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...strength as my arms reach back on the wheels and push forward, reach back and push forward. I try and put a little flair in all my turns and grace in as much of my movement as possible. When I'm travelling at speed my hands do a little ballet on the rims of my wheels...I get in a rhythm of moving in the chair, my mind gets involved and I guess its something like meditating...
...dance explosion in the U.S. I, too, am a fairly recent convert to the world of dance, and I can still vividly recall my first Sleeping Beauty at the Met, with Nureyev and Fonteyn. All it takes is one superb, electric performance like that to turn anyone into a ballet fanatic...
...photograph of Gelsey Kirkland lumbering up epitomizes the ambivalence inherent in Kirkland's ballet of perfection: it is at once artistically awe-inspiring and physically grotesque. The flesh is mortified, and the world is enriched...
Your article on Gelsey Kirkland was beautiful, and it made my twelve years of ballet seem all worthwhile...
...enjoyed Paul Gray's article about Gelsey Kirkland and the "soaring" of American ballet. However, I was disappointed that he began his article by depicting ballet classes as places for "countless thousands of little girls." This ignores the fact that there are boys in some of those classes. And it discourages the parents of other boys who might be considering ballet classes for their sons...