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Nigel picked me up the first time and the teacher told him, to tell my father i will take an extra hour class for specialty lessons. </br> | Nigel picked me up the first time and the teacher told him, to tell my father i will take an extra hour class for specialty lessons. </br> | ||
| − | An extra hour? With just her | + | An extra hour? With just her? |
The next day the girls were mean as always but i waited. An extra hour? Was it something she could fix? | The next day the girls were mean as always but i waited. An extra hour? Was it something she could fix? | ||
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The old crone moves gracefully. But her movements are not dance moves. Her flowing hands move left and right, up and down. Tia Chia? I follow dutifully, trying hard to follow her exactly. | The old crone moves gracefully. But her movements are not dance moves. Her flowing hands move left and right, up and down. Tia Chia? I follow dutifully, trying hard to follow her exactly. | ||
| − | Weird. The last few minutes | + | Weird. The last few minutes, I think minutes, she is weirdest of all. She made me wiggle my fingers and arms, in a hundred different poses. She tells me I could never know what pose a choreographer will ask of me. |
| − | The last thing we did each session was to have a cup of tea. She would drill me on ballets. Tell the stories of them. Who wrote | + | The last thing we did each session was to have a cup of tea. She would drill me on ballets. Tell the stories of them. Who wrote the. When, Why? If they made money. |
| − | Those extra hours were the oddest things. We seemed to do so much more in that hour. They went by in a kind of blur. I didn't even get angry. Sometimes she would have me handle the swords. Sometimes the bows. She said I never knew what a choreographer might want me to hold in a dance | + | Those extra hours were the oddest things. We seemed to do so much more in that hour. They went by in a kind of blur. I didn't even get angry. Sometimes she would have me handle the swords. Sometimes the bows. She said a I never knew what a choreographer might want me to hold in a dance? What ever they gave me I should think of as a weapon. |
| − | Once, when we both | + | Once, when we both had foils I jokingly said En grde! She turned on me, and lined point up to my eye, a position of guard. A chill ran through my bones of fear like I had never known. Her eyes were not old. Her body not aged. She looked dangerous, deadly, and serious. How had I missed that? Then the moment passed and she laughed and we had tea early. |
| − | + | I never spoke of them to anyone about those extra hours.. Not father. Not Reba. Certainly not those mean girls. | |
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| − | I never spoke to anyone about those extra hours.. Not father. Not Reba. Certainly not those mean girls. | ||
We continued this for a while she taught me to feel the music and become one with it in movements. To use my emotions as my strength. </br> | We continued this for a while she taught me to feel the music and become one with it in movements. To use my emotions as my strength. </br> | ||
A bit more then a year later she told me that she was going to retire but would be there at my first big ballet performance. </br> | A bit more then a year later she told me that she was going to retire but would be there at my first big ballet performance. </br> | ||
| − | + | And i think she actually was. Though she was gone before i could speak to her. </br> | |
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