#:: ballet

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An exercise known as “drooping daisy” is done in seven steps. Seven students here show the progression from standing to rolling onto floor

Walter Sanders, “Required Study, Relaxation,” Life, Feb 8, 1954

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Ballerina interrupted

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Masha Dashkina Maddux, Principal Martha Graham Dance Company, Dress by Dior, 2018. Ken Browar and Deborah Ory. Infused Dyes Sublimated on Aluminum

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Chad Sapp - photo by Joseph Moreno

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The Dracula Ballets

And Where to Watch Them

Dracula by Michael Pink: Originally staged in 1997, this ballet's plot is the closest to the novel. Seward does not appear in this version, his role being merged with Van Helsing's. Notable for eeriely beautiful and sometimes brutal choreography, the Harker and Dracula pas de deux, Renfield dancing in a straitjacket, and Quincey dancing briefly with a rifle.

Watch it here.

Dracula by Krzysztof Pastor: This version of Dracula portrays Mina as the reincarnation of the count's late wife, similar to Bram Stoker's Dracula. That film's score is also used in this ballet. Quincey does not appear in this version. Notable for Renfield's haunting dances, one of which he somehow manages while tied to other patients, Dracula's creepy servants, the Dracula Jonathan Tango, and an onstage blood transfusion.

Download it here (if you have a link to the ballet on a video hosting site, please comment and I'll add it to the post).

Dracula: The Romantic Ballet by Ben Stevenson. This ballet is set entirely in Transylvania with a new cast of characters. Besides Dracula, the mortal leads are villagers Flora and Svetlana, and Svetlana's suitor Frederick. Notable because this ballet wants you to know that Dracula fucks: he not only has his ever present brides, but an entire harem to go along with them. He even has locals employed in bringing maidens to his castle. Also this Dracula has seemingly human servants who are fine with it all, I guess.

Watch it here.

Dracula by David Nixon. This ballet intends to portray Dracula as a more ambiguous, nuanced creature. As Nixon puts it, ‘All creatures need to be loved and the love that Dracula shares with Mina transcends the boundaries of good and evil.’ Quincey does not appear in this version. Notable for the creepiest Old Dracula ever seen in anything (with the fun nervous habit of biting himself when he's trying not to bite others), a Seward and Renfield dance, and vampire brides with Christina Aguilera in "Lady Marmalade" hairstyles.

Watch it here (ignore the title and video description, they are incorrect).

Kont Dracula by the Turkish State Opera and Ballet. This is a 2013 adaptation for which I can find no information or video. If you know of a recording of this performance, please comment.

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[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

... beauty of movement ...

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Atla ballet AU

Individual pictures below cut

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[wh1teswans]

to my fav ballet

cant wait to see in oct 🤍

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[jane-doe110]

The amount of hours I sleep and meals I eat have been very low this week

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Chad Sapp - photo by Rex Bonomelli