One thing I really took from all my years of piano was an appreciation for music-more specifically, classical piano music. While I love singing along to Katy Perry like the next person, I do enjoy lying in bed, sitting on the train or working at my desk and listening to some good old classical music. Of course I also love dancing to it. Whether I'm in class warming up with plies & tendus or else dancing an exciting enchainement of glissades, jetes, tombes and jetes at the end of class, the music is always perfectly suited to the steps. Many times after class I'm left humming the remnants of the last tune played whilst attempting to walk "normally" in public-I do admit though, that sometimes I get carried away going through everything in my head and one of my legs will jerk out suddenly..wanting to execute a glissade or assemble in the middle of Hickson Rd :)
To control these cravings I've resorted to good old Youtube where I've found some old RAD *Royal Academy of Dance* music from grades 7 & 8 that I always enjoyed. This has worked thus far; however, I love the music played every Sunday so much that I finally asked my teacher where she gets her music from. To my delight, she offered to transfer the music onto a USB for me. I can't wait! So far, I've only found one ballet pianist through iTunes whose songs I hear in class. The artist is Aly Tejas and 3 of her tunes I hear quite frequently-her "Moods, Impressions & Reminiscences" is one we frequently do our first plies for and her "Tendu Plie 4/4" is of course one used often for tendus! Not wanting to drop heaps of money on music, I contented myself with purchasing just 3 songs (including those 2 above) from iTunes until I get the music on to my USB :) I can't wait! As aside from Aly Tejas, there's adaptions from Disney movies such as Mary Poppins (it is lots of fun doing grand battements to "chim chim cheree") and broadway productions such as "West Side Story". My absolute favourite of all songs is "I feel pretty" adapted for a ballet class. One Sunday at the end of July, Andrea came up with a very exciting enchainement for class-end to "I feel pretty"..the song and the sequence quickly fell into my long-term memory bank and so when I get the music off of Andrea I will be playing and dancing to "I Feel Pretty" till kingdom-come :P
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