ballet

Why do ballerinas wear tights?

I heard this one from my old school days. The answer is pretty funny. Thats the only clue I will give.

The movie Step Up is supposed to be like every other dance movie that has ever been released with a love story, a melding of two completely different worlds, dance styles and culminate with a big performance in the end. *yawn* But since I'm a dancer, I feel like it is my right to support dance movies for coming out because it attracts the majority of people. Its like that show "So you think you can dance?".

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I’ve got a theory – I think that WWF style wrestling is ‘the new ballet.’ WWF Wrestling is the ‘high culture’ of the common man.

Why should Wrestling be seen as High Culture?

WWF Wrestling should be considered high culture because:

• It has costumes worthy of a production Oscar – those fat opera chicks in horned helmets look almost tame by comparison.
• It’s got sex and violence. Don’t think sex, violence and high culture go hand in hand? Better re-read your Shakespeare. In the tales by the most exalted of bards, people get murdered, people get it on, and people get it on with the brother of their husband whom they just murdered. And let us not forget that many of Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed in what could best be described as ‘bawdy houses.’
• It possesses almost operatic levels of melodrama. I mean, who could forget the tragic death of the famous wrestler Owen Hart who fell almost 60 feet to the stage floor when the harness on his aerial wire snapped?

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