What have I been doing, you may ask? Well, I've been watching a lot of 1970's movies lately, which I've found are generally either awesome or awesomely campy, and one of those was The Turning Point (1977), a terrifically catty movie that is also the original ballet film exploring obsessive rivalry. It even includes a scene in which The Anne Bancroft and The Shirley MacLaine end a fight spanking each other! Only in the 70's.
The 1970's and 80's was a golden era of ballet indeed (this was also when Elton John wrote "Tiny Dancer," no connection), and Alessandra Ferri was one of its stars. Here she is in Giselle, with a nice grain filter on Photoshop to make it look extra period.
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