A work by the political philosopher, Leo Strauss
So, when Rudolf Nureyev danced the Grand Pas De Deux of Casse Noisette in 1968 with Merle Park, the dance itself was already 76 years old, and had been supposedly 'done to death' because the ballet was such a successful ballet, and of course also, being linked to Christmas because of its subject matter, meant that it was being performed somewhere each and every year since its first performance in 1892.
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| Merle Park. You can't just throw any old kind of body around at 9G's you know! |
Nureyev's choreography was staggering in its vision and comprehension of what the ballet is really about... His execution of it was sublime. So too was Park's.
...There are things in these classics that are well hidden beneath the 'PG' rated surface glitter and glow.
When the tire rubber hits the road, with these subjects such as the potential of advanced intelligent visitors to our planet, suddenly, a number of ancient traditional, usually religious or 'mythological' or even pagan mythological themes appear in a different focus, and in a different light.
Take Snorri Sturluson's Scandinavian 'Edda collection' and its account of the Preternatural Serpent Jormungandr. At the present moment, when some of us have begun to hear about 'the awakening of the Kraken' in the media, it is appropriate that we look now at the story of Jormungandr.
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| Hardly walk up a flight of stairs, you would think. Nighttime, November 22, 2020 |
Here is where some major important lessons will be found.
You see, Jormungandr is responsible for the eventual death of the god, Thor.
As Thor is in the act of killing Jormungandr - which he does succeed in doing - the Giant Serpent bites him and injects its poison, whereupon, after the Serpent dies, Thor takes a mere nine more steps, and then drops down dead from the poison, himself.
But the secret for you - is that Jormungandr's poison goes into Thor, who dies; not you...
And there's something in that, for the wise.
Going back to the Casse Noisette again here however, what you should understand, as an adult, is that the characters in the story come in two halves: there are those from ordinary normal material life, and those from Drosselmeyer's magical, apparently 'after midnight' dream world.
And from that understanding, you can start to follow the rest of what is going on when the ballet seems to depict various people from different cultures and places around the world.
Well, that is, you can, if you have a very very dark and vivid 'imagination;' because that is exactly what is indeed going on in the story.
And I'm not going to say any more than that about it.
However, in short - one part real people, the other part apparently not real.
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| Nighttime, November, 22, 2020 |
Some of our 'friends' have these temporary, almost 'pop up' offices, in, near, around, somewhere around, maybe, the offices of the place in the picture here. They come, they go. Mainly they come when there are really big issues to do with nuclear safety and security.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was already 52 when Casse Noisette was first performed, and so he'd be almost 130 years older now... Time passes, and even young kids get old.
Don't they?
Hell, the kids these days, hardly know anything about maths, algebra, calculus - they prolly think 'algorithm' is some kind of amazing mathematics for accurately counting something!
It's a thing named after an Arabic guy - Al Kawarizmi...
Guarantee you there aren't even that many kids who know what this symbol is all about, even though they have it on their t-shirts and theater fans.
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| Nighttime, also November 22, 2020 |
You don't really need to know what it is all about - just that it is.
And if you ever run into someone who has this symbol on their clothing, or who can tell you what it means, then just be careful, especially if you think they have the type of body which can take 9G's.
