Notes
Ballerinas Watch Black Swan
The New York Times has a piece on dancers’ reaction to Black Swan. Meanwhile, Jonathan Romney interviews Darren Aronofsky and writes: “There’s much steamy weirdness that you don’t normally
associate with ballet fictions: hallucinations, horror, lesbian clinches
with doppelgängers.”
Which is exactly what I associate with them. I’d like to see dancers respond to other ballet-horror, like Suspiria and The Wishing Stairs.
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Tagged as: 1970s, 2000s, 2010s, ballet, dance, Dario Argento, Darren Aronofsky, horror, Italy, Korea, movies, Natalie Portman, Yun Jae-yeon
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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