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Arms Out Like Wings
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Arms Out Like Wings is an anecdotal memoir about my seven years spent in a ballet boarding school from 1969 to 1976 aged nine to seventeen. A ‘Pygmalion-esque’ story that takes me from my crowded, loving council house home of siblings, cockney, lorry driver Dad and Italian seamstress Mother, to a Rolls Royce gliding through London, tinkling piano music in corridors and marquees on the lawn. This book will give you an insight into a young ballet dancers life. The initial spark, training, literal blood sweat and tears, close friendships, pranks, pain, disappointment, injury, romance and sacrifices.
Arms Out Like Wings is an anecdotal memoir about my seven years spent in a ballet boarding school from 1969 to 1976 aged nine to seventeen. A ‘Pygmalion-esque’ story that takes me from my crowded, loving council house home of siblings, cockney, lorry driver Dad and Italian seamstress Mother, to a Rolls Royce gliding through London, tinkling piano music in corridors and marquees on the lawn. This book will give you an insight into a young ballet dancers life. The initial spark, training, literal blood sweat and tears, close friendships, pranks, pain, disappointment, injury, romance and sacrifices.
Breakfast - episode 11
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Arms Out Like Wings
The one where my Dad delivers coffee and Marmite in catering size jars!
02:39
The Spark - episode one
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The very beginning of my story. Visit our family home and the warm chaos within. Meet my Mum, Dad, brother and sisters. A glimpse into life in the 1960's.
09:51
Toe in the Water - episode two
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My first ballet classes as a six year old. How my mother saved the day.
05:06
Stage School - episode three
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Things start to scale up when I go to Corona Stage School. I find a dance mentor and Dad becomes a grumpy hero.
05:43
The Audition - episode four
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My Dad organises my secret audition for a professional Ballet School in East Grinstead. I then meet another influential lady in my life whilst I Polka in the biggest studio I have ever seen.
08:35
Evenings - episode 12
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Evenings at a girls Ballet School for borders. Midnight games, kissing practise 'girl on girl', crushes, making cheese from yoghurts and eventually sleep. . . .
08:56
Uniform - episode five
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My Italian family think I have been kidnapped, my Dad tells them where to go whilst I get turned down for a grant.
04:05
Vitae Honestas, Weekends & Dancing in the Lunch Queue - episode 13
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Strange latin phrases, weekend visits to my family and cuddling my sister. Dancing on the staircase.
07:30
Aprons and National Skirts - episode 14
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Being at a Ballet School involves many rituals. You also have to know your place in the hierarchy. This is where Aprons came in. Your apron and National Skirts were part of you. Life evolved around the seamstress who inhabited a cramped and warm space at the top of the school, a sort of haven for me. . . .
05:32
Arriving - episode six
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A rather tense car ride to my new Ballet School. My little sister playing 'rag doll' with me, my brother giving me a whole Ten Shilling note and my mother sobbing and smoking like she would use every cigarette in Surrey.
Meeting 'Nursey' and finding out that trendy, short skirts were useless for galloping like a horse around a dance studio.
11:14
Ballet Classes - episode 15
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It seems young ballet dancers need to learn about washing tights with fabric softener and how to put clothes on in a hurry.
05:52
The Contents of my Trunk - episode seven
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How I yearned for winceyette pyjamas and boring old fashioned slippers.
03:53
School Work, Elocution and My Tuck Box - episode 16
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My 'Pygmalion' moment when I learn to 'speak posh', learn how to read & write at last and secret moments with my parents and baby sister Gaynor in the Tuck Box room.
06:20
The First Night - episode eight
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Crisp and formal bedding, lights out and growing home sickness with an unusual approach to bed time.
02:56
Fire Drills & Blue Peter recording at the School - episode 17
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We loved Fire Drills which were always so exciting and after lights out. Nothing however prepared us for performing tap dance routines with John Noakes and Roy Castle on our own theatre.
05:27
Fire Drills & Blue Peter recording at the School
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Arms Out Like Wings
We loved Fire Drills which were always so exciting and after lights out. Nothing however prepared us for performing tap dance routines with John Noakes and Roy Castle on our own theatre.
05:27
Initiation - episode 9
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Girls behaving 'sort of badly' at night. Strange rituals involving absent Nursey and Glito . . . . .
04:26
The Lady of the Blue Pond & Levitation - episode 18
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This is the one about the incredibly ethereal lady who inhabited our Blue Pond and school corridors at night. Also the strange powers of levitation at our fingertips.
03:44
Rising Bell - episode 10
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My first morning with a ridiculously early start, cold linoleum and myriad shoes.
02:22
The Pull of Home - episode 19
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My first year at Ballet School was tough and my homesickness was extreme.
05:05
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