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November 06, 2006
Diomed Of The Loud War Cry!
Bless him!
Aka Craig Davidson, ex-US Marine Corps, he is now a model and fitness ambassador. I found his page when I was browsing Myspace, because we both have Don Quixote listed as favourite book. He replied to my holler of “comrade” with a gracious thank you for looking after his fellow service members on base in Kandahar.
When I read his blog, I found just what I needed…
You see, Galina is twenty-one today. Sort of. On November 6th 1985 I danced excerpts from Swan Lake in the living room of Jean Laurent Dreyer-Dufer’s flat in Balham. It was my first out-of-foyer experience, so I count it as Galina’s debut and as the day of her birth.
Oddly, throughout my time playing Galina, no matter how bouncy and youthful I think I have made her - and Aurora, for one example, is twenty in Act One - people time and again reckoned her age to be around forty-two or -three.
I’ve tried to ignore them.
But things came to a head at lunch in the Lighthouse, Aldeburgh, where our waiter was Frederick James Mortimer Turner, older brother of Maximilian and heroic stooge Solor at one of my Edinburgh previews in 2002. I told him about Galina’s approaching birthday.
“That’s my birthday.”
“Oh, sweet. But she’s a little older than you.”
“She is. I was actually born on that day. Galina’s old.”
I was straight back to Diomed’s blog for his advice on diet, his psychology of discipline and his seven minute workout of Jumping Jacks, squat thrusts, press-and sit-ups, high knee raises, toe touches, another round of Jumping Jacks, repeat if you have time – you can almost hear his admonishing “make time!” – and “then if you really want a body of an African God, add a 30 min run at 60% max heart rate 3 times a week. You'll thank me for it!”
I’m never going to get that ripped. But, with Diomed's help, my Beauty will bounce for a good while yet!
See what I mean?
www.myspace.com/diomed1
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