geschrieben von balletboy  am 13.08. um 03:01:23

Please know that I love you!

I'd love to have that prefect body!  But with my ALS, it doesn't work that way.  The doctors at the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Institute At Columbia Medical (NYC) said I would die three years ago, but I'm still dancing.  The Mayo Clinic says I should be dead, but I work 8 hours a day and take an hour-and-a-half of ballet every night, except Friday (no Firday calsses in Chicago).  I do the best I can to express myself when I dance so that others appreciate the art of ballet.  PS: I go to the dentist every three months to get those smoking stains off my teeth, and use noxious chemicals in between so that an audience won't judge my dance because because of my teeth.

My insurance agent is always amazed that I look like I'm loosing weight....truth is I starve myself (only one meal a day) so that my body is trim for my audience.

Vanity is funny....but for a healthy danseur it can be dangerous.  I don't eat anything throughout the whole day before my danceclasses in the evening.  And I struggle through, as hypoglycemic as I must be.  That's my vanity, and I admit it!

Sure!  Strutting peacocks should look the best, but many of us can't.  Should the danseur with cellulite or stained teeth stop dancing because the physical appearance is not up to some freaky ideal? Ballerinas would like to meet Balanchine's ideal of thinnest, but is that healthy?  Should they induce vomiting to meet Mr. Balanchine's ideal?

If a guy with cellulite and stained teeth goes on stage, should we laugh at him because of the cellulite and stained teeth?  Sure, male danseurs should exhibit their bodies and express the dance with those bodies.  And so what if the body is not perfect to some standard, like Balanchine's ideal for his ballerinas?  

Balanchine had the Creuztfelt-Jacob virus in his brain, the virus that causes "mad-cow" disease.  Yes that's a fact!  Equating beautiful thin bodies with perfect ballet might be the result of a virus that makes your brain tissue all spongey!!!

Go on your sugar bender!!!

We dansuers can only express dance with the body we're given.  Some try to look perfect for some standard like Dr. Dancebelt's or Mr. Balanchine's.  But dance is the soul...the dance-heart!  

If you think danseurs like me with my stained teeth and tabacco-induced limited endurance (and don't blame my fatal ALS) and Tom with his cellulite/extra "fat" around the middle don't deserve to be acknowledged as danseurs because we are not Balanchine-perfect, I appreciate your shallowness!

balletboy

• Re: Hey Dr. Dancebelt....relax! But you are SHALLOW! - Dr. Dancebelt - 13.08. 05:40:16
  • Sarcasm shows as shallow! - balletboy - 14.08. 01:44:53