Bats, fangs, blood, and gore

February 18, 2024 4:01 PM

"There are at least a dozen Dracula ballets, beginning with the 1899 version created for the Budapest Opera." "The dancing has teeth (and so do the dancers)." The count at the Polish National Ballet (video [YT]. Dracula in Kansas City. Three Draculas to watch [YT].
posted by cupcakeninja (5 comments total)

This post brought to you by the lovely production I saw yesterday of the Stevenson version, performed by the Richmond Ballet.
posted by cupcakeninja at 4:02 PM on February 18, 2024 [1 favorite]

Fangs for this...
posted by Czjewel at 4:11 PM on February 18, 2024 [2 favorites]

Well how neat.

obligatory link to that time I lived in Transylvania
posted by jessamyn at 5:00 PM on February 18, 2024 [2 favorites]

What, no Dracula: A Taste For Love?
posted by fortitude25 at 5:05 PM on February 18, 2024 [2 favorites]

As someone who watched 13 Dracula films last October, I must mention Guy Maddin's Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary from 2002. He filmed the Winnipeg Ballet company in the style of early 1900s silent movies. A very surreal movie that includes hand-tinted colors, interstitial titles and a lurid Victorian presentation of sexuality (including some suggestive set decorations and doorframes).
posted by JDC8 at 5:38 PM on February 18, 2024 [6 favorites]