Nach all dem dummen Zeug endlich mal wieder etwas Hochkultur, passend zur Jahreszeit, auch wenn es gar nicht so wirkt, The Winter's Tale. Nach Shakespeare! Getanzt! Liebe, Eifersucht, Tod, Verdammnis, Verzeihung, Auferstehung, alles geboten. Es ist ganz außerordentlich wunderbar. Zenaida Yanowsky stielt wieder allen die Show.
Habe dann auch nachgeschaut, was dieser Joby Talbot sonst noch so komponiert hat. Das letzte war der Score zu Wonka. Soviel zur Hochkultur.
Ma Vie, an original short dance film from Northern Ballet
Northern Ballet has released Ma Vie, an original dance film choreographed by the well-known hip-hop choreographer Dickson Mbi.
Minju Kang in Ma Vie
Northern Ballet has released Ma Vie, an original dance film choreographed by the well-known hip-hop choreographer Dickson Mbi.
It features six Northern Ballet dancers together with guest artist Max Revell, the winner of BBC Young Dancer 2019. The film follows Northern Ballet’s national tour of Kenneth Tindall’s Casanova and is inspired by the same historical figure.
Sarah…
Hitman ballet AU my beloved... (I'm assuming this is for the WIP game, not the 3-sentence AU fic game, lol).
I'm a certified dance judge for both ballroom/latin and ballet, and every single fandom I'm in, I always attempt to write a ballet AU. But I usually end up getting distracted by the "research" aka watching hours upon hours of ballet to figure out what style and school the blorbos would dance, the fic ends up on the backburner, and by the time I've figured out what I want to do, my brain has moved on to the next hyperfixation.
BUT NOT THIS TIME!
We're in London, in the 1970s. Diana Burnwood, the prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet, is getting demoted by Erich Soders, the ballet master, and Arthur Edwards, the artistic director.
Also going to tag @cicaklah here, my biggest cheerleader for this fic. <3
"...character artist."
Diana Burnwood felt as if the ground was pulling on her throat and the ceiling was pushing onto her soul.
"Excuse me?" was all she managed to reply, her voice shakier than she would have preferred it to be.
"Let's face it, Diana, you're not the youngest anymore," Soders continued. "It's time to step back as a prima and make some room for the new generation of dancers. We can't have a forty-year-old dancing Odette. Surely you understand."
"I may not be as young as some of the others, Erich, but that certainly doesn't mean I'm past my prime, and you know that.
However, they give her one more opportunity to save her career: they've hired a no-name Russian defector who doesn't speak a word of English. If she can dance a full pas de deux with him at their next sponsor-seeking event, two months from now, and manages to secure more funds than her intended replacement, Tamara Vidal, she can stay.
👁️ EYE - what colour are their eyes? do people notice their eyes? is there anything special about them (shows emotion easily, literally magical…)?
Ulysses has a blue left eye and a green right eye. His right eye was slashed by a bit of metal after a gate slammed in his face, so it has a long vertical scar across it, and he wears a monocle attached to a chain on his collar over that eye to help him see. And they tend to show somewhat different emotions than the rest of his face--it's not uncommon for a smile not to reach his eyes, for example.
Prufrock, on the other hand, has an amber left eye and a blue right eye, both of them with perfect vision. They're extremely expressive eyes and always sparkle with a bit of mischief, even when he's not actively coming up with one of his hare-brained, but well-intentioned schemes.
💤 SLEEPING - do they fall asleep easily? what helps them sleep?
Neither of them fall asleep very quickly at all--they both have a habit of being hyper-vigilant and startling at any sudden loud noise. Ulysses likes to sleep as close to one of the street lamps as possible so the humming can serve as gentle white noise, and Prufrock likes to sleep cuddled up to someone. Usually it's his mate or one of his friends, but if he can catch his brother on a good night he might get some company out of it.
🙈 SEE-NO-EVIL - whats a side of your oc that they don’t want to show other people?
Ulysses does have an extremely soft center under his fussy, prim-and-proper exterior, but he only shows it very sparingly to cats who haven't earned it. He doesn't want anyone to think he can be taken advantage of, after all, especially as a Protector (which he knows is irrational just looking at Munkustrap, but... well, there's a lot of baggage he's still unpacking from his kittenhood). And while Prufrock usually wears his heart proudly on his sleeve and couldn't keep most secrets if he tried, that's partially by design. Deep deep down, he's terrified that one day everyone's going to get tired of his antics and kick him out of the Junkyard. It's another irrational fear since the Jellicles here have been nothing but kind, but he doesn't want to lose yet another home because he did something stupid.
🌌 MILKY WAY - what was the inspiration behind your oc? what was the first thing you decided about them?
Both of them were inspired by characters from the Royal Ballet's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Ulysses is based on the White Rabbit, a fastidious nervous wreck with a protective streak a mile long, and Prufrock is based on the Knave of Hearts, a hopeless romantic with a penchant for causing trouble. I decided to flesh out their backstories more to give them more distinct characters and make them make sense as cats, but the images of Edward Watson and Federico Bonelli respectively are still there in my mind whenever I think of them.