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...Dewdrop in The Waltz of the Flowers. The corps de ballet comprises both males and females, some on pointe, some not. The Snowflake Waltz, without doubt the show's highlight, is performed by this motley assemblage of 22 in an ingenious parody of classical choreography. But instead of the snow drifting down from the rafters, the dancers carry it onstage by the fistful, and each time they jump, they fling it into the air. Silly? Definitely. But like all the best sight gags, it gets more laughs with each repetition...
...enjoyed myself until I hit the snow, but the sight and the sound of my group-lesson buddies skiing by just pissed...
...neared the top of the slope, it occurred to me that the instructor never told me how to get off the lift. So I flopped gracelessly off and fell on my side in the snow. My right ski came...
...entirely. Okay, so I skied off the side of the trail a few times, but I never hit a tree. I fell down a few times, but everybody does. I kept my knees bent. I leaned into my turns. More mechanical than graceful, I didn't slice through the snow with the grace of Roger Moore in "The Spy Who Loved Me." But I didn't completely suck...
Halfway down the hill, though, I somehow began to. After zigzagging slowly down the top half of the slope, I picked up speed as my group slid closer and closer to the bottom of the hill. Again and again I jammed my poles in the snow and pushed off with every erg of energy my sunken pectorals and triceps could produce. My nose, exposed, throbbed, but I didn't care because I was in motion...