Here Today, Gone Tomorrow – A Life in Dance

‘ But what I found so arresting about the book was Gallea’s strong visual sensibility and her capacity to translate the sensibility into words. There’s her description of Paris in the 1960’s; the cafes, the metro, the pissoirs, the clochards, the smells of ‘garlic, red wine and body odour’…There are some evocative accounts of outdoor performances around the world and descriptions of theatres in various locations – in Quito, Ecuador, for example, where the auditorium held 4,000 people and sat in Gallea’s eyes ‘somewhere between a baroque cathedral and a 1930’s movie palace.’ I haven’t enjoyed a dance book so much for years’

Michelle Potter- ON DANCING