avril 23rd, 2013
avril 8th, 2013
Agnes Letestu as the first shade in La Bayadere
avril 2nd, 2013
That night I found her feverish and agitated. On seeing me, she flung her arms around my neck, but she cried for a long time in my arms. I questioned her as to this sudden distress, which alarmed me by its violence. She gave me no positive reason, but put me off with those evasions which a woman resorts to when she will not tell the truth.
When she was a little calmed down, I told her the result of my visit, and I showed her my father’s letter, from which, I said, we might augur well. At the sight of the letter and on hearing my comment, her tears began to flow so copiously that I feared an attack of nerves, and, calling Nanine, I put her to bed, where she wept without a word, but held my hands and kissed them every moment.
- Armand Duval (La Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fills)
(Source : story-in-ballet, via aurelie-dupont)
mars 23rd, 2013
Agnes Letestu, Stephane Bullion
La dame aux camelias
Agnes Letestu, Dorothée Gilbert, Stephane Bullion
La dame aux camelias
Agnes Letestu
La Bayadere
Agnes Letestu
Dance at the gathering
Agnes Letestu, Julien Meyzindi
Kaguyahime
mars 11th, 2013
Agnes Letestu and Jean-Guillaume Bart in Balanchine’s Jewels - Diamonds
février 7th, 2013
Marguerite began to laugh.
“What are you laughing at?”
“Nothing.”
“Tell me, I beg of you, or I shall think you are still laughing at me.”
“You won’t be cross?”
“What right have I to be cross?”
“Well, there was a sufficient reason why I went in alone.”
“What?”
“Some one was waiting for me here.”
If she had thrust a knife into me she would not have hurt me more. I rose, and holding out my hand, “Goodbye,” said I.
“I knew you would be cross,” she said; “men are frantic to know what is certain to give them pain.”
“But I assure you,” I added coldly, as if wishing to prove how completely I was cured of my passion, “I assure you that I am not cross. It was quite natural that some one should be waiting for you, just as it is quite natural that I should go from here at three in the morning.”
“Have you, too, some one waiting for you?”
“No, but I must go.”
“Good-bye, then.”
“You send me away?”
“Not the least in the world.”
“Why are you so unkind to me?”
“How have I been unkind to you?”
“In telling me that some one was waiting for you.”
“I could not help laughing at the idea that you had been so happy to see me come in alone when there was such a good reason for it.”
“One finds pleasure in childish enough things, and it is too bad to destroy such a pleasure when, by simply leaving it alone, one can make somebody so happy.”
“But what do you think I am? I am neither maid nor duchess. I didn’t know you till to-day, and I am not responsible to you for my actions. Supposing one day I should become your mistress, you are bound to know that I have had other lovers besides you. If you make scenes of jealousy like this before, what will it be after, if that after should ever exist? I never met any one like you.”
“That is because no one has ever loved you as I love you.”
“Frankly, then, you really love me?”
“As much as it is possible to love, I think.”
“And that has lasted since—?”
“Since the day I saw you go into Susse’s, three years ago.
“Do you know, that is tremendously fine? Well, what am to do in return?”
“Love me a little,” I said, my heart beating so that I could hardly speak.
- La dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas fills
(Source : story-in-ballet, via aurelie-dupont)
Happy belated birthday to one of my favorite Étoile Agnès Letestu (1 February), best wishes for you ♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
janvier 15th, 2013
It’s like fashion: A classic suit that’s updated and freshened will always be chic. All you have to do is occasionally alter the collar, the waist or the seams, and you have a suit that you’ll want to wear for years yet that will always be the fashion du jour”.
Agnes Letestu about classical ballet. (via gatogus)
janvier 14th, 2013
★ all time favourite ballerinas | agnes letestu
décembre 26th, 2012
Agnes Letestu
Agnes Letestu
