marie chouinard

From Nijinsky to Chaos: A Journey Through Controversial Ballets

le sacre du printemps

HERE COMES BALLET SHADE #5.

THIS is not going to be a post about Nijinsky’s recovered choreography of 1913. It’s going to be about the barf on the stage floor that only appears when an atrocity – an afront even – to that brilliance of Vaslav Nijinsky is left behind in a delusional horrible dance. Big shout out to some stupid dance companies.

bausch

I’ve never been able to understand how Pina Bausch could take such a pedestrian approach to the Rite of Spring after she had seen the original choreography? She is a genius or was and I can’t believe it is her behind stripping a girl down and having her dance with her tit out? First year dance student at a junior college could have done better than this but let’s move forward to something I never ever thought I would see and I think Pierre Boulez probably wishes he never did.

bartabas

“Le Saddle du printemps” ok that’s not what it was called but can you believe that there was a horse scene? I mean there are horses in this ballet! Ths dude Bartabas who created it was once the third of Barnum Baily and Bartabas but the former 2 kicked him out for being too serious. So he stole their horses, hoodwinked Boulez and well well,., here we are with a well kept secret horse ballet.

preljocaj

OF COURSE! The Rite of Spring means nothing without a gang rape said a chain smoking french pig choreographer. Angelin Prelocaj concluded – stupidly – that it is not a gang rape if the Rite of Spring is in the background. This dude should have been arrested but it seems gang rape is legal provided Stravinsky is playing in the background. I wonder what crimes you could get away with to Edgard Varese? Fuck your disgusting ballet.

waltz

OH GAWD….Sasha waltz created the ugliest choreography I’ve ever seen. If you’re going to have a naked girl dance in The Chosen One I guess making her look like a crab from outer space might sort of take a little heat off of you? Like in your gut you know it sucks so get a weird creepy dancer to blame. Just in case. It’s gross. Too hard to look at even.

Oh Bejart this was horrendous and lazy like you were busy and called your assistant to say “make it about humping in leotards, maye some jazz hands”, hung up and went about your day. I can’t shit on you too hard, however, because of what you did with the Nutcracker? You literally made it the ball buster I always thought it was and it got you a ticket out of my blog post that nobody’s going to read anyway.

weiss

When I saw Isadora Weiss choreography I spent way too much time trying to figure out where her cake was. I mean is the woman a slave is she a complete masochist or is she a dominant sadist it’s impossible to tell so I wrote to her and asked. It was in 2023 so there’s still time I suppose for her to get back to me fingers crossed bitch .

Of course I left a message a day on the voice mail of the Governor of Alabama who doesn’t understand Christianity and they finally answered the phone and said stop calling. I replied “Yeah I have already moved on to a better headcase.”

Marie Chouinard is fucked in the head. My biggest fear is that she will team up with Jan Fabre. I have nothing more to say.

macmillan

LET”S CLOSE WITH…what?

Huh? Was MacMillan a great choreographer who fucked up the Rite of Spring or was he a terrible one in a world where dancers dream of being in stupid cartoons? That a Chosen One from the Nijinsky choreography – and she was brilliant – would make this her final performance over the authentic one where she excelled…how do you describe that…OH!. STUPID! That’s the word I was looking for. Stupid.

Yours because no one else wants me,

Fatova

Yours for

Let’s Talk About How Stupid Marie Chouinard Is

Ballet Shade

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 title, you know this is not going to be a puff piece.

I tried. I did. Especially with Body Remix because it was evident that Marie Chouinard is a sound artist. I found one minute that was ok. That’s it up there.

And that’s where it ends. Why didn’t anyone stop her? I mean she is just terrible and, as I had feared, she went full nipple when she had her dancers stop wearing those shiny things in that aforementioned thing of which there is 20 seconds.

I’m not sure what this is, don’t care. I MUST acknowledge she is brilliant with audio. Maybe even up there with Janet Cardiff. She should have stopped there.

You can’t imagine how hard I tried to like this chick.

I just….I….just look at her Le Sacre du Printemps:

Someone should have stopped her. I live in fear that she will team up with Jan Fabre and kill that zeitgeist in some horrible way and sell it as art. Gawd.

My taxes better not be paying for this sh*t

Ballet Shade

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 and I knew this dance site never read my blog.   As Kritina Knief put it , I was a wisenheimer with more f-bombs in my mouth than teeth. 
Of course, I was (and am) very focused on Nijinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps choreography.  It was my only field of solid amateur-not-really-knowing-what-I-am-talking -about expertise..  And with all that going for me I went after the Rite of Spring choreographers full force.  Didn’t matter how much juice they had.  I just kicked the door in because a caustic asshole with little knowledge but a lot of Adderall will do those things.  Most of the time it turned out I was just kicking in bathrooom doors, but still.

(Uwe Sholz’  Rite of Spring)Uwe Scholz’ company wrote to me and asked that I take down a review of his garbage version of “Le Sacre du Printemps”. I said no. I would not.  Suddenly there was a blogger calling me a hack and a philistine and then BOOM.  My readers tripled.  And I learned what philistine meant and I agreed with them. So thanks German jerks.

(I can not believe this Kenneth Macmillan nightmare is still performed)
“Selling ballet one f-bomb at a time” is the truth and was my tagline forever.  It is who I am and what I have done. 
I think I am going to have to go back to my roots.

You see, I wanted people who were curious about dance but felt intimidated by  “real” dance websites to have a place to go.  A place to see some dance videos on a YouTube channel read the hilarious explanations that went along with them and talk about it and ask questions and inevitably  get to a blog post called “Fucking Russians”, 
I wanted to see what would happen if I wrote about dance in the tone of a belligerent bar whore being shut off .
I used some unorthodox methods here.
I posted Marie Chouinard’s “body remix -goldberg variations”  (which now has over 1 million views ffs) and this perverted shibari performance video right along side the 1987 Joffrey Le Sacre to see if the visiting perverts would be intrigued,  watch it and make a comment.  It didn’t matter what they said.

When a guy posts  “that lady at 4:22 is fucking gay” it means he watched at least 4 minutes of Nijinsky.  Probably NEEDED only 4 minutes of the other stuff. 
I reference that guy all the time.  And I get the same excitement today when someone comments and engages.  It happened this morning. The day before too., 
I ended up with over 8,000 YouTube subscribers and nearly 2 million views of the 1987 Joffrey and over 1,000 comments with at least three per week .  I got lucky with this blog, then I abandoned and my style as I began meeting/ engaging with the “real people” of  Nijinsky’s masterpiece.  
YES, I began the Sacre collections and no, ballerinas in Finland and Portugal don’t get the jokes here but they don’t read it anyway.  

I was in syndication as a dance writer because I swore a lot and lured people in with sex. Sex of the “chicks with polio and taped nipples “variety . 
And so it’s the kids who comment and end up here that fueled this ridiculous train. 
I hope they will take me back. Who is doing the most perverted choreography at the moment?  I need to post it next the Le Sacre du Printemps. Try and sell a bridge. 

I am like the PT Barnum of ballet:

“There is no such thing as bad publicity!”

I love you (don’t tell your husband),

Fatova