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

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

Yours because no one else wants me,

Fatova

Yours for

Brought to You by Eating Disorder! and Sonic!

confessional

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 “This Is Not Swan Lake” for a bit. I pretty much only had the capacity to emo blog and a good solid knowledge of the Rite because my Dad showed me how to work the reel to reel (then he left me with Stravinsky and a bunch of Mothers of Invention reels and no supervision.  At 8. Your questions are now all answered.).

Somehow my blog became syndicated and being the only person with the Joffrey original performance on YouTube (I have no memory of getting that) I got popular.  There is no way this collective ever looked at my b log whose tag line was “selling ballet in barrooms one F-Bomb at a time”. 

Anyway this syndication  fell apart and it collided oddly at the same time that I reached my zenith with body dysmorphia.   I was almost at 95 lb and you don’t get those jutting bones by “cutting down carbs”. You gotta own it.

So I stopped writing about the ballet and got Olympic level busy with self-destruction and all that crap and then, you know, they open a Sonic  and then you find out you’re really good at making pie crust and well well, here we are. 

But I needed to learn more about the ballet and so I had to communicate with Hodson and Archer.  I could have written a letter. But I chose to go full jailhouse with Millicent.

I turned my blog into prison and Millicent Hodson was the baddest bitch there so I went at her and punched her in the face. She would naturally kick my ass but at least I would make a name for myself by going to the Top Dog and getting it over with .

Essentially I just wrote a couple of posts  really denigrating her. And she contacted me and told me to stop referring to myself as a Philistine ( I did it a lot).

That explains very succinctly her level of commitment to preserving this ballet.  

She and Kenneth are so invested that their hearts are able to see past stupid pony tricks like I pulled and so they let me draw them in and ask them questions . In fact look what they gave m dwhich allowed me to begin a digital archive of the dancers – how had that not been done? I mean who wouldn’t want to infect 2 laptops with viruses while searching for dancers all over the globe?

Is it possible I am remembering it wrong? I don’t know but it’s a good story right?

Part Two to come based on readership so that’s the end.

Forever grammar-resistant,

Fatova

When Ballet Attacks! #7

Ballet Shade, Stravinsky

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? It is choreography? What the hell?  It is the most anti-climactic thing I’ve ever seen on a stage with perhaps the exception of German performance art. And to the The Firebird closing minutes which are almost Divine at least angelic.

Every time I look at this I feel a little less guilty about slapping Fokine’s  great-granddaughter in her face at a German bar . I didn’t do that but it would have been funny right?

This choreography  is like the equivalent of watching people loading groceries into a minivan.