There we were. A group of our ballerinas.
Gathered together. Holiday in the air.
To see another kind of dancing. It was just plain fun.
Whale, the two-act program danced by the Gallim company, is all about love. The kind of loving that a little boy named Mateo shows his mommy every single day and night. He wakes up in the morning saying WHALE. He goes to sleep with visions of WHALE delighting him. So says his mother, choreographer Andrea Miller, who tells us after the show that it was Mateo -- and his love of anything Whale-ish -- who inspired her to create this latest dance.
Whales (imaginary and real) and the ocean are physical examples of extreme happiness to this wonderful troupe. And, yes, love spills out all over and beyond the Joyce stage when the Gallim dancers show us what its like to feel utterly happy. Maybe even beyond happy as their exuberant bodies burst upwards toward a wonderful stratosphere that we all want to experience. Happiness bubbles over into love and loveliness. From the ocean's bottom to the highest clouds, this young choreographer shows us through her dancers what it means to allow the feeling of love and happiness to embrace us.
What a surprise for Our Ballet Club at the very beginning of the program when one of our ballerinas caught the artistic eye of a thoroughly inspired dancer onstage. How delightful for all of us when he leaped across the stage calling her name:
KATHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
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