Comments on: The Dying Swans https://thenewneo.com/2016/01/01/the-dying-swans/ A blog about political change, among other things Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 By: Ben David https://thenewneo.com/2016/01/01/the-dying-swans/#comment-951215 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 20:37:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=55609#comment-951215 Wow!
I’d like to point out that we don’t really know the tempo at which Pavlova was performing, since the movie cameras were still hand cranked – or machine-cranked at various non-standard speeds.

Both dancers are also wearing a lovely full-skirted version of the tutu that is rarely seen nowadays. This amplifies the tremulous tiny steps into a swaying motion. Not that I’d call ballerinas hippy, but there is definitely a graceful feminine sway that is not present in the rigid modern tutu.

Thank you for these interludes of artistic beauty.
We are all looking over our shoulders and bolting our doors here, since the Arab shooter who killed 3 a few days ago is still at large in Tel Aviv…. Sure there’s some schadenfreude watching left-leaning elitist Tel-Avivis face the reality of Arab terror in their own back yards – but it’s the last in a grim series of attacks by “normal” Arab citizens that underscore the “grass roots” nature of Arab hatred.

Thanks again for these posts.

]]> By: The Bookworm Beat 1/4/2016 — the “I’ve got a secret” edition and open thread https://thenewneo.com/2016/01/01/the-dying-swans/#comment-950992 Tue, 05 Jan 2016 00:48:01 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=55609#comment-950992 […] a beautiful non-political note, Neo-Neocon takes a look at Anna Pavlova’s famed, early-20th century “Dying Swan,” a rather frenetic bit […]

]]> By: Lorenz Gude https://thenewneo.com/2016/01/01/the-dying-swans/#comment-950531 Sat, 02 Jan 2016 08:18:38 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=55609#comment-950531 Opera with a few exceptions leaves me cold; surprisingly (to me at least) ballet touches me. I identify more strongly with the athleticness of the men dancers. Perhaps be ause I am a man and quite capable of seeing the grace of a great basketball player too. The women ballet dancers sometimes touch me and other times seem too fussy in their movements. Both of these renditions touch me perhaps because the subject is made clear by title. It is serious; it is about death and about the final struggle for life that we all face. The bourees, both the fast and the slower, make sense as the high energy background against which the struggle takes place, and the arms express the overt desperation. Thank you Neo.

]]> By: rickl https://thenewneo.com/2016/01/01/the-dying-swans/#comment-950449 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:07:07 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=55609#comment-950449 I know nothing about ballet other than what I’ve learned here from neo.

But that second video is great. Normally we (or I at least) think of dancing as primarily involving the legs, but she uses her arms at least as much. It’s like she has more than one elbow in each arm.

]]> By: Japan https://thenewneo.com/2016/01/01/the-dying-swans/#comment-950427 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:24:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=55609#comment-950427 How long the dancer can sustaining walking on tip of her feet?
Any idea?
video no#2 the starting

]]> By: vanderleun https://thenewneo.com/2016/01/01/the-dying-swans/#comment-950426 Fri, 01 Jan 2016 20:23:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/?p=55609#comment-950426 The length of this ballet makes me conclude it was written so men could stay awake while attending the ballet.

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