If I had been with ABT for three years, I would know by now how to properly position myself under a dancebelt. It beggars the imagination that a male dancer in such a prestigious environment as ABT could not have cottoned on to these particular basics, given the amount of time he has spent in coming up from his hometown studio to training at ABT and being accepted as a company member. (I am assuming that ABT Danseur is in fact a company member. It could well be that he has taken classes there for three years but is not actually among the elect who perform with the company.)
Even if ABT Danseur's "technique" is unorthodox, it plainly works for him. It's the job of a dresser or other wardrobe person to tell a dancer, pre-performance, whether something is out of place. That this has not happened speaks for itself.
Boston Danseur, I'm also a student at BBS, and it was Ethan Stiefel who was on loan from ABT for performances in Boston. I haven't been asked to be a super, so I don't get up-close and personal looks at company members and artists on loan like you do, apparently.
Despite the knavery and just plain silliness that are the hallmarks of these Parsimony bulletin boards, I've learned a lot here. Still, most of my online time is spent elsewhere, at Critical Dance and Ballet Alert. If you want genuinely serious discussions of dance by, for and about bona fide dancers and dance students, those are the places to go.
Whoa! How the time do fly. I've got classes tomorrow, plus I'm working the benefit. I expect you'll be at the Cyclorama? We'll probably run into each other (we may even know each other now). Two ships passing in the night.
Cya round the campus.
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