#gavotte

[zevampirex]

3 days left!!!!!! It deserves a 'lil 🕺🏻

[suzypfonne]

Look I know he wouldn't be interested, but Gavotte!Aziraphale could totally get it... from me. Repeatedly. There's just something so very intoxicating about how effervescent he is in this. 🥵🥰

[procrastiel]

but have you considered that Aziraphale joined the discreet gentlemen’s club and learned the Gavotte and worked hard to set up a date with Crowley where he could invite him to dance, or offer to teach him, but then Crowley showed up one day unexpectedly and as you may or may not know, the Gavotte ends with the dancing partners kissing, so when Crowley was there Aziraphale was too embarrassed to dance with anyone else and felt too shy to ask Crowley and that’s why Crowley thinks he doesn’t dance?

[rofell]

The Gavotte that Keeps on Giving

Was recently watching the extended take of the Gavotte and I just needed to see all these little moments in detail so please enjoy.

Lezzz go

Another bit of Tongue Acting Choices ☝️

So flipping pleased with himself

Okay the tongue again *dies*

He's too cute

And the best part - watch Aziraphale fall away and Michael Sheen emerge.

(Sorry for the potato quality on the last 2 gifs - Tumblr decreed the original gifs I made were "too big" aka "too hot" to handle)

[beebopboom]

ok but where are the edits of Aziraphale dancing the gavotte to Pink Pony Club? hmm?

that’s a Pink Pony Girl if i’ve ever seen one

[reihino1988]

practically he is the First dancer at La Scala...



[amy-love5]

Aziraphale & Crowley Dance

Fun Fact: Aziraphale learned the dance Gavotte (this is mentioned in season one).

The final step of Gavotte is to kiss your partner. This explains why Aziraphale was upset when the Gavotte went out of fashion. I imagine he learnt it in the hopes that one day he might convince Crowley to dance it with him. But by the time he was brave enough to ask Crowley to come to the club, he couldn't because nobody danced it anymore.

Aziraphale had waited over a hundred years, waiting for the right opportunity, to ask Crowley to dance with him.

[embracing-the-ineffable]

It was such fun to participate in the @gospexchange with the prompt from my giftee, @kotias: Bloody Mary by Lady Gaga. And now I have this image lingering in my head, of Crowley doing the iconic Wednesday Addams dance. It's a pretty small leap:

Have any artists drawn this yet? I'd LOVE to see! I can just picture David Tennant as Crowley doing his own version of the dance: 🔥

The song inspired The Ineffable Dance, my new fic about what happens after Crowley drives away at the end of season 2. With many thanks to my beta, @andromeda4004, come read about Crowley exorcising his demons (or angels!) at a dance club, and traveling through time to where his angel is waiting at a club of his own... (reblogs are appreciated, even if you don't have time to read right now!)

He saunters up to the door and miracles his way inside, carried forward on the swell of the music.

Love is just a history that they may prove

As he crosses the threshold, his senses are flooded with sounds, scents, and sights. He blinks and breathes - one, two, three times - and feels himself adjust to the whirlwind press of the crowded dance club. Aziraphale would hate this, but then again, he isn't here, he isn't anywhere Crowley can reach. He firmly pushes that thought away.

And when you're gone I'll tell them my religion's you

He visits the bar and downs a fortifying glass of their best whiskey, savoring the heat of it in his mouth and then down his throat, giving his body something to feel that isn't crushing weight or other distressing things. He takes that feeling with him, this small part of the night that Aziraphale would appreciate - delicious, buzzing warmth - as he steps onto the dance floor.

I'm gonna dance, dance, dance With my hands, hands, hands above my head

The beat of the music is more compulsion than invitation, but he welcomes it into his body, percussive thrusts joining the heat of the whiskey and driving everything else away. 

I won't cry for you I won't crucify the things you do

He dances. 

I won't cry for you See, when you're gone, I'll still be Bloody Crowley 

His heart skips a beat, and he blinks, hard. For a moment he thought the line was "I'll still be Bloody Crowley," but that doesn't make sense. It was definitely "Mary". Right? His heart skips again as Aziraphale's voice echoes in his thoughts: "You're being silly!"

Keep reading here to see what happens after Crowley discovers Aziraphale also dancing... in the past! 2.5k words, rated T, sweet and hopeful with no major warnings.

[mikrokosmos]

J.S. Bach - Orchestral Suite no.3 in D Major, BWV 1068 (c.1730)

I want to say I was listening to this one in my rocking chair next to my books on music. Or with wine and cheese at someone's party. No, I put this on while I washed the dishes. I thought I'd share my old post on this same piece but realized that I'd never written about this suite. And I don't have anything profound or introspective to say about it. It made taking down this mountain if dirty dishes feel like a grand accomplishment. It's a reminder that this music was written for the audience to enjoy. It doesn't have to be treated like music theory homework. That being said, I do like looking at the history of the orchestral suite, which would develop into the symphony. What can we hear from Bach's Proto-Symphony no.3? The Orchestral Suite was a carryover from France's Ouvertures. It would start with a slow section to draw in the audience, and then a lively counterpunctual exercise. After the "heavier" opening movement, the rest of the pieces are light dances, galanteries (minuets, bourrées, courantes, sarabandes, gavottes, allemandes, gigues, etc.). Because the German political elite had a taste for French art, they would have music played during their banquets and parties. Bach had no real interest in this kind of music (which would be a decent income source) because he was already dedicated to writing church music. But what few he did leave behind (we only have four Orchestral Suites attributed to him) sounds like great party music. The Suite in D Major is scored for 3 trumpets, timpani, oboes, violins, viola, basso continuo, giving it a louder sound than the others. The Ouverture starts with the slower grand statement announced by the trumpets and timpani. As you'd expect from Bach, this opens into a counterpunctual explorations of the melodies that developed out of the opening, but with the vibrancy of Vivaldi's fast paced concertos. The ending section cuts back and ends with a more subdued coda. The Air of this suite has stuck in our culture through films and TV, popular for its beautiful melodies. I remember first hearing it in the most ironic example I know; played during the library scene in Seven (or "Se7en") from the 1995 film. The ugliness and depraved misanthropy in the film is contrasted for a moment by the idealized "beautiful music" by an idealized "Great Composer". I thought it was showing the spectrum of human minds, that the "greatest" Baroque composer comes from the same human family as a lunatic serial killer using the Christian "Seven Deadly Sins" for gruesome punishments against his victims. Listening to it now I think it's fascinating that someone could have been touched or moved by the gorgeous Aria without words Bach wrote for whatever party or occasion, and she would have no idea that the same music would be heard again as so many of these festival pieces were back then. The latter dances show off the trumpets to make each one boisterous and lively. Two Gavottes with heavy emphasis on the beat, an upbeat Bourrée, and ending on the always fun and swaying Gigue. Of these dances I think I love Bach's gigues the most because they're always densely woven with his long waves of counterpoint across each instrument to create a dance that makes me think of old pub drinking songs or sailors dancing and drinking at sea. Another reminder that this music is supposed to be fun and enjoyable for anyone, and you can turn your own living room into an 18th century court for fun.

Movements:

Ouverture

Air

Gavotte I/II

Bourrée

Gigue

[innefableidiot]

Can we talk about how aziraphale learnt an entirely new dance for the Jane Austin style ball he held? Because it said that he only knew the gavotte (and technically the apology dance) so I'm assuming he learnt it for the ball and I can't stop thinking about it

[supremearchangelaziraphale]

say goodbye to uriel

Goodbye, @urielwiththegoodhair. You will be missed.

[ineffable-romantics]

I just saw someone link to this post Neil Gaiman wrote in 2012 listing Crowley and Aziraphale's New Year's resolutions, and uhhhhhhh

Resuming dance lessons. Moving on from just the gavotte. An upcoming episode called "The Ball". Hints at Pride & Prejudice.

✨️Interesting✨️

[my-wife-doesnt-approve]

Aaahhhhhhhhhhhhh! His velvet waistcoat is from when he learned to dance the gavotte and he never changed it!

[victorian-wizard]

For some reason I found the fact the these two images on my Pinterest page were next to each other extremely hilarious.

[rofell]

Michael Sheen's tongue's "acting choices"

Yes I edited this gif just so I could stare at it. Don't judge me.

Accepting nominations for other gifs that need slow mo/tongue enhancement.

[gasparodasalo]

Johann Friedrich Fasch (1688-1758) - Orchestral Suite for 2 Oboes, Bassoon, Strings and Basso continuo in G-Major, FWV L:G16, III. Gavotte. Performed by La Stravaganza Köln on period instruments.