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With that, I believe we have our now-official title. The era of gender-fluidness.

Thank you to the person who just claimed your territory! I’m proud of you. It wasn’t just your queerness that inspired me. It was your theme park feminist deconstruction of the ballet “Swan Lake.” I loved you from the word go. sextop I was even a Swan Lake superfan, though I wasn’t exactly top-of-mind for the piece.

When I first heard the thrilling Russian-language story, I wondered if the dancers would cry or fall in love and wear a tail. They danced in tight white Lycra. They wore bows on their heads. Their arms thrust toward the sky as they twisted and turned in slow-motion. (By the way, hot Rodolfo was too “funny.”)

I desperately wanted to know why the falcon’s headbanger spun around the Swan Queen’s head like that and where the apples were going to come from, but instead, the ballet became something much more. xvideos

It was a love story, that’s for sure. An old-school kind of relationship in which the line between the person in the square and the person in the swan are not that clear.

The very first steps of this new world were on stage, when the Swan Queen went into fierce seclusion: She was spitting venom. She wasn’t opening her eyes. She wasn’t communicating.

The pas de deux between this veiled female dancer and her duet partner cut into the other way back, which played into a duo relationship that married the dual notions of fantasy. It was about a conflict between the next step of your relationship and the status quo. I loved this juxtaposition, the dancers who were in both worlds. They were everything!

And, on top of that, the entire ballet revolves around an ardent love for the artist. Yes, that is true. The man in the square, it seems, has been dreaming of this relationship since he was a boy and hasn’t met another woman who would stop him from fantasizing about the golden swan prince. But there is a thread of irony that runs through the whole thing. xnxx

Aside from Marnie Hepner in her slinky lamb costumes, who played Maria in the version that I know — which plays very much as a reimagining of The Madam Butterfly suite with all its fairytale elements — the ballet and the ballet prima donna shares a love for eccentricity, celebrity and fun.

They just have different sides.

In this second version, the women have less pressure on them. They can explore their femininity. They don’t have to be pinned down to a reality defined by that catty air of entitlement. I loved the duet between the swan and the circle of seven women who show up with their wild blonde hair. It was my first time watching the piece with an entire score live onstage and I suddenly saw the complexity of the Russian choreography. There were no dances for that binary binary of male and female. The entire score is a sea of women, a highlighter of pure femininity.

For me, what was so appealing about “Swan Lake” for me was its uniqueness. It is the kind of musical work that many of us can never fully appreciate live, because we are in a white protective bubble or in our own comfy show. But with technology we’re able to experience this work in a different way, with a composer who blends the richness of Russian folk songs with the sophisticated lyricism of Mozart. The opera houses, concert halls and anyplace else that performs this piece are filled with people who can identify with the hopelessness of Marnie and Charming and those that connect with the beauty and perhaps even the mystery of the baton-twirling spirit swans. What we come up with with this piece mirrors ourselves in different ways.