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"Unexpected Ballet"

 

http://improveverywhere.com/2015/08/04/unexpected-ballet/#more-7974

(Posted today by Janet)

 

I love going to Washington Square in NYC as much as I do Covent Garden for the street performers. I love street performers anywhere. In Covent Garden they do opera as well as rock and acrobatics.

 

The “Unexpected Ballet” group shows up in Washington Square proposing a break dance show and morphs into ballet. If opera can be performed in the streets, why not ballet. I know that it’s done from time to time but not normally as a scheduled recurrence. If good ballet dancers with some imagination were more common in the streets, ballet could maybe become more accessible and appreciated.

 

Here’s how “Unexpected Ballet” does it.

 

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I've watched it several times and I'm still smiling at the memory.  I sent the link to a ballet-loathing friend of mine and she loved it too.  I suspect it's the old 'white tights and tutus' vibe that turns off so many people but they actually like the movement when they get to see it presented informally.

 

Linda

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