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A hazard of the job, usually one that we take in our stride.
After Gigantor - the Ballerina from my previous ballet ( I may blog about her soon. Suffice to say her name was well justified), I was hoping that I could earn some easy giftmas monies being a rent-a-prince for a friends new ballet school.
Typically the girls are small, light and good which makes me look good. And I love attention.
Well the attention was great, and most of the girls were small, light and good. But unfortunately my partner was not. She had never partnered before, and had no aptitude or instinct for it. She was an ok dancer on her own, but put someone partnering her and it went pear shaped.
I managed to avoid most injuries, but memorably, I got cracked in the nads during a shoulder sit due to uncontrolled flailing limbs, and the equally unpleasant, Arse in Face. At least being 18 she had more sphincter control meaning I was mercifully spared the farting part. But still having someone shove their arse into your face repeatedly (unless its Eva Green)), with nose breaking force is still not fun, and not the picture of grace and elegance that the Sleeping Beauty is supposed to be
So as part of our tour around regional Tasmania, we were to introduce children to the joys of the ballet. So out come the costumes, the inevitable questions as to whether or not one can do the splits, the walking on the toes etc etc.
To make things a bit more exciting I added in a few big ballet lifts including the always crowd pleasing one armed lifts (which is nice and easy with a partner as small as Noodle) , but this one time, at a Slopeytown, (so called because of a steeply raked stage) I decided that audience participation was to go and I would risk my lower back for the amusement of the towns children and lift them.
So we got 6 little uns, and one by one they were hurled into the air, however, perhaps the excitement or sheer terror proved too much, and the last one, as she was lifted high in the air, couldn’t contain herself and let rip.
Pfffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft
damn stink children.
