#Cecchetti

[lisamarie-vee]

[thatonesapphicfilipino]

guys

so i do this dance thing it has exams and a curriculum and everything (cecchetti)

and im on my way to this event with tons of other people who do cecchetti and we’re doing like 3 diff classes

and we get name tags cuz like tons of people from diff studios yk

and on the name tags they hv ur pronouns

and good on them for that like love that

but my mom registered for me cuz like money yk

and i’m not out to my mom

so my name tag only has she/her

and like it’s very dysphoria-y like ew icky no

so currently mentally preparing myself to see that and not cross it out/cry

but like i’m not out to my friends who r also going and like

not fun

icky dysphoria

[sillypilledkitty]

Concept art of my OC Cecchetti!

[queercatcave]

Idk if this will reach enough relevant people, but

I’m a Royal Academy bitch myself.

[mensfactory]

Live painting a Lamborghini Aventador SVJ 

Elisa Chana Cecchetti Art

[portraituresque]

Self-portrait - Painting by Claudio Cecchetti (Italian, Born in Florence in December 1976)

[curiosity-killed]

I’m over here actually making fully fleshed out lesson plans rn while also internally screaming what do u MEAN I have to wait THREE (3) (three) full weeks before classes start

[candiliam328]

the way i got one (1) question wrong on a ballet exam 10 years ago and im totally over it i swear

[edizionimedusa]

La recensione di Alfonso Berardinelli sul “Foglio” di oggi di Promemoria occidentale. Oltre l’effimero a cui si è ridotto il giornalismo culturale odierno. Da umile servitore nella vigna della cultura, che nel frattempo ha perso cognizione della vendemmia, il giornalismo culturale è diventato un’appendice del maquillage pubblicitario. Le interviste di Maurizio Cecchetti ci raccontano di un altro punto di vista.

[atlas-andromeda]

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[seishun-emergency]

does anyone want to hear my hyperspecific ballet curriculum headcanons for specifically shu yuzuru and izumi

[thatonesapphicfilipino]

guys

ok so at the cecchetti thing i always see this one person and like

the first time i saw them i was like

“omg that’s so cool their out abt being enby woah”

and then i didn’t see them in my first 2 classes so i was like

“o ig they’re in a diff bracket”

idk if they were or not but i saw them in my last one

and like this might’ve been my last time seeing them cuz i might quite cecchetti but like

they’re so cool like ksjsjdjej

so um gail i think ur really cool u should hmu if u somehow see this

[irenelichtensteinblog]

Valtenio Cecchetti, Garden

[amourdedove]

cecchetti and pavlova

[thc-boltcr]

( kate walsh. cis woman. she/her. ) - let me introduce you to a member of the eversley family, cressida wilder is the matriarch’s youngest sister. they are fifty-one and are known as the bolter to the family because they are excellent fun, flighty, and unreliable when you get to know them, you think about the prima’s final bow; enough ex husbands to be scandalous, but not so many as to be utterly disowned but they’re still an eversley, nonetheless.

( this is quite long, tw for death & illness )

ORIGINS & FAMILY:

Name: Cressida Elizabeth Wilder, nee Arnoult

Nickname:  Cress, Red, Essie

Birthday: February 13, 1973

Place of Birth: Findlay Estate, somewhere fancy, England

Places Lived Since: London, Paris, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles, Geneva

Current Residence: London

Notable Family Members: Eden Montague ( daughter ); Lord Edward Montague ( deceased, first husband ); Jacob Findlay ( younger brother, raised ); Ignes Eversley ( older sister ); Wolfe Madison ( second husband, divorced ); Blue Navarro ( ex-sister in law, sees as a sister ); Christian Wilder ( third / longest / favorite husband, deceased )

PHYSICAL:

Faceclaim: Kate Walsh

Height: 5’8

Build: slim

Hair Color: dark red  

Eye Color: grey

Jewelry? Tattoos? Piercings?: always wearing rings, both ears pierced, a few tiny hidden tattoos

Unique Mannerisms/Physical Habits: twisting her rings, talking with her hands, running when things get messy 

PERSONALITY:

Occupation: former world-renowned prima ballerina, occasional guest choreographer at the Royal Ballet

Languages Spoken: English, French, Russian, German

Positive Traits: outgoing, charming, emotive, devoted, meticulous

Negative Traits: obsessive, flighty, avoidant, manipulative, selfish 

Likes: good champagne, the first row of the balcony, clever banter, first editions, the second act of Giselle, live orchestras, New York in the winter and Paris in the spring

Dislikes: the entire concept of Dance Moms ( tv show ), Los Angeles,  brutalist architecture, driving, lazy choreographers, the cecchetti method, feeling trapped

Aesthetic: the hubris of such divine wealth and privilege; this house is not haunted – you are; the inherent masochism of ballet; physical intimacy like a drug – the prima always needs her audience; your daughter’s laughter carried across the breeze – watching desperately as she makes her own mistakes; collecting favors and lovers and fighting to hold your own; just enough ex-husbands to be scandalous but not so many as to be utterly disowned; the prima takes her final bow

HISTORY:

Ignes is the perfect, gracious daughter; Cressida always has one foot out the door and the other on the stage. She loves her older sister, truly does, but Cress knows they were never meant for the same thing. She’s a natural, a prodigy some say – and nearly fucking blew it by getting knocked up at 18 by the help. The Arnoult Patriarch would not allow this kind of shame brought upon the family – so Cressida gets a wealthy, titled, older husband and the Royal Ballet gets a generous donation to take her back once the child is born.

Eden is perfect, her own little paradise in a beautiful little girl. Cress never even considers giving her away, not when this child is the first person who might love her without any conditions. The best that can be said about Lord Edward Montague is that he gives her child legitimacy and his name and gives Cressida the freedom to be herself. She’s the darling of the ballet, a rising star – Eden grows up backstage and in studios, adored by all who meet her. Edward has his affairs and Cressida has hers – but he loves that baby as if she were his own. He dies from a fall from his horse when Eden is two, leaving his estate and titles to her and Cressida.

Eden is three when Cressida’s father shows up at their London home with his own five-year-old son in tow. Jacob’s mother, his second wife, passed and the man is too old and too set in his ways to raise yet another child. He likely expects Cressida to say no, and then he will move on to the more reasonable option of Ignes, but Cressida looks at her littlest brother and feels his grief and his fear and says yes without a second thought.

The next decade or so she graces stages across Europe, with two small children in tow. St. Petersburg in the chaos of the late 90s – oil barons and oligarchs falling under her spell and at her feet, but Eden and Jacob always come first, and she keeps the men wanting and chasing but always out of reach. A few years in Paris, and the lightly haunted house she still owns is full of happy laughter and bright playful children. Then they give New York a try.

She laughs when Wolfe Madison introduces himself to her at some gala event or another. She’s heard the name – actor, producer, Hollywood royalty in town working on his directorial debut – a gritty action movie in which he also stars. He falls, and who can blame him? She’s all legs and dark red hair – a tragic past with a dead husband, raising her half-brother alongside her daughter, and he’s cast her as his perfect wife. Beautiful and charming, but with just enough damage that men like this find alluring. Cressida says yes to marrying him, but no to Los Angeles – so they stay in New York (begrudgingly on his part ).

Maybe she actually loves him, or maybe it's the thrill of feeling like she’s found someone who can keep up with her. She moves to LA after a year, and Jacob gets into acting, nepotism and those dashing good looks and posh British charm taking him far. Eden goes to university – and suddenly Cressida finds herself utterly alone, at a third-rate ballet company in a city that worships the screen, married to a man who isn’t interesting enough to have as nasty a temper as he does. The best thing to come from this is Cressida’s relationship with Wolfe’s younger sister Blue, who she loves as if she were her own sister. The marriage ends in a flurry of shouting matches, tabloid headlines, and photographs of Wolfe’s face between the tits of a twenty-two-year-old stripper in Vegas.

Cressida moves back to Paris, it's where she’s always been happiest, and finishes her career with the Paris Opera Ballet. Here she meets Christian Wilder, a musician and composer with sad eyes and a gentle heart. They marry on a whim, on holiday in Normandy in some tiny medieval church officiated by an aging priest. It's perfect. In Paris they live in that haunted house, making peace with the ghosts. Cressida still teaches and choreographs for the ballet, and Christian writes her soaring concertos and silly little jingles and she loves them all.

The diagnosis is not entirely unexpected, but his health declines rapidly afterwards. He is at peace with his fate, but Cressida fights – she’s always the first one to run, how dare he leave before her? He laughs softly as she tells him this, demands that he stay – then makes her promise to follow the instructions he’s left regarding the music at his funeral. Cressida buries her heart with him in that grave, to a perfectly curated score. She keeps his last name, and still wears the ruby he gave her.

Now she’s in London, patron of the Royal Ballet and guiding the next generation of talent. But Ignes’s husband’s health is failing, and the vultures are circling the family. So off she goes - out of loyalty to her sister, the desire to see Eden and Jacob, and because these things are always so amusing to watch.  

[gotham-native]

My cats oc Circe

She's a child of Macavity and another oc of mine

her three words are Curious, Reserved, Hypnotic

she is a soprano and her dancing style is Cecchetti ballet and Acrobatic dance