Word: ballrooms
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...floor of the ballroom tilts now and again--fore to aft, sometimes port to starboard. But the steps of the dancers remain steady. A diminutive 92-year-old dowager, resplendent in her pink ball gown, sparkling jewelry and a blond bouffant hairdo topped with a black velveteen bow, smiles on the arm of her young officer escort as he leads her through the traditional paces of the Gay Gordons. They are surrounded by a swirl of tuxedoes, taffeta and tiaras--a time warp on the water aboard the grandest dame of them all, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth...
Like Arbus, Mark also enjoys the ways in which people construct fantasies of themselves, like the old girl in a ballroom gown who has been happily swept off her feet by a dance partner in Jerry Hill and Margaret Sell. In another shot, Vera Antinoro, Rhoda Camporato and Murray Goldman, two aging glamour girls strut their stuff, what there is of it. They may seem at first to be clueless about themselves, until you realize that they are onto something about all of us, something that has to do with the need to persevere in roles that give us pleasure...
...Olympics are going to be key there," she says. "Once they get the ball rolling, it will be easier to make a compelling case to the NCAA to make it an official sport. But that will definitely be the next big thing for ballroom in America...
Only time will tell if ballroom itself will be the next big thing in American sport...
...difficult to bridge, and will turn off many an average Cowboy-watching, beer guzzling armchair athlete. But Olympic recognition within the next decade seems possible, and if the event's popularity can survive the inevitable end of the swing and Latin pop crazes, there may be a future for ballroom in the NCAA...