sexta-feira, 2 de novembro de 2012

quarta-feira, 18 de abril de 2012

Revoluções


Para felicidade minha, diante dela nunca sei quem vejo em primeiríssimo lugar: se a mulher, se a bailarina. Ou se a metamorfose perfeita das duas em uma só.

A propósito de notícias recentes: aqui (fonte:http://www.facebook.com/dospassosdabailarina)

Only Aurélie could make me fall in love with this variation.



Tallest, suavest of us, why Memory,
forcing you to appear from the past, pass
down a train, swaying, to find me
clear profiled through the window-glass?
Angel or bird? How we debated!
The poet thought you like translucent straw.
Through dark lashes, your eyes, Georgian,
looking, with gentleness, on it all.
Shade, forgive. Blue skies, Flaubert,
Insomnia, late-blooming lilac flower,
bring you, and the magnificence of the year,
nineteen-thirteen, to mind, and your
unclouded temperate afternoon, memory
difficult for me now – Oh, shade!

Anna Akhmatova

terça-feira, 17 de abril de 2012

Ciranda da bailarina


Dorothée Gilbert e Mathieu Ganio, em La Petite Danseuse de Degas, coreografia de Patrice Bart. 


E quando a Raia está triste ou mal disposta eu também tenho que dançar para a distrair. Por isso sou a bailarina do mar e faço tudo quanto eu quero e todos gostam de mim. Mas eu não gosto nada da Raia e tenho medo dela. Ela detesta os homens e também não gosta dos peixes. Até as baleias têm medo dela. Mas eu posso andar à vontade no mar e ninguém me come e ninguém me faz mal porque eu sou a bailarina da Raia.


(Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen, A Menina do Mar)

sexta-feira, 2 de março de 2012

Mundos largos



(A dupla maravilha: Aurélie Dupont e Manuel Legris)

O mundo é grande e cabe
nesta janela sobre o mar.
O mar é grande e cabe
na cama e no colchão de amar.
O amor é grande e cabe
no breve espaço de beijar.
(Carlos Drummond de Andrade)

quinta-feira, 1 de março de 2012

"I am a dancer"



(Dorothée Gilbert - Coppelia)

I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living.... In each it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes in some area an athlete of God. (Martha Graham)

quinta-feira, 26 de janeiro de 2012

Elegance...


(Aurélie Dupont e Jean-Guillaume Bart, Grand Pas Classique.)

... is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future. (Coco Chanel)

sexta-feira, 13 de janeiro de 2012

And my eyes dance


(Maria Alexandrova, in Swan Lake)


The Spanish Dancer
As in one's hand a lighted match blinds you before
it comes aflame and sends out brilliant flickering
tongues to every side -- so, within the ring of the
spectators, her dance begins in hasty, heated rhythms
and spreads itself darting flames around.

And suddenly the dance is altogether flame!

With a fierce glance she sets her hair alight.
Unexpectedly she turns with daring artfulness
the swirling flounces of her dress within this
conflagaration, out of which her upheld naked arms,
clapping the castanets, appear like serpents striking.

And then, afraid her fire were diminishing,
she gathers it all up and flings it down
with an imperious haughtly gesture, and watches
as it lies there writhing on the ground, unyielding
and unwilling to concede the dance has ended.
Yet she show victory in her sweet swift smile
as she lifts up her face, while with her small firm feet
she stamps out the last of the dying embers.
(Rainer M. Rilke)

Ballerina mood...







Marie-Agnés Gillot, aqui.

... with the room as the only stage.