What are some good films about ballet? No Black Swan
Black Swan
Black swan
Nigger Duck
Le Cygne Noir
>>69984868
>>69984897
>>69984904
>>69984961
Worst board strikes again
Misty Copeland's documentary should have some good forearm hair scenes.
>>69984836
GOAT
Lebăda Neagră
>>69985030
This.
The one about that black ballet lady
she had strong fucking arms
>>69985010
Why is everyone obsessed with her? Is she really that great or is just because she's a black woman succeeding in a white woman's world?
This is a super average documentary but it's what you want
>>69985153
Yeah and she's not that great of a ballerina, she's too intense and not graceful enough
Flesh and Bone (miniseries)
>>69984836
Suspiria
Suspiria
>>69984981
>coming to the worst board voluntarily
>complaining about it
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>>69985219
Best ballet doc coming through
>>69985153
She's a negress in a typically white sport, so she gets ridiculous publicity because muh oppression.
I just post her because she's hairy and cute really. If you know of any white hairies in the business that deserve to be posted, do tell.
>>69985270
Love that show, it's like Showgirls: The Series. Brilliant and unintentionally hilarious at the same time
>>69985739
footfags: google image search "ballerina feet"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHU5QLEjGAg
>>69985721
I don't know about hairy, but I want to have filthy sex with Sarah Lamb
>>69985813
Everyone knows about their fucked up toes, reddit
>>69985270
I'm actually really into ballet, do you know if it is accurate? Are the actresses really dancers?
>>69985758
I only watched the first episode and wasn't all that impressed, and I say that as a big GG fan. Should I give it another go?
>>69985270
Came here to suggest this. I thought it was excellent.
>>69985903
many of the actresses are actually dancers, yes
>>69985246
This. I've seen her quite a few times at ABT--she's a fine soloist but her her promotion to principal really wasn't earned solely on talent alone, shall we say...
They're gonna tear up the dance floor.
>>69985903
Several have training; the fading star of the company was a recently retired principal at ABT.
The show is trash, but well made and entertaining trash. I'd recommend giving it a try.
Grey Duck
>>69985903
Accurate in some ways and it uses real dancers but it's mostly wildly over-the-top and melodramatic, and I mean that in the best way possible. If you enjoy camp you'll love it
>I'm actually really into ballet
hello there fellow balletomane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRt5Y439dvU
>>69985758
FOR
THE
PLOT
>>69984836
Pic related, the red shoes. It's one of my favorite movie ever
>>69985883
Princess Tutu
>>69986129
>hello there fellow balletomane
lel, we're rare
>tfw you will never live in st petersburg and see shows in the mariinsky
>tfw no ballerina gf
>>69985030
The sequence of the red shoes ballet may, perhaps, be my favorite thing ever filmed. Glorious shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtLoaMfinbU
>>69985420
Susperia was kind of a let down. It had a great opening, and some cool visuals, but there just wasn't much substance.
>>69985813
good thing I'm not a footfag.
>>69985638
ahh I need to see this. Diana Vishneva is my balletfu.
>>69985970
absolutely. the tone is really mishmash but it finds its footing by the end.
>>69986288
Three balletomanes in one thread on /tv. God damned, I love this cesspool that is 4chan. One truly meets all types here...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0koV2SSE3eU
>>69985970
I thought it started a little rough, but it found its footing quickly. I really enjoyed it.
best televised ballet scene ever comin thru
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTO10Xgl0eM
>>69986511
nice dubs
Balletbros, have you checked out the Opus Arte releases of the british royal ballet performances? Highly recommended if not.
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>>69986129
>>69986511
make that 4
>>69986288
>mariinsky
>ballerina gf
you basically need to be a russian drug kingpin, parliament member, or weapons dealer.
fuck this life.
>>69986679
bluray?
>>69986777
Gays not welcome but trips are
>>69984836
The Red Shoes.
>>69986810
yeah they're available on bluray. Most of them, at least. I have the one I posted as well as pic related, but on DVD
Billy Elliot is more a feel good coming-of-age story with a ballet theme. Good movie though.
>>69986288
>lel, we're rare
Indeed. I wish I had someone to go see ballet with, but all my friends think it's gay, literally and figuratively.
>tfw no ballerina gf
I know that feel anon
What is your favorite ballet? Mine is Mayerling, never fails to bring tears. Nothing beats MacMillan's choreography IMO, so expressive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at5OoaKeVTg
>>69985883
Those are some sex axilla right there
>>69987027
nureyev's don quixote is my favorite
>>69984836
>don't you ever talk to me or my 18 daughters ever again
>>69987018
More like a coming out story faggot.
>>69987027
Amelia by La La La Human Steps
the violence, the jagged edges. that shit changed my life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUXmRUDwcMg
how they filmed it just elevates the entire piece. Pure balletkino.
>>69987027
>I wish I had someone to go see ballet with
Tickets are expensive. It costs $300 to see an opera in my city. I could watch two 3D Imax movies for that price.
>>69986288
have any of you guys ever bought flowers for a ballerina? Maybe for one of the background dancers who feels unappreciated?
>>69987329
>I could watch two 3D Imax movies for that price
>>69986288
>tfw no ballerina gf
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>>69985844
i already posted a link to the full film
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>>69987329
>have any of you guys ever bought flowers for a ballerina? Maybe for one of the background dancers who feels unappreciated?
no but that's a great idea.
>>69986679
Pic related is my ballet collection
these ballerina r fuccn fit jfc how did i not know about this
why is Leanne Cope so perfect? ;___;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5HGofOZ-GQ
>>69987892
fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuc
>>69987669
No it isn't.
>>69987693
>Manon
JUST
>>69987948
I'm good looking and fit so it would ok, if you did it, that's a different story.
>>69987996
Not a fan? I really enjoy it, though I mostly bought it for Tamara Rojo
>>69986236
She is a goddess
>>69988256
Insane. I might have to start a folder.
>help me anon, I'm stuck
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>>69988704
OP here, watching flesh and bone. this is good, thanks /tv/
Flesh and Bone from Starz is actually very good. Mo homo.
The main girl is a real ballerina and has great tits. (that she shows)
No love for First Position?
>>69989021
That's the one about the kids right? Saw it on Netflix, pretty good
>>69989149
Yep thats the one. Thought it was interesting - crazy pressure on the kids.
I like it anyway
>>69984836
>>69987329
>>69986679
>>69986511
>>69987693
You guys definitely and seriously should watch Pina by Wim Wenders.
Absolutely amazing film. It is the best work about the beauty contemporary ballet can amount to imo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNuQVS7q7-A
Enjoy!
>>69985030
Red Shoes is a masterpiece
>>69990020
I though it was just ok. It doesn't really delve deep into her personality. The clips of her work just make you wish you were watching the entire performances.
Just watch the entirety of Café Müller if you're gonna watch Pina.
>>69990020
>Pina
I loved this one! First time I ever heard of Pina Baush. It also really made me understand some of the concepts contemporary dance.
I'd be lying if I didn't watch ballet in no small part due to my axilla fetish.
I mean that scene in Possession? Jesus fuck.
>>69990418
https://scontent-lhr3-1.cdninstagram.com/t50.2886-16/11855059_153594858308418_1500740088_n.mp4
>>69989552
I was amazed and horrified to learn recently that they're filming a third one.
>>69987027
>Indeed. I wish I had someone to go see ballet with, but all my friends think it's gay, literally and figuratively.
Guys got to get over this. Putting aside there's nothing gay about it- you just need to look at the history of dancer "sponsorship" to see this--it's a solid way to meet girls. I give a shit ton of money to a major US company, and am young, so I get free invites to all of the young patron events they have. The ratio of girls to hetero guys at these events is so skewed that you'd need to be a special kind of autist to strike out..
>>69987027
>What is your favorite ballet?.
currently, Ashton's La Fille Mal Gardee.
>>69991542
>The ratio of girls to hetero guys at these events is so skewed that you'd need to be a special kind of autist to strike out
I guess I'm that autist. It sounds like a great idea, but I'm so insecure and terrified of women I doubt anything would come of it
Who has seen Ratmansky's The Sleeping Beauty?
I saw it with Misty Copeland as Florine, and I swear you the dancer playing Aurora's mother looked like she was going to stab someone every time Copeland got massive applause for what was a well-danced but certainly not massive applause/cheer worthy scene.
>>69991756
Is it on home video? I love Ratmansky, his production of Bolt is one of my all-time favorites
Top Secret has a beautiful ballet scene
>>69986405
>Susperia was kind of a let down.
Preach it brother!! So tired of people raving about this mediocrity.
>>69991836
Sadly no. They just premiered it in... 2014, I want to say? Or 2015. I hope they record it because it is an incredible production. It made me view The Sleeping Beauty in a completely new light, and in some ways that's bad because now I can't watch certain performances (the 'christening' gift fairy variations especially, my god, they had such character and life!) without feeling underwhelmed compared to Ratmansky's.
>>69991755
I hear you. But even if you just go to a performance, you'll often see a bunch of girls by themselves, solo. I appreciate insecurity, but you're both there, liking the same art form, and you have a program to talk about that she just saw, you have ready made ice breakers, my fellow balletbro.
>>69991756
I saw it twice last year., neither with Copeland, who certainly gets an excessive level of applause. I saw her Swan lake, and people were going nuts after black swan pdd, even though she had to bail on her 32 turns. To avoid her braying pack of fans is a reason why I pretty much avoid anything with her, even though I think she's a perfectly fine dancer--at the soloist level..
>>69991957
I guess it can't hurt to give it a try, and I get to enjoy some ballet regardless. Fuck it, I'll start going
>>69992033
What is this from?
>>69992308
Possesion you pleb
>Ballet movie thread
>106 replies and 24 images
>not one of them is about White Nights
Step the fuck up, /tv/.
The movie stars one of the greatest dancers in ballet ever. The plot is about a Russian ballet defector getting trapped in Soviet Russia after a plane malfunction. Hes forced to dance again, reunited with his former lover a ballerina, and an American as his instructor who is also trapped.
If you have any interest in ballet it is required fucking viewing.
>>69992033
whats going on here
>>69991918
I too love his reconstruction, revealing old details once lost and a restoration of a more 19th-century style (parts of the grand pdd during the wedding scene are essentially bournonville-like in style); I hope we can get stateside soon his reconstruction of swan lake for zurich ballet (and la scala, i think)?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3YrWjmgNos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZIjc9mo8YQ
https://vimeo.com/36754445
https://vimeo.com/1558451
>>69992359
downloading now
>>69985030
Good post my family. Pressburger/Powell are two of the best there ever were.
Ballet 422 and NY Export: Opus Jazz both shot by Jody Lee Lipes.
>>69992260
exactly. at worst, you'll have a night out watching some great ballet. anything more is just a bonus.
in my experience, girls who go to ballet solo--and they are there always--tend to be smart, shy, bookish and cute. you're going to try to chat up a girl already inclined to hear what you have to say who may not be the most socially well-adjusted herself. so, it's already way different from trying to chat up a girl at a bar, etc...
good luck and enjoy--
Lifetime had a few ballet movies... I can think of 3, though 2 are eating disorder movies.
The Obsession (ballet instructor becomes obsessed with student)
Dying to Dance (Ballet dancer fresh out of high school starts obsessing with thinness after she's told to lose pounds by the directors)
Sharing the Secret (Okay, not really a ballet movie, but the main character is a bulimic ballet dancer)
And Cathy in the 'Flowers in the Attic' series dances ballet. Shame they totally trimmed up the ballet storyline from the crazy ass books.
the upcoming Center Stage: On Pointe looks like fun trash too.
>>69991756
copy paste a post I made on /his/ because I'm lazy
It was fucking miraculous. It set the bar so high I'm not sure I can see a standard Sleeping Beauty live again, because it was so refreshing and so well done, and so much more engrossing than other productions I've seen. The original Pepita steps give every role so much more vitality and character than they normally have nowadays. I've been watching other clips of Violente and none of them come even close to capturing the feisty, fun and genuinely temperamental (which is the point of her gift, after all) version from ABT. Same with the other fairies and even the more mimed characters. It was like breathing new (but old, I guess, considering the context) life into these people. They weren't just Presentations, they were Characters. I was interested in Catalabutte, for goodness sake--Catalabutte!
The mime was much more engaging as well. The standard mime for Sleeping Beauty has gotten bare-bones, but this version (which I don't know if it's taken from Pepita's notes or is Ratmansky's variation on it) was a lot clearer and more expressive than it normally is, and there was more of it. I loved seeing Sleeping Beauty acknowledge while dancing with the prince that she loves him, and the way she beckons during the vision sequence wasn't just generic longing but genuinely expressed: "come to me!" And thank goodness Ratmansky introduced the original ending of Carabosse--she's forgiven and invited to the wedding, and she attends with the Lilac Fairy. In modern productions nowadays she tends to be brutally murdered, which is against the spirit of the show.
1/2
>>69992990
2/2
Oh, and the way the mime was incorporated was a revelation.The mime was part of the dance itself, a fluid movement. There was something the director said during the talk before the show, "Imagine that you live in a world where you don't communicate with words, but with dance and gestures." And the show perfectly captured that completely.
The only thing I wasn't 100% sold on was Hee Seo's Act I version of Aurora, who was much more like Act I Giselle than Aurora. She didn't have the regal air that normally accompanies Aurora. Yes she's bright and innocent and fun-loving but she was missing the little touches that should have been there, like acknowledging her suitors with a nod of her head, that sort of thing. Her Adagio was perfectly executed... truthfully I think that sequence is overrated and always looks too tension-filled no matter the dancer, I would rather have something fluid there, but I get why it's impressive. She was much more interesting in Act II and III, with the romantic scenes and the post-awakening where you could practically see 100 years of dreaming about this day fall from her shoulders.
And I'm almost sorry to say it, but woah is Misty Copeland overhyped. She was fine, not any better or worse than the other dancers for the fairy tale roles in the wedding, but she was getting wild cheers for name recognition alone. It makes me feel bad for the other dancers who had way more complex work to do but didn't receive screaming cheers every time they showed up on stage. I'm glad that they revamped Princess Florine, though, and made her a Princess once again.
If you haven't seen it, and you have the opportunity to see it, go see it. I'm reminded of something that was written to Pepita after the premiere of the original show: "Your ballet has become a kind of obsession... people have ceased saying to each other 'How are you?' Instead, they ask, 'Have you seen The Sleeping Beauty?'"
MacMillan's 'Anastasia.'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvqB1iUVkYk
Little Dancing Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC6ChpMjAZI
I kinda feel bad for jerking off to this stuff.
>>69993414
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umgUDUxHKfY
>>69992990
Excellent write up.
>>69992064
>even though she had to bail on her 32 turns.
Did she get any of them in?
>>69993456
I don't.
I feel sorry for guys who jerk it to shit like Brazzers. Are they literally cavemen or something?
>>69987892
ouch
>>69993911
Good point.
>>69992033
Is this a documentary? Why is she looking at the camera?
>>69994092
Its so you know when to finish.
>>69993456
don't, everyone knows there is something inherently erotic to ballet, it's the reason prudes banned women from performing at one point during the 18th century.
It was actually my fetish for ballerinas that got me interested in ballet as an art form
>>69992033
sssh ssssh ssssssh just let it happen
>>69993414
DENISE
If anyone on /tv/ likes anime or manga I'd recommend reading Swan or Ballroom E Youkoso. There's also an upcoming figure skating anime called Yuri on Ice that's supposed to have really good choreography because it's being supervised by a bunch of skating bigwigs.
>>69994172
>there is something inherently erotic to ballet
Probably because most ballerinas were orphaned whores when it first became a thing.
>>69993456
Why? It's attractive women dancing.
>>69992901
Typical Lifetime
>>69994344
Lifetime movies are God's gift to us, to be honest
>>69994281
thanks for the recs
damn this thread is comfy, I had no idea there were other people on this board that were into ballet
post more balleryanyas
Turning Point
>>69995171
Bunraku
>>69994532
>I had no idea there were other people on this board that were into ballet
it's a secret shame.
is there any way to say "I enjoy ballet" without sounding like a massive homo or a pretentious twat?
>this thread
What's your favorite filmed version of Giselle?
>>69996393
True enough. Anytime I mention it I get the urge to add "but I'm not gay." Sad times we live in when straight men are expected to hate such great art.
>>69996614
>>69996635
The change starts with you, don't worry about being called a fag
>>69996614
Not a fan of Giselle to be honest, I've seen two versions of it and both of them bored me. It's one ballet I would describe as "creaky."
It's possible I just struck out with both. Any productions you would recommend?
>>69996635
I like to prove to them I'm not a fag by giving them a really really shitty blowjob. like.. if i was gay i'd be much better at blowjobs, so the shitty shitty blowjob proves im straight
>>69996715
septs
>>69996959
>dancing while you're on fire
do amerifats actually do this?
>>69996825
I do think it's a shame that Giselle isn't as... played with as other ballets, if that makes sense? We have unusual takes on The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Swan Lake, etc, but Giselle seems to never get any sort of refreshing take or spin. I wonder why?
My favorite version hasn't been filmed (the Houston Ballet, or particularly the Prince I saw who was so intense I thought he would actually collapse from exhaustion like his character and/or hit some of the dangling scenery with his high jumps) but
Alina Cojocaru (though I don't think there's a full filmed version of her as Giselle) has one of the best 'mad scenes' in my opinion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYFGUKowBNc
For full productions, the 2014 Royal Ballet version with Natalia Osipova was very nice though not perfect. But Osipova was truly amazing, her mad scene in that production was very unusual in a good way. Everything else is good but not outstanding--it's Osipova that makes it worth a look. It's also filmed in high definition so it just looks fucking amazing.
I think the '96 version with Alessandra Ferri is the most well rounded in terms of quality. I'd give that a look!
There's a ballet documentary on YouTube with shots of topless loli in it.
Aside from that: Black Swan.
>>69984836
The Turning Point
>>69997467
I love the Houston Ballet, I live in Texas and occasionally drive down there to see it. Stanton Welch is a genius
>>69997931
isn't Welch premiering his own Giselle this season? or am I confusing him with someone else
>>69985030
Don't forget this one.
so next year the Royal Winnepeg Ballet is bringing A Cinderella Story to my town... anyone seen it? or that company? should I bother checking it out?
>>69984981
>What are some good films about ballet? No Black Swan
> No Black Swan
Guys he LITERALLY said "NO BLACK SWAN"
Swack Blan
>>69997986
Yup, in June.
Please leave reddit
>>69998020
moira shearer? count me in
>>69985030
the best
