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

Tuesday 30 August 2022

Spit Balling (Just Another Hypothesis)

Years ago, at work, we'd just won a new global client. 

I don't recall why, but I was being vocal and a bit too candid. The client, a female, overheard me and without any aggression said 'opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one'.

Maybe that's why they made me get up front to get the energy going in the conference room. Dancing is one of my favourite things so not the hardest corporate task I've been burdened with.

So yeah, this is just an opinion.

When Mar-A-Lago was raided by the FBI and you know, accusations of evidence being planted, and evidence being carted out, yadda yadda yadda.... well, It struck me as resonant of a line from the past.


It's just a theory. 

Surely the Feds aren't that stupid?

Tuesday 20 July 2021

Obsessional Editing



Above is the original by Jeff Lynne's ELO. I did post about the wider topic back here. I love the dance edits so much that I did some digging on. The edit below is a low resolution of the inspirational original as the that Youtube gem was deplatformed, and then the low res edit was deplatformed and an even lower quality resolution took its placed. Arseholes.



The next edit by Sabrina Fani might also have been scrubbed from the net though there seems to be some crossover with or between Alfonso Jimenez.



Sabrina's principle addition is an edit of Bebo Best & The Super Lounge Orchestra - Sing Sing Sing (Dance Video) | Choreography | MihranTV



This is one of the original dance scenes (Lot of Livin' To Do) from the movie "Bye Bye Birdie" with the extraordinary Ann Margret




For me this is the next level choreography. If you pay attention there are always at least three layers of action going (foreground, middle and background) on and there are references to antiquity which just boggle the mind and hint at creative input that is in my opinion rarely seen for public consumption. I probably wouldn't have noticed it, just by watching the 1969 movie Sweet Charity, with Shirley MacLean (sister of Warren Beatty and Illuminati bloodline), but the dance edit by Alfonso Jimenez brings it to life in a way that is unforgettable. Original choreography by Bob Fosse.



The last video is Freemasons (ironic huh?) featuring Katherine Ellis "When you touch me", an homage to the dance scene in Sweet Charity, as she bears a strong resemblance to the lead female dancer - it's not even close in quality to the original. I've yet to find the names of the dancers in the movie Sweet Charity but that's the final piece of the jigsaw.

Update: I did find out the  original female dance lead. She's an accomplished woman even in her 70s. It should be part of this post but I've temporarily forgotten where I filed it.

To find the information took me weeks and weeks as I had to trawl through the comments of the Sabrina Fani video edit (now deleted), so a lot of world class information has been scrubbed for the time being.

It's safe to say I'm obsessed with that Sweet Charity choreography and setting. When I found out it was released in the year of my birth, I couldn't believe it. I genuinely thought it was super fresh and made recently. Either I'm thick as mince or it's an exceptionally classic-modern.

I may come back if I find more additions of original material.

And here I YAM

Urging you to see the likeness



Tuesday 27 April 2021

E.L.O (Electric Light Orchestra) - Don't Bring Me Down





I've strong opinions about this video. I love it so much.

Update - The original Sabrina & Toni edit was deplatformed. This is not quite the same as the original, though most very welcome cfx - Thank you

...I beg your pardon. Alfonso Jimenez


Sunday 2 June 2013

Rita Hayworth - Staying Alive



This just put a massive smile on my face. What a woman. Totally into her work in a happy and spontaneous way. I never saw that before.

Sunday 5 February 2012

Holy F**K




I get a fabulous kick out of seeing how the next generation of break dancers (or just young people doing their thing) have taken the art form (and pretty much everything else they touch) to a level that makes the men's floor gymnastics at the Olympics look tired and formal. Well worth taking a peek.

Via Iain.

Friday 18 February 2011

Radiohead




It's not often I post music but this did make my body hair (cute & fluffy as it is) stand on end. I've no idea why British music has been so fecund in the 20th and 21st century. Love the dancing moves. We should all dance more and talk less.

Friday 31 December 2010

I Hated You, I Loved You Too.


Written at the age of 18 years old and performed here at the age of 19. It's a remarkable song if only for the way Kate Bush squeezes the lyrics and syntax to achieve something different for "so cold, let me in your window" with emphasis on the second syllable of the last word not the first syllable as would be expected. 

As soon as I understood what she did just now here, I realised it was as pure as art gets in a singer, song writing (not forgetting interperative dance) and then I thought of the parallels (lines) with Debbie Harry's lyrical contortions and Mezzo Soprano vocal transitions in Heart of Glass that made the song worth posting too. They both sing of the love/hate dynamic often found between lovers, which I have to say I'm not a fan of in real life, but recognise as productive and useful in many relationships I've observed.


Whatever you think of these two songs I've yet to hear someone sing them so that they are indistinguishable from the original. If you do let me know.