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Steps in Time

Deborah Bull reflects on how the urge to dance is one of the most natural of human instincts and how dance has been used to serve secular, sacred and social situations.

Deborah Bull, ex principal dancer for the Royal Ballet and now Creative Director for the Royal Opera House, explores how the the urge to dance is one of the most natural of human instincts. In 'Steps in Time' she reflects on how dance has been used to serve secular, sacred and social situations, and has evolved into a performance art.

She draws on a range of music to illustrate her theme - Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring', a Klezmer wedding dance, a traditional Raqs Sharqi used for belly dancing, and the soaring romantic music of Prokofiev's 'Romeo and Juliet'. There is poetry from Rumi, Billy Collins and Laurence Binyon and an extract from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

The readers are Liza Sadovy, Greg Hicks and Frank Stirling.

Producer: Ronni Davis
A Unique production for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4.

30 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Oct 2011 23:30
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4

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Music Played

  • Cesare Pugni

    'Plies': Act 1, scene 3 of The Pharoah's Daughter

    Performer: Martin Cleave

    • Royal Academy of Dance Intermediate Syllabus.
    • Royal Academy of Dance Enterprises Ltd.
    • VG1CD10.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Sacrificial Dance, Part 2

    Performer: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra

    • Le Sacre Du Printemps – Apollo.
    • EMI Records.
    • CDC 7496362.

  • Paco PeΓ±a

    Gloria - Fandangos

    Performer: Paco PeΓ±a

    • Misa Flamenca: Paco PeΓ±a.
    • Nimbus Records.
    • NI5288.

  • The Windsor Box&Fir Co.

    Hole In The Wall

    Composer: anon.

    • Begone Dull Care: Music from Jane Austen’s House.
    • unknown.
    • unknown.

  • George Gershwin

    I Can't Be Bothered Now

    Performer: Fred Astaire with Ray Noble & His Orchestra

    • Fred Astaire Sings Gershwin.
    • American Songbook Classics.
    • B004G973DI.

  • Izhak Perlman and Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela

    Wedding Medley

    Composer: Traditional

    • In The Fiddler’s House.
    • 1995 EMI Records ltd.
    • B001IQ6WGG.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Suite 3, No.6. The Death Of Juliet

    Performer: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra

    • Romeo & Juliet Suites.
    • EMI CLASSICS.
    • B0054T8DBU.

Broadcasts

  • Sun 23 Oct 2011 06:05
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
  • Sun 23 Oct 2011 23:30
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4