JohnS Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 Polar bear Shades - new to me. https://fb.watch/7ObUfpEoXH/ 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bridiem Posted September 4, 2021 Share Posted September 4, 2021 2 hours ago, JohnS said: Polar bear Shades - new to me. https://fb.watch/7ObUfpEoXH/ Brilliant! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted September 14, 2021 Share Posted September 14, 2021 (edited) Don't know if this brings about laughter, but certainly it made me smile. I just tripped over this as I was preparing a film segment for yet another prison session. I've always thought that James Hay - one of my favourite RB dancers - resembled - in a variety of ways - a young Chaplin. Here's a film of Churchill visiting the set of Chaplin's City Lights in 1929. In it you get to see Chaplin (then a sprightly 40) do some pretty mean entrechats (circa 1.27)! I just knew it. Queue James for a close up methinks. Edited September 14, 2021 by Bruce Wall 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jane S Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 https://theshed.org/program/219-madeline-hollander Brilliant film of David Hallberg! 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alison Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Actually, that's quite fascinating, too. I'd never before registered just how much bows varied according to ballet and location, and how important the use of the eyes is! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 Real class has restarted. Thought I'd pop along to the new conditioning class. I mean what could possibly go wrong? To my horror there is the prospect of therabands... er, I might need close supervision to avoid self strangulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted September 15, 2021 Share Posted September 15, 2021 (edited) 42 minutes ago, alison said: Actually, that's quite fascinating, too. I'd never before registered just how much bows varied according to ballet and location, and how important the use of the eyes is! Reverencing to the Presence and partner is a thing in historical dance, removal of hat, shuffling around, putting hat back on. Not too dissimilar to salutes in fencing. Edited September 15, 2021 by Alexander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted September 18, 2021 Share Posted September 18, 2021 I was preparing another video for a Zoom session in the prisons this morning and stumbled across a sonnet by John Clare which - in my ignorance - I did not know. It veritably dances. It is called 'Sunday Dip'. I thought some might enjoy this little recording. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (edited) Did yet another Zoom session with the lads inside, (my 146th since May of this year), and used W B Yeats' incendiary sonnet, Leida and the Swan, as a lift off point to inspire their imaginations. In the recording I made for this purpose I used the opening of the primary Agon PDD to feed; being rich - as it so clearly is - with Balanchine's considerable poetic fire. The original cast of Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell were just SO engrossing. The lads asked to see this little film three different times which really touched me. One of the chaps said it was 'the most beautiful thing I've ever seen'. They wanted to know where they could see it live. I do so hope the Royal does Agon again soon. If these guys are anything to go by, they could have a whole new audience. Edited October 7, 2021 by Bruce Wall 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odyssey Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 A stimulating fusion of two remarkable works of art. What a tremendous initiative. I share your enthusiasm for Agon to be brought back into the repertoire. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 I have been sorting out some of the music books my late lamented pianist used for my ballet classes. They are full of her annotations and it was rather a nostalgic exercise. However one made me smile, on the page for "runs" she had noted "Ad Nauseum"! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted October 7, 2021 Share Posted October 7, 2021 (A word of warning in reference to my video clip above - if you are listening to/watching this on a mobile/cell phone or tablet - you will need to reduce the volume by at least a third. If you are on an old PC - as in the prison system - you can leave it as is. Technology has yet to achieve maximum equalisation in all quarters I've found. It promises to get there soon, I'm sure.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Wall Posted October 11, 2021 Share Posted October 11, 2021 I would like to share another verse lift-off video with you. I created it this morning. It means a lot to me. I was 23 at the time and had the great good fortune to be in the room when these two dance sequences were conceived. (I won't go into the how or why here. If you want to know I will happily tell you.) It is something I will NEVER forget. Certainly it changed my life. I earnestly believe that I would not - nay, could not - do the work I do now if I hadn't been there. As I often tell the guys inside I learned SO much from Balanchine - a Shakespeare of our time (i.e., someone who created a language). He had intended this to be his last ballet - but lived a little bit longer and gave our lucky world 'Mozartiana' as well, his 420th work. His genius rightly deserves that of Yeats. (A word of warning in reference to my video clip above - if you are listening to/watching this on a mobile/cell phone or tablet - you will need to reduce the volume by at least a third. If you are on an old PC - as in the prison system - you can leave it as is. Technology has yet to achieve maximum equalisation in all quarters I've found. It promises to get there soon, I'm sure.) 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosiesDream Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 I hope this thread carries on after Covid, smiles are always good. This is a piece by one of the world's greatest finger-pickin' style guitarists. It's royalty free as it was made as a tribute to Rock guitarist Eddie Van Halen, but it's played on an accoustic guitar. Mike Dawes, playing his arrangement of Jump 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 Wow that works so well on acoustic. Shows what a good song it is, and what a lovely player Dawes is! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosiesDream Posted November 15, 2021 Share Posted November 15, 2021 Although it's ballet [?] I thought I'd post this link here, Bolshoi's Nikolay Tsiskaridze as the Sylph. He make a pretty good job, of it too, although not necessarily a pretty Sylph Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maryrosesatonapin Posted November 15, 2021 Author Share Posted November 15, 2021 1 hour ago, RosiesDream said: Although it's ballet [?] I thought I'd post this link here, Bolshoi's Nikolay Tsiskaridze as the Sylph. He make a pretty good job, of it too, although not necessarily a pretty Sylph Ha ha, excellent! I love artists who are willing to join in fun and not take themselves so seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maryrosesatonapin Posted November 16, 2021 Author Share Posted November 16, 2021 When that one corps member turns their head the wrong way.... 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander Posted November 30, 2021 Share Posted November 30, 2021 Thought I'd share as the gathering gloom of Omicron descends. Teacher uses French terminology so with the resumption of real class (good fun) I was struggling with one particular reference in class for feet movement "carre parque". Took me several weeks to realise the foot to be moved was the one nearest the car park. Erm... DOH! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 I don't know about the Winter Olympics but nothing slowed him down. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pas de Quatre Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 Idly chatting while walking the dogs, DH and I were reminiscing about some of the dreadful shows we have sat through and came up with the most exciting event we could imagine. "Waiting for Godot - the musical", choreography by Steve Paxton to music by John Cage (4 minutes silence on continuous loop) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 2 hours ago, Pas de Quatre said: Idly chatting while walking the dogs, DH and I were reminiscing about some of the dreadful shows we have sat through and came up with the most exciting event we could imagine. "Waiting for Godot - the musical", choreography by Steve Paxton to music by John Cage (4 minutes silence on continuous loop) Shame. 😊 Now let's move on to friendlier waters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sim Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 11 minutes ago, Buddy said: Shame. 😊 Now let's move on to friendlier waters. The intro sounds more like Never On Sunday! 😂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 16 minutes ago, Sim said: The intro sounds more like Never On Sunday! 😂 And.... Pot-Pourri (Banda Cover versão completa) - Rivers of Babylon - Sugar Sugar - More Than I Can Say - Forever and Ever - Mississippi - Guantanamera - Kiss Me, Honey Honey, Kiss Me - Jeany Ich Brauch' Dich 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Might I revive this thread? Given the relentlessly awful news at the moment, here is some family entertainment with a Swan Lake theme:- 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted March 19, 2022 Share Posted March 19, 2022 Strewth! Bits of that have haunted my Links trawls all week but I'd no idea it was so long. The things folk do ...... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Macmillan Posted April 1, 2022 Share Posted April 1, 2022 A disappointed applicant for the AD post at ENB: 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naomi M Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 An university baseball team in the US Savannah Bananas are dancing ballet on the field and they are actually good! https://www.instagram.com/reel/CUAQbD-gY74/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link 5 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 I didn't know that Taylor Swift was a ballerina, but how wrong I was ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangorballetboy Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 5 hours ago, Buddy said: I didn't know that Taylor Swift was a ballerina, but how wrong I was ! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JM h8rs gonna h8 😇 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanJL Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Not Taylor Swift's only reference to ballet. She also had Misty Copeland and James Whiteside accompany her on stage a few years ago (see https://youtu.be/SVY8I46dkb0SVY8I46dkb0 from 8:35). Slightly more tangentially, she wrote a song about Rebekah Harkness, whose former house she now owns. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scheherezade Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Not forgetting her Cats encounter with Francesca Hayward. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buddy Posted May 23, 2022 Share Posted May 23, 2022 Yes, lyrics worth thinking about, Bangorballetboy. Thanks, everyone, for the other insights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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