Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Thoughts over a cup of tea: Channeling Degas

As I was sitting there experiencing the Parent's Observation Day at Dancing Child's ballet intensive, I suddenly understood the fascination that the Impressionist painter, Degas had with the ballet world.  







This giggling, texting, gaggle of teens slipped on those dancing shoes and magically turned into something other.



  As soon as that music began to play, they were gentler, more beautiful, more fragile, more graceful.  It showed in their faces, their hands, their feet.  I was  pleasantly bemused by the phenomenon!







 It was a wonderful half hour of seeming opposites combined to make something extraordinarily beautiful:  powerful yet graceful, controlled but floating on air, joyful and pensive,  gracious and soft. It's a lovely thing, ballet!



9 comments:

  1. What a lovely post! Takes me back many, many years to my days taking dance. I wanted to be a ballerina, but was much better at tap! No one "does" ballet better than Degas. Beautiful, graceful young swans. Happy Tuesday!

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  2. The transformation is amazing! Thank you for sharing this.

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  3. Beautiful. I think it is the lines and curves that make it so beautiful.

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  4. Lovely post. Watching dancers is so much fun (and I don't hurt afterwards LOL).

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  5. Ballet can be so graceful and lovely... and all of their hard work makes it look so effortless and easy, when we know it isn't.

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  6. Simply exquisite! A most relaxing and rewarding way to spend an afternoon!

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  7. Oh so lovely! I won my first prize in painting as a teen with a ballet painting:) Thank you for leaving a comment on my blog.It takes a special kind of (patience of all things!) to home school your children!

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  8. Oh oh oh... another ballet mum!! Wonderful! I loved each and every photo!! There is much love in that studio.... it can be felt!

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