tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post7951653921118873772..comments2024-01-23T12:27:05.258+00:00Comments on The Stone and the Star: TS Eliot's Four Quartets in dance, at the BarbicanClarissa Aykroydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-16351278768022387342019-06-03T16:50:23.338+01:002019-06-03T16:50:23.338+01:00Thanks for commenting. It was interesting to read ...Thanks for commenting. It was interesting to read your thoughts too. Modern dance certainly can be a challenge especially if you aren't very familiar with the genre. I should have, like you, given more credit in my writeup to Kathleen Chalfant's excellent reading. She got the balance of "not too flat" and "not over-emoting" just right, and it's no small feat to read a very long poem (or poem sequence) like Four Quartets live, and to do it well. I have also really enjoyed Jeremy Irons' recordings of Eliot's poems, especially Four Quartets. I sometimes listen to them when travelling. But as they are recordings, I imagine they would have pieced them together in bits... Clarissa Aykroydhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08571136118573329263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-607719101484462692.post-28207912696446348252019-06-03T16:37:25.346+01:002019-06-03T16:37:25.346+01:00Great post, Clarissa. I think my experience was ve...Great post, Clarissa. I think my experience was very similar to yours: somewhat confused and irritated by the dance (I also find myself way out of my depth with modern dance) but also intrigued. But the reading of the poem was mesmerising. Anyway, here's my thoughts in my own post: <br /><br />https://somemelodiousplot.blogspot.com/2019/05/four-quartets-at-still-point-there.html Mr Barlowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04194097906340029932noreply@blogger.com