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THE RED SHOES (1948) Dir. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

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George Balanchine, Serenade

Helene Alexopoulos, Merrill Ashley and Adam Luders

ph. Martha Swope

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Publicity photos for George Balanchine’s Jewels, 1967 (click on images for names)

ph. Martha Swope

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Fictitious Dishes

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, 1865

‘Have some wine,’ the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked all round the table, but there was nothing on it but tea.’

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, 1963

‘Then I tackled the avocado and crabmeat salad…Every Sunday my grandfather used to bring me an avocado pear hidden at the bottom of his briefcase under six soiled shirts and the Sunday comic.’

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 1951

‘When I’m out somewhere, I generally just eat a Swiss cheese sandwich and a malted milk. It isn’t much, but you get quite a lot of vitamins in the malted milk. H. V. Caulfield. Holden Vitamin Caulfield.’

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson, 2005

'She improvised bandages and covered the wound with a makeshift compress. Then she poured the coffee and handed him a sandwich. ‘I’m really not hungry,’ he said. ‘I don’t give a damn if you’re hungry. Just eat,’ Salander commanded, taking a big bite of her own cheese sandwich.

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925

'On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d’oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.’

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, 1915

'There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with butter and salt….’

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville, 1851

'Our appetites being sharpened by the frosty voyage, and in particular, Queequeg seeing his favorite fishing food before him, and the chowder being surpassingly excellent, we despatched it with great expedition…’

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, 1960

“Gracious alive, Cal, what’s all this?’ He was staring at his breakfast plate. Calpurnia said, ‘Tom Robinson’s daddy sent you along this chicken this morning. I fixed it.’ ‘You tell him I’m proud to get it — bet they don’t have chicken for breakfast at the White House.’’

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 1837

'Child as he was, he was desperate with hunger, and reckless with misery. He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’’

By Dinah Fried

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Sylvia Plath // Cecília Meireles // Jeremy Lipking // Leonard Cohen // Muozu // Anne Sexton // Hélène Delmaire

I'll call this "The fear of not knowing what to be".

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Stroboscopic photographs of the New York City Ballet’s production of Jewels, 1967. Photographed by Gjon Mili.

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The Wilis

Bolshoi Ballet (2015), Paris Opera Ballet, English National Ballet (Akram Khan production), Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet (1957), Royal Danish Ballet

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Stroboscopic photographs of the New York City Ballet’s production of Jewels, 1969. Photographed by Gjon Mili.

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Camille Norton, Corruption: Poems

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What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream.

Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) dir. Peter Weir, DoP Russell Boyd

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treading lightly 📀

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Stacia Napierkowska in Les Vampires (1915)

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Adele Belem, Mickael Lafon

photo: Sylvie Lancrenon

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Just trying to draw anything 

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The ballerinas roam the catacombs of the Paris Opera in The Phantom of the Opera, 1925

directed by  Rupert Julian

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The Wilis

Bolshoi Ballet (2015), Paris Opera Ballet, English National Ballet (Akram Khan production), Royal Ballet, Bolshoi Ballet (1957), Royal Danish Ballet

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