June 2012
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“Crying is to satisfaction of your lament what eating is to satisfaction of your hunger”
—“Death in Midsummer” by Mishima, Y
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“Ballet was never just a set of physical exercises or positions.
It was always a set of beliefs,
an aspiration to nobility,
an aspiration to the extraordinary,
to the ‘merveilleux’.
It was a way of life. And it is today a connection to the past,
a direct connection, both to Louis [IV] and to Marie Taglioni,
and to the worlds that they lived in.
It is a living, moving history.”
-Jennifer Homans
Apollo’s Angels
