29 December 2010
He undertook to teach me how to dance Odile: “Dance as if you wanted to seduce me.” At this point, I lost patience. “I haven’t the slightest desire to do that to you,” I said, and walked off the set. I refused point-blank to go back on — let others work with this blockhead.” [...]
23 December 2010
Darren Aronofsky’s “psychosexual thriller” is a hallucinatory horror, a paranoid fantasy pitting women against each other and against themselves. It shows us almost no ballet; the camera is usually jammed up against Natalie Portman’s lovely face or watching pinfeathers poke out of her shoulder blade. [...]
9 December 2010
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3 December 2010
Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan” is sure to cause controversy on its opening day today. But the film’s body double Kimberly Prosa is more prepared than others. [...]
29 November 2010 Category: Dance, Film | Tags: black swan, darren aronofsky, fred astaire, frederick wiseman, gene kelly, la danse, michael powell, natalie portman, swan lake, winona ryder
Seconds into Darren Aronofsky’s psychological thriller BLACK SWAN, the hyperkinetic camera zooms in on a pink pointe shoe. A woman is dancing, but we don’t see her. We see only the impeccable chop-chop of her shoes. It’s a smart directorial move. Cinephiles and foot fetishists are primed for a good time, but dance lovers’ hearts may sink. [...]
21 November 2010
I enjoyed a chat with dancer Kimberly Prosa, who acted as body double for Natalie Portman in Darren Aronofsky’s BLACK SWAN. [...]
29 October 2010
The lack of direction in the dance world has grown so dire that dance writers are scribbling what was previously unimaginable. Essays with titles like: “Is Ballet Over?” Other writers, however, are pushing back. [...]
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gered mankowitz, photog, 1967
brigitte bardot ballerina
charles chaplin, ballet man
debbie reynolds ballerina
janet leigh ballerina
“the red danube” (1949)
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