Please don’t mistake this as a bid for sympathy. I made my choices and they are catching up to me. You know what makes me laugh every time I look in the mirror? I have to use a walker just to get to the mirror. And then I laugh at myself.

Do you know what you find out when you use a walker? Just how badly you need shoulder replacement surgery.

But that’s all spilled milk. The relevant point, I believe, is that A) I watch the clip with the sound off and B) is I watch the clip with the sound on.

The ballet this woman is describing seems to have nothing to do with what I am seeing. She is describing an evolving relationship, challenging the male dancer; (working from memory so this may not be an exact quote) “If he knows everything about me will he still be there at the end.”

What I am seeing is a well rehearsed scenario where all the challenges have been worked out. It’s not evolving; it has evolved. And there is nothing wrong with that.

Maybe this bothers no one else but me.

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It’s mostly long excerpts posted late at night.
And occasional rants
But thanks for the notice!

He’s there to be stepped on, as she moves thru high society.

If you start that video a few seconds earlier than Neo’s start spot you can see it a bit better. There is definitely a pause after she plants her feet spread wide. Given her muscular build, it looks like a very powerful stance to me and possibly a visual statement.

Then its looks like she is trying to overcome a little stiction on the soles of her shoes. You can see her thigh muscles flex and twitch a little and her hips wiggle just a tiny bit; then the feet begin to slide.

Watched both again. Adams does not plant her heels until just before the slide, and apparently the heels stick. Kowroski plants her heels immediately, pauses, then lifts her heels an instant before the slide. So her slide is a toe slide. The Adams maneuver is much more muscular.

Just so his head doesn’t swell up too much, LOL, he’s pretty verbose too 🙂

In the later clip, the man steps out before going to his knees and reaching back. It creates a LOT more air between them. Thus it kills the sense of physical intimacy that I feel when watching it.

This is way outside my wheelhouse. I would never have seen this without a guide to show me what to begin watching for. Thank you.