ballet homework: watch the tv.

End of class, we’ve done the reverénce, Smirnoff sez,
“Ladies, before you leave, I would like to tell you something important.”
We all look at each other like Uh-Oh and gather around.
He sez,
“The New York City Ballet will be showing The Nutcracker on television, on PBS. I think it is a Friday evening. Perhaps you will look it up. I recommend that you watch, because it is a very good production, and it has Children That Work. You see my dears, Balanchine agreed with my father, and with me, that children must Work in performances. They must do Real Dance, they mustn’t shuffle around. And the only way to achieve this is to have a school. The Joffrey is opening their Nutcracker here very soon, and they are a very very good company, but they are using nearly sixty Local Children. Local children have not been trained in the ways of the company. It is not the same. I recommend that you watch the New York City Ballet’s production on the television to get a sense of how things should be.”
And then we are all like, Phew! Ok, we are not in trouble, he just wanted to rip on the local kids.
Which is pretty funny.
Oh snap, Local Kids!
Hee.
And woah- did he really just recommended we watch tv instead of going to see live ballet?

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