ballet history

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March 6, 2020

How I watch TV
Just ask my parents, this is probably how they remember me watching movies with them haha:)

Last night, I watched a documentary about Margot Fonteyn on my little tablet (that’s where I have Amazon Prime added through hubby’s dad). I have always loved history – ok, not always, all the years in school when we had to read about a million different Scandinavian kings were too boring, noone needs to know anything about all these kings – and of course dance history has always been my favorite:) I thought I had a pretty good idea of all the different names in modern dance and ballet, but when I watch documentaries or read biographies I realize that I don’t know that much.
Margot is one of the most famous ballerinas of all time and yet I knew very little about her. I know her dancing but not much else…or maybe I do but I have forgot, hard to say actually. I have studied a lot of dance history, not only in high school and at the University but also on my own because it’s something I really enjoy plus I think if you are going to teach something then you need to know everything about it. But these past few years of… lets call it confusion, I haven’t really been doing much “studying”, and when your brain isn’t active, you forget. I wrote about this in January when talking about how my muscles doesn’t remember how to dance anymore. It’s interesting, don’t you think?

Always after watching dance documentaries, movies or performances, my body itches. Imagine restless legs if you know how that feels, that’s how every single muscle in my body starts to feel like, and it also actually itches like if I have a huge rash. Dance is like my kind of drug. If I don’t dance one day, my body almost starts to shake and I can’t sleep, it’s quite weird and probably not normal hahah. Over the past few years I have been thinking that maybe I should just give up dance and do something else, but I also can’t stop thinking about it and I obviously can’t live without it:) 

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