"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
On the third day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Three French Hens Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree Why are they French? Isn't it Christmas if they're not Faverolles? Couldn't we just have settled for British Hens? Apparently not. Anyway, here's my favorite...
Before Christmas, I wrote something about Kay Nielsen and in that piece I mentioned an old Disney Project that never was: the famed Musicana, a sort of new version of Fantasia that would have had music from around the world. It was a beautiful project...
On the second day of Christmas my true love sent to me: Two Turtle Doves and a Partridge in a Pear Tree What the heck is a turtle dove? It's a dove, one of the brown ones, but we'll see some of the artists have ideas of their...
You thought I was done? Of course I wasn't done. I've decided to continue showing you beautiful stuff (or at least stuff I think it's beautiful) even after Christmas, but instead of having monographic articles featuring single illustrators I'll be grouping them with themes. As...
Well, it’s around three o’clock on my blog’s clock, which for some reason is set on London time, and we’re approaching the moment when the oldest ladies would fall asleep. I am one of the oldest ladies. But I kept you company so far, and...
On this long, long night of stories, I would feel bad for leaving out the Russian dance, so here we are. It's not one of my favourite pieces, so I'll most likely be brief. 3. The Nutcracker Piece by Piece (5) 3.5. Russian Dance: the music The Russian...
Between the Chinese and the Arab Dance, both the Nutcracker Suite and Fantasia place another dance, the Dance of the Flutes or Dance of the Reed Flutes. Let us go back to them, though, and then all we're missing is the Russian Dance and the...
Last artist and I'm almost sad this is coming to an end. After a lot of thought I decided to bring you Maddy Sargent, an extraordinary illustrator living in rural Northamptonshire. Her website is here, her instagram is here. The Christmas section of her website...
I hope you guys are not expecting to have a story each hour for the whole night, because that's not going to happen. Still, the Arab Dance dance was one of my favourite pieces when I was a child, I was a bit of an orientalist,...
Edit: for some reason, this article became quite popular. The comment section is closed, but you should read this: it's a comment from a Chinese-American reader, drawing the attention to the cultural controversy surrounding this particular piece, which is still staged in a very harmful way. An...
