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While other choreographers perhaps waxed and waned Cathy always seemed to deliver a goodie for Dance Bites. Having danced and choreographed in Europe for much of the 1990's she returned home last summer (2000) and, charming woman that she is, agreed to write a diary for us with hardly any arm twisting whatsoever!
Link to previous column.
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Marston diary index I’m afraid this is going to be a short diary again – and please, if it makes no sense whatsoever, forgive me – I’m just a weenie bit stressed today…. I’ve been a dancer for the last month with Arc Dance Company – lovely, refreshing and inspiring. Kim Brandstrup is really a sweetheart and very good to work for. Until this last week, it’s been good to put most of my choreographic work on hold – to take some distance from it. Of course, I’ve been going to the ROH one or two nights a week to rehearse with the Royal Ballet dancers for my next piece with them – but that almost goes without saying!! Last week, though, I’ve been feeling the approaching premiere of ‘Sophie’ and ‘Stateless’ in my bones… Quite seriously, I caught a cold – and I’m sure that’s down to anticipated worry! I’ve just been waiting to get on with things as I can feel the time between now and 11 January getting less and less! To make matters worse, I was told on Friday morning that Antonia – my Sophie – is injured and wouldn’t be able to do anything next week in what, for me, is a crucial rehearsal period. Why, oh why, does this always happen to me? Always! Well, as usual the person to save me from being swallowed up by the ground was Jenny Tattersall – my ‘bestest friend in the whole wide world!!’ By chance, she’s free next week, so has agreed to be ‘a body’. I will finish creating the piece on her, Antonia will sit and watch and still – hopefully – be able to rehearse the week after Christmas and do the shows; but I’ll still have a back-up plan in Jenny, and she will be ‘officially’ there to calm me down in moments of tension! And there are lots of those right now…For example, this morning I received a phone call from my film-maker, Terry, to say that on his way back from Monte Carlo last night, he’d broken down, had to be towed in the snow and by accident someone had dropped the bag with his computer in it…that means not just his computer but all the footage for the films which make up a crucial part of ‘Sophie’ the ballet. Well, you can imagine my heart skipping a beat….’It’s not too bad,’ he said,’ I’ve got all the edits backed up on external hard drive…’ But still, it means that as well as an injured dancer we have an injured computer which also needs therapy at a moment when, as I’ve just said, time is of the essence…. Still, I called my mum just now and obviously faked a good ‘Yeah I’m fine’ as after telling her the whole story she said ‘Well, you seem to be in control of everything!’ Thank goodness for Jenny, that’s all I’ve got to say! So, I’m not going to write about anything else today…. I’m afraid I have to take care of other things by tomorrow; however, I will use this opportunity to say BOOK TICKETS NOW for my Sophie/ Stateless evening…It’s on at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, on 11 Jan at 8.00 and 12 Jan at 4.00. Post –performance talk on the 11th, pre-performance talk at 3.00 on the 12th. I’m not sure how tickets sales are going but it might be a good idea to ring right now before you forget about it amidst lots of wrapping paper! I’d really appreciate your support – as always – and as Philippa, my administrator says – ‘It WILL be great – it’s had too many problems already not to be!!’ Well, we’re doing our best, and despite everything, I think it will be really rather exciting. Hopefully see you there.
Merry Christmas and lots of luck and happiness in the New Year!!
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