"Par Isberg's In Search of..... is the most predictable piece in the programme, an evening in the life of Mozart and his wife - but not entirely without its own surprises. Isberg says that if he'd known to start with that his chosen dancers, Thomas Lund and Gudrun Bøjesen, were both accomplished pianists, he might have chosen all-piano music and had the dancers play it themselves - an interesting idea, if a little restrictive when it came to a pas de deux. As it is, both of them get to play a few bars of an adagio (from piano concerto #23)....."
I wonder if Isberg had heard of John Doyle's version of Sondheim's Sweeney Todd , staged in London last year, in which members of the cast played musical instruments.
Doyle has used this device again on Broadway in his new production of another Sondheim musical, Company, in which, apparently, there is a surreal impression that the protagonist's friends have become a kind of nightmare band accompanying the confessional monologue in his head. Matthew Murphy, a young member of the corps at ABT, enthuses about Company is his engaging blog:
"If I could not only have legs, arms and a voice to express myself all the time, but an instrument as well to express my emotions like these characters maybe my life would seem as poetic. We are all creating music with or without the instrument, which is what Doyle helps us to see. Maybe he can come and set a ballet where we play while we pirouette?"
Finally, this morsel from Deadbrain UK:
"I've always believed that what someone gets up to in the privacy of their own home is their business, so long as they're not a Paki or a poof. But prancing around in a tutu in front of people? She's an embarrassment to the party."
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