I went with Karen to see the Russian National Ballet perform excerpts from Swan Lake (my favorite ballet) and The Nutcracker last night. It was Karen's Christmas/birthday gift to me, and I loved it. The dancers were very good, although I soon realized that the RNB is actually a school, since most of the dancers looked about 16.
They had good turn-out, beautiful lines, long legs, perfect balance (except for when Clara fell after a series of pique-tours ending with a jetee en tournale), and nice pirouettes. Their smiles were bright and the costumes exquisite, save for the yellow and black polka dotted costumes of the Spanish dancers in The Nutcracker (what?). The backdrops and the Christmas tree were done up so nicely they would have made Annie proud. And the Swan... wow, she was the epitome of magical slavery. Her arms swayed so as to give the impression of wings desiring flight, and her head tilted ever so slightly as she danced, just as a swan would.
As Karen said, God created beauty like this for us to enjoy. We really did enjoy it. Now, I feel like going to a good 3-hour ballet class. Sigh.
4 comments:
so if you were to actually go to a good3-hour ballet class,where would you go?
Hmm... that's a good question. Perhaps with my old ballet teacher, just for old times' sake.
is your teacher that good?
seems she left a big print on you!
if not this teacher, where would you go?
I'd go take some jazz ballet with another teacher I know, or I'd look for a good contemporary class
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