Day One Hundred and Seventy - On Point

Inspired by the new exhibit @ the Shoe Museum and the arrival of their quarterly magazine, today I decided to do something ballet related. I'm not a big fan of ballet, although I've never seen it live, but it's kinda the art/culture equivalent of Ambien for me. Truthfully, I'm probably just a bit jealous that I was born without any grace. At all. So tonight, thanks to the Shoe Museum, my Google-fu and also YouTube I learned and practiced the five positions of ballet. A note to anyone who would also like to do this - it is best done without gigantic Hello Kitty slippers on. I tried that and very nearly fell over. It was fun/interesting to learn [like, three of the positions look nearly identical until you see them done, which is why YouTube is necessary], but also [in my case] so not good. I am glad there were no witnesses to me floundering around. I can't imagine what would happen if I attempted a jump or leap or plie or whatever.

As mentioned, I have no grace and very little physical coordination. I'm not much with dancing naturally or with learning choreography [even learning aerobics type moves - that's a no go]. When I was little my physical activity was limited to baseball, bowling and gymnastics [which might appear to require coordination, but not if you do it as awesomely as I did and honestly I think gymnastics is more about physical stuff than rhythm...unless it's rhythmic gymnastics]. However, I remember once a group of ballet students came to our school and I thought they looked very adult and a bit perfect. I did want to learn ballet for about an afternoon as a result, but we had no place to take lessons anywhere around my sleepy little town. It's probably for the best as I developed far too curvacious of a body to be much of a ballerina.