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Here are some great photos from Mao's Madame Butterfly performance that were easy to save. Mao's pose with her arm and hand reaching out to touch an absent loved one in the first photo reminds me of Michelangelo's painting entitled Creation of Adam located on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
I believe this shows how Mao, as she does in her Sochi LP, has such a classic and for me an almost holy sense in her devotion to an artistic purpose that embraces her own culture but also crosses over to include Western archetypes, which makes her appeal universal. I know it has been said before that she has an almost monk like devotion to perfecting her performances. This is why numerical quantification of her performances often seems to be a degradation of the spiritual inspiration they give me. But, she also likes to have fun and be a fighter. As these photos show, she displays a great range of emotion from deep melancholy and hopefulness to great joy.
http://www.sankei.com/photo/images/news/151003/sty1510030018-p5.jpg Mao's pose
http://allart.biz/up/photos/album/M_N/Michelangelo/michelangelo_1_creation_of_adam.jpg Creation of Adam
http://41.media.tumblr.com/0e6e0d2553eddc5fbc0b5b0e41f5ef67/tumblr_nvnjboEBmI1s3blyqo1_r1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/09f72029a6cbf0e8f46b71f98d75623a/tumblr_nvmw3p4KJO1s3blyqo5_1280.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/38d7563fa98bace1d346fac6d8880fae/tumblr_nvo5u1zxe21rmbfdco1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/0e6e0d2553eddc5fbc0b5b0e41f5ef67/tumblr_nvnjboEBmI1s3blyqo1_r1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/f6e5f34a4888cdcab5e0ff14722ca890/tumblr_nvnasbXhpF1qaqq3jo1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/84a8ecd1fbb7b02d46364ac9a6cca732/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo6_r1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/42743ce0e7893881c9dca42a193d9043/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo3_1280.jpg
http://pacifiquepacificador.tumblr.com/
http://dotanba-muscle.tumblr.com/page/6
http://40.media.tumblr.com/d938dab790fa9437cf38a09b1d336956/tumblr_nvnmf5ItIN1s3blyqo1_1280.jpg
http://jto.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sp-mao-b-20151005.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/c150d6e763d8322b7ef276ccd97e0fc6/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo4_1280.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/8a4010c324f287d265714f4ef46e1e68/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo2_r1_1280.jpg
http://36.media.tumblr.com/8f627399a0583d621bdda3603729453f/tumblr_nvo4alKgz81rmbfdco1_1280.jpg
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/image/003.jpg
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/002.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/001.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/004.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/006.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/007.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/008.html
I believe this shows how Mao, as she does in her Sochi LP, has such a classic and for me an almost holy sense in her devotion to an artistic purpose that embraces her own culture but also crosses over to include Western archetypes, which makes her appeal universal. I know it has been said before that she has an almost monk like devotion to perfecting her performances. This is why numerical quantification of her performances often seems to be a degradation of the spiritual inspiration they give me. But, she also likes to have fun and be a fighter. As these photos show, she displays a great range of emotion from deep melancholy and hopefulness to great joy.
http://www.sankei.com/photo/images/news/151003/sty1510030018-p5.jpg Mao's pose
http://allart.biz/up/photos/album/M_N/Michelangelo/michelangelo_1_creation_of_adam.jpg Creation of Adam
http://41.media.tumblr.com/0e6e0d2553eddc5fbc0b5b0e41f5ef67/tumblr_nvnjboEBmI1s3blyqo1_r1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/09f72029a6cbf0e8f46b71f98d75623a/tumblr_nvmw3p4KJO1s3blyqo5_1280.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/38d7563fa98bace1d346fac6d8880fae/tumblr_nvo5u1zxe21rmbfdco1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/0e6e0d2553eddc5fbc0b5b0e41f5ef67/tumblr_nvnjboEBmI1s3blyqo1_r1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/f6e5f34a4888cdcab5e0ff14722ca890/tumblr_nvnasbXhpF1qaqq3jo1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/84a8ecd1fbb7b02d46364ac9a6cca732/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo6_r1_1280.jpg
http://41.media.tumblr.com/42743ce0e7893881c9dca42a193d9043/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo3_1280.jpg
http://pacifiquepacificador.tumblr.com/
http://dotanba-muscle.tumblr.com/page/6
http://40.media.tumblr.com/d938dab790fa9437cf38a09b1d336956/tumblr_nvnmf5ItIN1s3blyqo1_1280.jpg
http://jto.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/sp-mao-b-20151005.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/c150d6e763d8322b7ef276ccd97e0fc6/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo4_1280.jpg
http://40.media.tumblr.com/8a4010c324f287d265714f4ef46e1e68/tumblr_nvnmax2w8S1s3blyqo2_r1_1280.jpg
http://36.media.tumblr.com/8f627399a0583d621bdda3603729453f/tumblr_nvo4alKgz81rmbfdco1_1280.jpg
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/image/003.jpg
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/002.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/001.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/004.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/006.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/007.html
http://mainichi.jp/graph/2015/10/03/Asada/008.html
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