Is someone trying to wind me up here?   I was Stage Manager for Ballet Rambert (Now Rambert Dance Company) when Ghost Dances came into the repertoire. The music was actually by Inti Illimani and the piece inspired by the appalling political oppression in Chile under Pinochet, at the time. Sorry if you find these sorts of public statements by artists and choreographers elitist.

It was performed in Gdansk Poland, just after solidarity had been supressed. No one in that theatre at that time could possibly have misunderstood the message it brought to the people of Poland. Particularly as Marie Rambert, was herself Polish. The singer Steve Tilston was also on that tour playing in a piece called Sergeant Early's dream (along with Maggie Boyle). He has written a song called Polonaise about that tour which is on one of his albums.

Frankly if the vast majority of musicians I have worked with were as dedicated and worked as hard as your average dancer, they'd be a lot better for it.

I've also worked on UK tours by the Bolshoi and Kirov Ballets. Sorry guys but in what I hope is my slightly better informed opinion you guys are talking through your bottoms, and showing an age old and ridiculous prejudice which is largely unjustified.

SM