My old-time obsession with ballet is roaring back like a lion. Since the semester started all I want to do is take classes and read dance.net and look up companies coming to town. (SFB is doing Giselle! ABT is coming to do Swan Lake!)
While my obsession with ballet is infinite, my time unfortunately is not. I am seriously thinking about giving up some of my long-time activities to take more classes. I’ve been a kickboxing instructor for four years now and I teach every Wednesday nights. Should I give that up? How about hip hop class on Monday nights?
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Finally saw that 80s classic Flashdance this past Friday. Been wondering how I could have possibly missed it. Now I know. It’s Rated R, which is probably why it was completely off my radar when it first ran (I was just 12 at the time). Now that I’ve seen it, um, holy wow. That movie was B.A.D. The story sucked, the characters completely caricaturish, and so many things didn’t make sense. Like, WHY was she a welder? No explanations here, just BAM. Cute 18-year old girl welding shit. Why couldn’t she have been, say, a bus driver? Or someone in food service? Woulda made more sense. And don’t tell me the bossman didn’t know of her existence until he saw her dancing in that club. C’mon, she was the only chick working for him. Was he blind? And why was she living alone in that enormous warehouse? Did she run away from home? Is she an orphan? What was her backstory? And who is that old woman who was pushing her to dance?
Eh, what am I beating this dead horse for? That movie has already achieved classic status, maybe because it WAS so bad. I did enjoy the dance numbers though. Very artistic, and yet totally wasted on the clientele of the club where the heroine worked, which was another thing that didn’t make any lick of sense whatsoever. Why would the guys go to a dance club that presented performance-quality pieces when there was a strip joint directly across the street?
Okay, it’s my turn to pick the dance movie this weekend. Perhaps I should subject my sis to this:
