Alone by Bill Jones

Author:Bill Jones [Jones, Bill]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408853443
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Foulkes herself was no intellectual slouch. She read books, listened to music and studied the world. When Curry called, she was midway through a law degree. Years later, when Curry’s theatrical dreams had all collapsed, she went back and finished it.

On the morning of Monday 29 November, Curry gathered his six-strong troupe together at a dance studio in Floral Street, Covent Garden. Under the eye of teacher Joyce Graeme, they clasped their hands around the barre, and commenced what would become their daily warm-up ritual of ballet stretches. If it was unorthodox, no one was sniggering. Each skater was on a weekly wage of £300 and few of them had seen money like it. Questions were neither encouraged nor advisable. Already, everywhere they looked there were problems, and Curry’s intransigence was at the heart of all of them.

‘He didn’t know what he was doing. People got frustrated. He was frustrated. There were huge problems with Larry Parnes and him, and he in turn took his frustrations out on the company,’ recalls Jacqui Harbord.

He wouldn’t speak to you for ages, and his favourite thing was to moan, ‘Oh no Jacqui, that’s not really skating’. It was feathers out, sequins out. Pointed toes and sustained edges in. Fantastic. All very clever and ballet-oriented, but the public don’t know anything. The public want to see you do a fast spin. He had no experience of shows whatsoever. Everything was very intense. He would expect this and this and this and it would dissolve because it couldn’t be done.

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