Friday, November 11, 2011

TULLE & STRIPES

Happy Veteran's Day on 11-11-11!  (Sorry, just had to get the cheesy date thing out of the way.)

I didn't have a patriotic Stars & Stripes photo to post, but did recall this shot at the rehearsal studio. Presenting Tulle & Stripes instead.  I was mesmerized by my friend's sharp stripes against her tulle, punctuated by black and white legwear.  Some of you may remember her as our long-limbed dancer from an old post: Curves in Space.


Tulle and Stripes
Surprising my friend, R, during warm ups

I don't mean to trivialize the heroes of the past.  I am thinking about them, and in fact have been ruminating on history and what the wars meant.  However, I have decided to expand this day's appreciation of people to include people who are around today, and continue to inspire me with their daily life.

I am so fortunate to be surrounded by amazing people -- Blogger friends included!  These photos are a reminder that my ballerina friends are not only graceful and beautiful.  They happen to be interesting and interested in fields beyond ballet.  My friend above has a Ph. D. in the social sciences from Stanford.  Another ballerina friend is a regular visiting professor in the sciences at Stanford with a Ph.D. from Japan.  Some are talented artists working in various media.  I could go on and on with their impressively diverse backgrounds.

Barely-captured movement
My friend, R


I believe exposure to -- even mastery of -- other fields imparts an artistic depth and dimension not acquired by merely flexing muscles at the barre.  In my humble opinion, choreographers, fashion designers, musicians, writers -- actually, any kind of artist -- are the same way.  The brilliant ones infuse their field with inspirations from without.  Is it becoming obvious that my heroes in this world are polymaths?

Which brings me to Blogging.  Next week, I will be posting about an admired, multi-talented friend in a collaborative post.  Many of you might be fans of her creative blog already.  Stay tuned!








32 comments:

  1. Hear hear! I loved this post and I agree - creativity and mastery in one field can bring creativity and mastery to another - beautiful photos - look forward to the collaboration.

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  2. This was too good not to share - have quoted you and linked to this post today - hope you don't mind!

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  3. What a striking and interesting looking woman she is - not only her clothes are fascinating.

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  4. Both pictures are brilliant. Your friends expression is absolutely amazing. So true about artists and people in general.

    Thank you for your nice comment, it was the pick-me-up that I needed after a horrible day. Even though the weather was fine, not that I got to enjoy it, but still it was fine.

    Have a great weekend.

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  5. Incredible people and so beautiful! Love her.

    xoxo
    style roulette

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  6. oh yes how can 1 forget!
    these are the kind of people i look upto whose interests and achievements go beyond certain boundaries..
    can't wait to see who this blogger is!

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  7. Love both photos but the first one is a mixture of rock dark ballerina, love the pose you certainly captured the moment, very natural and flawless.I'm so happy to conect with creative and intelligent people like yourself. x

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  8. loviinggg the skirt, your blog is soo lovely by the ways, i will be visiting it again very soon :)

    http://haveapeekinsidemywardrobe.blogspot.com/
    xxx

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  9. She looks fabulous!! At the beginning I thought that the picture was coming directly from Vogue pages!!
    Can't wait to see the new post!

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  10. very beautiful pics:) that skirt is so lovely as well^^


    xx, rachel <3<3

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  11. the first pictures is very nice!

    http://thestyleattitude.blogspot.com

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  12. Aaah, I love these photos, especially the first one. Her face of surprise! I just read in an interview with a company director about what she was looking for in people she said: Being interested in other things, as well. It just makes for more interesting people I think. X

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  13. I'm a obsessed lover of Tulle haha love this post

    xx

    www.sickbytrend.com

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  14. Great pictures. I love tulle. Have a lovely week <3<3

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  15. I am neither poly, nor math, but you and your friends are beautiful!

    I love the stripes and tulle pic, and look. Was just talking to a lovely woman the other night, who is a ballet trainer and dancer- and I was thinking to myself- how much depth she possessed. She did so much more than dance- she knew and loved art, music and knitted, sewed her own clothes. There was a refreshing breadth of knowledge to her- unlike the one note of many fashionistas. Sigh. I didn't realize it was inherent to dance culture. Good to know.

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  16. Love this post... Creativity is all around us - not just the "artistic" pursuits!

    Beautiful shots btw!

    http://www.inherentstylela.com/

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  17. Beautiful shots of your friend. I totally agree that those with more than one string to their bow can play a sweeter tune. Looking forward to your collaborative post. Xxxx

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  18. Your friend is a beautiful dancer!
    I saw the weirdest thing over the weekend. get this, drunk ballerinas doing the macarena ;P
    Your friend just reminded me.
    Xoxo

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  19. I see you like bailarinas... Forgot to follow the last time but now I'll be following

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  20. What a superb match of images to thought. I always love your ballet photos as you catch not only something of the movement and grace but also the intensity and creative rigour. It seems to me that interesting people are interested in many things and thirsty to expand their creative horizons.

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  21. more ballet shots please. these are so beautiful. i absolutely love them
    thanks for sharing
    x

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  22. that first image is so insanely beautiful xxx I adore it so much xxx

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  23. Oh my goodness, these photos are breathtakingly beautiful

    -Laura xx
    http://wrinkleintimevintage.blogspot.com

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  24. She is such an interesting woman.
    Beautiful photos
    lee x

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  25. what an interesting lady. i cannot get over how beautiful that second picture is.

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  26. Such a powerful date and these photos are beautiful. Such talent.

    Lee
    x

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  27. i Love the first photo, it's mesmerizing!!

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