After about a year and a half of getting back into ballet, I finally got into pointe shoes again this morning. It wasn’t easy, but I did it. And that in itself is kind of a miracle. 😂 (at New York, New York)
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Dajana Kłos and Daniel Agudo Gallardo, Wrocław Opera Ballet
Photo by Remy Lamping
That is how I remember her:
A flighty woman-girl always leaving her
window open to the morning mist; fairest
curtains stripped & always swaying, as if
caressing some invisible cheek.
( She makes entire constellations sigh
whenever she toe-dances in her glossy
pointe shoes, fragile toes cracking under
all this pressure, a rosy affair with the moon- )
Relieve me from this Toska, from this
ache, this longing, my darling ; My heart
is this raw, pulsating being,
& I want to be your sun that always
forgets to go out
Throwback to the time I bought my first pointe shoes in 14 years and actually remembered how to sew my ribbons on. Pain like that will forever be a memory. 😂💪🏻 (at Brooklyn, New York)
“I was embarrassed that I even wanted to become an actress because coming from L.A., with two older sisters in the business and a mom who had been a ballet dancer, it was such a cliche.”
The mirror is in every room in the ballet world, because ballet dancers are constantly looking at themselves, studying themselves, and maybe even judging themselves. All the time. So it was very clear to me that the mirror was a major character in this film. And the film is also about doubles. Your reflection is your double, isn’t it? So it just became a really important part of the film. And very early on we started to think of all the different types of tricks we could do with mirrors. - Darren Aronofsky
The actor Humphrey Bogart as Linus Larrabee with the actress Audrey Hepburn as Sabrina Fairchild in “Sabrina“ (1954).
Audrey was wearing:
- Cocktail dress: Givenchy (sleeveless, of black satin, bodice with boat neckline with small straps fastened with bows and a beautiful ballerina skirt, an exclusive version created for the wardrobe of her character Sabrina Fairchild from a similar model of his collection for the Spring/Summer of 1953. This cocktail dress was an adapted design to Audrey’s desires, because she wanted a modified neckline to hide her collarbone. The style of the new neckline that Givenchy invented for Audrey became so popular that the designer named it “décolleté Sabrina”).
- Hair ornament: Givenchy (a bow on the top covered with black satin under a black veil decorated with some crystals, of his collection for the Spring/Summer of 1953).
- Shoes: René Mancini for Givenchy(lined with black satin, of the collection for the Spring/Summer of 1953).
I always found you fascinating,
you were the ballerina dressed in all black with an understanding for sarcasm and math.
me to you (via distorted-kids)
“The French novelist Colette picked her out of a ballet lineup to play Gigi on stage, and her career was launched. When I photographed her in Hollywood and commented on her quality of sophisticated vulnerability, she told me of her harrowing experiences during the Second World War. Years later, in the Kremlin, Chairman Brezhnev agreed to sit for me only if I made him as beautiful as Audrey Hepburn.”
Yousuf Karsh, photographer
Credits: karsh.org
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