"Carmina Burana"

[matrixrefugee]

Whoa... a good pick-me-up when I needed one!!

One of my dreams has been to see a performance of Karl Orff's cantata/ballet "Carmina Burana": I've even dreamed up choreography for it (It's one of my all time favorite classical works), and I can sing just about every part of it (even the countertenor solo and most of the soprano solos, though my voice tend to crack on the high notes in "Dulcissima". Drat those coloratura soprano parts!). Well, one of the local PBS stations just showed a student production of it. It wasn't how I'd have choreographed it -- If I had the Boston Ballet at my disposal, I'd have had a lot more big round-dance type numbers, incorporating some medieval-type dance styles -- but it was still *GOOD*. One of the male solo dancers reminded me oddly of Desire, from the "Sandman" comics: at first I wasn't even sure he was a guy!

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[(Anonymous)]

Did he actually look like the bi-gendered menace or was it just the androgenous thing?
~Weaver

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

It was the androgynous look to the fellow that made see the similarity, but the fact that his role was that of Amour -- and a rather coolly nasty Amour at that -- which made the resemblance more eerie. ::Uses the icon of Jill Thompson's chibi-style Desire to keep the nasty beauty at bay...::

[(Anonymous)]

Although the pic is rather cute, I think it'll take more then that to keep the brat at bay. Coolly nasty, yep that's Desire alright.
~Weaver