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lovely documentary about the diaghilev-balanchine-massine axis of 20th-century ballet, with lots of interviews with surviving dancers, all of whom are pretty awesome. you should see it!!

ilx isn't that big for ballet-talk, is it?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

http://proto4.thinkquest.nl/~kld011/dansmaar/portretten/portret32.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

I just saw The Company. It was pretty good.

I think I'm going to the ballet next month.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ballerinagallery.com/pic/baronova-jw.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Not yet been tempted to see Les Ballets Russes.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:15 (twenty years ago)

what if i told you that the woman below is in the movie?

http://www.tulsawalk.com/parks-places/tulsa/trekexpo99/yvonnecraig-batgirl-02.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

I'd probably give it a second thought.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:17 (twenty years ago)

I want to see this! I used to have Leon Bakst's Ballet Russes costume designs all over my walls when I was 12.
The Ballet Russes was far ahead of its time, especially with regards to its composers.
adam The Company is shit, as I told jaymc on the Chicago thread.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:18 (twenty years ago)

but I liked it!

so it can't be

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

okay, so maybe it wasn't a disaster, but I hated it because:
"(what I said to jaymc)...I hated The Company for reasons outside of the film itself, namely that it should have been a documentary starring the actual Joffrey 2 company rather than Neve "Can't dance well, not really" Campbell. Using the Joffrey dancers as back-up to Neve was insulting, I thought."

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

you should definitely see this then, jocelyn!

the designs are awesome. and the stories... the rivalries, the romances, the great artists, the sad decline... also awesome.

(xp)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

Call me when the Joffrey dancers pose half-naked in quasi-sailor outfits.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:23 (twenty years ago)

Joffrey (NYC) did a ballet based on Prince songs (Billboards) that involved a lot of half-nudity and pelvic thrusting.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

It was...weird.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.passionballet.com/balanchine.jpg

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

It sounds great.

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:26 (twenty years ago)

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~kimball/images/Nijinsky%20Afternoon%20Faun%201913.jpg

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)

is that george zoritch?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

nijinksii

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

zoritch is pretty awesome in the movie. he lives in tucson!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know he was still alive!

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

(adam I didn't mean to bitch you out. You know I respect your opinions)

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:32 (twenty years ago)

i thought the company sucked. i wanted to see the joffrey when i was in chicago, but they were doing the nutcracker, and i have no desire to see another nutcracker. i need to shell out to go see garth fagan dance sometime.

my favorite ballet documentary was something i watched in music history class in high school. i think it was a pbs documentary, but maybe not. it followed the process and research that went into recreating nijinksy's choreography of le sacre du printemps. i also remember some movie i watched as a kid that was about a russian dance company during soviet rule and everything they went through to be "perfect".

― tres letraj (tehresa), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:45 (twenty years ago)

adam I didn't mean to bitch you out. You know I respect your opinions

really?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:46 (twenty years ago)

um...I do, I just have strong feelings about The Company and I directed them towards you.
The documentary about soviet dancers is Children of Theatre Street, it's great.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

I directed them towards you.

you did?

― adamrl (nordicskilla), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

: (

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

oooh i'm gonna have to find that! i loved it as a kid.
xxpost

― tres letraj (tehresa), Monday, 9 January 2006 21:49 (twenty years ago)

this film is truly wonderful. we were the youngest people in the theatre by several decades (woman next to me was celebrating her eightieth) so it smelled distractingly like grannies, but it was worth it a hundred times over. the beauty of the archival footage and the humor and vitality of the surviving dancers are amazing.

― lauren (laurenp), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Balanchine could be considered very modern because he was devoted to young girls, but by modern, I mean 20th century.

― youn, Thursday, 19 January 2006 01:15 (twenty years ago)

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