{"id":824,"date":"2016-06-15T07:37:22","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=824"},"modified":"2016-06-15T07:37:22","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T14:37:22","slug":"ballet-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=824","title":{"rendered":"Ballet in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ballets have long been associated with flowery music, movements, pink tutus\u00a0and impersonations of flowers. I picked three today, for our viewing pleasure; rest easily, the flower waltz from The<\/em>\u00a0Nutcracker<\/em> is not among them.\u00a0The first is Giselle, <\/em>with a scene where Fonteyn\u00a0plucks the petals of a daisy to find out if she’ll be loved or not (shall I give away the ending? No. Bad enough that I myself always read the end of a book first…..) \u00a0I did not have daisy petals, so plucking a peony had to do.<\/p>\n

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The second is one that I wished I had seen Nijinsky in, but no. It is called Le Spectre de la Rose, <\/em>showcasing\u00a0<\/em>a phantom apparition with a spectacular\u00a0derri\u00e8re, if I may say so. I know, I should describe Manuel Legris’ elegance and kinesthetic intelligence instead. I leave that to people more knowledgeable than I. I picked a slightly unfocused image of roses around a beautiful old trellis to match\u00a0this ghostly dream sequence.<\/p>\n