News - Black Swan

Hi!! I've found this notice about Black Swan, the new film of Darren Aronofsky! I've summarized it and I've given my opinion about it!

The erotically charged and intensely dark Black Swan is sure to ruffle feathers amongst Natalie Portman fans.

The 29-year-old performed most of the dancing in the movie herself, having trained for a year before filming started. She also lost 9kg from her already slender frame.

"I don't think I expected how hard it was going to be."

Once shooting started, the pace got more in

tense. Despite several injuries, including a dislocated rib, there was no time for Portman to recover.

In my opinion, I think that sometimes is good to be strong, and to look forward, 'cause sometimes you can't imagine the wonders you can find if you fight truly. Such Portman, who still making the film with a really injury.

"It's good to understand what real ballet dancers have to go through," she explains.

"I learned how much I could do. I think of myself as someone who seeks pleasure and who doesn't like pain".

When I'm dancing, sometimes I feel insecure, because I know that I run the risk to be injured or somethin else, and for me is very important to stay healthy, because I need to dance, all the time. If I become injured, it would be like to cut the wings to a bird.

I'm not a person who likes pain either. Somebody can say: "Eh, maybe you don't feel pain when you are on pointe?!" YES! It hurts a lot...But I don't care this pain, I'm talking about the pain that you feel when you can't make your dreams come true!

She tells of obsessive athletes who strive for perfection to the detriment of their physical health and mental well-being.

Jajaja...It's true, sometimes we can be obstinate, and we want to make all perfect, and it can be damaging for us, because we work, and work, and work...And we became blind, and more obstinate. So, when you want to make something right, don't be under stress, as we say: a poc a poc, i bona lletra.

With most of the characters portrayed as extremely competitive and sometimes brutal, Black Swan does not show the art of ballet in a particularly good light.

Yes, is true that sometimes ballet can be stressful, painful... But sometimes, when you're on pointe, making a pirouette, a double pirouette, jumping or something else, and you close your eyes, is magic.

"But ballet is truly an art of passion. No one's becoming rich and famous from being a ballet dancer any more.

"There's something incredibly beautiful about that."

I love it, more than anything in the world.

In the silent chambers of the soul...

I' ve made this video of one of my ballet training. That day my teacher didn't go to the class, because she fell ill, so I made the class with Dolors, who is the teather teacher and contemporary dance.

I remember that she said to me: "I've seen a lot of people dancing, and they think that they dance like anyone, and they think that they are the best. But they can't hold a candle to you. You're better, you must believe it. And you have to take your talent and make it grow, shine".

She teached me another exercise, and while I was making the exercise, she was recording me...It was the FIRST TIME I made it...and it was a little bit chaotic, as you can see!

Sorry! I have to leave you, I've to go to ballet! Today I'm going to dance during three hours! I love it I love it I love it!

Saturday, saturday

The saturday morning, I'm going to go shopping to Figueres and buy my new ballet's pointe shoes! I have to remember you that I have been injured for a year anf now I've started again. My old pointe shoes don't fit me now, because I've grown since last year. At first, I wanted to buy my new pointe shoes of another color, black, but in the shop they haven't got this color, so I will take the PINK ones, as usual.

I wanted to take the black ones, 'cause the pink ones get dirty easily when you're dancing, and you can't change the vamp of your ballet shoes. The vamp refers to the length of the pointe shoe upper measuring from the platform to and including the binding at the centre front of the shoe. A longer vamp can help draw the foot closer to the shank when you're en pointe. So is important to keep it clean.

When I said to my teacher: "Jenny, I want to buy my new shoes of black color"
She said: "Oh, you can put some make up on the vamp, if it gets dirty"
So I trusted her - 'cause she has been my teacher since I was a child -

I'm so excited, 'cause I want to learn new things and review all the things that I know now. And improve, improve, improve, and improve again my level of dance.
However, there are some disadvantages, because sometimes I think about my injury, and I don't want to lost another year, paying all the treatments, watching a lot of dancers making theirs dreams reality, and let time pass by... I don't want to be injured again, so I'll try to go slowly and I'll try to make the things right.




"The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul."
David O. McKay