First personColombia'For me, dancing means freedom'Dancer and choreographer Alvaro Restrepo is the director of El Colegio del Cuerpo, a dance school in Cartagena, Colombia. Firmly believing that there is a connection between dance and personal freedom, he has opened his doors to the disadvantaged children of the city, where more than two thirds of the population live below the poverty line. In this article, both he and one of his students, Alexis Marimom, talk about the power of movement, culture and self-respectIn Cartagena, there is such fertile ground for a dance project. Read More...
The ObserverJimi Hendrix This article is more than 10 years old'How I helped to make Jimi Hendrix a rock'n'roll star'This article is more than 10 years oldLinda Keith lent a young blues player a guitar belonging to her boyfriend, Keith Richards – and the rest is history. In a rare interview, she tells her storyRock'n'roll has had many pivotal moments, but few are as clear cut as when Linda Keith, a 20-year-old British Vogue model and blues fanatic, lent a virtually unknown Jimi Hendrix a white Fender Stratocaster, the instrument that would become forever entwined with the guitarist's legendary and unsurpassed technique. Read More...
Nick Cave'I saw music could be a beautiful, evil thing, while my parents shifted uncomfortably'I lost my innocence with Johnny Cash. I used to watch the Johnny Cash Show on television in Wangaratta when I was about 9 or 10 years old. At that stage I had really no idea about rock'n'roll. I watched him and from that point I saw that music could be an evil thing, a beautiful, evil thing. Read More...
