#ballet posting

[artandbeauty71]

Absolutely OBSESSED with the gorgeous illustrations from this ballet book, these are just a few of them 🥹 (Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Daphnis and Chloe)

[dear-ao3]

he looks like hes about to tombé pas de bourrée glissade pas de chat all over the place

[chiricocuvie]

Me when I am far to into things

[artandbeauty71]

Today's random ass analysis that I just came up with is:

Is this male ballet lead a green flag (🟩) or a red flag? (🚩)

The Nutcracker Prince (The Nutcracker): Literally just an enchanted toy who's willing to bring you on a ride through magical kingdoms full of sweets and toys. A little girl's dream come true; too bad he's not real. (🟩)

Siegfried (Swan Lake): He's a dreamer boy, a lil dumb, a lil cute, the perfect epitome of "I don't wanna get married, I wanna have fun with my friends and find true love 🥺". And then falls in love with a cursed bird girl. Idealistic much, but who can blame him? (🟩)

Desiré (Sleeping Beauty): Is it a hot take if I say I find him kinda boring? All bro does is going on a hunt, talking to a fairy and kissing some girl. Beige flag I guess?

Solor (La Bayadère): This one's a bit tricky. On one hand he straight up gets married to the princess despite already bring in a relationship, though on the other hand you clearly see how he has no other chance, how conflicted and troubled he is. Though if you go with the interpretation that he's too charmed by the allure of becoming a prince and dumps his gf only to feel guilty later, then by all means (🚩)

Albrecht (Giselle): Ohh boy, not even Giselle can save you here. Is it absolutely heartbreaking to watch him dance himself to death in Act 2? Absolutely. But did he really have to go after this random peasant girl AND conceal his identity while already being engaged and cause her to die of heartbreak? Absolutely not. (🚩🚩🚩)

Prince Ivan (The Firebird): As I said about Sleeping Beauty's prince, he doesn't do much at all. He just 1. tries to catch a girl bird and 2. gets his ass saved by said bird. And cracks a golden egg. Beige flag

Romeo (Romeo and Juliet): This is more of a Shakespearean debate, and honestly I believe that it's not R&J's fault for what happened. But one might speculate further. He's just a bit depressed, guys, it's not his fault. (🟩?)

Des Grieux (Manon): A walking academic weapon, a poetic soul, hot af, throws it all out the window to follow this "dangerous" girl he just met on the other side of the world. Not to say it's Manon's fault, but he should have know better tbf. Took "follow your dreams" a bit too literally. (🚩)

Oberon (The Dream): Literally no one in their right mind would argue with their wife over the possession of a page boy (wtf?) but hey. he's the King of the Fairies and he's sexy. What more could you possibly want? (🟩)

(might do a part 2 at some point, there's soo many more)

[artandbeauty71]

What are the prettiest/most aesthetic costumes in the whole ballet repertoire? And why Oberon and the Ghost of the Rose?

[artandbeauty71]

whenever the male main character in ballet does the oath sign (one hand on chest above the heart, other arm raised up with index and middle finger pointing at the sky) you know it's about to get real bad over the course of the next 30 minutes or so

[artandbeauty71]

A ballet for each month of the year!

(no one asked but imma do it anyway, this is just my opinion obv. a mixture of classic and ballets russes repertoire)

January: Swan Lake (gives me winter vibes for some reason)

February: Petrushka (Carnival-esque with a bit of tragedy)

March: La Bayadère (spring vibes but not exactly)

April: The spectre of the rose (flowers! pretty pink flower petals!)

May: The Rite of Spring (spring. its brutal face. also the infamous riot which happened on May 29th 1913)

June: The Afternoon of a Faun (it's short, early lazy summer afternoon vibes)

July: Romeo and Juliet (the story happens in july according to shakespeare, also big passions=big heat so hot summer is perfect)

August: Shéhérazade (as i said before, eroticism + exotic visuals that shine like liquid gold = heat)

September: The Firebird (end of summer vibes, spooky fairytale with a happy ending)

October: Giselle (the opposite, looks cute at first, spooky and slightly gothic vibes for the 2nd act, perfect for october)

November: Sleeping Beauty (gives me end of the year vibes. lazy, sleepy winter)

December: The Nutcracker (obviously, the Christmas classic. THE december ballet lol)

[artandbeauty71]

The beauty of Giselle

A sweet village girl is in love with a fellow 'commoner' who is actually not who she thinks he is. Betrayed and deeply hurt, she will face death itself. But love is stronger than everything, and forgiveness will prevail deep from her kind heart...