Trying to remember your dance…..
This has totally been me the past few days - we learned our new 20 minute contemporary piece in one week and the pas de duex is so damn confusing
Natalia Osipova warming up for rehearsal for Romeo & Juliet.
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LAmour sorcier
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
Festival Cultural de Mayo 2013
Teatro Degollado
Guadalajara, Jalisco
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Russian design Giselle low lounge tutu table by Anna Neklesa
Created by Anna Neklesa, a young and talented designer from Saint Petersburg, who joined the Kerozene Design Team, this out of the oridnary design pays homage to and is inspired by that great Russian tradition of Ballet. The design clearly refers to a graceful ballet dancer, with legs in a lovely tendu, its top a nicely ruffled tutu. Beneath, storage tubes accommodate magazines, newspapers, or your pointe shoes.
Anna is Russian, only 23 years old and already has industry experience at creating industrial and exhibition design, as well as private interiors, public spaces, lighting equipment and household items.
She worked with a factory in France in order to ensure that the table passed stringent stress tests, pretty neccessary given it’s somewhat out there leg shape. Although it has only two legs and you could expect it to be a bit wobly, the lounge table is said to actually be quit stable.
The factory in France really was able to master the technologies necessary to achieve the table. A design from Russia and manufactured entirely in France.
The top of the table is formed of stainless steel plate or powder-coated aluminium wrapped up in white, black or pink cataphoretic paint to offer protection. The legs provide options of a varnished or painted solid oak finish.
Tanaquil LeClercq was probably the earliest stringbean ballerina. She was Balanchine’s fourth and final wife. He divorced her for Suzanne Farrell. She was stricken with polio at the height of her career in 1956, and paralyzed from the waist down.
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“I’ll never forget the day Marilyn and I were walking around New York City, just having a stroll on a nice day. She loved New York because no one bothered her there like they did in Hollywood, she could put on her plain-jane clothes and no one would notice her. She loved that. So as we we’re walking down Broadway, she turns to me and says ‘Do you want to see me become her?’ I didn’t know what she meant but I just said ‘Yes’- and then I saw it. I don’t know how to explain what she did because it was so very subtle, but she turned something on within herself that was almost like magic. And suddenly cars were slowing and people were turning their heads and stopping to stare. They were recognizing that this was Marilyn Monroe as if she pulled off a mask or something, even though a second ago nobody noticed her. I had never seen anything like it before.” - Amy Greene, wife of Marilyn’s personal photographer Milton Greene
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“you shouldn’t be depressed, people have it worse than you”
finally, after years of searching, the person with the worst life ever is found. formally, they are granted permission to be sad. but only them. only they have earned it. no sads for anyone else at all ever
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