With two of our three daughters still in the dance world and the third in the music world as a pianist, I could not help but enjoy today’s video. It takes hard work to choreograph a mistake-filled ballet. This piece is called the “Mistake Waltz,” which Jerome Robbins choreographed in 1956.
It happens to be our ballet-teaching daughter’s birthday today. Happy Birthday, Geneva!
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That’s adorable, love it.
Thank you so much for that fun video! Both of my daughters were dancers and it brought back a lot of fun memories! And it DOES take an enormous amount of effort to choreograph a dance with mistakes. It’s exactly like singing offkey on purpose.
I can’t stand ballet. Which is probably why I loved this.
Hilarious, Steve!
Love it! All my kids danced and the oldest still does—and teaches—so this was great fun.
As a highly memory-challenged musician, I thought how wonderful it would be to get to perform in a piece in which even an outrageously obvious mistake would be perceived as intentional and part of the fun instead of a disaster that let everyone down!
Too funny, but I’d be in agony watching it if it were my daughter at a recital!
Happy birthday, Geneva!
This was great! 🙂
I once performed with the Joffrey Ballet at the old San Francisco Opera House and I don’t know how to dance!
Love this! It’s just as difficult to solve a crime in a crime-genre, or suspense. I mean, the writer knows the steps, the end. When we put the logical ones in order, there is no story.
And, who wants to make a character look like a fool (I do, tee hee)? Or, are the characters going different directions looking at the evidence, like what happens in real life… such as The Innocent Man, John Grisham’s only non-fiction.
This was great and I had a great giggle over it, thank you!
Delightful. Thank you for the smiles.
It takes real talent to be that bad on purpose.
I suppose Identifying with that makes me a klutz. “Put her (meaning me) on the back row.”
Thank you for sharing that!
I love ballet. Beautiful dancers!