La Bayadere
I guess I'm a ballet enthusiast now? I really enjoyed watching Swan Lake and Echoes of Van Gogh last year and was looking into this year's lineup.
La Bayadere, it turns out, has a very high degree of technicality and it was super impressive! WA Ballet's interpretation is different from the original, and I enjoyed the plotline. I think I was holding my breath for most of it, especially during Act II, The Kingdom of the Shades, the arabesque train down a slope!!! Omg! All the ballerinas were trembling, it must have been so intense! I have so much respect for the strength of ballet dancers!
This time I also paid some attention to the orchestra too, I feel like part of the magic of ballet is also that the conductor is watching the ballet in order to make sure the orchestra is in sync. So cool!
There's nothing quite like the intensity of watching live performances!
I Dream of Killing You
Frenzy and Malthessine, a couple that no one can figure out. He's the God of Obsession, and she's a god hunter. But they are happily in love!
I Want to See the Splendour of People's Souls
I finally drew my favourite villain!!! Makishima Shogo is the best! And this is my favourite scene too!
Too bad I have no concept of depth so all the blood is blurred in different ways that don't make sense lol
Choso is my new favourite character?
Yeah okay so I finally binged Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 and who knew Choso was so awesome! Of course everyone is Itadori's brother!
Sukuna's Fuga technique was pretty amazing too!
I am actually less inclined to draw Gojo, I feel like I chose him to be my favourite character too early and that I like a lot of the other characters a lot more. Buuut he has pretty eyes so I have to draw him...
Cooking with Fire
Convergence: Piercing Blood
I've Decided How I'll Live my Life/Breakup
The World is Wonderfully Round
Firstly, setting up the perfect combo.
Secondly, wow. How on earth did I come full circle, and it's so amazing that it all happened. I only realised a few days ago how amazing Ysaye's Op 27 Sonata No.3 in D Minor is. And that's exactly the piece in Shilin's comic Amongst Us Chapter 48, where I loved the scene where Veloce listens Blackbird play the violin. I remember trying to listen to the piece a few weeks back when I was reviewing the comic but I didn't like it at the time.
And then somehow, through Twoset Violin, I realised I did actually like it, and that it's the piece in such an enthralling scene in Shilin's comic. Something I had skipped over on the initial read through because I was uncultured in the way of classical music. I thought I'd never really appreciate classical music, and was always in awe of Shilin's interest in it. I guess Brett and Eddy really do have the amazing ability to help people understand it. And to think here I am, also hoping to seriously learn violin (and one day be good enough to own a violin with a single fine tuner so I can pretend I look like a pro).
Sometimes I love the way the world works and how things I experienced in the past return to me in such a serendipitous yet familiar manner!