[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-ballet-doodles":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"Today I went to my little friend Dulcie's ballet recital, held in the brand-new theatre at Alleyn's School in Dulwich. I hadn't been to the school for awhile, since my neighbour kid friend grew up, but in the old theatre building, I'd seen \u003Ci>Bugsy Malone\u003C/i> (my friend played \u003Ca href=\"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tKdAu7Fnao\">Tallulah\u003C/a>!), \u003Ci>Carousel\u003C/i>, \u003Ci>On the Razzle\u003C/i> and a Kafka play. \\r\n\\r\nBallet's the best thing for making action sketches, even if it's dark and there's never time to draw more than a few lines of each figure. (Here are \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/404755.html\">some sketches I made earlier in the year\u003C/a> of adult dancers... oh! And photos of me in pink ballet gear, ha ha.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ballet_sketchbook-3104d7a447.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here to see four pages of sketches under the cut.-->\\r\nThe kids all dressed as different sweets. (Dulcie was a \u003Ca href=\"http://www.thesweetiestop.co.uk/traditional-old-fashioned-rhubarb-and-custard-100g.html\">Rhubarb & Custard\u003C/a> boiled sweet, something I don't think we ever had in America.)\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dancers-781e5188df.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ballet_sketch_4-65b9bb695a.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ballet_sketch_2-4d34c391e0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ballet_sketch_3-21fbcb534b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/ballet_sketch_1-d2d9fec254.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/dancers2-20483934c9.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAfter the show, the star of the ballet, her mother and I had a celebratory hot chocolate while she watched the video I'd shot.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/postballet_hotchoc-61ac9bdf57.jpg\">","2011-12-18T21:05:00.000Z","ballet-doodles",[],"ballet doodles",1776628721132]