This weekend sees visitors flood into my little town, Port Fairy, for its Spring Music Festival. I rarely remember to get tickets, and missed out on a couple of concerts I'd have liked to see this year, but was delighted to be able to attend the premiere performance of a superb contemporary ballet this afternoon.
Choreographed by Simon Hoy and performed by three members of Melbourne Ballet Company, this piece was set to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, which was played by duo-pianists Igor Machlak and Olga Kharitanova (they warmed up the audience for the ballet by playing Rachmaninov's Russian Song Opus 11 No.2).
I don't want to write a review, would much prefer to let the wonderful images dance around in my head a while longer by themselves, but five words do the job: wild, electric, passionate, sexy and fun.
Watching this performance, it also occurred to me why I can't dance like this: my ceiling fans are too low.
2 comments:
Hope you had a great holiday Paul and thank you for sharing the photos. Annette x
Certainly did. Will post a little more about that at a later date.
All the very best. P.
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