See how efficient it still is,
how it keeps itself in shape -
our century’s hatred.
How easily it vaults the tallest obstacles.
How rapidly it pounces, tracks us down.
It is not like other feelings.
At once both older and younger.
Wisława Szymborska | Hatred
“Il Lago dei Cigni” di Tchaikovsky
Il lago dei cigni (in russo, Лебеди́ное о́зеро) è uno dei più famosi ed acclamati balletti del XIX secolo, musicato da Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
La prima rappresentazione ebbe luogo al Teatro Bolshoi di Mosca il 20 febbraio 1877 (4 marzo secondo il calendario gregoriano), con la coreografia di Julius Wenzel Reisinger.
La trama del balletto, modellata su diverse fiabe popolari russe e tedesche, si svolge in Germania e narra la triste storia d'amore tra il Principe Siegfried e la bella Principessa Odette, trasformata in cigno da un maleficio del perfido stregone Rothbart.
Carlotta Edwards | Swan Lake
Ary Scheffer | Romantic painter
Scheffer was the son of Johan Bernard Scheffer (1765-1809), a portrait painter born in Homberg upon Ohm or Kassel who had moved to the Netherlands in his youth, and Cornelia Lamme (1769-1839), a portrait miniature painter and daughter of the Dordrecht landscape painter Arie Lamme, after whom Arij (later Ary) was named.
Italian ballet dancer Jacopo Tissi in Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake"
Jacopo Tissi is an Italian ballet dancer.
Tissi was born in 1995 in Landriano, Province of Pavia.
He began dancing at age five, after seeing a ballet on television, at a new ballet school in his hometown.
He entered La Scala Theatre Ballet School in Milan when he was ten.
Out of Africa, 1985
"If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me?
Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me?"
Robert Redford and Meryl Streep Shampoo Scene in "Out of Africa"
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