According to Disneyland you are too old to dress up after your 9th birthday.
A 35 year old and her 8 year old daughter dressed up as princesses for a day out in the theme park. The woman was wearing a wedding dress from a charity shop, but Disney would not allow her in until she had changed into jeans and a shirt.
Shame on Disney: we need to nuture our sense of fun at any age.
Tuesday, 27 April 2010
Monday, 19 April 2010
Dress sizes
A comment seen in a fashion article about the unreliability of dress sizes: "A size 12 for a 25 year old is not the same as a size 12 for a 55 year old."
At first sight this seems nonsensical, but, on reflection, perhaps it is merely observing that we change shape as we age? Instead of being 36-26-38 is it possible that the average woman becomes 26-36-38?
Heather Hosking
At first sight this seems nonsensical, but, on reflection, perhaps it is merely observing that we change shape as we age? Instead of being 36-26-38 is it possible that the average woman becomes 26-36-38?
Heather Hosking
Thursday, 15 April 2010
Kontakthof
Pina Bausch has been described as one of the most influential choreographers of our time.
Until her death last year she was Director of Tanztheater Wuppertal. Kontakthof is a piece of dance theatre she created in 1978, but in 2000 its creator decided that it should be performed by ordinary people aged 65 or more. Then in 2008 the performers were teenage school children. Both versions were performed in London recently. In a review I read by David Dougill he said the teenagers were admirable, but acting their parts. The "oldies" brought their "lifetimes of experience" and lived the performance.
I like the way this piece of theatre recognises that the feelings and desires of older people are just as worthy of exploration as those of the young. In using these performances in counterpoint it seems that a new level of meaning and emotional response can be found to them. A lesson to be learned from this then?
Heather Hosking
Until her death last year she was Director of Tanztheater Wuppertal. Kontakthof is a piece of dance theatre she created in 1978, but in 2000 its creator decided that it should be performed by ordinary people aged 65 or more. Then in 2008 the performers were teenage school children. Both versions were performed in London recently. In a review I read by David Dougill he said the teenagers were admirable, but acting their parts. The "oldies" brought their "lifetimes of experience" and lived the performance.
I like the way this piece of theatre recognises that the feelings and desires of older people are just as worthy of exploration as those of the young. In using these performances in counterpoint it seems that a new level of meaning and emotional response can be found to them. A lesson to be learned from this then?
Heather Hosking
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