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A research project looking at ways in which dance and the Gothic intersect, beginning with ballet. Run by @kar_took @kajafranck @harveygothick #BalletGothic
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined September 2019
Written for Tim Burton's Wednesday (Series 2), Gaga leans in to the uncanny valley of the doll. Her make-up and movement exaggerate the desire of the male gaze, but at the exploitation of feminine expression. Death should repulse but instead appeals to the masculine
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Its the grand finale. Our Dancing Dead Girl for Day 31 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse is of course Lady Gaga https://t.co/GVelUgeWwW
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He wrote in his biography that he was inspired by a vision of pagan rite which ended in sacrifice. Pic: Joffrey Ballet, 1987. This verion drew on Nicholas Roerich's original costumes. You can find a link to excerpts of the Joffrey Ballet version here: https://t.co/kBrd91jxHO
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The girl, the Chosen One, dances to her death in the final Sacrifical Dance section. Stravinsky's masterpiece drove audiences to near riots when it premiered. Pic: Phoenix Dance Theatre’s eight Company Dancers, choreographed by Jeanguy Saintus, drawing on Haitian beliefs, 2019.
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Day 30 of #31DaysofDanseMacabre and today's dancing dead girl is the sacrifical maiden from Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rites of Spring' (1913). Pic: Pina Bausch's choreography, 1984. Performance view, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, 2017.
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Modern versions tend to combine this artistic expression with more technical choreography, but this performance by Ossipova for The Royal Ballet Live showcases Fokine's original vision
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It is not a ballet preoccupied with recreating the movment of a swan, it is instead an extended meditation on death and dying. Reportedly when Anna Pavlova was lying on her deathbed, her last words were, “get my Swan costume ready.”
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The original choreography emphasised artistic expression over technical complexity.
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Originally tited The Swan, it was choreographed for Anna Pavlova by Mikhail Fokine. Set to to Camille Saint-Saëns's Le Cygne from Le Carnaval des animaux that follows the last moments of a dying swan.
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Day 29 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse and our Dancing Dead Girl takes the form of a swan. Not, as you might expectation, Odette from Swan Lake but the Dying Swan.
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If you'd like to know how these Dancing Dead Girls (and Boys) work, you can check out this explanation https://t.co/AiOcoZ8Rb2
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More recently, the Waltzing Dead have escaped their abode and joined Mickey's Not-So-Scary Halloween Party parade.
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The guests in their Doom Buggies look down on the ghostly birthday party as the spirits dance through the furniture and walls to the sound of the organ, played by another ghost.
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The Waltzing Dead are part of the biggest practical effect in the Haunted Mansion attraction and its counterparts at Disney parks across the world.
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Welcome, foolish mortals to day 28 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse where we invite you to watch the Waltzing Dead, also knows as the dancing ghosts from the ballroom in the Haunted Mansion.
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The meta nods to the vampire genre all come together with the father's reveal, and this is one to add to the Halloween watchlists!
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The second dancing dead girl featured in the film is up and coming Scream Queen Kathryn Newton, who is bitten and turned, and dances like a marionette whilst under Abigail's thrall, before meeting her grisly final end
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This is a child vampire that hunts them down one by one inside the hostage house. Abigail is played by Alisha Weir, fresh off playing Matilda, and dances with gruesome delight throughout the movie
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Day 27 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse and children can be such monsters. Abigail (2024) is a reimagining of Universal's Dracula's Daughter and sees a group of criminals recruiting to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, said child is no ordinary ballerina...
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Bruce created the ballet "for the innocent people of South America, who from the time of the Spanish Conquests have been continuously devastated by political oppression." https://t.co/rD5DqdLeS1
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