#cigalles

[simsalabimproductions]

2023’s first theatre workshop series has come off to a great start with residents at Les Cigales, Pompignan 😃🌟with Corrine Faucon and Freya Stang #théâtre #theatre #theatreworkshop #pompignan #disability #theatreforall #mentalhealthmatters #mentalhealthawareness #freyastang #corrinefaucon #simsalabimproductions #care #love #gard #cigalles https://www.instagram.com/p/CnY1SiTKo4x/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[leatherandmossprints]

‘La cigale’ (detail) by Jules Joseph Lefebvre, c. 1872.

[glassfunyun]

Flew to Paris from New York to see Miles Kane. Saw Miles Kane. Met Miles Kane. Went to get a beer. Passed by and talked with him some more. Good night, thanks Paris.

[lookingbackatfashionhistory]

• "La Cigale" Cocktail Dress.

Designer/Maker: Christian Dior

Date: 1952

[thefugitivesaint]

Félix Lorioux (1872-1964), 'La Cigale' (The Cicada), 1961 Source

[lovemkx]

mileskane In a shower in Paris x

📸 @/ogden_ewan

[dancingshoess]

Miles Kane & Alex Turner - Standing Next To Me live @ La Cigale (Paris)

[musicandotherstuff]

Alex Turner - La Cigale, Paris

June 2011

(Source)

[misskattylashes]

I call this piece of art '2018 I have got myself into this shit, let's make it look real Vs 2024 I am so done with this shit'

[bernar444]

"Les cigales", (1906) | Jacqueline Marval | Musée Léon-Dierx

[ars-supreme]

La cigale, Jules Joseph Lefebvre.

[smeagles]

11/1/10 La Cigale, Paris // Robert Gil

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul to Squeeze

[skylarbee]

milex and 'white nights' by dostoevsky

if you love milex do not, for the love of god and the well-being of your mental health, read 'white nights' - i am crushed and utterly inconsolable, and the fact that this whole story fits so well with the lyrics of 'killing the joke' and 'the meeting place' and the la cigale performance has me wanting to cry until tomorrow, and i can't keep all these thoughts to myself.

for those that don't know, it is the story of a man who meets a girl and falls in love with her; unfortunately, the girl is in love with someone else and is waiting for him to come back to her; and in the end, she returns to her lover, but wants to remain friends with our nameless character.

the two characters meet during the night, always in the same place - 'but I want to see you tonight'

the man can't sleep, he is too excited about their next night when they'll meet again; he even goes back to their meeting place on his own: - 'he struggles to sleep at night and during the day/he's worried she's waiting in his dreams/to drag him back to the meeting place/his love had left him there' - 'he's crying out from the meeting place/he's stranded himself there'

things taking a wrong turn is indicated by grey and gloomy weather, rain and dark clouds - 'cause the clocks count down and we're in for bad weather'

the man confesses his love to the girl, despite knowing that she can't love him, knowing that what he is going to say "is all nonsense, all impossible, all stupid! I know that this can never be, but I cannot be silent" - 'why do I always have to go killing the joke?'

the man has been lonely all his life and has been unsuccessful with women, but despite his loneliness and despair, he manages to make the girl laugh multiple times - 'but I, I live a lonely life / but I, I know I'm a funny guy'

at the end, she writes him a letter, asking him to forgive her for leaving him - 'her voice still echoes/ I'm sorry I met you, darling, I'm sorry I've left you'

nastenka's lover has been away for a year, but before he went, he promised her that when he comes back, he'll marry her. but when he does comes back, he doesn't go to her and the girl begins to doubt his love for her - this is when how our character finds her. in her misery, she wants our narrator to come live with her and tells him that she will love him; but after discussing their plans, her lover turns up - and tell me that this does not remind you of la cigale:

"Come along! Look at the sky, Nastenka. Look! To-morrow it will be a lovely day; what a blue sky, what a moon! Look; that yellow cloud is covering it now, look, look! No, it has passed by. Look, look!"

But Nastenka did not look at the cloud; she stood mute as though turned to stone; a minute later she huddled timidly close up to me. Her hand trembled in my hand; I looked at her. She pressed still more closely to me.

At that moment a young man passed by us. He suddenly stopped, looked at us intently, and then again took a few steps on. My heart began throbbing.

"Who is it, Nastenka?" I said in an undertone.

"It's he," she answered in a whisper, huddling up to me, still more closely, still more tremulously.... I could hardly stand on my feet.

"Nastenka, Nastenka! It's you!" I heard a voice behind us and at the same moment the young man took several steps towards us.

My God, how she cried out! How she started! How she tore herself out of my arms and rushed to meet him! I stood and looked at them, utterly crushed. But she had hardly given him her hand, had hardly flung herself into his arms, when she turned to me again, was beside me again in a flash, and before I knew where I was she threw both arms round my neck and gave me a warm, tender kiss. Then, without saying a word to me, she rushed back to him again, took his hand, and drew him after her.

I stood a long time looking after them. At last the two vanished from my sight."

and despite all this, the man is not angry with her; the last thing he'd do is hurt her in any way; he wishes her to be happy - and realises, that all his life, he's only been truly happy during these nights with her:

"my god, a whole moment of happiness! is that too little for the whole of a man's life?"

which hits even harder if we read the epigraph of the story:

"Or was his destiny from the start

To be but just one moment

Near your heart?" (Ivan Turgenev)

[last-shadow-puppet]

@ gay gods: standing next to me in ireland plsss

[chicinsilk]

N° 96 "La Cigale"

Suzy Parker wears "La Cigale", A masterpiece of construction and execution, the new Dior full and shaped skirt, falling from a stiff yoke and superbly molded bodice. an end-of-day dress in pearl gray moire ottoman.

Suzy Parker porte " La Cigale", Un chef-d'œuvre de construction et d'exécution, la nouvelle jupe Dior ample et formée, tombant d'un empiècement rigide et d'un corsage superbement moulé. une robe de fin de journée en ottoman moiré gris perle.

Photo Richard Avedon