Sunday, December 16, 2007
Anyone who knows me might be very surprised to learn that I think this video is smile out loud delightful.
For many, many years I was blessed, in that I had a second row seat to virtually every ballet performance at Jones Hall, and then later at the Wortham. I grew up knowing that Carlos Acosta, Lauren Anderson, and Ben Stevens are Rock Stars. I've enjoyed the ABT and mourned that I was born generations too late to see Nijinsky fly. For all of these great experiences I was the guest of my Father and later, after he passed, my step-mother.
But there was one thing I always did that, while my Dad didn't care about it one way or the other, my step-mother was annoyed by. It really bugged her because she didn't understand, or because she refused to understand. She could be like that. If the answer wasn't what she wanted to hear she just refused to accept it as valid.
What I did was this - I declined any invitation for dance that was not classical. I have no interest in seeing ballet with dancers wearing lime green leotards, trailing disco balls from their Achilles heals. I do not want to listen to discordant but "meaningfully deep" music played on Aztec drums while dancers don't actually move, but only sway gently and twitch their toes occasionally. And blink with expression. I do not like green eggs and ham.
So this video? Not Carol. Not Carol at all. But damned if you can sit still while watching this you're not Carol! I am amazed at what this chick does on pointe! She is pure delight! How can you not laugh! How can you not be joyful watching her? Granted, she is not a great ballet dancer. The Earth loves her too much. But so does the Ballet, and that's why this works. Damned that good dance.
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