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THEATRE SCHOOL
Back in the late 90s when life was still simple but verging on breaking but little we knew
We didn't have mobiles
We would call up on landlines
Meet ..be there on time
Back then the sky seemed more blue
Dance college limbering
Boys cloakrooms mingling
Latin American dance
Silvers and leotard..tap shoes and ballet shoes
Jazz boots and shiny sweat pa...
Friday 25th June 2021 12:55 pm
Blistered
in my soul she dances on,
tuned to a polka her feet,
swish of expensive velvet
big teeth white and neat
dance band chords echo
wind and brass combine
but can't erase the stink
of spilt burnt turpentine
smoke up my nostrils
provoked by her deeds
loung lizards basking
careless of my needs
tunes one after another
standards she'd adored
at her f...
Saturday 5th June 2021 11:18 am
Hoop
06.04.20
A circular ceremony
A weighted embrace
Flowing free and being me
Living for the spin and feeling weightless in its flow
Inside this circle no one can touch me and I am whole
The centre of my own universe connected to the earth and the sky
A child playing in a hoop
Thursday 13th May 2021 1:39 pm
Music To Live By
In films
they always have music
for all their moments.
I've wished I could.
If I had
my own song playing,
my own vibrant tune
to live by,
I could dance
through life.
In films
you always know
the dramatic moments;
programs us to think
our own lives are empty,
or that we cannot dance
without a tune.
When the truth is
that we are full
with the power to create;
our own rhyth...
Tuesday 5th January 2021 7:16 am
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