Ballet envy
While I may be able to dance the basic ballet steps and follow choreography, I just never seem to look quite graceful enough. While I want to appear like an elegant lladro figure, I actually look more like those elephants in tutus from Fantasia!
I’ve always been better at more lively dance – theatrical, tap, even a bit of ballroom! Yet it was ballet that first got me interested in dancing, at the tender age of four. I only wanted to go to ballet classes originally because my best friend was taking them and I felt left out, but in the end I stuck with the classes much longer than her – and long after it was evident that ballet was not really my style! My ballet teacher was very encouraging, though, and could see there was some dancing talent there. I think the words she used were “let’s see if we can find you a more boisterous dancing class”. Sounds about right for a tomboy…
And yet it is still ballet that captivates me today. Despite my own performance style being much more modern, I spend more of my time and money going to see ballet than any other type of dance. Ballet, and that means both the music and the dancing, has the capacity to completely sweep you away, to take you places that you never dreamed you would see. There’s always an element of shock at the end of a ballet performance when the house lights come up, and you’re ripped back into the real world.
My favourite classical ballet has always been Romeo and Juliet. Maybe a bit of a stereotypical choice, but it was the first one I went to see as a child and I have seen dozens of versions of it over the years. I’ve also been privileged to see some remarkable performances by the Northern Ballet Theatre, who take classic literature such as Dracula, Wuthering Heights, The Three Musketeers and even A Streetcar Named Desire, along with a selection of Shakespearean tragedies and comedies. Now maybe my “boisterous” style would work in a comic ballet?
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