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Brief Update

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:44:46 -0500

First I want to offer an apologize to my followers (specially the ones that follows me because of the music I upload) For not posting or upload any audio.

I’m busy but not as busy as I’ll like to… Yes I didn’t get the part in the operetta I auditioned last week…I’m not sad but not happy either. I will survive.

I’m busy cause I’m preparing the Antonio Vivaldi’s Nisi Dominus and even that this is not the first time I sing the Nisi Dominus I want that this time be perfect in the coloratura.

I’m also busy getting my generic peasant /generic noble man for the Giselle that is coming next month…IDK I feel I’m just wasting my time I totally could dance Albrecht…But since I’m not a principal and I’m old probably I’ll never dance Albrecht or any other Prince as a full leading role.

I was so busy with that audition that I forget completely that my birthday is coming,that’s just tragic. I’m not where I want to be, I had devoted my life to art so I don’t have any personal life and well I’m getting old.

Montserrat Figueras “Sospirastes baldominos”...

Sat, 18 May 2013 22:22:50 -0500

Montserrat Figueras “Sospirastes baldominos” villancico di L.Milan dall’album “Luys Milan: “El maestro”.

“Al amor quiero vencer” Villancico per voce e Vihuela di Luys de Milan.

Montserrat Figueras Soprano

Hopkinson Smith Vihuela

robiningravens: aurelie-dupont: Paris Opera Ballet School -...

Sat, 18 May 2013 19:14:45 -0500

robiningravens:

aurelie-dupont:

Paris Opera Ballet School - 6th Division class

Guys who make fun of guys who do ballet must not realise how disciplined, agile, coordinated and strong you have to be to be a ballet dancer.

Lovely :) It reminds me when I was that age. My teacher had a rod too… :(

Gorgeous boy …I think that this is the best shape for a...

Sat, 18 May 2013 11:42:03 -0500

Gorgeous boy …I think that this is the best shape for a ballet dancer (The natural one from doing ballet) The bad thing is that at certain point male dancers are forced to gain muscles. As a male dancer I hate my muscles,what we need is strength to lift the girls,but you can build strength without getting bulkie…I personally think that just as female dancers are forced to overly thin after the russians (who are that way after Sylvie Guille) Us male dancer now they want us like models after dancers like Roberto Bolle.

I prefer Daniil Simkin over Bolle any time

Je pense que je vais etre un tannante: Aurelie Dupont on her struggle and comeback from injury

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:49:11 -0500

Je pense que je vais etre un tannante: Aurelie Dupont on her struggle and comeback from injury:

aurelie-dupont:

“I had to have surgery on my knee and all the doctors I have seen told me I wouldn’t be able to dance any more,” she says, curled up on the sofa of her dressing room at the famous Paris Opera.

“I was just beginning as an etoile. I was really, like, dead. That was in 1999.”

During the year…

The people is divided between A)A warm hearted beautiful...

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:15 -0500

The people is divided between

A)A warm hearted beautiful ballerina but with flaws like any human,a dancer who can touch your soul . Like Aurélie Dupont.

B) Dancing ice cyborg unit operative Alina Somova,don’t have soul and it’s incapable of showing human emotions,but all her movements are perfect like the machinery of a clock.

As a professional dancer and also balletoman I hope I will always be someone who transmit something. Not an dancing ice cube who lift the leg till the oposite shoulder.

Ballet is an art that must last till the movements to the heart.

*This is my opinion! And my blog If you are a fan of the russians ice dolls don’t come here.

Alina Somova

Fri, 17 May 2013 20:35:52 -0500

Alina Somova

"Ballet is forcing every muscle of your body in a unnatural form,of course it hurts,and you’ll..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:33:00 -0500

“Ballet is forcing every muscle of your body in a unnatural form,of course it hurts,and you’ll hate me in the morning,but if you are not willing to suffer,you will never dance”

- My ballet teacher

"Personally I think that this new fashion of not posting or even following people who post pictures..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:12:00 -0500

“Personally I think that this new fashion of not posting or even following people who post pictures about self harm or eating disorders It’s a extremely hypocritical thing to do.
By denying the self harm and ednos content you are not helping people and certainly you are not helping them,you are marginalizing them even more. It’s like denying that this problems exist and affect a lot of people. It’s like “I don’t see you or post your pics so you don’t exist” In my country we have the expression “Querer tapar el sol con un dedo” (Trying to cover the sun with a finger)”

"Ballerinas of my generation do as much as possible to protect their feet from the hard work that is..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 21:40:00 -0500

“Ballerinas of my generation do as much as possible to protect their feet from the hard work that is dancing en pointe…But younger girls (aspiring ballerinas) Are determined to destroy their feet before finishing dancing school,dancing and posing standing over their metatarsus (Over the box) …The box of the pointe shoe is at the tip of the foot giving space and support to the toes to stand en pointe but instead girls prefer to stand over a bone that has no support from the body or from the shoe and dance. This is no en pointe this is “En métatarse””

"Life is hard enough with the Disney crap of “If you really wish” I worked my ass off..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 20:27:03 -0500

“Life is hard enough with the Disney crap of “If you really wish” I worked my ass off since I was 7 and I’m nowhere.”

"Today I finally accepted that my dreams would not come true! It hit me when somebody said to me in..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 19:52:34 -0500

“Today I finally accepted that my dreams would not come true! It hit me when somebody said to me in the most casual way that today was 14 of may…1st of June I’ll be 28 and I’m not a principal dancer and I’m not singing in any important stage and I’m getting OLD. It think I should quit now and worry to what is going to happen with my life. I might get certified as a pilate’s instructor or maybe just go homeless. I really doesn’t care anymore.”

"So next tuesday I have this audition for an operetta (All-male cast) Where I’m going to ask..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:09:31 -0500

“So next tuesday I have this audition for an operetta (All-male cast) Where I’m going to ask for the leading role (That is a female role) A I have to sing a bunch of D,E,F,G and even a A…As a light countertenor I do have the register. But I’m not used to sing so high,as a countertenor I work with Purcell or Händel where the majority of the roles are for alto al rarely hit a quick G perhaps an A b. In all my life as countertenor this is the first time I do nervousness of not giving the notes or worst my voice breaking”

So you think that only cause Sylvie Guillems says so it's truth? How can you believe in Segei Polunin when he left companies and he is covered of tatttoos? He clearly don't get how a dancer should behave.

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:30:36 -0500

Well first I don’t think you get ballet if for you a person is less artist because he has tattoos… But anyway it’s not the fact per se of Sylvie Guillem doing an statement it’s the fact that she is the second person claiming very similar things.

Many people trashed Polunin for the way he left the Royal Ballet...

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:19:51 -0500

Many people trashed Polunin for the way he left the Royal Ballet and the way he attacked artistic director Monica Mason…Many people just said that Polunin didn’t have work ethics.

Hopefully now that living legend and ballet Godess Sylvie Guillem made very similar declarations about Monica Mason this would vindicate Polunin’s image.

"Everybody is trashing Sylvie Guillem to talk bad about Monica Mason…But people should remember..."

Sat, 11 May 2013 10:04:12 -0500

“Everybody is trashing Sylvie Guillem to talk bad about Monica Mason…But people should remember that even that Sylvie has had “Artistic differences” with MANY people she never went on public not even with Kenneth McMillan (Who was her enemy in the Royal Ballet almost 10 years) Also people should remember that a few years ago Sergei Polunin described Mason almost in the same way(Actually he was worst cause he attacked the dancers as well) But the thing is that Sylvie is not the first person to talk and describe Monica Mason in that way…Probably the Royal Ballet dancers have one or two things about Mason as well,but as long as they dance in the Royal they won’t say anything.”

Mi drunkish tip: Ballet and self stem

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:36:00 -0500

Well tonight I’m not drunk and I’ll try to not be drunk anymore…I don’t want to gain weight or became an alcoholic like my father.

This week was hard on Tumblr cause all the hate from Vaganova’s Ice cyborgs…I mean ballerinas (A great majority of this “Old imperial guard” fans are non dancers or amateur dancers who would never fit in the Vaganova method because they are too old or not skinny enough).But something that amuses me is that the think that broomsticks en pointe is legacy of the Traditional Russian Ballet know as “The old imperial guard”

I bet they didn’t know that Agrippina Vaganova’s ideal ballerina was skinny an petit. The idea of this tall ice dolls was formed after FRENCH ballet godess Sylvie Guillem…Yes thanks to Sylvie Guillem a danseuse étoile et française was that “Old russian guard” switch from the petite and gracious ballerina to the tall super long ballerina. Ans thanks to that ballerinas like Uliana Lopatkina and other dancer with her features became stars. And the ballerinas that this people don’t like because they don’t look like a broomstick with pointe shoes were the ideal of the ballerina…Actually a ballerina like Aurélie Dupont embodies the classical body of ballerina including the vision of Agrippina Vaganova’s.

But ok,in almost all the professional ballet schools around the globe the reformed “AS” (After Sylvie) Vaganova’s method is taught. But this method and the “AS” reform made that the vast majority of the girls who are interested in became ballerinas to be rejected to not have the right bone structure.(I had to say that I know brilliant ballerinas who are not the typical long and skinny type…But again plisetskaya wasn’t like that and Maya plisetskaya was the ideal of the russian ballerina “BS” (Before Sylvie)

There are many studios when girls suffer everyday cause they are not giraffes,some of them dance very well but they not look like Zakharova,some of them are really afraid to go to official Ballet academies and apply cause they are afraid they won’t be allowed to even dance because of their weight (This was something that a girl told me once)

This lead us to a big problem in desperation to look skinny the girls stop eating…And that can really destroy a dancer. A ballerina needs to have a lot of energy to dance and rehearse all day,we don’t need a bunch of dizzy or fainted but skinny ballerinas (Besides not eating makes your bones fragile something that combined with dancing en pointe is terrible).

I’m not saying that the weight doesn’t matter cause it does,it matters for your dance,your balance and your looks. But there is a limit at the end of the day you are the one who is going to dance. Not your legs or your bones. Is the entire you (I know that Somova can touch mars with her hyperextension but she is an ice cyborg who can’t tell a story) It’s you and It doesn’t matter if you can’t touch Mars or Mercury with your leg,if you can really dance…And what I mean by dance is to be able to touch the audience with your dance not to do a million of fouttés without any emotion or even sweat.

Russian ballerinas are the best! Marianela Nuñez and Aurelie Dupont are fat and ugly. You don't know anything about ballet if you don't think that Vaganova trained dancers are a superior race. Ballet is not about humanity is about technical skill.

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:37:00 -0500

Fat and ugly??? You are beyond stupid…But what can I know about ballet I’m just a professional trained ballet dancer who works as ballet dancer in a ballet company it’s obvious that I don’t know anything about ballet. But in my ballet ignorance I prefer to see a dancer who is able to tell me a story with her dance…Not to count Lopatkina’s ribs…I mean fouttés.

By the way the superior race thing sounds familiar…Isn’t that like that idea that this Adolf Hiltler guy used to kill millions of innocent people and stuffs? I don’t know I’m so ignorant poor of me :(

aurelie-dupont: Aurélie Dupont in La Bayadere act III Aurélie...

Wed, 08 May 2013 21:56:42 -0500

aurelie-dupont:

Aurélie Dupont in La Bayadere act III

Aurélie Dupont that’s a ballerina with technique but also humanity not a glacial russian cyborg

Michael Chance “Morenica dame un beso” Villancico...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:54:00 -0500

Michael Chance “Morenica dame un beso” Villancico anonimo attribuito a M.de Fuenllana dall’album : “Armada - Music For Viol Consort From England & Spain”.

“Morenica dame un beso” Villancico per voce e vihuela,anonimo ma attribuito e compilato in “La Orphenica Lyra” di Miguel de Fuenllana.

Michael Chance Controtenore

Christopher Wilson Vihuela