2015-03-10
“In the midst of extreme pain and sadness I thought that I would share something of beauty with my daughter…Sergei Polunin and Kristina Shapran in an unrehearsed improvisation to Satie’s Gnossienne No1 – Kristina reminds me a bit of my daughter who had a middle parting in her hair, and wore her ponytail not to the left, but to the right side…and she was also very slight and fragile…”
Six days later, four months after Laura’s death, the exact time significant, I was sitting at the pool deck of the Abidos Hotel, Dubailand, where she had been staying at the time of her death.
Satie’s Gnossiene No 1. filtered across the deck…gentle…uncertain…pure…