Tutus on!

fit birds, hunky blokes, culture, music, tears and tantrums…What’s not to like?

Ballet.

I ballerinabiter

Yes yeti, ballet.

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Things like this always make me realise how little I understand of choreography – it’s a complete mystery to me.

Rachel

I quite like ballet ,the first time my wife took me was 7 years ago , very surprised how much I enjoyed it.

TBH, the lure of fit chicas was always going to proove too much..

Soooo dedicated. There was a time I wanted to be a ballerina so badly LOL. Never going to happen.

to be good, it does kinda have to be the only thing in your life.

and I think I would be more of a Mavis Cruet character, anyway…

Rachel

sigh.

Part of me wants to be a ballerina. Part of me just wants a ballerina. 😈

well go down there and get one!!

( says me, who’s completely hopeless at the moment!! )

Rachel!!! 😆

Bring us back that one emsz. Ta.

You don’t get what you don’t ask for, emsz!!

OMG the guy “in charge” is a nightmare!! Is he paid or is he an enthusiastic amateur??

He’s a bit ‘theatrical’ isn’t he?

Did they say how old the main swan is? The one struggling with her arabesque?

final result looks amazing, though.

my missus has it on, all a bit too skinny for me!

Oh MY Gosh.

*tears* so beautiful.

it’s amazing to see the final result but then to see how the lead ballerina hurts so much (look at her feet!) is… emotional…

Rachel

ah! I can do the foil thing at the end – was a fencing instructor once…

Oh wow, more! Cinderella. Lush.

Late night for me.

Rachel do any other theatre training? I want to do a trapeze course, can’t find one anywhere.

no – and it wasn’t specifically theatre fencing, more sport. Foil mainly, I was hopeless at épée and too scared of sabre…

Come to think of it, some of the positions in fencing are named the same as ballet.

Why scared of the sabre Rachel?

I ask because i’ve done a little (little, little bit) of work with falchion and buckler for medieval shows and the sabre is really the evolution of the falchion/messer weapon.

Why scared? Everything above the waist is target area and you can score with the edge of a sabre = lots of hurt.

edit – And everything includes the head.

Rachel

True, sports sabres don’t carry a sharp edge though do they?

Must admit, i worried more about facing a falchion than a hand-and-a-half sword as a falchion is a brutal, unbalanced cleaver of a blade, much harder to pull a blow than with the hand-and-a-half.
Mind you, head shots were verboten. Have seen steel sallets with deep v-section creases after a mis-judged blow…

No – spor sabres are dull but they still hurt.

Anyway – I’m off to concentrate on Cinderella – I think emsz has me hooked…

Rachel

This is the only thread, ever, to make me shed a tear.

Don’t go out with a dancer.

do go out with a dancer 😀