#neumeier

[90smovies]

[yourdailyqueer]

Shain Neumeier

Gender: Transgender non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: Born 1987

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Lawyer, activist

Note: Is autistic, has PTSD and has cleft lip and palate

[lovelyballetandmore]

Derek Drilon | Joffrey Ballet | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | The World of John Neumeier

[80smovies]

[naomilibicki]

So a while back @mage-pie recommended Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier, and as I do when I hear about a book and it sounds vaguely interesting, I chucked it on my want-to-read shelf on goodreads and mostly forgot about it.

Somewhat more recently, I went scrolling through my want-to-read shelf looking for something to buy to tide me through a family function that I expected to be boring (it was) and I decided on Tuyo, and I started reading it, but it was going pretty slowly and it's a long book so I was mostly picking away at it.

Then, yesterday, due to a confluence of circumstances including computer troubles and being at my parents' house, I found myself with a lot of time to read, and I finished the last 80% or so of the book in one gulp.

Anyway! I really enjoyed it. It opens with the main character being left as, essentially, a sacrifice to the forces that defeated his people in battle; he expects to be killed, but the enemy commander, only passingly familiar with the custom, decides he has other uses for him.

It's a very slow burn (not burn in the sense of romance; there are some hints of (het) romance towards the end of the book which might possibly become more prominent in the later books in the series, but the focus is firmly on non-romantic relationships), very much interested in exploring the culture clash between Ryo's home culture and the one in which he finds himself. There are, inevitably, parallels to real-world cultures, but the author seems to be deliberately avoiding setting up anything 1:1, and rather letting the cultures (and different physical types of humans) be their own thing. The reasons behind the conflict that kicks off the book, and the resolution of it, what in some sense might be called the "plot", has to take a back seat. This suited me just fine, but I can imagine some readers getting frustrated with it.

I really enjoyed the subtle yet pervasive magic of the world itself. One review I happened to see on goodreads mentioned wondering how the physics works, which strikes me as beside the point--of course the physics doesn't work in a world where the moon is always full on one side of a river and has phases on the other side of it. But I eat that shit up, the sense that magic isn't just something that you can do if you're a wizard, but something inherent in a world, bigger and stranger than people can comprehend or hope to control.

Anyway! I have a bad habit of not continuing series even when I like the first book and am looking forward to the next ones, so who knows when or whether I will read the rest, but I also felt that this book doesn't really need the rest; it has a perfectly satisfying ending of its own. Would recommend.

[elaine-of-shalott-blog]

Alina Cojocaru as Marguerite Gautier and Claudio Coviello as Armand Duval in La dame aux camélias by John Neumeier.

La Scala Ballet, 3 October 2024

[theoscarsproject]

Robocop (1987). In a dystopic and crime-ridden Detroit, a terminally wounded cop returns to the force as a powerful cyborg haunted by submerged memories.

This is a) so much better than I was expecting, and also b) so much better than it has any right to be? Sure, it's partly copaganda, but it's also a pretty scathing indictment of corruption in the police force and how capitalistic interests inherently treat people as disposable. Plus! It's a fun sci-fi movie! Plus the VFX are pretty darn sick. 7/10.

[90smovies]

[balletthebestphotographs]

Ioanna Avraam and Masayu Kimoto

Ioanna Avraam as “Prudence Duvernoy” and Masayu Kimoto 木本正裕 as “Gaston Rieux”, “Lady of the Camellias Die Kameliendame”, choreo, staging and light by John Neumeier, music by Frédéric Chopin, set and costume by Jürgen Rose, based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas fils, Wiener Staatsballett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria.

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Ashley Taylor Website Photographer Ashley Taylor on Instagram

via: Ioanna Avraam on Instagram Summer with the Avraams on Instagram

[strawberrywein]

I’m also fooling around with music vid studies lmao (why the hell they fit so good in here, even the height, I’m crying)

UPD: i've finished these

[lovelyballetandmore]

Joffrey Ballet | Festspielhaus Baden-Baden | The World of John Neumeier

[roadtrippinlilly]

Neumeier's Rib Room

Ft Smith, Arkansas

Source Me laf@ilyF 😊

[shsenhaji]

📚 January Reading Round-Up 📚

January was a pretty great reading month! Finished a few books I'd started in December, while also binging some new ones.

- Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan (good, very funny and bittersweet, full of detailed and lush descriptions, loved the last part the best, very different than the movie's plot)

- Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher (Delightful, funny, characters were a bit too self-deprecating but it worked nonetheless, all the feels)

- Manacled by Senlinyu (Very good, cried at a lot of parts, not my favourite iteration of this trope but a great addition, loved the fanart, interesting take on Draco Malfoy that I did enjoy)

- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir (Very good, loved the audiobook, funny and smart and heartfelt, MC has ADHD vibes, some cool twists, great intertwined flashback story structure)

- Fullmetal Alchemist Fullmetal Edition Vol. 5 by Hiromu Arakawa (Very good, thankfully some of the scenes didn't hit me as hard as the anime, loved the humour and the art style)

- The Theft of Sunlight by Intisar Khanani (Good, very intense, loved the second half of the book more, great character development and themes)

- A Darkness at the Door by Intisar Khanani (Very very good, binged it in a day, very poetic and lyrical and angry and cathartic, loved the romance and the friendships and the ending)

- Tuyo by Rachel Neumeier (Good, loved the beginning, not quite what I was expecting for the ending, great characters and communication)

[beanie-on-a-string]

i get gender envy from the weirdest stuff, and when i say the weirdest stuff i mean the faun from the neumeier ballet nijinsky

[kimludcom]

Ein Sommernachtstraum - Ballett von John Neumeier

[praise-the-lord-im-dead]

Wait a second, a mutual who has read the Tuyo books????????????????????

I JUST READ THEM AND THEY'RE AMAZINGGG!!!!! I saw @soldier-poet-king rec them, picked up the series, and then devoured them all over the course of five days. I just picked up her Griffon Mage series, too! <3<3<3