#faust ii

I’ve been sent ahead by him, now, to his city:

But what the meaning of it is I can hardly guess.

Do I come as his wife? Do I come as the Queen?

Or a sacrifice, for a Prince’s bitter pain,

And the ill fortune long endured by the Greeks?

I’m conquered: but am I a prisoner? I can’t tell!

True, the Immortals appointed Fame, and Fate,

As the two ambiguous, doubtful companions

Of Beauty, to stand here at this threshold with me,

The gloomy, threatening presences by my side.

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk Максим Паламарчук, “Faust II”, music by Franz Schubert, Luciano Berio, choreo by Xin Peng Wang. As part of the program for XXXV International Ballet Gala, Ballett Dortmund, Theater Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (September 10, 2022).

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Source and more info at: Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (personal) Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (photography)

The Moon by Leonora Carrington

All that the man of today knows of this Moon is the abstract mineral ball he believes to revolve out there, round the earth in four weeks. The Greeks knew a threefold Moon — Luna, Diana, Hecate. And being a microcosm is an image of every trinity, and image of Luna, Diana, Hecate, as the threefold Moon. And we have learnt to know the threefold man. We know the man of the head; this man of the head, since he is the product of the periods of Saturn, Sun, and Moon, the product of all previous ages, can be brought into relation with the heavenly survival, with Luna. So that the head in man would, as a microcosm, correspond to the macrocosm Luna. The man of the centre, the breast, would correspond to Diana; it is in the heart that those subconscious impulses arise of which Diana is the goddess. And all that plays out of the extremity-man and is continued into the sex-man, all the dark, purely organic, bodily feelings and impulses, prevailing in the human being, come from the sub-earthly power of Hecate.

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk Максим Паламарчук, “Faust II”, music by Franz Schubert, Luciano Berio, choreo by Xin Peng Wang. As part of the program for XXXV International Ballet Gala, Ballett Dortmund, Theater Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (September 10, 2022).

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (personal) Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (photography)

Isabelle Maia and Maksym Palamarchuk Максим Паламарчук, “Faust II”, music by Franz Schubert, Luciano Berio, choreo by Xin Peng Wang. As part of the program for XXXV International Ballet Gala, Ballett Dortmund, Theater Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany (September 10, 2022).

Note: Original quality of photographs might be affected by compression algorithm of the website where they are hosted.

Source and more info at: Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (personal) Photographer Filip Kvačák on Instagram (photography)