The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify
Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness
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Anna Pavlova’s costume designed by Leon Bakst for Swan Lake (1905)
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Giovanna Baccelli by Thomas Gainsborough
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After cutting all the scallops of my tutu (10 layers) I’m staring to understand how Davos Seaworth* feels.
*YES. I have been making clever Game of Throne references all day and no one understands them because I’m the only one watching the series and reading the books. I feel so clever and no one gets it. fail. -
Lesson 1 in tutu making: Cherish your fingers, wear gloves.
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I don’t think you will be hearing from me much for the next few weeks! We are making ballet tutus, which I’m rather excited about! I spent all day cutting my fabric layers out to prep for next week and I still have to finish cutting the soft tulle.
Wish me luck and patience!
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When I was younger I was classically trained in Russian ballet. I once wrote a poem detailing my ambitions, “… her dreams turn quietly on her toe.”
But dreams don’t make allowances for injuries.
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Song of the Wave by Kahlil Gibran
… Many times have I danced around mermaids
As they rose from the depths and rested
Upon my crest to watch the stars;
Many times have I heard lovers complain
Of their smallness, and I helped them to sigh …
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“ And when she saw her she knew her for Snow-white, and could not stir from the place for anger and terror. For they had ready red-hot iron shoes, in which she had to dance until she fell down dead.”
