El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quixote de La Mancha

I haven’t been to a ballet in ages; frankly Black Swan really turned me off the whole genre for a bit. Not to mention, I was recently clued into some of ballet’s impolite past. But that’s neither here nor there. The matter at hand is that I got to hang around with some supremely talented youngsters who are preparing to reprise Marius Petipa and Ludwig Minkus’ old standby Ballet Don Quixote for the Florida Classical Ballet Theatre. Honest talent puts me in the best mood. All those devoted kids flying through the air, jetéing themselves into exhaustion, it’s just so heartening. I love that some people care infinitely about something. It completely distracts from the fact that nearly a fifth of juveniles are obese, immobilized by WoW and Madden. For an hour though, kids were awesome again.

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