Quadrophenia – A Mod Ballet offers huge relevance to today - video Dailymotion

Dan Baines had the misery of graduating into the pandemic. He doubted he would ever be able to kick-start his career.

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00:00perfect good afternoon my name is phil hewitt group arts editor sussex newspapers lovely

00:06this afternoon speaks dan baines who is on the road with autrophenia a mod ballet heading to

00:13the mayflower theater southampton from june the 18th of june the 21st and of course this is

00:20significant for you extra significant because you had the misfortune to graduate into the pandemic

00:26doubted whether you would ever actually have the career you wanted and here you are biggest role

00:31so far your first lead role that must feel great yeah it's fabulous yeah i'm very fortunate to be

00:38playing a space um hence the blonde hair

00:45yeah i dyed this for the role um and i actually love it so yeah no i'm very very fortunate to be

00:50to be on this job um and we're halfway through tour at the moment and we're doing a smashing job and

00:55we can't wait yeah and you must be getting a great response from audiences what is the feedback to

01:00this the feedback is amazing we've i think so far we we've just got five star reviews so well hats off

01:08hats off to us and the rest of the team who have worked on this job because so casting aside or

01:12modesty what are you getting right with this why is it working so well do you think

01:17it's because it's relevant it's it's more relevant than today than i think it ever was

01:22it's about rebellion it's about uh youth youth trauma it's about life at home it's about trend

01:28setting about being cool about being hip um and just it's about life and trying to figure that out

01:34because it's mystery and i think the story of jimmy in quadrophenia is is a perfect way of showcasing

01:43that whether that be through the album whether that be through the film through ballet or through a

01:48a recomposed score um which pete townsend's uh wife rachel has recomposed and that's what we're

01:55dancing to and you talk about all those issues those pressures but she knows such a friendship

02:01drugs and so on and so on some all those things that jimmy is facing the relevance today is that

02:06those are even more issues than they ever were aren't they life is even more difficult for young people

02:13yeah yeah of course you're 100 right film and that's in the context of what as you see of the

02:21pandemic where there are so many problems yet to come out perhaps

02:28yeah of course yeah i don't think i don't feel like we like you said earlier you know i think

02:31cover gets swept under the rug but i don't think we've seen the effects of that for generate we won't

02:36see it for generations to come um which is a sad sight to see but you know quadrophenia came out

02:42back in the day and we can look back on that and and sort of retrospect of of what that time was and

02:48we can understand that and time only makes sense backwards but we can only live it forwards yeah

02:56we've got some figuring out to do and you say time backwards but that applies to what your mum told

03:03you as a little boy when you just wouldn't stop and stand still would you of course yeah of course i'm

03:10very fortunate to have the job that i do i wouldn't be able to sit in an office or concentrate and and

03:15write or or do any of that all day so i'm very very fortunate to do the job that i do i i'm very lucky

03:21and i do love it a lot fantastic well congratulations on the role really looking forward to it and well

03:26done you for surviving the horrid fact of having graduated into covid great to speak to you dan good

03:33luck thank you thank you