Boring I Know, But I Have Black Swan Fever…
Do I really need to discuss why Black Swan was such a prodigious visual experience? Or why Aronofsky is our generation’s directorial hero? No? Ok, great because I’m tired and other than tossing in a few fancy words, can’t be bothered to type.
Here are some of my favourite lyrics from A Chorus Line’s “At The Ballet”:
“But everything was beautiful at the ballet.
Graceful men lift lovely girls in white.
Yes, everything was beautiful at ballet.
Hey! I was happy… at the ballet.
That’s why I started class…”
Here, along with the rest of the blogosphere are some images that I just had to share in light of my eternal love for all things ballet.
Chloe SS11
this is one of my all time favourite images. I still don’t know the photographer or where it came from…
I want to say Avedon? or Newton but I’m not sure ballet was his thing…
choreographed by Pina Bausch who’s work never fails to make me sob
shot by Alice Rosati
1986 Paolo Roversi
shot by Txema Yeste
I’d definitely choose to dance in this Rodarte number
or maybe this Zac Posen piece shot by James Bort
this Comme Des Garcons collection always reminds me of dance
Kate Mulleavy’s sketch for Black Swan
could this 1986 Arthur Elgort image have inspired Hannah MacGibbon’s Chloe collection (below)?
Tim Walker for Vogue Italia
Rodarte
shot by Thomas Vermeer
shot by Meisel
shot by Sam Haskins
hadthe sexiness of this image kills me – shot by Caroline Arber
had to toss in a bit of Flashdance…
dancer Masumi Saito
Pina Bausch making me cry again…
1981 Snowdon
1984 Sheila Metzner
and on a final note, never forget to:
Totally brilliant film. You’ve got some awesome images there… I really like the Meisel
I always cry when I see ballet or ballet movies. When I was little I wanted to be a ballet dancer more than anything but my family couldn’t afford it. It still takes my breath away. Lovely images <3
stunning stunning stunning stunning
I thought it was good- it really does reel you in- but I honestly couldn’t get the MASSIVE hype around Natalie Portman getting skinny and looking stricken in what was (from my PoV) Perfect Blue and The Red Shoes tossed together.
I love your image selection, though. That Rodarte collection of 08-09 was the one that really made me fall head over heels for them, and their costumes for Black Swan were lovely.