let me use their craft as dancers to exemplify musical ideas on The Art of Class YouTube videos (coming out next week). Thanks ever to Principle Dancer Evan Loudon https://www.scottishballet.co.uk/profile/evan-loudon  and Olivier Nominee, Luke Ahmet .

I love the musicians for dance community. It is so inspiring that we find a commonality through our love of Moving Image and music. There is so much to discuss, explain, delight and I hope I can contribute through my upcoming YouTube channel  explaining just how you can become a great musician for dance. Meantime, […]