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So we will end for the 3 next weeks on Billy Joel’s Piano Man
Friends (I hope) and readers (few but valued),
Every three weeks we change our set of dances, and our new one began today. Keri ends brilliantly each time: lat time it was I will survive, before that Stand by Me. This 3 weeks Piano Man:
We do quite a dance to this. 18 bodies moving in stretches and waves … Mirrors all around. Keri said all we needed was strobe lights; since these are not in the budget we contented ourselves with simply shutting the bright light down …
Ellen Moody holds a Ph.D in British Literature and taught in American senior colleges for more than 40 years. Since 2013 she has been teaching older retired people at two Oscher Institutes of Lifelong Learning, one attached to American University (Washington, DC) and other to George Mason University (in Fairfax, Va). She is also a literary scholar with specialties in 18th century literature, translation, early modern and women's studies, film, nineteenth and 20th century literature and of course Trollope. For Trollope she wrote a book on her experiences of reading Trollope on the Internet with others, some more academic style essays, two on film adaptations, the most recent on Trollope's depiction of settler colonialism: "On Inventing a New Country." Here is her website: http://www.jimandellen.org/ellen/ No part of this blog may be reproduced without express permission from the author/blog owner. Linking, on the other hand, is highly encouraged!
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2 thoughts on “So we will end for the 3 next weeks on Billy Joel’s Piano Man”
Iconic performance. Must be fun to dance to.
Yes and the closing dance is a stretching relaxing ballet one — somehow fits the music each time.
Iconic performance. Must be fun to dance to.
Yes and the closing dance is a stretching relaxing ballet one — somehow fits the music each time.