Dancing with Michael Joseph Savage

Dancing with Michael Joseph Savage

By Renee I read somewhere that Michael Joseph Savage liked dancing and it is my conviction that this liking for dance influenced some branches of the LP to hold Learner’s Dances in the 1940s. I’ve written about them in my memoir but today I’m  thinking about the...
Won’t You Join the Dance?

Won’t You Join the Dance?

My introduction to dance was in the form of ballet lessons. Like all hopeful mothers, mine wanted to give me the opportunity to develop into a ballerina. I think I was quick to disabuse her of that idea. What I remember most clearly is a cold studio and an elderly...
Musing About Mozart and Dance

Musing About Mozart and Dance

I clomp my way up the stairs along with the students to the third tier of the Wellington Opera House to see the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s latest programme Dancing with Mozart. The precipitously built seats allow little room for squeezing past other audience members,...