#almehs

[constanzarte]

The Almeh (The Sultan's Favorite) (1842), by Edouard de Biefve

[jean-leon-gerome-paintings]

-The Dance of the Almeh-

[random-brushstrokes]

Leopold Carl Müller - The Almeh (1885)

[zedecksiew]

The Fairwind Jongleurs

Some context:

Sao Rai is a society lady. She fancies herself a progressive libertine. Her name is ancient; her inheritance obscene. She is about to host a fete for her fifty-year-old grandmother, the Widow Gon.

For entertainment at the party, she has engaged the Fairwind Jongleurs, a sea-folk troupe. The sea-folk are a nomadic maritime people---admired for their "tragic and noble savagery".

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THE FAIRWIND JONGLEURS

“They were wasted in the playhouse where I found them. Look. Such passion, such intensity. Look at his eyes. Look how she dances. Such frenzy!”

Sao Rai doesn’t know that these sea-folk knew her grandfather. Lord Gon burned their flotilla. They are here to pay him in kind.

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MASTER STARRY 6 Grit 10 STR 10 DEX 14 HRT Rifle, as club (d6)

Casts etched bone and sea glass, reads the pattern, speaks your fortune: “You are the diving egret. On the sixth, beware flashing mail.” His stare is cold. His gun does not fire; he has eaten its powder for years. He is a bomb. When he swallows a lit match, he dies like a fireworks factory exploding.

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CHEER CHARITY’S CHILD 6 Grit 10 STR 14 DEX 10 HRT Fire darts (d6)

Tall as a twelve-year-old, marbled with burn scars. Her voice is husky laughter. Speaking, may manifest an obedient fire, the size of her body.

She juggles the flame. Shreds it into bird and fish and arrowhead shapes. These go where she can see. She imagines her audience, seared.

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PATIENCE STARRY’S CHILD 6 Grit 14 STR 10 DEX 10 HRT Kick (d4)

Plump and tattooed. Her three daughters play drums, bells, clackers. She stamps, jumps, contorts. She only wears a loincloth; she jiggles and dangles.

Prudes gasp and turn away. Those who watch cannot stop watching—not until she stops dancing. Hypnotic hexes are hidden in the ink of her skin.

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Let the House of Gon fall.

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( Image sources: http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2018/3/26/the-furniture-the-age-of-innocence-and-the-living-museum.html https://naturelands.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/the-most-beautiful-woman-of-gilded-age-well-allow-me-to-differ/ https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-c641-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josephine_Giraldelli,_a_woman_impervious_to_fire._Reproducti_Wellcome_V0007101ER.jpg https://www.daytonartinstitute.org/exhibits/jean-leon-gerome-dance-of-the-almeh/ https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/09/photos-wildfires-burn-through-californias-wine-country/616519/ )

[mahgnib]

Frederic Auguste Antoine Goupil-Fesquet. “Almeh du Caire”, 1843

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[classicalcanvas]

Title: The Dance Of The Almeh

Artist: Jean-Leon Gerome

Date: 1863

Style: Orientalism

Genre: Genre Painting

[metmuseum]

Study for "The Almeh". 1879. Credit line: Gift of Albert Gallatin, 1920 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/333826

[balletomaneblog]

About your recent ask, I'm so rooting for Daria Ionova too! Since she graduated, I never understood why she got behind from the girls her year. She is so musical, has great acting, beautiful lines and amazing port de bras! I don't know if I'm overly reacting to this, but in my opinion, she would be a great Giselle, Aurora, Masha, Juliet, Nikiya, Maria from The Fountain of Bakhchsarai, and even Odette. It's crazy that she never performed Masha in The Nutcracker! And I can only imagine how great she would be in the Kingdom of Shades. I just wished the theater would invest more in her and other dancers who are good and can improve with the right opportunities.

Right now, the MT divides itself in four types of dancers: the favorites who get all the opportunities, even when not deserved; the principals that have the least performances; the reliable ones they don't promote, but they work like crazy; and those who rarely get an opportunity and when they do, they get stuck in dancing the same role over and over, or being in the corps. Anyways, sorry about the rant lol.

Never apologize for ranting to me lol !!! Especially about Daria Ionova, as I adore her!

We know Daria got unlucky with the group that she graduated with. 2018 was an insane year for female Vaganova graduates (Khoreva, Bulanova, Nuikina, Ionova, Lendvai, Voroshilova, etc). But Daria can more than hold her own so I don't think this is entirely the problem. She debuted some of her larger roles like Gulnare right before COVID, which meant she was slowed down just as she was getting momentum, and then an injury had her out for much of last season as well.

Thankfully she's been back for awhile and she's had some debuts this season as Shyrin's Friends in Legend of Love and in the Almeh pas de trois and the Pas d'Action trio in La Fille du Pharaon. However, it frustrates me to no end that these are all smaller debuts. Out of the roles you listed I would especially love to see her as Maria in Bakhchisarai and as Giselle! And I've said before she would be a perfect Sylphide and I'd also love to see her as Le Papillon in Carnaval. Not to mention that she's always cast as First Odalisque even with Gulnare in her rep. I wish she'd get another shot at that role too.

I'm always wishing for more roles for Daria and am hoping that she finishes this season with some more debuts!

To your other points, I completely agree with you. I love following the Mariinsky and at the same time the management sometimes makes me want to hit my head against the wall. There's so many talented dancers and so few who get a real shot. I especially resonated with what you said about the "reliable ones they don't promote, but they work like crazy" and will take this as my opportunity to rant about Osmolkina who more than fits this description. In any other company she would have been promoted to principal ages ago! She dances almost everything, has amazing technique, beautiful acting skills, and brings a unique presence to the theatre. And while she dances exclusively principal roles and has a larger workload than most of the principal dancers, she was never promoted and almost definitely won't be now that she's at the very end of her career. And of course there are plenty of lower ranking dancers who have it even worse.

Anyways . . . feel free to rant on my blog anytime! And it's always good to know that there's someone else out there wishing for more opportunities for Dasha!

[bloggershojib]

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[hzaidan]

Almah (Egyptian dancer), was the name of a class of courtesans or female entertainers in Egypt, women educated to sing and recite classical poetry and to discourse wittily…

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01 Orientalist Painting, Nils Forsberg's The Dance of the Almeh, with footnotes #113

[womblegrinch]

Carl Haag (1820-1915) - Dance of the almeh

Watercolour over pencil on paper. Executed in 1870.

20 x 14.75 inches, 51 x 37.5 cm. Estimate: £10,000-15,000.

Sold Sotheby’s, London, 26 Oct 2021 for £17,640 incl B.P.

[aiastelamonian]

The Dance of the Almeh by Jean-Léon Gérôme

[swapnilverma8]

When it isn't just about the dance, but the people with whom you share the stage with! @almeh_dance will always have my heart and I can't thank enough @i.u.seee n my whole #ALMEH fam then and now for putting so much efforts in nurturing this grp of ours. #mybrownstory #almeh #dance #us #fam #NIFTDiaries #niftbbsr #niftlife https://www.instagram.com/p/B7gstngDeH3nKkeEeBCzwBXX52Tvx4nvfwsM_00/?igshid=1fg4l8r4a6cv0

[indefinite-pitch]

Baal - In Nagoya

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[simena]

Nils Forsberg - The Dance of the Almeh

[tethys-the-aquatic-sea-godness]

Arianne Martell Appreciation Week 2022 - Day Three: Relationships - Family (Part One)

Luigi De Servi - Portrait of An Arab Gentleman

Camille Corot - Femme algérienne

Leopold Carl Müller - The Almeh

Georges Antoine Rochegrosse - Chef oriental

Charles Bargue - The Albanian Sentinel in Cairo

German Aracil - *

Carl Leopold Müller - Portrait of a Bedouin girl

Theodorus Rallis  - Jeune ottomane, 1879

Frédéric-Pierre Tschaggeny - Young woman with parrot

Ilja Efimowitsch - Repin Negerin