St. Andrew's Day

Like every year

St. Andrew's Day

with my friends from High School.

We are older and older,

but the custom goes on.

Swan Lake ballet

So a few days ago I went to Bielsko- Biala

too see Swan Lake by Russian National Ballet

together with my friend.

Yes, I am a person who take a full luggage for one day XD

Me and Rarity have really a lot in common....

I would like to write a lot about the ballet,

but it is so difficult to find proper words

(and it is not because of my poor English...

I have to admit that it is even easier, more impersonal

to write in a foreign language)...

Maybe to start with- what I did not like:

-stage was too small

-people were clapping too often.

If it comes about the second thing: 

they were supposed or even provoked to do it,

but still it was really terribly....

They were invading my fairy tale telling me 

(rather shouting!)

Hey wait, it is just the show

you can not stay there

wait just a while

and it all will be over 

and you will be made to come back to 

the world that waits for you outside!

Brutal, right?

During the first act

I was just floating in overwhelming beauty,

but as the show was going on

the thought about unavoidable end

was harder and harder to bear.

I could not stop thinking

that just a short moment divide me from the end.

If perfection exists then it can be seen in ballet.

But you can take a look at this world 

just for a moment, short moment...

and you have to prepare for the come-back.

Thank you for my friends who made this come-back easier:

spending night watching ponies <3

Here is me after the show.

Sorry for my 'I hate you world' face expression,

but this is how I felt XD

My necklace and brooch

with ballet motif.

Here is my photobook signed by dancers.

Do not ask me why it is in German XD

And for the end pearl earrings

in a rose box from my friend <3

Lolita meet-up

So pics from out Lolita meet-up^^

We visited really beautiful restaurant

(well at least one room was beautiful XD).

Here is menu. Like an old newspaper.

Our apple cakes with ice-creams :3

Choosing dishes...

Eating...

Now, prepare yourself for the spam :3

Sorry that they are all so reddish, 

but that was my whim XP

Playing piano...

So, so many dolls *.*

And here all of us :3

And now with the doll

With a clock

Chair XD

After the meet-up: concert of Baroque music

in Academy of music.

This tower^^

Inside

Beautiful interiors and sounds. 

Tasty food

and my lovely friends.

Definitely I will be able to

continue my life

in the upcoming week.

Random pics and small loli meet-up

Today started with picking tickets

for The Cracow Opera open day^^

Unfortunately I was not able to pick tickets for everything I wanted...

(so many people >.<)...

Anyway I am so excited ^^

More pics from today^^

An old style carousel next to the shopping center *.*

Love such carousels *.* 

Absolutely lovely dogs

advertising United Colors of Benetton

And a pic from our small Lolita meet-up ^^

Ticket, book and A Midsummer Night's Dream

Lately I am in a little strange state:

I feel like I need a break from buying clothes for a while.

So here is my present for Saint Nicholas Day from my grandma.

Yes, I know that it is (a little XD) too early,

but well in December tickets would be sold out...

So my ticket for The Nutcracker ballet :3

And my dream book.

Biiig history of fashion :3

To not spam with the next post

I will also write about a play 

I saw a few days ago:

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

As you probably know it was based on Shakespeare's play, 

but well... it was performed as the part of new forms' festival 

so it was not made in a traditional way. 

I will skip explaining details about differences' with the book, 

because I do not see any point in it. 

I have a little different remarks to state. 

It was performed by Italian group (Teatro Gioco Vita & Imperfect Dancers)

in the form of shadow theater with Mendelssohn music.

The form was really beautiful and full of potential. 

Usually I say that beautiful forms are enough. Now I can add: no, not always. 

Specially... for this kind of play it was definitely not enough.

(source)

A Midsummer Night's Dream.. Dream, right? 

This play was visually beautiful, 

but please tell me where is the atmosphere of the dream? 

Shadows were such a good chance to create a masterpiece, but they were not a guaranty for it.

Choreography destroyed it all. Dance was too heavy, too close to the ground. 

All evanescence was gone. 

 Just the nice wrapping was left. 

Shakespeare's genius disappeared somewhere on the way. 

I was just watching pretty images. 

I can not explain what I expected, but I really expected it. 

Story got blurred and the essence was distorted. 

I can not understand all these applause people showed after the show. 

Anyway I still enjoyed it.

Anyway it made me borrow the book. Got sunk in all this magic. 

From today-

during gap between lectures.

Coffee, muffin and A Midsummer Night's Dream.