#ballet dude

[fresherfriut]

[duckflush]

He will always be on my mind somewhere

So let the flowers bloom ❤️

[thresholdbb]

Can we talk about The Dying Swan moment in Coda? As someone who was once a very serious ballerina, I need to talk about the Dying Swan. Here's your context --

CHAKOTAY: Harry's clarinet solo was okay. I could have done without Tuvok's reading of Vulcan poetry. But the highlight of the evening was definitely Kathryn Janeway portraying the Dying Swan. JANEWAY: I learned that dance when I was six years old. I assure you, it was the hit of the Beginning Ballet class.

Have you seen The Dying Swan? It is dramatic.

Here, take a minute:

First of all, this dance is much too advanced for a six-year-old, even if they’re doing it in demi pointe. (Six-year-olds emphatically should not be in pointe shoes btw.) The dance is almost entirely bourees and arm movements done to very subtle musical cues, not the foundational ballet moves typically taught in Beginning Ballet.

This is a very vulnerable, dramatic dance that is effective because of its subtleties. The performer would need to embody that vulnerability in some way for a convincing performance. It's short, but it's a solo piece -- all eyes on you. I mean, it was choreographed for a prima ballerina, BUT THAT'S NOT MY POINT

Can you imagine our unflappable Captain Janeway willingly getting in front of her crew to do this ballet? I get that it’s thematically relevant to the plot of Coda, but since Janeway is only vulnerable in front of her crew when it means putting herself in harm’s way, it seems like a wild decision. She tends to hold herself apart from her crew, maintaining the professional distance of the captain. Further, when she does any creative pursuit, it is almost always in private, since her sister was the artist in the family and she was the scientist. As a captain, she commands Voyager in a much different way than she would as a dancer with this piece. I'm not saying she never shows vulnerability because she definitely does, but not necessarily in this way. Then when she talks about it with Chakotay, she just casually brushes it off with a laugh like no big deal.

There’s also the question of costume – would she have gone full tutu? Done it in her Starfleet uniform? An impeccable yet flow-y white suit? She does get into costume and command a performance in Bride of Chaotica!, but Coda is still kind of early days for our captain. Arachnia aligns more with what we know about Janeway's character.

Granted, it is Chakotay laying down these complements about her dancing ability and he is clearly biased. To be fair, Neelix does too before they leave in the shuttle. If she did this dance and performed it poorly or amazingly, I feel like the crew would look at her a bit differently afterwards.

Canonically she did The Dying Swan, but I certainly have trouble picturing it happening.

[julesart04]

Ballerina Regulus ✨

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(Currently uploading all my art from the past year 🥱)

[gabessquishytum]

One other ballet au prompt (ballet au has eaten all my attention!)

Ballet universes also have . . . . sexy night club/party dance seduction set piece.

Dream doesn't dance anymore, he can't find the love - although Hob is (re)awakening all manner of things Dream has forgotten he loves - some how post a fundraising party or at the holiday party after party - Dream and Hob are in a night club with the sexy dancing, and Dream is happy (or less sour, happy for him) and watching Hob move on the dance floor, hips moving, with Hob stealing glances, causes (forces, really how could he NOT) Dream to get up/walk over to Hob on the dance floor and DANCE with him - queue sex "dancing" in public, sweaty, horny, open mouthed, "guys, get a room" in the club.

Alsksjsjfjf wonderful, I love this further elaboration!!!!

Dream has sworn off dancing. If he can't perform, what's the point? If he can't be the best of the best then he just isn't interested. He is, however, interested in Hob. And Hob very much seems to be dancing for him.

This isn't a rehearsal or a performance. It's not even a warm up. It's just Hob, in the middle of a crowd of college kids and a bunch of people who seem to have poured straight of an office. He's dancing, jumping around with his arms in the air, bumping in friendly harmony with the crowd. But he keeps catching Dream’s eye and giving him this blinding smile.

The music is mostly cheesy hits from the 90s and 00s, but after a while some more sensual songs come on in between the bangers. A few people try to engage Hob in a different flavour of dance - grinding on him, touching his chest. He laughs them off each time, or ducks out of the way. And each time he looks at Dream again.

And Dream feels the pull of the music like he hasn't for over a decade.

He ends up in the middle of the crowd, inches away from Hob in all his sweat-soaked glory. Another slow song with a heart stopping bass comes on and Dream’s hands are on Hob’s hips all of a sudden, sliding around to cup his arse. Hob’s hands glide up over Dream’s chest and cup the back of his neck, pulling him in closer. They're both panting, lips almost brushing. Hob hooks his hand around Dream’s thigh and pulls it up around his waist and then they're kissing, like it's just another dance move.

The crowd parts - only because Hob overbalances and crashes onto the sticky floor with Dream in his arms. They don't stop kissing until they're seriously under threat of being trampled. Dream peels Hob up off the floor and they grin at each other like idiots, and somehow they keep dancing - Dream finds himself wanting to dance.

In fact, he can't bear to stop.

[billy-hargrooves]

10 characters, 10 fandoms

List ten favorite characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 people

I was tagged by @barrykeohgan

Thanks so much ❤️ and sorry that it took me so long.

Harry Crosby  (Masters of the Air) - HBO War

Charlie Sims  (Center Stage) - dance/ ballet fandom

Steve Harrington and Dustin Henderson (I can't choose between them and I won't. Basta! 😏) - Stranger Things

Peeta Melark- The Hunger Games

Robb Stark - Game of Thrones

Percy Jackson - Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Professor Xavier (played by James McAvoy) - Marvel

Clark Kent/ Superman (played by Henry Cavill) - DC

Spock (played by Ethan Peck) - Star Trek

Grogu - Star Wars

Tagging: @violaobanion @springsteens @basilone @marinad3lrey @harritudur @tisdae @emziess @beverlycrushr @letthefairyinyoufly @jakeperalta @staud @rosies-riveters @jesperfahxey @rogue-coyote @cristinasea @isitandwonder @elena-gilbert @rhaenyra-the-gracious @olympain

And everybody else who wants to do it 😊😉

[6side9side]

tango in eden

[curiosity-killed]

Not to sound like an angry old man but one of the things that bothers me most both when I’m teaching my kiddos and when I’m in class with adult beginners is that like there is etiquette in ballet class that’s just archaic and shitty, there’s etiquette in ballet that’s just about courtesy/tradition, and then there’s etiquette that’s there for safety

And ppl tend to pick up on the second pretty quickly both as kids and adults—like thanking the teacher/pianist, being quiet when the teacher is talking, etc.—but they’re really bad at the third category, which is imo the most important

And like obv some of that is because they haven’t been taught but, frankly, a lot of ballet etiquette is learned through observation—noticing that, hey, if all the experienced dancers are starting this combination from the corner in the same formation, maybe I should, too. But people (both kids and adults!) just…don’t seem to pay very much attention to that side of things?? Even though it can literally save you from or give you a broken ankle depending on if you’re doing it correctly or not??

And I get that when you’re focusing really hard on understanding the steps or combination, less of your mind is on spacing/not getting tackled by your neighbor—but people (mostly adults for this one) get like kind of uppity about it?? When they’re? Wrong???

[amasdoodles]

one thing to know about me is i love ballet, and i will indulge that love if anyone gives me an excuse to so! balaerra, as mythra, the queen of the willis from the ballet giselle, bc @thesolemnhour was very nice and was assigning variations and ballerina's to ppls ocs. here's balaerra's!

[amatres]

albrecht should have died ngl, giselle is far more forgiving than me

[sailor-tri]

Thinking of Dunkin hecate back into the horrors again. They definitely are haunted by their past self, they wouldn't have drastically changed their appearance if they weren't. They would have burned all their prosecutor garb if they weren't obsessed with finding their killer. In the back of their closet lay the evidence box from their case-- the case that ran cold cause the killer was never able to be found. They shouldn't have the evidence box but they pulled strings and made some friends in high places.

To have a evidence board hidden in your study with your face plastered on it. Pictures of your crime scene, your autopsy report-- all the people connected to you but still no lead on your killer. It's been 3 years and the statute of limitations is surely approaching. Your killer just vanishing but you can't shake that they're still alive out there, waiting to strike again. You have much more to lose now, especially because people keep coming into your life no matter how hard you try to push them out.

You say you're not scared, you say it's fine and yet. All the knifes in your house remain untouched, banished to a drawer that you put a lock on. Your home is a fortress armed with the best security system money could by, you have a guard dog and a service dog, you check every dark corner before feeling comfortable in a room. People can't approach you from behind or you'll completely shut down and fly into a panic.

But you're not scared, you're fine.

You're perfectly well adjusted but, you are afraid of commitment and will not talk about your mother. People try to get to know you but you flip it back on them and never open up.

You aren't a person to be known, just an excellent defense attorney and that's it. An attorney to be feared but no one's certain why you're attorney in the first place. You seem like you would be much better being a prosecutor...

[tsukasalover]

im going to start taking dance classes on monday and i Really dont want to (i dont know how to dance) (and im not good at it. At all)

[chick-magnet-marco]

Princess tutu swap au stuff.... also here's the sketch of kraehe btw

More stuff sbt this cus uhhh ^___^ im ill

Basically rue is our duck in this story she was a human that was taken by a crow but longing for a different like she gets the ability to turn into a primadonna by drosselmeyer to be able to help fakir(a guy she sees in one of the ballet classes who is basically mytho in this idk(but she doesn't have romantic feelings for him) so that when she gathers all his heart shards she'll be able to turn into a crow and please her father by marrying mytho. Duck/ahiru is a duck from birth who was turned into a human by drosselmeyer to be with mytho(having a crush on him) but is also tasked with getting fakirs shards to truly stay a human so they are put against eachother (they are geniunely friends but have to fight against eachother for the shards) and im too lazy to type the rest I know this is different than some of the stuff in the art sryyy 😢😢😢

[whereisthedamndaddymanual]

Sometimes I wonder about worms. Like where the fuck do they come from. You can dig and find them but it isn't like there are tunnels, they are just there, snails pace serpentine through the dirt and granules. At a depth shallow enough the dirt above doesn't crush them, yet deep enough you gotta dig a bit to really find them down there.

Just squirming and waiting to get hooked in some fish on a time waxing off the full moon.

[savetheghost]