dance concert at the manhattan youth ballet

m and c and i attended a ballet concert at the manhattan youth ballet. it wasn't very well publicized. we hadn't even received an email about it. but i found a piece of paper announcing it on a little cafe table in the company's building. so i decided we should go, and i'm glad we did because it was lovely! the third piece, of which this is a picture of, was called "pas de quatre" and was originally danced by four of the greatest ballerinas of 1845. each student portrayed one of the ballerinas with fittingly period gestures which looked quaint in our time and caused the audience to 'giggle" with delight. one of the students was made up as marie taglioni, and though her make-up caused her face to be a little stiff, she looked uncannily like the famous dancer!