Pas de What?

If there's ever an example of great layering, it would be how ballet dancers do it. I recently watched Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse and Etoiles: Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet and I adore all the snippets of dancers rehearsing. They have their footless tights over their leotards or a pair of leg warmers carelessly put on. They might have ratty sweatpants with rolled waists while rehearsing La Syphilis.

Uh, sorry. I meant Sylphide. La Sylphide. Whatever they have on, however haphazardly they wore it, they just look right. No wonder designers are often inspired by them.





It probably has to do with their bodies and how they move. Talk about a contradiction. Those dancers, most of them are all bone and sinew but they are obviously strong. On a side note, those female Paris Opera Ballet dancers have really pleasant faces. Not that their male counterparts are unpleasant. It's just, eh, isn't it a bit uncomfortable to watch men in tights? How do they feel when they have to wear them? Is there a compartment of some sort built into the tights? Would it make a big difference in their dancing if they wore slim pants instead? For all his genius, was George Balanchine a cruel man? What do Alessandra Ferri's bare feet look like? Will one orange tictac make the brilliant Diana Vishneva full? Are you annoyed when you see "dancers" whose hands look like they glued their middle finger and thumb together? Don't you think this video below is LOLololz funny?