Roland Graeme - A Dance Of Love And Jealousy by Roland Graeme

Author:Roland Graeme [Graeme, Roland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

LLOYD WALKER was a man who was not easily agitated. In his line of

work, it was often necessary to maintain an outward semblance of calm even when everything around him seemed to be on the verge of chaos. As he sat in his office one afternoon and busied himself with paperwork, he did a quick personal inventory. He supposed he was lucky and ought to be grateful. He was a happily married man and had recently become a grandfather. He was the director of a major ballet and modern dance company, and people whose opinions he respected told him he was good at his job. And just at the moment, on this quiet weekday afternoon, he seemed to be in between crises, for a change, as opposed to dealing with one crisis on top of another. He might as well sit back and try to enjoy this calm in the eye of the storm, because he knew damn well it couldnt possibly last!

The current season was going well so far. The big gamble had been hiring Romuald Ghent as the companys new resident choreographer. As a dancer, Ghent was a big name, one of the biggest. Critics seemed to either love his work as a choreographer or hate it; there was no fence-sitting. Audiences, on the other hand, tended to be favorable, although there had been a few recent exceptions on the other side of the Atlantic. What Walker really hoped to do was talk Ghent into doing more dancing. He was still comparatively young, as dancers went, and surely had quite a few good years ahead of him as a performer, maybe not in the more demanding classic ballet roles, but definitely in the more modern repertory. Luckily, the latter was what Ghent seemed to be focusing on now, including new works.

The first test would be Eclogues, Ghents new ballet based on Virgil, which the company was rehearsing now. Theyd scored a coup by talking Henri Keller into coming to town to dance in all ten performances of the new work, starting with the big fundraising gala on opening night. Keller, with his recent history of drug and sex scandals, was undeniably a loose cannon, but he was still a major international star. His name alone had guaranteed that all ten performances of Eclogues were sold out well in advance. Since Romuald had assured Walker that the climactic, penultimate scene in Eclogues would be “Homoerotic with a capital H,” theyd hedged their bet by casting Dane Stockton, the hottest young male dancer on the companys roster, as Kellers partner in the scene. That pairing alone should guarantee that theyd win the gay vote, so to speak. As additional insurance, since the scene required a third male dancer, theyd assigned that role to Larry Duvernoix, another local audience favorite.

Keller was Ghents boyfriend—when he wasnt diverting himself elsewhere to the delight of the scandal-hungry world press—which was the only reason theyd been able to sign him up as a guest star in the first place.

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