Ramblin' Rose

1987

…a funny and touching life encapsulation.

"Walkley is powerful. She holds the audience in her hand and we sit breathless about to be crushed, but she does not crush us. She confronts us and then soothes us.

Walkley dances with great power. She is completely given over to her body and its animal relationship to the choreography. She makes eye contact with the audience in what becomes both confrontation and invitation, but her authority draws the audience in rather than alienating them.

It is her complete sense of uninhibited power that makes her body become not a mere object of beauty, but beautiful in the sense of the Renaissance painters and writers who held up humanity as creatures with God-like potential."

Kerthy Fix Hearn, CommonWealth Times

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choreographer, performer, text Helen Walkley

sound score: Ramblin’ Rose, Nat King Cole; This City Never Sleeps, Eurythmics; Running Up That Hill, Kate Bush