There is a grittiness, an edge, a rawness to this short clip of ballet. It is not what you might call pretty. This is courtship and it is about sex.
These pencil and charcoal studies are derived from this clip from the Mats Ek ballet with the haunting strings of Fläskkvartetten (Innocent from Pärlor Från Svin).
Time is marked by alternating notes and pacing limbs. Before the shut door, the woman plucks the courage to knock.
A single chord and a sudden dip in posture mark this moment : a pause, an acknowledgment that with the knock, action has been taken, consequences will follow.
These pencil and charcoal studies are derived from this clip from the Mats Ek ballet with the haunting strings of Fläskkvartetten (Innocent from Pärlor Från Svin).
