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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 676825" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>I agree with the feel of arriving at the studio, with the power of striding through the street, with slipping into ballet slippers ~ it would have been, for me, ballet slippers ~ and into the shoes made for tango, for you.</p><p></p><p>(Those are the slippers, in the poem. Ballet slippers.)</p><p></p><p>The power in it.</p><p></p><p>The self-definition in it.</p><p></p><p>Fortunately for me, the men in my ballet classes were gay.</p><p></p><p>As were my male instructors.</p><p></p><p>We were absolutely safe.</p><p></p><p>I would not have had the courage to take a tango class. Men always want to play. When I am serious, I want to learn from a woman. I have had one karate instructor who was male, and with whom I learned comfort and trust, over time. The other may have been good instructors, just not for me. </p><p></p><p>My Tai Chi instructor is male.</p><p></p><p>I trust him very much, but then, he is an extraordinary man.</p><p></p><p>Like D H is, too.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p><p></p><p>And the dancing to the pain of it, smiling through and becoming and rising on it and knowing you are clumsy and then, knowing you are ethereally beautiful and something more than human in your humanness.</p><p></p><p>Ha! I will take a barre class online. I have been thinking of doing that. There is a place near here where I could take class again too, even. I miss that feeling; that perfectly correct positioning, that balance of rhythm and pain and awareness.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 676825, member: 17461"] I agree with the feel of arriving at the studio, with the power of striding through the street, with slipping into ballet slippers ~ it would have been, for me, ballet slippers ~ and into the shoes made for tango, for you. (Those are the slippers, in the poem. Ballet slippers.) The power in it. The self-definition in it. Fortunately for me, the men in my ballet classes were gay. As were my male instructors. We were absolutely safe. I would not have had the courage to take a tango class. Men always want to play. When I am serious, I want to learn from a woman. I have had one karate instructor who was male, and with whom I learned comfort and trust, over time. The other may have been good instructors, just not for me. My Tai Chi instructor is male. I trust him very much, but then, he is an extraordinary man. Like D H is, too. Cedar And the dancing to the pain of it, smiling through and becoming and rising on it and knowing you are clumsy and then, knowing you are ethereally beautiful and something more than human in your humanness. Ha! I will take a barre class online. I have been thinking of doing that. There is a place near here where I could take class again too, even. I miss that feeling; that perfectly correct positioning, that balance of rhythm and pain and awareness. [/QUOTE]
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