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Chinese State Circus Performs and excerpt from Ballet Swan Lake

Faintdreams — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 04:28:16 -0800

Performance of part of Swan Lake Ballet by Chinese State Circus [SYTL] 4min 29 seconds The full video is here, but for those of you who want to get to the jaw dropping / extreme balance stuff immediately, here is a link which starts at the 1min 40 (ish) mark. Enjoy.

Tallchieva? Never!

mynameisluka — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:38:00 -0800

"If anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away." American ballerina Maria Tallchief died Thursday. A native of Oklahoma, she was descended from the Osage Nation. She began dancing at a young age and studied with another formidable woman of ballet, Bronislava Njinska. At age 17, she joined the Ballets Russes and went on to become the first-ever prima ballerina of Native American descent. During the course of her 88 years, she:

Danced in Agnes DeMille's Rodeo
Married choreographer George Balanchine
Reigned as the New York City Ballet's first-ever prima ballerina
Became famous for her performance of The Firebird as choreographed by Balanchine with scenery and costumes by Mark Chagall
Played Anna Pavlova on film in a biopic starring Esther Williams
Danced "The Four Moons" along with four other "Oklahoma Indian Ballerinas" and was memorialized in an outdoor sculpture installation in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Refused to change her Osage surname to Tallchieva despite pressure to adopt a Russian-sounding stage name
Founded the Chicago City Ballet
Received a Kennedy Center Honor and National Medal of the Arts and was named Princess Wa-Xthe-Thomba ("Woman of Two Worlds") by the Osage tribe

Her sister, Marjorie Tallchief, was also a prima ballerina.

Slow-Motion Dance

Bora Horza Gobuchul — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:11:31 -0800

Ballet dancers of the Staatsballett Berlin at 1000 FPS, to the sound of Radiohead. Also: TimeTwist Via. YouTube mirror of the original video.

The Ballerina Gallery

Trurl — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:36:21 -0800

The Ballerina Gallery

I had the craziest dream last night. I was dancing the white swan.

Artw — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 09:18:41 -0800

Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan has entered a long line of ballet movies to critical acclaim, Golden Globe nominations and Oscar buzz. But what do ballerinas think of it?

The Urban Ballerina

netbros — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 14:14:05 -0800

Ballerina Project — Nine years ago, young photographer Dane Shitagi walked up New York City’s Broadway towards the highly patronized and well known STEPS dance studios in search of a ballet dancer who could help him begin his project: to capture images of ballerinas in urban environments. Those images first started appearing on Blogspot, but have since migrated to Facebook. [via]

I think we are all winners here.

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 06:49:28 -0800

Street Dance vs Ballet - Dance It Up (SLYT)

Remember, the Dance of Doom always ends in tradgedy! This time it shall be YOURS!

Artw — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:38:50 -0800

The Dance of Doom! From this motherlode of comics goodness, found by Robot 6.

A Pregnant Ballerina Dancing on the Beach.

chunking express — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:04:47 -0800

A Pregnant Ballerina Dancing on a Beach. I thought it was kind of sweet and compelling. Her other videos are interesting enough.

When you can walk the rice paper en pointe and leave no trace, you will have learned

homunculus — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:01:53 -0800

"Long River High Sky" is a collaborative performance by Alonzo King's Lines Ballet and the monks of the Shaolin Temple USA.

The Red Detachment of Women

flapjax at midnite — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:41:22 -0800

I'm not the world's biggest ballet fan, but there's just something about seeing Chinese ladies doing their plié and their relevé and their pirouettes while pointing rifles that speaks to something deep and primal within me. It's The Red Detachment of Women, of course. And comrades, you are urged to view it in its entirety. [note: see hoverovers for link descriptions] The Red Detachment of Women at YouTube: Part One and Part Two. And I don't know about you, but I'm totally ordering this poster. Maybe this record, too. And hooray, it's recently re-released on DVD!

Excavation Ballet

carsonb — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 17:01:43 -0800

Pretty Big Dig
A dance film by Anne Troake that gently illustrates the assimilation of technology. QT video If you are interested, ArtsAlive.ca has an excellent collection of ballet and dance videos.

Les Ballets Trockadero

homunculus — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:10:03 -0800

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo . There was a previous post about the Trocs in the dark age before YouTube.

Nude Ballet

Yer-Ol-Pal — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:04:05 -0800

Nude Ballet sparks national anger The Russian National Ballet will perform Romeo and Juliet - with nude scenes - for the first time in its World's Greatest Ballets program set to debut in Australia next month.

Dancing

semmi — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 18:59:26 -0800

The Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, with Margeaux Mundeyn, Pavel Törd, Ida Nevasayneva, Vladimir Legupski, Sveltlana Lofatkina, Olga Supphozova, Lariska Dumbchenko, Fifi Barkova is reviewed by Joan Acocella, "they pass through the joke and come out the other side, where the subject, having been laughed at, is once again embraced, enthroned." pic 1, and 2 .

Does this tutu make me look fat?

romakimmy — Fri, 09 Apr 2004 13:55:17 -0800

Ever worn a very sparkly, floppy table?* Just one requires enough fabric to cover a tennis court from baseline to net, at least 20 different measurements and the finished product can end up costing more than 10 iPods. [bonus links inside]