“Rehearsing the Dying Swan at the Royal Opera House are Marguerite Porter in black and Marianela Nuñez.”
Photographed by David Sandison, 2007.
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john lavery’s “anna pavlova as dying swan, (1921)” .
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Vladimir Tretchikoff (Russian,1913-2006)
Dying Swan II, 1951
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Screenshot Redraw of the scene below:
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BRITISH ROYALS X BALLET ASSOCIATIONS🎭
(Spoiler: very predictable. Possible repetitions)
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Princess Diana: Odette (Swan Lake. Performed by Uliana Lopatkina, Mariinsky theatre)
Odette in my opinion is one of the most majestic and tender of existing ballet roles. It requires technique and enormous control to perform this particular scene.
“Dying Swan” captures Diana’s personality perfectly:
She was tender and kind
She was shy
She faced hardships and struggled a lot
Her death was premature and unjust. And it brings me to tears every time I remember it.
Lopatkina’s performance is superb, as her gestures and posture create a sad picture of a dying girl refusing to believe it’s the end. It’s the best coordination of hand gestures I’ve ever seen in this part.
Pas de bourres suivi imitates swan’s movements. Like Diana, Odette is trembling. She is frightened.
At the end the swan accepts her fate and closes her eyes forever. And just like Princess Diana’s death, the death of the swan is heartbreaking.
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“Relive Bolshoi Ballet’s prima donna Syssk performing the Dying Swan.”
“Brood over her scurrilous tryst with Rudolf Nureyev!”
“Watch Olga Spessivtseva totally freak out!”
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The Dying Swan by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
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I imagined her as permanently shod in her sugar-icing pink frock and pink satin ballet shoes.
Cecil Beaton on Anna Pavlova, Ballet
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The Dying Swan (1917) dir. Yevgeni Bauer
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New Moon reunion scene:
Edward: you're alive Bella yes you're alive
Bella, on the verge of a heart attack, hyperventilating, legs about to give out, vision already gone out, literally breathing so hard it's causing brain damage, world spinning around her: yeah
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