So I do Exist…
I never wanted to talk about Sacre on video because I didn’t think I had the cred. I think now i do. What say you?
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As soon as I was able to write, I did. As soon as my father played Stravinsky on the console, I danced. I wasn’t all that good at either and well, well…. here we are. My name is…
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The Nijinsky Inheritance
Act One Have you ever held a door open saying “after you” to which that person says “no, after you”? Although I can’t prove it, I’m almost certain that this exchange happened at such a level of ethereality…
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YOU ARE MARIA PLITZ
Here are the only photographed female dancers of the Ballet Russes’ first staging of Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps from 1913.After 4 hours of trying to tease out the real names even with Lynn Garafola and Millicent Hodson’s…
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Mary Wigman: Pioneer, Nazi, Nobody
Here is Mary Wigman a pioneer in expressionist dancing performing her “Witch Dance” which she debuted in Berlin in 1914. She was very influential in “creepy movement in film”, as the narrator explains. This is all very “silent-movie…
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Three Russians and A Sun God
The Sun Dude Jarillo wants a virgin. For years I have thought I understood what it was about but really, I was on the periphery. That did not stop me from waxing ridiculous when I started this…
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Hello Ballet Boyz
remember me you dummies? Years back I got my hands on the Ballet Boyz’ “Rite of Spring” which starts out in a unique way but man I have never seen anything crash and burn so fast. There is…
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Throwing Ballet Shade et la Mort
You know why the English National Ballet only released small clips of Ivan Vasiliev in their 2011 staging of Roland Petit’s “le jeune homme et la mort”? Because he is terrible. He is trying to sell it with…
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The Joffrey Doesn’t Count
(Originally posted in 2013) I’ve spent the last few weeks studying Act I of the Nijinsky choreography to Le Sacre du Printemps, this on the heels of coming away wholly disappointed in the Sacrificial Danse performed by the…
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The Rite of Spring Takes A Dangerous Turn (NSFW)
Izadora Weiss and Wojciech Misiuro , directors of the Baltic Dance Theater has done what no choreographer has been able to do with the concept and music of Le Sacre du Printemps: turn it into a traumatic experience.…
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ROZA PUZYNOWSKA: more than dancing
Artist. The strokes to define it get broader and broader…but there is a pearl in every 50 or so clam shells. Artistry is free to be what it chooses, ask any jazz player who has never played with…
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Let’s Talk About How Stupid Marie Chouinard Is
Three are consequences to coming out too strong. You know Marie Chouinard pissed herself on stage in her first performance, right? Well, she did. So where do you go from there? Considering I called her stupid in the…
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My taxes better not be paying for this sh*t
On January 19, 2021, someone put that comment on Marie Chouinard’s”body remix” video which I posted in 2010. I want to date this guy. I was a syndicated Dance Blogger for a while. I was in the top ten…
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The firsts will be first
Who is Heather Aagard? She was the catalyst for the Chosen One Collections, for this ongoing search to find every dancer who stepped into that Circle and danced herself to death. She was given the opportunity only once…
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RUN FOR YOUR LIFE! It’s the Nutcracker!
I wonder if “Nutcracker season” is to a dancer what family holidays are to me: a terrible obligation one must drag themselves through, no way out, no way out. But for a 3 minute fabulous peacock in “the…
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She Forgot Extra Pickles…
Dominique Brun has staged something at the Paris Opera Ballet that is as shameless as it is French. I just have this thing with France and I am not alone: She took the ballet that Robert Joffrey, Millicent…
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Throwing Ballet sHAde #3
I was thinking…companies that performed Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps in the early 90’s got a real feather in the cap. You get Millicent and Kenneth to come spend 3 months training your dancers and BOOM! your little dog and…
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Sacre: The Police Report Version
I am asked regularly by my awesome Commenters (I consider them mine. We, all 2,000 philistines have been rocking the 87 Joffrey on YouTube for 7 years. Other than breathing, I have done nothing that long). Already off…
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Brought to You by Eating Disorder! and Sonic!
It is the only authentic Nijinsky choreography that exists. No matter what they say in France : home of the people who ruined Nijinsky on May 29, 1913. I had been waxing ridiculous for years on my blogspot…
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He brought a lot to the table I guess
Did you even know about this thing: It was Pietragalla’s first big move – she added a cute boyfriend. No, no, I mean she added Julien Derouault’s idea of martial arts and street dancing into her choreography. Then…
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When Ballet Attacks! #7
How did this ever fly? A ballet that ends with people walking up stairs. To quite possibly the most beautiful 2 minutes ever to close a masterpiece. How was Stravinsky OK with this? Enter this stupid play. Oh?…
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When Not To Throw Ballet Shade
Cecilia Kerche did something very big. something which would have consequences and divide people from her. I took a look at her Facebook after she approved this article wrote with her story and it wasn’t the people supporting…
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le sacre du printemps: the collections 