Category: Features – Archive

December 22, 2021 / Features - Archive

Amy Campbell is still laughing, despite COVID kicking her in the teeth no less than four times. The first blow came in March last year, when Campbell, a choreographer, was preparing her first show as director, the musical A Chorus Line. In terms of scale, this was to be the…

November 26, 2021 / Features - Archive

Your phone battery is dead and your car radio goes on the blink, only picking up two stations. One exclusively plays lollipops by Kylie Minogue and Taylor Swift, while the other sticks stolidly to the sonic experiments of Karlheinz Stockhausen and the dense free jazz improvisations of Cecil Taylor. And…

November 6, 2021 / Features - Archive

Not many artists can be certain they’ve created a masterpiece. John Coltrane, who placed little credence in his own genius, had an inkling of something special when he’d finished composing A Love Supreme. Perhaps that was why he rarely played it in concert. How do you improve on perfection? For…