#TheDyingSwan

[mosaicodopara]

Ela tinha asas. Não há como saber se eram de cisne ou se eram de anjo, mas ela tinha asas. @lianavasconcelos 👏👏👏 . @festivalfida2021 @theatrodapazoficial . #ballet #balletinspiration #asasdeanjo #mortedocisne #balletphotography #ballerina #photoart #amortedocisne #TheDyingSwan #fotografiadedança (em Theatro da Paz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZec-qXO928/?utm_medium=tumblr

[schmanguss]

#shutupanddance #manna #forresttheatre #dance #ballet #swanlake #balerina #thedyingswan #philly #philadelphia (at Forrest Theatre)

[zoejameswilliams]

Detail from Dancers Don't Need Wings To Fly by #zoejameswilliams #thedyingswan #alinasomova #rehearsal . .A beautiful and memorable performance. Alina was sublime #mariinsky . #balleticonsgala . . .Drawn with a @penteluk #brushpen on cream #ingres Paper from @seawhiteofbrighton .. .Please follow Saatchi link in bio to see the original painting and available fine art prints on fine art paper and canvas. DM me for further details. . . . . #ballerina #dancer #instadance #ballet #instaballet #behindthescenes #instatheatre #drawing #instadraw #dailypic #penandink #sketch #sketchbook #instasketchbook #balletaddiction #ballerinasofig #balletpost #inkdrawing #inspirationalquotes #quoteoftheday #dancersdontneedwingstofly https://www.instagram.com/p/B9Zg-hbgCHl/?igshid=9xml2yew6pp4

[grandballet]

The Dying Swan is a famous short ballet choreographed by Mikhail Fokine to the music of Saint-Saens in 1905 for the great Anna Pavlova. Mlle. Pavlova was inspired to ask Fokine to create this piece by Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem The Dying Swan and from the swans seen in the public parks.

The original concept of the piece is that the Swan has been wounded and is painfully fighting against death, but in the end, she loses her battle and dies. The great Maya Plisetskaya famously presented the Swan as elderly and stubborn and dying of old age, rather than dying of a wound when she danced the piece at the age of 61.

This variation became Mlle. Pavlova's signature ballet, but today, what it is performed as The Dying Swan is miles from what Fokine actually choreographed.

In the words of Fokine's granddaughter, Isabelle:

"The Dying Swan does not make enormous technical demands, but rather enormous artistic ones because every movement and every gesture should signify a different experience, which is emerging from someone who is attempting to escape death."

Today, what we have as The Dying Swan is very a Swan Lake style piece that strongly resembles the Swan Queen Odette, which is not what Fokine intended.

Isabelle Fokine said in today's version "it looks like Odette at death's door. The ballet in essence is not about the beauty of a ballerina being able to transform herself into a figure of a swan. It is not about a swan, it is about death and the swan is simply a metaphor."

Here we have a comparison between Ulyana Lopatkina's version and Anna Pavlova's version - look at how different these two versions are! As you can see, Pavlova is all about the artistry, while Lopatkina is all about the technique. The Dying Swan today has become too technical and does not in any way match Fokine's original creation for one of the greatest ballerinas of all time.

According to legend, when Anna Pavlova was lying on her deathbed, her last words were "Get my Swan costume ready".

[provokingdrama]

Currently... #art #beyond #betweenworlds #underpainting #surrealism #sickly #darkart #outsiderart #portrait #acrylicpainting #acrylic #thedyingswan https://www.instagram.com/p/BuAEeuJlKLX/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1x9sihoh0s163

[paintedatoz]

#chairdance #dance - up closer - Birthday Chair Dance #birthday #chair-dance #dance #candlelight #dancingspiritinachair #dancecanhappenAnywhereAnytime #Sometimesyouhavetodance #dancelife #dancer #dancersofinstagram #dance4life #dancemusic #dancetime #dancespirit #dancelikenooneswatching #danceyourheart #danceup #danceaway #thedyingswan #shortestversion #whenidanceifeelfree #whenIDanceIAmTheBestMe #WhenIDanceIAmTheTruestMe #whenIDanceIAmConnectedToHeavenandEarth 4/21/2018 .... (at Tiverton, Rhode Island)

[abiteofthecherrybomb-blog]

#annapavlova #ballerina #primaballerina #ballet #russian #imperialrussianballet #balletsrusses #vintage #swan #thedyingswan

[andrebagoo]

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I had seen Moko Jumbies all my life. But one day, suddenly, I thought: my God, he is a ballerina on toes. I added a little toe and calf and somehow it makes him look like a creature from Alice in Wonderland. This is not a costume, it is a mas. On Thursday night, Jha-whan played the mas. - Peter Minshall, interviewed on his new mas 'The Dying Swan' at http://www.newsday.co.tt/news/0,223352.html #Minshall #JhawhanThomas #TheDyingSwan (at Queen's Park Savannah)

[mosaicodopara]

@lianavasconcelos no Festival Internacional de Dança da Amazônia. Uma apresentação majestosa, impecável 👏👏 . Fotografar ao lado do mestre e amigo @valeriosilveira sempre será uma grande honra e uma oportunidade única de aprendizado. . Siga @valeriosilveira @festivalfida2021 #RecortesDeDança . #Fida2021 #ballet #balletclassico #palco #stage #amortedocisne #TheDyingSwan #dancephotography #fotodedança #fotoarte #dancestage #photoart #bailarinos #dança #arte #movimento #ballerina #bailarina #vidadeartista #poesiadocorpo (em Theatro da Paz) https://www.instagram.com/p/CV3YRNmP9TF/?utm_medium=tumblr

[caribbeanlookbook]

The #makeup for #PeterMinshall's #TheDyingSwan, by #MervyndeGoeas @madego • #TrinidadCarnival #mas #costume • 📷 @ashraphr65

[zoejameswilliams]

#inktoberday8 #inktober2019 #inktober #thedyingswan #alinasomova #rehearsal . .A beautiful and memorable performance. Alina's arms were sublime. . .. . #ballerina #dancer #instadance #ballet #instaballet #behindthescenes #instatheatre #drawing #instadraw #zoejameswilliams #dailypic #penandink #sketch #sketchbook #instasketchbook #balletaddiction #ballerinasofig #balletpost #inkdrawing https://www.instagram.com/p/B3Xqwy4g9hI/?igshid=e7grlyo15dum

[abiteofthecherrybomb-blog]

#annapavlova #ballerina #primaballerina #ballet #russian #imperialrussianballet #balletsrusses #vintage #swan #thedyingswan

[womenruntheworld]

This is supposed footage of Pavlova performing her signature ballet "The Dying Swan". The piece was choreographed in 1905 and this performance took place at the Mariinsky Theater in 1907. I'm going to try and research this a bit more...