Ballet Vol.3 - Klaus Schulze

Advantages: Nice hypnotic grooves and soloing.
Disadvantages: Overlong, can be boring in parts.

...Klaus Schulze has released so much old material in boxed sets or re-issues in the past 10 years that it almost passed my notice that he hasn't released a straight forward new studio album for ages. And here it is, supposedly a "fan pleasing" album featuring a mix of his famed 70s sequencer style with his more rhythmic contemporary sound. The end result is rather a joyful upbeat album for Schulze. The standard overlong tracks are still there, but if you adjust your listening head to just float along, they pass by remarkably quickly. The 30 minute "Playmate In Paradise" is really a track in two halves. The first is his standard contemporary style of rhythmic backbeats with only very sparse soloing. The track is built up very slowly (as is Schulze's style, why rush?) Just as you think it is going on for far to long, it is enhanced by... Read review

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Advantages: Keeps you fit and a gives you great posture
Disadvantages: Aching Muscles

...I started adult ballet classes about 7 years ago as I had a back problem and needed to do something that would strengthen my back muscles. I entered my first class with absolute fear as I am not a performer, in my first classs I learnt about how you use your body without causing it any injury. Then the next class, this time time movement came into it. I had never done ballet as a child so it was completely alien to me. I did not realise that learning to point my feet or hold my arms could be so difficult as it all looked so easy when I watched the Royal Ballet leap across the stage. But gradually with a great teacher and sheer determination I progressed. I would highly recommend this hobby to all both male and female who enjoy movement. You must... Read review

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Advantages: Fun to do and good for you, enjoyable to watch
Disadvantages: Kills your feet, and only certain body types can really be successful

...comes to town. Alternatively, you may despise the thing, but be dragged along to one once a year by your partner / parents as it’s the “cultural” thing to do (no doubt to see the Nutcracker at Christmas time since that’s when irregular ballet goers usually, erm, go). You might see yourself described here, and then again you might not. What about me? Well I fell into ballet accidentally – I was at gym training one day when my coach told us all that to make us more graceful, especially on beam and floor, we should have weekly dancing lessons. Handily for me, there was a dancing school directly above the gym, so along I went. There is a continuum of dancing schools, ranging from the utterly pretentious “let’s have all our little 3 year olds wearing tutus and full stage make up to lessons” to... Read review

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