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

Swans ♥

[talanoa.livejournal.com]

Hi, total stranger here... :D

... I followed the swans! I saw your icon in a discussion somewhere, went OMG!squee!Swan Lake! Adam Cooper! (and in a recognisably "H/D" person, too!), and came here out of icon love.

I've seen it, too, years ago, in the UK, and I also sat close enough to almost smell their sweat as I saw it trickle. ;) It one of my absolute favourite ballet experiences ever, so much love for that version...

Anyway; thank you for reminding me, and bringing back loads of lovely memories and flashes of the show. ♥

As luciology, I'd really recommend to consider getting it on dvd - seeing the Swan and the Prince again and again (and that yummy dance at the ball!) is very addictive. :D


Best wishes,

Clara

Re: Swans ♥

[geoviki.livejournal.com]

I took everyone's advice and got the Swan Lake DVD! And it's a wonderful as I remember. It really was a powerful thing to watch all those male dancers, even if my live version didn't include Adam Cooper.