@ the Met tonight for ABT production of La Bayadere. Herman Cornejo is magnificent & the Kingdom of the Shades was a thrilling, touching, amazing  sight I never thought I  experience in person.

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Another in Christian Comte's series of filmic recreations of Nijinsky in which still photos are morphed into moving images.

This one is a bit creepy but I think that's Petrouchka as much as the animation technique. Delicious!

It looks like the BBC iPlayer has three videos with or about Rudolf Nureyev -- Margot (about Margo Fonteyn), Marguerite and Armand (the ballet created by Frederick Aston especially for Margo & Rudi), and Nureyev: From Russia with LoveBut I live in the US and BBC won't let me play them, much less capture them with RealPlayer or the like ( Read more... )

The amazing Herman Cornejo in a super slo-mo turn:

http://tinyurl.com/slowcornejo

And check out the other videos while you are there.

Merce Cunningham's Art Collection Heads to Auction at Christie's

Some mornings I wake up rested, refreshed, and feeling like I have a decent handle on my messy life. This is one of those mornings. I wish I had a magic formula to make this happen every day, or at least a little more often, but I'll happliy take it when it comes.

I finally scored a used copy of The Joffrey Ballet Tribute to Nijinsky, with Rudolf ( Read more... )

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Recently viewed (in theatre or on DVD):

• Mongol -- Now we gallop for miles across the Mongolian steppes, kick somebody's ass or get our asses kicked. Now we do it again. KHAN!!! (Gorgeous cinematography, tho.)
• The Dark Knight -- I should have remembered I've yet to enjoy any of the comics-into-movies. Not even Heath Ledger could make it ( Read more... )

• Criminal Minds in syndication. I happened to be in the mood for it and, presto!, here it is.


• That excellent Southern comfort food, biscuits and gravy.


• Xanax


• The big-assed cortisone shot I got in my seriously arthritic knee a week ago. It swelled and hurt like a motherfucker for the first 24 hours but now the knee is significantly less ( Read more... )

Fuck. I am so not in the mood to watch the debate tonight. Do I have to?

Maybe I'll dig out a ballet DVD and give my election-battered brain a rest.