Its the grand finale. Our Dancing Dead Girl for Day 31 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse is of course Lady Gaga youtu.be/xGaZBfJOyAc?...
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Day 29 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse and our Dancing Dead Girl takes the form of a swan. Not, as you might expectation, Odette from Swan Lake but the Dying Swan.
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Welcome, foolish mortals to day 28 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse where we invite you to watch the Waltzing Dead, also knows as the dancing ghosts from the ballroom in the Haunted Mansion.
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Alisha Weir dancing mid turn as Abigail wearing a blood splattered white tutu
Day 27 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse and children can be such monsters. Abigail (2024) is a reimagining of Universal's Dracula's Daughter and sees a group of criminals recruiting to kidnap the daughter of a wealthy businessman. However, said child is no ordinary ballerina...
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Day 26 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse presents the Dancing Dead (Girls) of Christopher Bruce’s 1981 Ghost Dances. It tells stories of love and compassion, as death – in the form of the ‘ghost dancers’ – interrupts the daily lives of a series of ordinary people.
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A semi-dead, semi-dancing girl for Day 25 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse as we visit one (of many) options from Matthew Bourne's reimagined contemporary ballets in the form of Aurora from Sleeping Beauty: A Gothic Romance.
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Brónagh Croft is resurrected by Victor Frankenstein with the intention of her becoming the Bride for his Creature. In season 3 Lily/Brónagh waltzes in a Gothic white dress which trails blood a sign of further violence.
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For Day 24 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse we present to you Lily Frankenstein, our Dancing Dead Girl played by Billie Piper.
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We're playing catch up at Danse Macabre HQ after a hectic pre-Halloweek weekend. Bear with us as we bring you up to speed in all things #31DaysOfMacabreDanse
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This builds on pre-existing symbolism in ballet blanc (see: Day 1, Day 3 and Day 7 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse). Both movement and clothing reinforce an aesthetic of grief, loss and haunting dread of wasted lives.
You can find the cast talking about the show here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tclP....
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For Day 23 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse, we return to the theme of dancing dead girls in white with 'Dr Semmelweiz' (2023) starring Mark Rylance, about Dr Ignaz Semmelweis' work to prevent postpartum infection. His work was dismissed, leading to a nervous breakdown, and he died in an asylum.
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Day 22 #31DaysOfMacabreDanse presents the vampire bat ballet sequence from Louis Feuillade's silent film serial Les Vampires (1913-15). In Episode Two - The Ring That Kills ballerina Marfa Koutiloff (Stacia Napierkowska) performs as a vampire bat en pointe but dies on stage.
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A belated day 20 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse with the classic novel of death, a young woman and dance: 'Bruges-la-Morte' (1892) by Georges Rodenbach. The narrative follows a widower haunted by his dead wife, and still living amongst her relics.
Image: Fernand Khnopff's cover design, 1892.
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For Day 19 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse, our dancing dead girl is the Prima Ballerina (Summer Glau) in 'Waiting in the Wings', Angel (S3: E13). In this episode, a ballerina is cursed to dance the same ballet, nightly, forever. To break the spell, she must dance the wrong steps leading to her death.
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For fans of bands with accompanying lore, Creeper are worth checking out. As they build and expand in this particular narrative run, we'll be looking our for more Dancing Dead Girls in the future #31DaysOfMacabreDanse youtu.be/P5K3Vq1TfWQ?...
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Some goth rock melodrama for your #31DaysOfMacabreDanse Day 18 with Creeper. An example of theatrical metal, the band includes worldbuilding and story arcs with their albums, creating personas for the members and expanding the stories in their music videos.
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Draculaura and Ellis share the pressures of familial expectation, and Ellis teaches Draculaura to counger a stand-in in the form of a moss golem. The four then form a pas de quatre, linking arms reminiscent of the Dance of the Signets from Swan Lake #31DaysOfMacabreDanse
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Our Dancing Dead Girl for Day 17 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse is Monster High's Draculaura. Daughter of Dracula, our girl is harbouring a secret; she might be a Vampire but she's also a Witch and the two are mortal enemies.
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Stills from Kate Bush music video for Wuthering Heights, dressed in white in soft lighting and fog on stage
Let me in a your window for Day 16 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse. The debut single from Kate Bush, Wuthering Heights, released in 1978, is a self penned number sung from the point of view of Cathy's ghost.
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Day 15 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and it's Guy Maddin's 'Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary' (2002), a film of Royal Winnipeg's Baller adaptation of 'Dracula' (1897). Filmed in the silent film tradition, the addition of colours - golden, green and red - add depth and symbolism.
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Day 14 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse, and we turn to a lost a film, 'The Dance of Death' (1919). Written by Fritz Lang, and directed by Otto Ripert, this silent horror film centres on a dangerous dancing woman (Sascha Gura).
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Day 13 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and it's unlucky for some. In this case, the Treginnis family in 'The Haunted Ballroom', first performed in 1934 with music and libretto by Geoffrey Toye and choreography by Ninette de Valois. Image: Alicia Markova and Robert Helpmann
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Day 12 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse brings a Dancing Dead Girl from the mind of Rob Zombie. Loving Dead Girl (1998) was the second single from Zombie's Hellbilly Deluxe album and features Sheri Moon as the titular Dean Girl.
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Sebald Beham: Die Dame und der Tod, 1541
Day 11 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse is a recurrent motif in art and media. Death and the Madien evolved from the Danse Macabre (yes, where we took the inspiration for our name) and became popular first during the Renaisance and later revived in the Romantic era.
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Day 10 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse and for your Friday night feast we bring you a colab between 2/3 of Danse Macabre and The Ghoul Guides Association youtu.be/R6n5TGVfb6o?...
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Still of the female dancers from season two of So You Think You Can Dance, dressed in zombie makeup and dance hall style costumes
Day 9 of #31DaysOfMacabreDanse, and our dancing dead girls are stitching a seam across the eye. Season 2 of So You Think You Can Dance in 2006 gave us a zombie group number to Ramalama (Bang Bang) by Roísín Murphy
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Day 8 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and we wonder 'to sleep, perchance to dream' (Hamlet, 3:1) with 'La Sonnambula'. Premiering in 1946, at the City Center of Music and Drama, New York, it was created by George Balanchine.
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Day 7 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and we move to the past once more with 'La Bayadère' (1877). Consisting of four acts and seven tableaux, the original choreography was by Marius Petipa, music by Ludwig Minky and libretto by Sergei Khudekov.
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Day 6 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and today we are looking at Frau Troffea, reputedly the first recorded victim of the 1518 dancing plague that started in Strasburg, Alsace.
Image: Engraving, Hendrik Hondius, based on the work of Pieter Brueghel.
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Day 5 of #31DaysofMacabreDanse and we have dancing, dead cheerleaders in Lorn's 'Acid Rain' music video.The dead cheerleader is a favourite Halloween costume, but here the effect is more melancholy. Despite the contemporary setting and the movement away from ballet . . .
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