Gotta love a man in feathers

[geoviki]

Both ravurian and isiscolo are laughing at me because I am inarticulately muttering: Swans! Swans! Check out the icon if you don't believe me.

I took a day from the salt mines to see Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake. Live! You cannot imagine a more slashy ballet. Well, okay, male ballet dancers do have that rep, but that's offstage, you know what I'm sayin'? This was all about The Prince! And the Swan! And the Prince and Swan dancing together! With lots of other male swans all swanning about. No subtext necessary. It was a slasher's paradise.

I was in the third row, and I could hear the special swan breathing and the special swan hissing, and see the special swan sweat, for God's sake!

So maybe it wasn't feathers, actually, more like llama wool-looking stuff. But it looked swan-like. And the choreography was very swan-like.

This is the ballet performed by the grown-up Billy Elliott in that film, if you remember.

In honor of my new swan fetish, I link you to copperbadge's Swan!fic: No Treaty

Comments

[luci0logy.livejournal.com]

Oh honey, welcome to the fan club. That ballet is amazing and you can get the DVD from Amazon. Here it's known as 'the gay Swan Lake. I was lucky enough to see Adam Cooper (in your icon) perform the lead swan in 1998 and the spark between him & the prince, when they dance in the park, was palpable to say the least - made me squirm in my seat. I saw him again last August at the Sadler's Wells Theatre in his production of Les Liaisons Dangereuses (he stripped on stage - guh!).

http://www.adam-cooper.com/gallerymenuset.htm

Remember La fashionista - Harry in his birthday suite? Well in the sequel he talked about this very ballet & the effect Adam Cooper had on him before describing his fantasy to Draco on the train home from the Royal Opera House.

[yeats.livejournal.com]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

ADAM COOPER OMG YAY!

*saw dangerous liaisons and died*

[luci0logy.livejournal.com]

saw dangerous liaisons

Wasn't the set incredible? I think my jaw hit the floor when I saw the scale of it. Did you know it was based on the mirror room at Versailles? I loved those psuedo Death eater costumes, in fact all the costumes. But oh, the way Adam moves, even when just walking across the stage it's like watching sex on legs. *swoons*.

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

Don't make me jealous...oh, wait. Too late!

[luci0logy.livejournal.com]

Sorry to make you jealous, but this really was an incredible production. I was in heaven but my husband hated it because it wasn't like a traditional ballet - mind you, he'd have hated that too. I sat drooling at Adam, all elegance and grace as he moved across the stage, while hubby listened to a comedy show he'd downloaded earlier on his mini palm thingy. Mind you, I had to spend 6 hours in the Imperial War Museum the next day to uphold my end of the bargain. I'm happy to hear you enjoyed your read of ATBIO more the 2nd time. *must get me an Adam icon*

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

It was so much fun to see it live! Denver sometimes gets lucky with tours.

I watched the final scene of Billy Elliott again and again and again just to see Adam Cooper (that was him, right?) dance. It was so breathtaking.

This swan guy was good too, though. The choreography makes it hot!

[luci0logy.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is Adam Cooper at the end of Billy Elliott. Both my mother & I were amazed at the swan-like movements of the dancers. Adam helped choreograph the swan movements. Next month we're off to see Matthew Bourne's version of Edward Scissorhands, but without Adam - unfortunately.

For more Adam goodness here's his web site:

http://www.adam-cooper.com/index.htm