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[i]mysterious, & rather forbidding world to most men. They find it<br>hard to believe that any "normal" man would actually want to do<br>such a thing & would actually enjoy it. That's largely because<br>what goes on in a ballet class is not widely known. That & the<br>fact that so many girls are keen on it, & so few men. And it<br>doesn't help that it's so hard to explain what's so enjoyable<br>about it.<p>> I was afraid of what my friends and family would think. I let<br>> what others think, deny me what I've always wanted to do.<p>That's a large part of the problem. And what others think *can*<br>matter, especially when you're young. The dancer, Edward<br>Villella, says that when he started ballet as a 9-year-old boy,<br>he used to get in fights about it & would end up getting (&<br>giving) black eyes over it.<p>Of course, the good news is that if you're at all talented, & if<br>you start young enough, it's easy to have a career in ballet.<br>The competition among women is formidable, but men are still a<br>scarce commodity in ballet. Somebody once claimed that ABT used<br>to take any man who could walk without crutches--clearly untrue,<br>& unfair to ABT, but you get the picture.<p>> It is one of THE most intense, complete workouts I've ever been<br>> through!!!<p>It's hard to see why this should be so, but it is. And it's also<br>the most enjoyable. It isn't just all those pretty young girls<br>in their skin-tight clothes, although that certainly helps. It's<br>just that it feels good to move the way you do in ballet. I<br>don't believe that there's any other kind of dance anywhere in<br>the world that feels as good to do as ballet does. You work your<br>butt off, & the strange thing is that the harder you work, the<br>more fun you have.<p>All this still doesn't convey what it's like...but maybe it<br>scratches the surface.<p>Tom Parsons<br><ul><li><a href="http://www.panix.com/~twp" target=_top>Tom's Page</a></ul><br>[/i]
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