I danced ballet during 5 years. My little girl dream was to become the best ballet dancer, and the two dancers inspired me were Alessandra Ferri and Barishnikov. When I was around 6 years old, I used to cut pieces of my pillow to fill my ballet shoes and pretend I could go on my tip toes like “grown up dancers”. It was almost like my greatest dream, to be able someday, to dance like real dancers.
Many people don’t really enjoy ballet, specially nowadays. I think that life is becoming more and more agitated that it is difficult for us to realize that quiet and delicate things can be extremely touching, it just takes a little bit of sensitivity.
To me, dancing is one of the most efficient ways of putting out hard feelings. Its better than painting and singing. You just move, you put yourself in harmony, you concentrate in imaginary figures your making with your hands, with the shapes you do with your body… When I dance I feel energy traveling to the point of my fingers, and when I make moves with the arms, it’s as if this energy slip slighty out, and as if I was dancing right in the middle of my own little world.
I quit ballet when I had to move back to Brazil. I danced in the Washington School of Ballet, until I was 11. I danced the nutcracker (even though it was a little part) in the Warner theater, and I used to dream of being the principal dancer, named ”Clara”. Unfortunately, I went back to Brasilia, and I did try different classes of ballet, but I didn’t like any of them. So I gave up, there weren’t many choices. I think stopping ballet was one of my biggest mistakes. It’s a pitty because now it’s to late for me to start again. I regret it.
As I mensioned before, Alessandra Ferri is a ballerina that I really admire. She’s an Italian dancer, born in Milan. Alessandra was named the Principal Dancer of the American Ballet Theatre, which is one of the great ballet schools in the United States (it’s located in New York). She also danced in the Royal Ballet -previously, where she danced in many performances; and participated to the Ballet National de Marseille. She danced in many important perfomances and for many important coreographers.
Here bellow I’m attaching a video of her dancing, and Sting plays a piece written by Bach. The song, the dancing, the scenario… It is all amazingly beautiful.
