Mysteries Of Life

Hi! I'd like to see different ballet styles, productions and footage, and was wondering if you had links to some of them! Thank you so much.

French Ballet

Pierre Lacotte Reconstructions

La Sylphide 1972 | 2004

Paquita

Coppelia

Giselle

Rudolf Nureyev

Swan Lake

Sleeping Beauty 2005 |2013

Bayadere

Nutcracker 1989 | 2012

Raymonda

Don Quixote 2002 | 2012 (I, II)

Romeo and Juliet

Cinderella

Bournonville Ballet

La Sylphide: Danish Ballet 

Etudes 1969 (II) | 2005

Flower Festival in Genzano Danish Ballet | POB | Mariinksy | Royal Ballet

Napoli

The Kermesse in Bruges

A Folk Tale

The Bournonville School

Russian Ballet

Marius Petipa revivals (originally premiered/staged at the Paris Opera)

> originally by Jules Perrot

La Esmeralda Mariinksy 1982 - 2012

Giselle Bolshoi: 1956 - 1975 | ABT 1969 - 1977 | La Scala | Mariinsky | ENB

> originally by Arthur Saint-Léon

Coppelia Bolshoi (Burlaka/Ratmansky Reconstruction)

> originally by Joseph Mazilier

Le Corsaire Bolshoi (Burlaka/Ratmansky Reconstruction) | Mariinsky

Marius Petipa

La Bayadere  Mariinksy: 1964 - 1979 - 2014 | Bolshoi (Act III)

Don Quixote Bolshoi (I, II, III, IV) (2011) | Mariinsky | Mikhailovsky | ABT

Swan Lake: Bolshoi 1957 - 1983 - 2015 | Mariinsky 1986 - 2007 | Wiener Staatsoper

Sleeping Beauty Mariinsky 1969 | Bolshoi | ROH

The Nutcracker Mariinsky | Bolshoi

Raymonda Mariinsky | Bolshoi | La Scala (Vikharev Reconstruction)

La Fille du Pharaon (Lacotte Reconstruction)

Soviet Ballets

Romeo and Juliet Mariinsky (Lavrovsky) 1955 - 2013 | Bolshoi (Grigorovich) 1979 -  2013

Cinderella

Flames of Paris

Laurencia

Hamlet

Anyuta

Gayane (Armenia) Bolshoi 1980 | Mariinsky 2014

Shurale

Yuri Grigorovich

The Legend of Love

Spartacus 1970 |1977 | 2008

Ivan the Terrible 1975 | 1977 | 2015

The Stone Flower

English Ballet

Frederick Ashton

Sylvia

La Fille Mal Gardee

Swan Lake

Cinderella

The Dream ROH | ABT

La Valse

Kenneth MacMillan

Manon Danish Ballet | Royal Ballet

Romeo and Juliet

Mayerling

Anastasia

Balanchine - American Ballet

Symphony in C: NYCB | POB 

Jewels: NYCB (Emeralds Diamonds)  | Mariinsky

Stravinsky Violin Concerto

Serenade

Agon

Apollo 1960 |1968 | 1979

Theme and Variations: NYCB

A Midsummer Night’s Dream: NYCB | POB

Vienna Waltzes

Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux NYCB | Royal Ballet

Ballets Russes

Les Sylphides: Bolshoi | ABT | Kirov | Royal Ballet

Scheherezade

L’Apres midi d’une faune

The Firebird: Mariinsky | Bonus

Le Spectre de la Rose: POB

Petroushka: 1976 | 1992 | 2011

Rite of Spring: Joffrey Ballet | Mariinsky

El Sombrero de Tres Picos

Le Train Bleu

Parade

Les Noces: Royal Ballet | Mariinsky

The Prodigal Son

Documentaries

The Romantic Era

Giselle: A Documentary

Diaghilev

Classical Ballet

Agrippina Vaganova: The Great and Terrible

Ballerina: A Documentary in Four Parts

Tout prés des étoiles

The King Who Invented Dance

The Art of Baroque Dance

The Rite of Spring

The Children of Theatre Street

American Masters: Balanchine

Ballet Heroes

Les Enfants de la Danse

Historic Footage

The Art of Russian Ballet (Dudinskaya/Maximova)

Kirov Ballet Gala 1981

First Moscow International Ballet Competition, 1969

Galina Mezentseva

Irina Kolpakova

Ekaterina Maximova/Vladimir Vasiliev

Bolshoi Ballet, 1967

Maya Plisetskaya Dances, 1964

Yvette Chauviré

Anna Pavlova I | II | III | IV | V

Tamara Karsavina I | II | III | IV

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Cultural Dark Academia

After my last post about the lack of representation in academia, I felt it neccessary to provide some examples of what I’m talking about. Obviously there are more countries in the world than I can list and provide books for, so for a quick list this is what I got. !! Keep researching !! If you have any more books by POC please reply them !! If a country isn’t listed, that doesn’t mean it’s not important, this is just what I could get together real quick. If I made any mistakes, please let me know, we’re all learning. We need to help each other end eurocentrism in academia, so value representation and educate yourselves 💓💓💓

Chinese:

The Art of War by Sun Tzu

The Dream of the Red Chamber

The Water Margin

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

The Journey to the West

The Scholars

The Peony Pavilion

Border Town by Congwen Shen

Half of Man is Woman by Zhang Xianliang

To Live by Yu Hua

Ten Years of Madness by agent Jicai

The Field of Life and Death & Tales of Hulan River by Xiao Hong

Japanese:

A Personal Matter by Kenzaburo Oë

Pakistani:

Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid

Ghulam Bagh by Mirza Athar Baig

Masterpieces of Urdu Nazm by K. C. Kanda

Irani/Persian:

Rooftops of Tehran by Mahbod Seraji

Savushun by Simin Daneshvar

Anything by Rumi

The Book of Kings by Ferdowsi

The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam

Shahnameh (translation by Dick Davis)

Afghan:

Earth and Ashes by Atiq Rahimi

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Indian:

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Aithihyamala, Garland of Legends by Kottarathil Sankunni

The Gameworld Trilogy by Samir Basu

Filipino:

Twice Blessed by Ninotchka Rosca

The Last Time I Saw Mother by Arlene J. Chai

Brazilian:

Night at the Tavern by Álvares de Azevedo

The Seven by André Vianco

Don Casmurro by Machado de Assis

Colombian:

Chronicle of a Death Foretold by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Delirio by Laura Restrepo

¡Que viva la música! by Andrés Caicedo

The Sound of Things Falling by Jim Gabriel Vásquez

Mexican:

Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolf Anaya

Adonis Garcia/El Vampiro de la Colonia Roma by Luis Zapata

El Complot Mongol by Rafael Bernal

Egyptian:

The Cairo Trilogy by Nahuib Mahfouz

The Book of the Dead

Nigerian:

Rosewater by Tade Thompson

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

Malian:

The Epic of Sundiata

Senegalese:

Poetry of Senghor

Native American:

The Inconvenient Indian by Thomas King

Starlight by Richard Wagamese

Almanac of the Dead by L. Silko

Fools Crow by James Welch

Australian Aborigine:

Dark Emu by Bruce Pascoe

First Footprints by Scott Cane

My Place by Sally Morgan

American//Modern:

Real Life by Brandon Taylor

Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Internment by Samir’s Ahmed

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurtson

Rivers of London Series by Ben Aaronovitch

Strategy List (Part I)

For those that have zero knowledge of strategy, this is where I recommend starting.

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carmela corleone + pears vs diamonds (1917 vs 1958)

Il materiale di origine: @lilygavin, @montassaralaia @rupertfriend, @emmanuelle.seigner (Instagram) / Photos from the set of At Eternity’s Gate filmed in Arles, Provence, and Saint-Rémy, France. (2017) #myedit

Four sides of witchcraft. Countdown to Halloween.

In the film “Ever After” the character of the “Grand Dame”  at the beginning is said to be Marie Therese Charlotte, Duchesse d’Angouleme, daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.

She says that:

“ My great-great-grandmother’s portrait hung in the university up until the Revolution.”

While I am WELL AWARE the movie is obviously a work of fiction, I felt like pointing out that Prince Henry is supposed to be Henry II, who married Catherine de Medici, who was not one of her great, great grandmothers.

(Catherine was still related to her though, since she and Henry’s daughter, Claude, was Marie Therese’s great X5 grandmother. Twice over. Royalty had a shallow gene-pool guys. Therese was also descended from Catherine/Henry’s eldest daughter, Elisabeth too, who was her great X7 grandmother. It’s highly likely there are other lines of descent too *see my previous comment about shallow gene-pools*, but these were the most direct.)

Here are portraits of the women who were actually the Duchesse d’Angouleme’s Great, Great Grandmothers:

Marie Adelaide of Savoy, Dauphine of France

Catherine Opalińska, Queen of Poland

Christiane Eberhardine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth, Queen of Poland

Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empress

Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Poland

Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate, Duchesse d’Orleans

Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress

Christine Louise of Oettingen-Oettingen,  Duchess of Brunswick-Lüneburg