#Scherezade

[tina-aumont]

María Montez publicity photos for her films and a photo with Jean-Pierre Aumont that come from Tina Aumont's personal collection and were published in 2002 Cine Zine Zone number 134 magazine.

Very special thanks to @74paris for sending me the whole magazine (that I will be publishing little by little).

[iconauta]

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1902) Ferdinand Zecca, Albert Capellani

(original French title: Ali Baba et les quarante voleurs ) is a 1902 film, inspired by the famous tale from One Thousand and One Nights, produced by Ferdinand Zecca and directed by Albert Capellani, and distributed by Pathé Frères. With its exceptional duration of nine minutes, it can be considered a colossal for its time. The stencil colouring, with the Pathécolor system, was performed by Segundo de Chomón in his workshop in Barcelona; the dance scenes ( 05:21, 07:31) were performed by the ballerinas of the Paris Opéra.

The story of Ali Baba and his clever servant Morgiana is summarized by Zecca and Capellani in seven tableaux or scenes, although the Pathé Catalog lists twelve, each representing, in chronological order, an episode of the story that, however, shows several narrative gaps: the tale would not be understandable to those unfamiliar with it. For this reason, we have added a narrator’s voice that explains the individual scenes and fills in the narrative gaps. The tricks and special effects used in this film show how much Zecca had already learned from Méliès and his contemporaries and was putting into practice.

The musical pieces accompanying this film are excerpts from Scherezade, Op. 35: II by Rimsky-Korsakov.

[katmasteryoda]

Spiraling first

She gripped the controls before grimacing

And then

She told

A

Story

Spiraling out of control

They finally were delivered

the final blow

All wrongs set out to destroy

culpability with the long

arm of the law extended

[oncanvas]

La Guadalupe, Scherezade García, 2011

Screenprint on paper 20 ⅞ x 17 ¼ in. (53.0 x 43.8 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, USA

[ojo-rojo]

"You asked why I write. I said, to touch what couldn't be spoken".

Scherezade Siobhan, in her book: "Father, husband".

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Scherezade Garcia, The Island of Many Gods: the Dominican York, 2006, acrylic with charcoal & ink/paper (National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.)

[cacaitos]

Memories Afloat, Scherezade García.

[cosmicrhetoric]

reading the devourers like 'hm i think i see whats happening but not sure if im getting it right' until the last 50 pages like no no i get it. i get it. i get it now 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

[pidraya]

"I will always be the virgin-prostitute, the perverse angel, the two-faced sinister and saintly woman."-Anais Nin

Eager for affection and for disaster, oscillating between extreme audacity and the most dreadful anguish, as inconceivable on a scale of real beings as a mythical being, she tore herself on the thorns with which she surrounded herself until becoming nothing but a wound, never allowing herself to be confined by anything or anyone.-Georges Bataille

“…every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it.”-Charles Dickens

Wanna make a monster? Take the parts of yourself that make you uncomfortable—your weaknesses, bad thoughts, vanities, and hungers—and pretend they’re across the room. It’s too ugly to be human. It’s too ugly to be you. Children are afraid of the dark because they have nothing real to work with. Adults are afraid of themselves. Oh we’re a mess, poor humans, poor flesh—hybrids of angels and animals, dolls with diamonds stuffed inside them. We’ve been to the moon and we’re still fighting over Jerusalem. Let me tell you what I do know: I am more than one thing and not all of those things are good. The truth is complicated. It’s two-toned, multi-vocal, bittersweet. I used to think that if I dug deep enough to discover something sad and ugly, I’d know it was something true.-Richard Siken

[sexypinkon]

Sexypink - Discover the Caribbean through the eyes of Iliana Emilia Garcia and Scherezade Garcia in "Agua Firme". Mother Earth". They explore Caribbean identity as a visual metaphor for movement and fluidity, shaping in response to power dynamics and colonial history. The works, from paintings to installations, offer a unique perspective, merging place and memory.

[viperslang]

A wonderful review of my book "That Beautiful Elsewhere".

#BookReview: “That Beautiful Elsewhere: Journeys in Mental Health,” a departure from her previous works, stands as a testament to Siobhan’s capacity for reinvention and her ability to tackle a volatile subject like mental health with courage and self-belief.

[ballet-symphonie]

Hello and happy new year!

I have a question about dancer and the fit to a company style. Do you think that the best principals at major companies (Bolshoi, Royal Ballet, Paris Opera, Mariinsky, NYCB etc..) would all reach that level if they were at a different company with a different style. I can see some that I feel would make it anywhere, and also some companies (though maybe less these ones, more a slight level down) where it feels anyone could thrive - but then there are some dancers that feel they are so well suited to one style that they might not shine at a very different company - particularly where the company style is more set/distinctive. Would love your view on this and who you think would work well across (and could be really exciting to see in a different context), who is maybe perfect where they are but wouldn’t transition across well and which companies you think have the most fixed style that you need to conform to to make it?

Thank you!

I think Renata Shakirova would be everywhere if she was at the Royal Ballet. The artistic staff at the Royal does such a wonderful job of coaching a wider variety of body types and bringing storytelling to the forefront of their dancers' intentions. I think Renata could really blossom here from new insight on how to harness her power and energy instead of Mariinksy trying to shove her into molds of dancers that just don't fit sometimes.

I want Vladislav Lantratov at the Royal. He's such a powerful actor and has such great command of the stage, I want to see him in all the male-heavy MacMillian rep. Him in Mayerling, THE DRAMA? YES PLEASE.

I also think Kristina Shapran could do great things at Paris Opera. The exceptional cleanliness of her pointe work and her style of expression would mesh well with the crystalline imagery of ONP. Seymon Chudin can go with her and dance with more people who can actually do 5th position.

I actually think Ekaterina Kondaurova to ONP would be interesting, mostly because she's so wonderful and in my opinion has been woefully underused and I would love to see her stretched in a bigger variety of contemporary repertoire. She's absolutely not a French-style dancer, but her in Crystal Pite's work? Or Mats Ek? I want it yesterday.

Paul Marque could kick ass at Mariinsky, with his fluidity and classicism. I think he would be flying up the ranks even with Mariinky's glacial pace because they need competent men and he is exceptionally gifted. And I would like to see him dance some of the big classics in a version that's not Nureyev's overly crowded hodgepodge.

Melissa Hamilton to the Bolshoi, she's got the legs and with her stellar competition career, I think she would have been quickly promoted at Bolshoi. It would be interesting to see her in big dramatic Grigorovich productions...or Carmen!

Sae Eun Park and Fumi Kaneno can both go to the Mariinsky, you can't tell me this wouldn't be a stellar cast of Legend of Love or Corsaire or they can take turns in Scherezade.

Potentially controversial but I don't think Marianela Nunez would have been as successful at Mariinsky or Bolshoi, especially under the current administrations' aesthetic preferences. At Bolshoi, there is such pressure to be soloist level right at 18-19 or you just get buried. If you watch young videos of Marinela, she's obviously very talented but has nowhere near the finesse that she possesses now. And not that the Bolshoi is renowned for finesse and cleanliness but she would have lacked that, plus the hypermobility, plus the body type....I'm not sure it would have gone well for her.

I don't think Oksana Skorik would do as well anywhere outside the Mariinsky. She's most comfortable dancing at Mariinksy's slow (sometimes dirge) tempis and she's a very internal dancer. I don't think her strengths would resonate at Bolshoi or Royal which both demand stronger theatrical presences.

There are some shorter ROH dancers that I think would struggle to find success at Russian companies, primarily the men, but that's not super interesting to discuss stylistically.

And there are certain principals and leading soloists at Bolshoi I don't think would make it into the corps at ROH or ONP...I'll stop here, this was a fun question.

[viperslang]

let me (re) introduce myself.

[shewhowantsmouseears]

Aw, shucks! didn't expect to have such a lovely compliment when I was sharing the duck love. thank you!

man I never even finished watching dt17 but a weird thought just occurred to me

if webby is a “clone” of scrooge made using his dna

and lena is part of magica’s shadow given sentience

does. does that mean weblena is just dimeshipping but yuri?????

[ojo-rojo]

“in this moment he folds her within him harbours her hells, her skulking disasters. this, he repeats, is togetherness..."

Scherezade Siobhan in the book: "Father, Husband".

[two-bees-poetry]

do u have any poets or writers u look up to? love your work btw, it motivated me to write in a while LOL

I'm so honored that I motivated you to write! In answer to your question, there are SO many writers/poets I look up to:

Dead Writers - Shirley Jackson, Vladimir Nabokov, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, Angela Carter, Anna Akhmatova, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Anouilh

Alive Writers - Anne Carson (I bow to her) Dante Émile, @boykeats , @blossomfully , C.T. Salazar, Ocean Vuong, @falderalfire on IG, Ollie Schminkey, Naomi Shihab Nye, Margaret Atwood, Beau Taplin, Scherezade Siobhan

And there are probably SO many more who I'm forgetting to mention!