I’m trying to prove a point to my parents and my grandma
she was a punk, he did ballet
what more can I say
My brothers been doing ballet since third grade. Goddamn he has some solid fucking legs
The best muscles I ever had were from ballet and I never had to carry a girl across stage.
I find boys that dance ballet REALLY attractive
a nice long list of dance-related movies, tv, and videos in general!
please feel free to add on!!
Television
strictly ballet
city.ballet
dance academy
Movies
Ballerina
The Children of Theatre Street
A Beautiful Tragedy
First Position
Un An Au Bolchoi
NYCB
youtube page
Bolshoi Videos
youtube page
Bolshoi Ballet in Cinema Trailer
Ekaterina Krysanova
Nina Semizorova
Natalia Osipova (1)
Natalia Osipova (2)
Maria Ryzhkina (1)
Maria Ryzhkina (2)
Ekaterina Shipulina (1)
Ekaterina Shipulina (2)
Svetlana Lunkina (1)
Svetlana Lunkina (2)
Ludmila Semenyaka (1)
Ludmila Semenyaka (2)
Marina Leonova (1)
Marina Leonova (2)
more available here!
“Big Ballet” Competition
Complete, 2012
Prix de Lausanne
youtube page
Other
Olga Smirnova: The Prodigy
World Ballet Day: Bolshoi
World Ballet Day: Australian Ballet
World Ballet Day: Royal Ballet
Balletoman.com: watch full ballets online free
More movies
World Ballet Day 2014
Royal Ballet class
Australian Ballet excerpts
San Francisco Ballet Highlights
Full Ballets
Old Balanchine Ballets on this channel
Balanchine’s Jewels
POB in Emeralds,
POB in Diamonds,
POB in Rubies
Cinderella
with Maksimova/Vasiliev
with Sylvie Guillem
Swan Lake-
Royal Ballet with Nunez/Soares,
La Scala with Zakharova/ Bolle
La Bayadere
Paris Opera with Guérin/Platel/Hilaire
La Scala with Zakharova/Bolle
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
La Scala in Balanchine‘s with Ferri/Bolle
ABT with Stiefel/ Ferri
Manon
Sleeping Beauty
Mariinsky Yulia Stepanova Debut as Lilac Fairy
Bolshoi: Sleeping Beauty with Zakharova and Hallberg
Bolshoi Le Corsaire with Svetlana Zakharovam Denis Matvienko, and Ekaterina Shipulina : part 1 part 2 part 3 part 4
“I bet that boys in ballet to snoop on the girls hur hur hur he’s smart for thinking of that”
Or maybe he fucking likes to dance and ballet is extremely rigorous and disciplining. Maybe it makes him happy. Maybe you shouldn’t use such an outdated definition of masculinity.
idea for a high school musical 4 song: sporty gal tries to teach a ballet gal how to play baseball. it’s like a reprise of “i don’t dance” and it’s called “i don’t swing that way”
Plot twist where Sporty gal is Troy and Gabriella’s daughter and Ballet gal is Ryan and Chad’s adopted daughter so now Sharpay is all distraught because she will NOT let her niece fall in love with a sweaty sport girl that’s also the daughter of those jerks and sort of made highschool hard for her. No siree, her ballet niece needs to date a prim and proper lil lady and that’s the subplot of the movie
Bonus: the ballet gal turns out to be even more hardcore than the sporty gal because ballet is incredibly difficult and physically demanding. sporty gal is rendered slightly intimidated and even more in love by this discovery.
Coffee plant: *evolves caffeine* Safe at last
Humans: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Why are we like this….
the fact that we can’t drink sea water even tho its the most common type of water just bc its 3% salt yet we can safely consume multiple forms of literal poison and even benefit from doing so just blows my fucking mind
Peppers: Now that I have capsaicin, no mammal will eat me! ONLY BIRDS. THE BIRDS WILL SPREAD MY SEEDS.
Humans: oh my god this burns so good
Peppers: wut
poppies: at last, i have evolved my sap to the point where anything that eats me will sleep… FOREVER
humans who are about to invent painkillers: hey guess what
tobacco: finally i can grow in peace, no more insects munching on my leaves.
humans holding matches: my, my, what do we have here?
Mint: Stay off me bugs or I’ll poison you!
Humans: Yeah I’m gonna need to put this poison in my dessert and mix it with chocolate.
runningquill-art
pyixis
[A Court Of Thorns and Roses]
[Throne Of Glass]
[Sarah j Maas]
Oof anon went OFF (also didn’t bother blocking the pfp cause it’s a default)
Beyond the whole “I-don’t-like-this-thing-so-you-shouldn’t-like-this-thing-either” cliché rhetoric, anon - let us call them Baguette - is obviously specifically targetting the female readers of SJM books but also any readers falling on the LGBT spectrum who are attracted to the male characters in question.
In other (politically correct) news, young adult books are read by young adults. Idk if Baguette was born with the whole knowledge of the Kamasutra crammed in their brain, but the rest of us mere mortals indeed experience virginity and the unholy ignorance of how to wield our own buns and baguettes (carefully chosen terms because I know how much Baguette likes it when things aren’t called by their proper names) for varying periods of time. Shocker. I know.
Virginity is not a fatality. Virginity isn’t brain-addling. Virginity isn’t shameful. Just as sex isn’t shameful. I have friends in their mid twenties whose pastries haven’t been dipped in milk yet and it doesn’t make them childish or repressed, nor does reading what is commonly called and oh-so-despised chick lit.
Baguette then proceeds with the aforementioned cliché rhetoric, and THEN we finally get to what’s really bothering our crusty friend:
Well, Baguette, you really aren’t a piece of cake, are you? Let me tell you about the levels of embarrassing I’m experiencing while reading the self-righteous and arrogant bullshit you just spewed.
What our French croûton is finding horrific is that women, specifically young women, and LGBT readers are being vocal about their fantasies and are daring to explore their sexualities. Can you imagine? They talk about the books they read! AND OH SWEET BABY JESUS THESE BOOKS CONTAIN SMUT- Ahem, sorry Baguette; I meant to say: THESE BOOKS CONTAIN LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF PHYSICAL UNIONS OF MALE AND FEMALE GENITALIA ACCOMPANIED BY RHYTMIC MOVEMENTS! Goodness, shouldn’t we all be learning our verses instead?
I think it’s great YA books have smut in them. (By the way, Baguette, you hate synonyms, but did you know that in the days of yore, PG 18 fanfiction was called lemons? How could they defile an innocent fruit like that?! It has nothing to do with being childish, though. It’s just a way not to get flagged for this type of content or be found by p*rn bots or just a fun word, really.)
I’m sure Baguette is beating their dough to some fine hardcore culinary shows to prove what an adulty adult they are, but see, YA lit provides young readers with a safe environment to learn about cuisine, respect of fellow pastry chefs, and to explore their fantasies.
It’s great that girls, young women, and any LGBT people can finally have an entertaining medium enabling them to think about sexuality without shame.
It’s great that they are made to feel so comfortable about it that they voice their thoughts be it online or irl.
It’s great that they can have access to it even in countries where it’s often criminalized or where Sex Ed doesn’t exist.
But then there are people like Baguette, who are trying to take these safe platforms away from them.
Relationships in YA books are not always healthy, but that’s great too, because discussing it helps educating readers of any age and gender. DISCUSSING, BAGUETTE. DISCUSSING. Irl or online, talking about it without shame is key so readers who mistake unhealthy plot points for “relationship goals” can learn critical thinking. SJM books or YA books in general are far from being the only examples of unhealthy romances in the media. But what’s great about the YA lit community is that it’s widely present online and these vilified plots can become valuable lessons for the future through DISCUSSION.
One of the many concepts Baguette fails to grasp: books don’t necessarily need to be smart or educational (though, for reasons exposed above, turns out these books are indeed educational). Books can be read for mindless entertainment and giggles.
I am not an unconditional fan of SJM books. I love them for a variety of (silly) reasons, but I also have as many reasons to dislike them, namely that I often find them poorly written and indeed problematic. I did not write this post to specifically defend her books or any YA books. I wrote this post to defend critical thinking and the right to expression of communities whose sexuality has often been ridiculed or even denied.
Stop shaming young people for wanting to learn about and discuss sexuality.
