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Monthly Archives: April 2016

Swan Lake

27 Wednesday Apr 2016

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Ayami Miyata, Giuliano Contadini, Javier Torres, Matthew Bourne, Milton Keynes Theatre, Northern Ballet, Swan Lake

Last night the Northern Ballet’s production of Swan Lake at Milton Keynes Theatre was enchanting. All the interpretations with changes, however slight, continue to keep this ballet on top. I truly love Matthew Bourne’s version of the ballet but last night I was lost once more in the superbly drawn myth by NB.

Of course everyone involved puts their heart and soul into these productions but for me the outstanding performances, by miles, were Ayami Miyata (Odette); Javier Torres (Anthony); and Giuliano Contadini (Simon). Thank you Northern Ballet for transporting me out of the everyday mundane into another world. The end scene with the underwater billowing silk was almost claustrophobic but just right.

Best wishes – Denny Bradbury

Japanese Poet – Yosano Akiko

15 Friday Apr 2016

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Japanese poetry, Yosano Akiko

Long have I been drawn in by Japanese, Chinese and Korean poetry. The styles encapsulating a moment in time that sits with me in an almost meditative way. Here are three offerings from Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)

A bird comes
delicately as a little girl
to bathe
in the shade of my tree
in an autumn puddle.

*****

I remember the days
When the lily
Brilliant white
Was queen of the summer fields.

*****

Purple butterflies
fly at night through my dreams.
Butterflies, tell me,
have you seen in my village
the falling flowers of the wisteria?

*****

Very best wishes – Denny Bradbury

Wonderful Sonnet from Edward Thomas

08 Friday Apr 2016

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Edward Thomas, Spring Poem, The Wind's Song - Sonnet

This glorious sonnet so wonderfully expresses the feeling of despair lifted by being still in Nature, in this instance – the West wind. Reading this I am always there with him, listening.

Edward Thomas – The Wind’s Song

Dull-thoughted, walking among the nunneries
Of many a myriad anemones
In the close copses, I grew weary of Spring
Till I emerged and in my wandering
I climbed the down up to a lone pine clump
Of six, the tallest dead, one a mere stump.
On one long stem, branchless and flayed and prone
I sat in the sun listening to the wind alone,
Thinking there could be no old song so sad
As the wind’s song; but later none so glad
Could I remember as that same wind’s song
All the time blowing the pine boughs among.
My heart that had been still as the dead tree
Awakened by the West wind was made free.

Very best wishes – how wonderful if the World found some stillness in which to recover its balance – Denny Bradbury

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