Singing In The Rain – Gene Kelly
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Movie Recommendation: A Ballerina’s Tale
Documentary about Misty Copeland, the first African-American woman to be a principal dancer in a major international ballet company.
Movie Recommendation: Only When I Dance
Only When I Dance, a documentary in the Portuguese language with English subtitles, tells the story of two aspiring teenagers from violent and poverty stricken neighborhoods in Rio de Janeiro who pursue their dreams of becoming professional ballet dancers.
Don Quixote – Act I Finale, The Royal Ballet
Brule and Airo – Star People
Cartoon Girl
Gaya Bommer Yemini won first prize in the contemporary category at the Youth America Grand Prix in Paris 2011. She is a very talented dancer at such a young age.
I Praise The Dance
I PRAISE THE DANCE
By Saint Augustine
I praise the dance,
for it frees people from the heaviness of matter
and binds the isolated to community.
I praise the dance,
which demands everything:
health and a clear spirit and a buoyant soul.
Dance is a transformation of space, of time, of people,
who are in constant danger of becoming all brain, will, or feeling.
Dancing demands a whole person,
one who is firmly anchored in the center of his life,
who is not obsessed by lust for people and things
and the demon of isolation in his own ego.
Dancing demands a freed person,
one who vibrates with the equipoise of all his powers.
I praise the dance.
O man, learn to dance,
or else the angels in heaven will not know what to do with you.
