a ballet to kid A

you lucky UK motherfuckers. you assholes get a ballet set to radiohead's music.

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'Ride The Beast' will make its London debut later this year. Tracks used include 'Hunting Bears', 'Idioteque', 'The National Anthem', 'Fitter Happier' and an acoustic version of 'Creep'.

Choreographer Stephen Petronio explained his choice of music for the piece, saying: "Radiohead's music is a brilliant investigation of achingly modern taste. They sail through genre and form effortlessly and passionately and their music demands a physical response from me that bypasses reason. I have to live with music so intimately while creating with it, I simply have to work with music I love."

'Ride The Beast' will be performed at:
Glasgow Theatre Royal (September 18-20)
Edinburgh Festival Theatre (25-27)
London Queen Elizabeth Hall (October 4-5)
Inverness Eden Court (7-8)
Aberdeen His Majesty's Theatre (10-11)

a ballet to kid A

you lucky UK motherfuckers. you assholes get a ballet set to radiohead's music.

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'Ride The Beast' will make its London debut later this year. Tracks used include 'Hunting Bears', 'Idioteque', 'The National Anthem', 'Fitter Happier' and an acoustic version of 'Creep'.

Choreographer Stephen Petronio explained his choice of music for the piece, saying: "Radiohead's music is a brilliant investigation of achingly modern taste. They sail through genre and form effortlessly and passionately and their music demands a physical response from me that bypasses reason. I have to live with music so intimately while creating with it, I simply have to work with music I love."

'Ride The Beast' will be performed at:
Glasgow Theatre Royal (September 18-20)
Edinburgh Festival Theatre (25-27)
London Queen Elizabeth Hall (October 4-5)
Inverness Eden Court (7-8)
Aberdeen His Majesty's Theatre (10-11)

whoa.

rembember this guy? before johnny depp was the go-to guy for middle-aged sexually deprived moms and winona ryder was best known for stealing some clothes and boning everybody in the music industry?

they are now doing an australian ballet version of tim burton's edward scissorhands. methinks we have a winner. actually it will probably be horrible, but I would just go see it because I never really thought (if I thought about it, which I haven't) that the words "ballet" and "tim burton" would be in the same sentence.

Here are a couple key clips from the article (from thewest.co.au, an Australian newspaper):

"Sending expectations through the roof is the creator of Edward Scissorhands, British choreographer Matthew Bourne, whose revolutionary Swan Lake featuring a rugby scrum of feathered hunks had audiences gasping when it played in Perth last year."

"Traditionalists, however, continued to turn up their noses at Bourne’s shameless populism and trademark blurring of the lines between ballet and theatre. He calls it musical theatre while cynics have dubbed his productions 'dansicals'."

I think I love dansicals! also, how much fun could the set people have making those awesome suburban houses and how much fun could the costume people have making those asymetrical haircuts for the housewives? hipster haircuts everywhere, be jealous.

whoa.

rembember this guy? before johnny depp was the go-to guy for middle-aged sexually deprived moms and winona ryder was best known for stealing some clothes and boning everybody in the music industry?

they are now doing an australian ballet version of tim burton's edward scissorhands. methinks we have a winner. actually it will probably be horrible, but I would just go see it because I never really thought (if I thought about it, which I haven't) that the words "ballet" and "tim burton" would be in the same sentence.

Here are a couple key clips from the article (from thewest.co.au, an Australian newspaper):

"Sending expectations through the roof is the creator of Edward Scissorhands, British choreographer Matthew Bourne, whose revolutionary Swan Lake featuring a rugby scrum of feathered hunks had audiences gasping when it played in Perth last year."

"Traditionalists, however, continued to turn up their noses at Bourne’s shameless populism and trademark blurring of the lines between ballet and theatre. He calls it musical theatre while cynics have dubbed his productions 'dansicals'."

I think I love dansicals! also, how much fun could the set people have making those awesome suburban houses and how much fun could the costume people have making those asymetrical haircuts for the housewives? hipster haircuts everywhere, be jealous.