dancing like the sea

Alessandra Ferri and Frederico Bonelli rehearsing Wayne McGregors' 'Woolf Works'

'Life is not a series of gig-lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end… the proper stuff of fiction is a little other than custom would have us believe it.’ 

– Virginia Woolf, Modern Fiction

sunday tune

Russian ballet students of Golesovsky from expostion “international photographers" 1924.

talk to her

It has been said (many times) that the most beautiful ballets are the ones that makes us forget the weight of the dancers’ bodies. With Pina Bausch, on the contrary, dance becomes a vehicle of celebration of this weight in its interaction with itself, the others’ and the environment. Her work is used beautifully in Hable con Ella by Pedro Almodóvar with that idea in mind, the dance segments in the film really reflect the musical rhythm and language of the story. I really recommend watching it and if it is of interest this essay is a good read.

Young and Old.

My friend Maia from julia warr on Vimeo.

This is beautiful. Maia Helles, a Russian ballet dancer, turns 95 but still remains resolutely independent, healthy and as fit as a fiddle.


solo from julia warr on Vimeo.

Age 10 and fearless.

Deborah Turbeville

I've always loved the shapes Deborah Turbeville caught in the bodies of her subjects.
RIP beautiful Deborah Turbeville.

Hello Monday!

“Art doesn’t cause riots, people do.”

Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, James S. Murphy reflects on the riot that occurred at the ballet’s premiere.

The Dying Swan

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Sylvie Guillem - Boléro

Sylvie Guillem with the Tokyo Ballet Boléro by Ravel

I ♥ Sylvie

a little Wednesday afternoon inspiration...

from sophisticated-simplicities