Dancers: Thoughts about weight and age...

Dancers, future Dancers, ex Dancers have a different feeling for „aesthetics" (or you may even say „attractiveness"), also in everything concerning age and the „weight department".

Yes, a „feeling" that is completely different from the ones of „normal people" - am I implying that Dancers are NOT, what people classify as “normal”?

I mean this very positively and respectfully but… Yes, sure! And Thank God for that!

Dame Margot Fonteyn

But in times like these, times in which every single word can be twisted around because of political correctness. I have decided not to publish my essay (The beginning of it, is what you have just read above). Also because I have written and pondered a lot not only about ageing gracefully but also about weight, elegance, grace, and poise, I prefer not to attract the rage of those who have perhaps aged not so gracefully (or do not intend to).

Exactly like in other spheres (and fields), it is always the “unfulfilled ones” who enjoy twisting opinions for their own advantage, in their own interest. I think I’ll have to discuss this with “The Lady in the fourth row (with her daughter) one of these days.

I’ll leave you today not with a thought but just with the photograph of Dame Margot Fonteyn who personified exactly what I have meant with “ageing with grace”.

The old Chinese proverb is forever a truth: One picture is worth ten thousand words. Especially this one, an example among many other ones.

To these eternal, lovely, inspiring examples of discipline and beauty mixed with „joie de vivre", I dedicate this “unfinished article”.