Diana L Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 After checking out the book sale, I think a prima is someone who gets her biography published! Link to comment
leibling Posted February 9, 2001 Share Posted February 9, 2001 I've been wondering about this lately, actually. There are stories that tell you that Fonteyn was so obviously a ballerina from the very beginning- that to jjust look at her you wanted to cry because of her natural gifts. I guess she just had a very natural vulnerability, radiance or other such quality to her personality. You begin to wonder if you can spot a "ballerina" from the start. Having just seen ABT, I can say that there are a lot of good dancers there, but only a couple of them struck me as ballerina types- and those were not necessarily the ones dancing the larger roles. It is very subjective, though- except in the cases of an honor being bestowed (Fonteyn). One person's ideal ballerina may appear as a dancer with two left feet to someone else. Link to comment
Guest BalletAddict03 Posted February 10, 2001 Share Posted February 10, 2001 Just something Clive Barnes said about the politics of ballet. He said something along the lines of "There are two types of politics: politics and ballet politics. Politics are bad, and ballet politics are worse." Link to comment
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