Macabre Danse

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A research project looking at ways in which dance and the Gothic intersect, beginning with ballet. Run by Kaja Franck, Karen Graham and Kate Harvey Website: https://gothicballet.wordpress.com/about-danse-macabre/

Abigail dancing out of a cage in her bloody white tutu

Kathryn Newton as Sammy after having been turned into a vampire, dancing in thrall like a marionette whilst covered in blood and grime

Abigail dancing with delight in a bloodied white tutu and small feather headpiece

Alisha Weir dancing mid turn as Abigail wearing a blood splattered white tutu

Stills from Kate Bush music video for Wuthering Heights, dressed in white in soft lighting and fog on stage

Death and the Maiden painting by Marianne Stokes circa 1908

Hans Thoma Frau, Spiegel und Tod. 1880

Sebald Beham: Die Dame und der Tod, 1541

Still from Royal Dance performance, where the central dancer holds a bloody heart aloft in a spotlight, as the ensemble looks up at it

Still of the female dancers from season two of So You Think You Can Dance, dressed in zombie makeup and dance hall style costumes

The Kingdom of the Shades taken from Petipa's final revival in 1900.