Next week we are off to Scotland for a well earned holiday. We’ll go by boat and bicycle, which means that we some tough choices must be made. For example: how many books can my stamina endure on a highland hill? For the moment not too much, I suppose. But then, it can rain a …
The 1st of May is the traditional socialist international day. A good (and beautiful day to do something about socialist heritage. The Floreal venue in Herent (near Leuven) makes an rather rare example of a building for gatherings in a rural setting. I’am not sure weather it was originally build by socialists (like Vooruit in Ghent …
Sometimes one gets the opportunity to meet another dance historian in real life. Remarkable as it may seem, dance historians are a rare species on a worldwide scale. The chance to encounter one next door i.e. would be in my opinion as small as to get struck by a giant meteorite in your bed at …
As some of you might have noticed, it was remarkably quite on this blog the last few weeks. Not the usual weekly post, far from that. While working really hard on the first chapter of my book (published in Dutch only for the moment), I didn’t have any time left to prepare my next blog …