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The Trocks
That is, Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo, the drag ballet troupe. The segue into that topic is my recent posting on dance belts (and ballet tights for men), and a comment from Mike McKinley on...
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Four more obits
Just in the past two days, four more deaths of people who have given me pleasure through their work: Ed Fisher and Peter Workman in the NYT yesterday, Jonathan Winters and Maria Tallchief today....
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twerking
The latest dance rage. From Wikipedia: Twerking is a “dance move that involves a person shaking their upper hips and lower hips in an up and down bouncing motion, causing them to shake, ‘wobble’ and...
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Twerk time
A New Yorker cartoon by Emily Flake: (#1) The reference is to Miley Cyrus’s performance at the recent Video Music Awards. From Rolling Stone on the 25th, “Miley Cyrus ‘Can’t Stop’ Twerking at VMAs...
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One more twerk
From the NYT on the 1st, this entertaining piece by Teddy Wayne, “Explaining Twerking to Your Parents”, beginning: Every child dreads this day: sooner or later, your parents will come to you,...
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Peter and the Wolf
Holiday stories pile up faster than I can cope with them. This one is no longer hot news, but I’m charmed by the performance it describes. From a recent New Yorker “Goings on about town”, in the Dance...
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Doing the fandango, from Venango to Ilopango
In my posting on Padre Antonio Soler, I quoted a bit about A fandango once attributed to Soler, and probably more often performed than any other work of his, is now thought by some to be of doubtful...
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More male dancers
Back on the 10th, I posted on a beautifully muscled and athletic male ballet dancer (and his dance belt). Now some follow-ups, starting with a couple of photos from Mike McKinley (balletomane and...
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Morning name: La Bayadère
Yesterday’s morning name, for a ballet. From Wikipedia: La Bayadère (en. The Temple Dancer) … is a ballet, originally staged in four acts and seven tableaux by French choreographer Marius Petipa to the...
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Twyla Tharp, truncation, and more
It starts with a New Yorker Talk of the Town piece (July 6th & 13th), “The Horde” (by Claudia Roth Pierpont), about a Twyla Tharp performance. That led me to my files, where Tharp’s piece “Push...
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Roberto Bolle
From Mike McKinley, this photo from dancer Roberto Bolle’s Instagram account: (#1) An extraordinary photo of an extraordinary body, turned into sculpture here. Very briefly on Bolle, from Wikipedia:...
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Back to Bayadère
From my crack team of ballet reporters, two clips of the Golden Idol variation from the ballet La Bayadère, which I wrote about in a 6/23 posting. Nothing of linguistic interest here; this is just for...
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Minstrelsy
(Mostly about dance, but with a digression on a racial slur.) In the November 2nd New Yorker, under Dance, a Joan Acocella piece, “Tap Routine: Donald Byrd considers the evolution of minstrelsy”. The...
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Dance: Friedemann Vogel
Another installment on male ballet dancers and their remarkable bodies. Passed on by Mike McKinley, Chris Ambidge, and Arne Adolfsen from the Male Ballet Dancers Facebook page, Friedemann Vogel as...
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Les Danseurs
(Another posting about the male body, but with some fine photography.) From the models.com site on the 11th, a piece by Jonathan Shia, “Matthew Brookes’ Ballet Dancers”. Highlights: Flip through the...
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Tchaikovsky’s Polish Symphony
Listening to WQXR (classical music in NYC) last night, I though I heard the announcer explain that the next item, Tchaikovsky’s “Polish” Symphony (Symphony No. 3), was the only symphony to be written...
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The New Year’s resolution
Two days ago I posted a Mother Goose and Grimm strip on New Year’s resolution (#1 there, with the character Ralph confusing resolution and revolution). Now comes a Eugene Chan cartoon with a musical...
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Dance time
(Mostly about dance and male bodies, with only a bit about language.) From balletomane (and sometime dancer) Mike McKinley a little while ago, this wonderful photo he found on the Male Ballet Dancers...
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Notes on male ballet dancers
Two recent items passed on to me by Mike McKinley: one a photograph of young male dancers at the barre, the other a video compilation of dancer Joseph Gatti in an assortment of his roles. The...
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Two very different male body types
Coming by accident almost at the same time, an opera singer who’s a remarkable muscle-hunk (from Larry Schourup) and a ballet dancer with an equally notable male dancer’s physique (from Mike McKinley)....
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