Swan Lake like you have never seen it before

January 29, 2013 | 9 Comments »

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  3. @ Honey Bee:
    You’re right, this Chinese video is not actual ballet but graceful acrobatics. It does not come from the same place in the soul as real dance.

    I don’t even like modern ballet, just classical ballet. Nothing can top its magic.

    About your growing too tall, never mind. Once a ballerina, always a ballerina.

  4. @ Canadian Otter:

    I studied ballet you many years also, but grew to tall, ah life. But this NOT ballet, but gynastics or acrobatics. Very pretty though. There is a wonderful PBS program on the Joffrey Ballet worth the watching!

  5. Isn’t it strange how some countries can swing between the extremes of culture and savagery? Here we see the top of the cultural swing just as Germans could point to their music and writings. And then you have mindless murder and cruelty. Ditto the Catholic Church with its moral nadir, the inquisition and its artwork in counterpoint. Isn’t it also strange that Jews, despite the libels thrown at us, do not have such a history. Our cultural zenith may have been reached on Tin Pan Alley that contributed not only to the entertainment world but shaped America’s society for the good. As to a nadir, I think it happened during temple times with kings like Menashe and Alexander Yanai. The people, however, maintained their civility.

  6. You have to remember that this dancing is so fantastic because they have practiced it all their lives and they were chosen as children to do this and that is there only job and they and their families are sponsored by the government to dance and practice.