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Wetten Das: Extremely non-traditional "Swan Lake"

submitted by oxdottir

1 decade 6 years 11 months ago

The frogs at the start are already amazing, but for anyone who knows about ballet, seeing someone be en point on someone else's arm is rather amazing.

This is a mix of traditional ballet moves and acrobatics in a straight performance.

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*requeue on the acrobatic frogs...

Re-queueing this video for one more try; last queued Sunday, January 27th, 2008 10:17am PST - requeue requested by submitter oxdottir.

Oh wow, that was amazing. The concentration and focus on her face at that middle part was intense. A lot of respect for having the safety guy there too. Unobtrusive.

I don't really like ballet, was kinda meh on the frogs. But WOW! What Thylan said.

Traditional ballet people wouldn't even call what those frogs did ballet: ballet does not have handstands; ballet does not have flips; ballet does not have men throwing other men. And what that dance did on the man: ballet does not have hyper-extended splits, and while it has lifts and throws, it does not have throws to throws; it does not have shoulderstands at all, much less en point. I turned down to go see these acrobats recently, and now I feel really bad that I didn't go.

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This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by Deano.

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Adding video to channels (Bravo) - requested by Deano.

Awarding blahpook with one star point for fixing this video's dead embed code.

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