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Chinese State Circus Performs and excerpt from Ballet Swan Lake

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.
posted by Faintdreams on Apr 16, 2013 - 8 comments

Tallchieva? Never!

"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. [more inside]
posted by mynameisluka on Apr 13, 2013 - 18 comments

Slow-Motion Dance

Ballet dancers of the Staatsballett Berlin at 1000 FPS, to the sound of Radiohead. Also: TimeTwist [more inside]
posted by Bora Horza Gobuchul on Mar 27, 2012 - 13 comments

The Ballerina Gallery

The Ballerina Gallery
posted by Trurl on Aug 13, 2011 - 9 comments

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

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?
posted by Artw on Jan 8, 2011 - 121 comments

The Urban Ballerina

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]
posted by netbros on Dec 10, 2010 - 9 comments

I think we are all winners here.

Street Dance vs Ballet - Dance It Up (SLYT)
posted by fearfulsymmetry on Aug 26, 2010 - 20 comments

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

The Dance of Doom! From this motherlode of comics goodness, found by Robot 6.
posted by Artw on Jun 17, 2010 - 16 comments

A Pregnant Ballerina Dancing on the Beach.

A Pregnant Ballerina Dancing on a Beach. [more inside]
posted by chunking express on Oct 20, 2009 - 18 comments

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

"Long River High Sky" is a collaborative performance by Alonzo King's Lines Ballet and the monks of the Shaolin Temple USA.
posted by homunculus on May 30, 2008 - 6 comments

The Red Detachment of Women

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] [more inside]
posted by flapjax at midnite on Mar 12, 2008 - 34 comments

Excavation Ballet

Pretty Big Dig
A dance film by Anne Troake that gently illustrates the assimilation of technology. QT video [more inside]
posted by carsonb on Dec 2, 2007 - 8 comments

Les Ballets Trockadero

Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo . [more inside]
posted by homunculus on Oct 2, 2007 - 10 comments

Nude Ballet

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.
posted by Yer-Ol-Pal on Jun 14, 2005 - 25 comments

Dancing

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 .
posted by semmi on Jan 8, 2005 - 5 comments

Does this tutu make me look fat?

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]
posted by romakimmy on Apr 9, 2004 - 7 comments