Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dance. Show all posts

Friday, 1 December 2023

BREACH - JACK







One of the all time great dance music videos.


We're going to have to talk about the Talmud at some point. We'll do the Hadiths as well as the Old Testament and space aliens known as the Elohim or the Gods (plural) and their manipulation of humanity. It's Friday, enjoy the weekend. You deserve it.


Monday, 27 November 2023

iilliaa - life gets hard





I've never lived in a war Zone but I have lived through a couple of military coups. Allow me to explain something to the pampered and progand'erd Western Lifestyle. It is not possible to tell the truth about what's really going on (in a conflict) as the truth is a national security threat. Good and bad because there's indifference on this dangerous subject.


DJ iilliaa's 'life gets hard' is an extraordinary track and one I love, as indeed, I enjoyed Kiev City Ballet's performance here in Southampton, but until Ukraine does the inevitable. It's not possible for DJ iilliaa to even imply anything other than he is a victim of Russian aggression. If you don't believe me, ask Julian Assange rotting away in a max security prison Belmarsh or ask the Chilean business entrepreneur Gonzalo Lire rotting away in a Kiev Regime prison after trying to make a break for the Hungarian border by the Ukraine SBU.


When I wrote up the Kiev Ballet performance, I inadvertantly quoted their website and repeated a lie so the creative director had to edit the website. That lie is repeated in The Guardian but I have ALL the receipts. I haven't published yet as it is not my intention to get anyone from all sides of the conflict in trouble, since the Kiev regime started bombing their own Ukraine citizens in the Donbas area of Ukraine in 2014. That was the year I started ringing the warning bell. Just click on the Ukraine tag or don't, if you don't care.




Sunday, 14 May 2023

When The SHT Goes Down


 



Just so there's no confusion. I'm not an 'Anon'. I think I'm the only person who used their full name on the chans when the Q team were posting and not only was it noticed but I received a friendly warning.


In addition it's important to remind people that qanon is a media portmanteau and lazy nomenclature because the facts are very simple. There is Q - military psychological operation with Q clearance, team of no more than 10 probably closer to 6 with access to President Trump and the Oval Office during 45's term - and there are Anons. If I use the qanon post tag/label it's for unimpotant or flippant stuff like this. But if I'm dropping important information. It's just the Q label.


Now if you were really paying attention, Q clearance is the highest in the Department of Energy. Do you know who else had Q  clearance? Sam Brinton.

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There are no coincidences.


If I documented them all it would take a six thousand six hundred, and sixty six hours. It's the context that is almost impossible to outline. The timing, what was going on, what were the themes, what were the sequence of events leading up to to any drops in particular and so on and so forth.


Not of all of it was interesting. The mid-terms cheerleading had a different tonality and many say it was hijacked. I've written too much. I'm not the go-to expert, but every time I do cover the topic, the traffic goes up and it's not 'consumers' checking in. I can tell you that for nothing.


Here's the chief laying it out straight in simple language the uncommon man, can understand.




Sunday, 7 May 2023

Yassaui Mergalyev







You may recall that I was recently floored by a dancer with the Kyiv City Ballet Gala at Southampton Mayflower theatre, and that I couldn't locate his name or the extraordinary music he danced to.

Well, I received a lovely email from the artistic director who corrected a few errors I'd made (now updated) and shared with me the dancers name and the music that was driving me nuts trying to locate. When I looked down the concert program the first name I picked out was Yassaui Mergalyev because of the Asiatic name, and my brief experiences of former Soviet Union states, yet still I managed to get the music wrong or clicked on a different rendition of the classical piece called November by Max Richter. If you haven't heard it, I hope you find a few minutes to listen at some point.

Now then, as soon as I had Mr Mergalyev's name I did a search and saw a bunch of videos but two of them appealed to me because they were so grainy and posted well over a decade ago. The location, Kazakhstan I believe, might not be The Bolshoi but on that stage, you and I can view those minute and a half clips, from a (distant galaxy) or generation ago as if we are talent spotters trawling the planet for the new and the best, and it's among the most extraordinary footage you or I could have ever expected. You can see for yourself how exceptionally talented a dancer Yassui Mergalyev is.

Those unbelievable pirouettes that I've seen world class ballet dancers misstep when drawing to a halt, because everybody is vulnerable to dizziness, no amount of training takes it all away, a lot yes, but not all, yet Mr Mergaliev delivers easily the most unprecedented number of turns for a male dancer that I've yet witnessed. 

Finally in the first clip, the dances' denouement ends in a what looks like for a microsecond, a stumble or fall, but no. The music is surgically severed exactly on-point and we apprehend all of a sudden that it's a choreographed collapse and thus takes us somewhere I've not seen outside of Nureyev or any of the biggest names. It's a large claim but you can see for yourself.

It's a real treat even to the untrained eye.

First Draft. I'll clean up later as I must crack on.

Wednesday, 8 February 2023

Birmingham Royal Ballet - Swan Lake




I haven't been to the ballet since Paquita, by the Ballet de l'Opera national de Paris in Beijing, 2008. You can read that linked review if you wish but at the time I couldn't tell the full story as I was a career-focused guy and this blog was mainly for advertising professionals. Well, I got stoned before heading out to the ballet at the Egg cultural centre. I lived just off Tiananmen square, and hopped onto my electric bike to see the show. I was just a smidge too stoned and miscalculated the time I'd need to take a different route around the square than usual, so I was the last person to arrive at the theatre. The ushers at the end of a long corridor were beckoning me wildly to move my ass as the show was just about to begin, so I legged it down the corridor and they let me in, closing the doors behind me.

I was high, out of breath, heart beating wildly, and as I looked around the theatre, the entire Beijing audience turned to gaze at me disapprovingly, knowing full well it was me that had held things up. I had a really good centre seat ticket, so half an entire row had to stand up to let me get there, while I apologised profusely. I sat down and the ballet began immediately. 

I'd heard that sometimes performers will choose a person in the crowd to play to on a personal level, to bring out the best and most sincere dramatization, and that night, I was that guy. The lead dancer, a beautiful Parisienne based swan looked at me straight in the eye all night, even to the last pirouette where she gracefully collapsed to the stage floor, arms open looking at me. 

Wow, what a night.

Southampton has one of the largest theatres outside of London and is the largest on the South coast. It only takes ten minutes to walk there from my home and I'm grateful to have exceptional cultural content so close to me.

As soon as the curtain raised for Swan Lake I was mesmerised. Stagecraft has progressed noticeably since my last ballet and it looked more real than reality, but in a holographic sense, more three dimensional and I was excited. Act I introduced our hero Prince Siegfried, his wingman Benno and his mother the Queen dowager who is recently widowed. Permit yourself to an appetiser if the text is worth returning to, or not. Let it speak for itself


The first intermission was described as a three-minute scene change but took so long many of the audience seated near me pointed out that a toilet break or a quick drink at the bar may have been possible but eventually the curtain raised and Act II commenced.

Siegfried and Benno have followed a flight of swans to a lake in order to hunt them. This felt transgressive as I am aware that killing swans in the United Kingdom is illegal to kill or eat as they are considered the property of the King. However, the swans they are chasing are in fact human between the hours of midnight and dawn. It is here Siegfried is amazed to see a swan change into the beautiful Odette played by the magnetically tall and exquisitely gifted Yijing Zhang. Some of her moves I'd never seen either a human or a fictional media character ever make. 

There was a time when I was training as a gymnast that I did ballet to improve balance, elegance and control. I regret not taking it up professionally. I would have been good. How good? That's another question but the principal male lead, Siegfried played by Tyrone Singleton did an amazing job. This will sound mean but it's just the truth. In these days of the obesity pandemic it's heart lifting to see beautifully formed men and women during ballet. Tyrone's strength raising up Yijing is a sight to behold. This is what the human form was designed for and I'll write about the purposeful destruction of our bodies one day. I now have the date it started and by whom and how.

Many of you will know that I make bold claims fortified with photographic evidence and documentation trails about the use of doubles, masks and clones in the high-profile business of politicians and billionaires and so forth. Swan Lake's central story mechanism is about a double for Odette. Our hero Siegfried falls in love with her but in Act III she is replaced by a black magician double, whose real name is Odile but is for simplicities sake also played by our heroine Yijing. Swan Lake is as contemporary as is possible and for those who recognise the name Odette she was a British agent and French operative Odette Sanson also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Hallowes or Lise as an agent for the clandestine Special Operations Executive.

It's close, isn't it? 

Doubles, clones, deception, espionage and subterfuge but in Act III we're back to the Royal court which is now dripping in illuminated red and black shadows for contrast, which is a colour coded and symbolic leitmotif I've been researching for quite some time now since the dance edit of ELO's don't bring me down.

Our handsome hero has fallen for Odette but at court sees double vision Odile and makes the mistake of erroneously pledging his love for her, which is the only magic spell rule that Odette had specified in order for their love to be conjugated. 


In a last attempt to gain his attention our Odette locks eyes with Siegfried who finally recognises his mistake and pursues Odette to the lake. After a stunning display of the swans emerging invisibly from ground floor mist before unforgettable choreographed dance scenes, both Odette and Siegfried throw themselves into the lake, thus ensuring that by the morning, their lives will be united in a world of eternal love.

Sunday, 15 January 2023

Funky Town (grooving with some energy)




What a treat and an extension of my longest ever obsession. Thank you whoever did this. It's divine and I am certainly not worthy.

Lipps Inc Reincarnated in the tags