#faust ii

[animate-mush]

I’m brought here by my husband,

I’ve been sent ahead by him, now, to his city:

But what the meaning of it is I can hardly guess.

Do I come as his wife? Do I come as the Queen?

Or a sacrifice, for a Prince’s bitter pain,

And the ill fortune long endured by the Greeks?

I’m conquered: but am I a prisoner? I can’t tell!

True, the Immortals appointed Fame, and Fate,

As the two ambiguous, doubtful companions

Of Beauty, to stand here at this threshold with me,

The gloomy, threatening presences by my side.

Helen of Troy, Faust II, Johann Wilhelm von Goethe

[balletthebestphotographs]

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk Максим Паламарчук, “Faust II”, music by Franz Schubert, Luciano Berio, choreo by Xin Peng Wang. As part of the program for XXXV International Ballet Gala, Ballett Dortmund, Theater Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (September 10, 2022).

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (personal) Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (photography)

via: Isabelle Maia on Instagram

[blogdemocratesjr]

The Moon by Leonora Carrington

All that the man of today knows of this Moon is the abstract mineral ball he believes to revolve out there, round the earth in four weeks. The Greeks knew a threefold Moon — Luna, Diana, Hecate. And being a microcosm is an image of every trinity, and image of Luna, Diana, Hecate, as the threefold Moon. And we have learnt to know the threefold man. We know the man of the head; this man of the head, since he is the product of the periods of Saturn, Sun, and Moon, the product of all previous ages, can be brought into relation with the heavenly survival, with Luna. So that the head in man would, as a microcosm, correspond to the macrocosm Luna. The man of the centre, the breast, would correspond to Diana; it is in the heart that those subconscious impulses arise of which Diana is the goddess. And all that plays out of the extremity-man and is continued into the sex-man, all the dark, purely organic, bodily feelings and impulses, prevailing in the human being, come from the sub-earthly power of Hecate.

—Rudolf Steiner, The Problem of Faust: Lecture VIII

[mephaustopheles]

mir ist grad aufgefallen dass im III. Akt in dem Faust um Helena wirbt und mit ihr zusammen kommt... Mephisto ja nie als er selbst auftritt... sondern nur als hässliche Phorkyas... die er nicht durch Verwandlung... sondern mit Maske und Schleier spielt (siehe Ende des Akts) aaaalso kann er es nicht ertragen die beiden zusammen zu sehen, weil er aber trotzdem vor Ort sein muss, versteckt er sich hinter einer Maske...

draw your own conclusions...

[blogdemocratesjr]

We hail from Egypt...

—Goethe, Faust Pt. 2 trans Martin Greenberg

[balletthebestphotographs]

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk Максим Паламарчук, “Faust II”, music by Franz Schubert, Luciano Berio, choreo by Xin Peng Wang. As part of the program for XXXV International Ballet Gala, Ballett Dortmund, Theater Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (September 10, 2022).

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (personal) Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (photography)

via: Isabelle Maia on Instagram

[balletthebestphotographs]

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk Максим Паламарчук, “Faust II”, music by Franz Schubert, Luciano Berio, choreo by Xin Peng Wang. As part of the program for XXXV International Ballet Gala, Ballett Dortmund, Theater Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (September 10, 2022).

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (personal) Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (photography)

via: Isabelle Maia on Instagram

[animate-mush]

Mephistopheles, white knuckled, checking out his Phorcyas getup in the mirror: But I Stay Silly