Nederlands Dans Theater

Last Saturday we went to watch the Nederlands Dans Theater at the Teatro Arriaga . It was the first company ( NDT I ), and they danced the following programme :

• Whereabouts Unknown ( Jiri Kylian)
• Wings of Wax ( Jiri Kylian )
• Shutters Shut ( Lightfoot León )
• Signing off (Lightfoot León )

There was a fair amount of people in the theatre. Quite a few young girls coming from a ballet academy, who, of course, got a shock when they realized that you couldn´t see a single tutu on stage. The worst for me was a little girl, barely three years old. I agree that kids must go to the
theatre, but in this case the poor thing was bored to death and kept playing in the ground and asking when it would be finish. There was a few invitations, too.

I liked it, but I have seen better things. Maybe I am not a real connoiseur of modern ballet, but I really enjoyed much more the Leipzig Ballet past April.We saw a magnificent choreography based on Bach andMendelsohn ...

Monday. monday

OK, so this will be my first meaningful post to my blogger site, and I don´t have a lot to say.

I have spent the past couple of weeks sneezing and nursing a strange cold. The doctor said that the best thing was to drink hot water with lemon and honey, but she is a lover of all kind of herbs, not one to order antibiotics ...

I have just heard in the radio that Christopher Reeve has died. It´s interesting, given the high amount of publicity that the euthanasia has gotten in Spain during the last days, with the Sampedro movie ... I don´t think that we can decide anything until it happens, and many people wants you to believe that it is the only way ...

It seems that lemon and honey is giving me nightmares ...

Bye, Cova

Interview with William Dalrymple about "White Mughals"

I am reading the latest book by William Dalrymple, "White Mughals" ... love and betrayal in XVIIIth century India, or so they say.
I like it a lot, but I will always be biased, because his first book simply blew me away, and he hasn´t stopped since.
Here you have a link to an interview regarding it :
HarperCollins Publishers