#tchaikovsky /swan lake

[beyourselfchulanmaria]

我不了解鳥類 我也不知道火的歷史。 可我相信我的孤獨應該有雙翅膀。

I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings.

─ Alejandra Pizarnik (1936-1972, Argentine poet) 阿根廷詩人。她獨特且主題內省的詩歌著作被認為是"拉丁美洲文學中最不尋常的作家之一"，並因其對“語言、沉默、身體、夜晚、親密的、瘋狂的以及死亡本質的關注而受到認可和讚揚。。她在布宜諾斯艾利斯大學研讀哲學，並在多家出版商和雜誌社擔任作家和文學評論家。

iris van herpen x dutch national ballet 2021

[staticsnowfall]

swan lake (1957)

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maya plisetskaya, prima ballerina of the bolshoi ballet, as odette, the swan princess

dir. by zoya tulubyeva, choreo. by aleksander gorsky

[musedelsa]

Swan Lake Ballet Program by Olga Biantovskaya

[souvlakic]

russian ballerina

[dommnics]

Just realized I uploaded this on my other socials but not on here. A couple years ago, I was really interested in re-imagining Swan Lake as a comic, but never got far with it and put it to the side. The story found its way back to me, and I'd love to have another go at it and work it into a graphic novel after I publish my debut graphic novel trilogy KLOUD 9 (coming in 2025!)

These are some rough character designs I was playing around with for my take on the Swan Lake characters. I wanted my Odette to be a magical Filipina princess, as my dream of helping work on the first Filipina Disney princess movie seems too far off at this point in my career. So I don't really want to wait, and I'm just making my own haha!

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[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was doing a Physics test alone, but then my 60 year old professor started performing Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" by herself. I woke up when I tried to clap.

[bambiiaangel]

bitches after watching black swan once ⋆ 𐙚 ‧₊

[notbecauseofvictories]

do not put tinkly christmas music on my classical playlist so help me god it is october.

[fonteyn]

Swan Lake's entrance to the Black Swan pas de deux performed by Ekaterina Odarenko as Odile.

[thecutestgrotto]

Hello! Your grafics are the best! Was wonder if you can make som Swan Lake ones? Thank you muchly!

Sorry about bad language, English not my first language. 😣😣

Anon your English is great!! 🩵🌸

Swan Lake

[a4th]

Fyozai having "fun" while Dazai wears traditional japanese clothes, and Fyodor traditionnels russian clothes plz 😞

oh they surely know how to have fun!

[staticsnowfall]

the famous fouettés of swan lake

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featured above is chloe misseldine, prima ballerina of american ballet theatre, as odile in ‘swan lake’.

the thirty-two fouettés in swan lake, and the embodiment of odette and odile as a whole are considered a stepping stone into a ballerina’s career as a prima. a debut is ultimately a test, a deciding factor in whether a company decides to promote a dancer or leave her alone. the fouettés of odile are difficult, requiring much strength, stamina, and training, performed during the coda after a lengthy pas de deux and variation. the legendary pierina legnani was the first ballerina to accomplish this feat in 1895, the fouettés being added just for her by choreographer marius petipa.

misseldine is the most recent ballerina to join the ranks of principal in the company: her promotion was on july 3rd, 2024, after her performance of odette/odile at the metropolitan opera house in manhattan, new york.

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footage sourced from @juliette_2626’s story on instagram, july 3rd, 2024, the met opera.

[summerbunnys-world]

Swan Lake

[yapyapyapsparkles]

EARGASM

[here-comes-the-moose]

Guys I just had a realization while I was driving:

So I’m not sure if anyone has pointed this out before, but the intro to “Across The Stars” sounds super similar to the opening of the famous piece from Swan Lake (please don’t come for me I tried so hard to find what the name was). Obviously John Williams is a genius, so I believe this to be intentional since both pieces have an ominous tone and are part of a larger context of good versus evil, with one of the main characters being someone who plays both characters of good and evil who are one person but also two people (Anakin/Darth Vader and Odette/Odile). I hope this makes sense I have a headache and I didn’t do a super in-depth analysis since I wanted to post this before I forgot.

Edit: Also an interesting coincidence is that both pieces are from works that were unpopular at their time of release but eventually grew to become iconic.

[one-time-i-dreamt]

I was watching the Swan Lake ballet and was crying because it was so good and I kept trying to tell people about inspirations Tchaikovsky might’ve had when he wrote it and they kept ignoring me and telling me to shut up.