Jerome Robbins' The Mistake Waltz

[thewayne]

I have increasingly become an admirer of ballet, and this one is amazing! How professional ballerinas, at the top of their game, can purposely make mistakes: I'll never know.

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Comments

[acelightning]

They're not making mistakes. They're performing a set of moves that they have carefully rehearsed to be other than what the audience expects to see. (After being litereally manhandled like inconvenient "props" by the male dancers in army fatigues.)

[thewayne]

I know they’re not mistakes, very carefully choreographed poses. I should have said purposely make moves that look like mistakes.

[acelightning]

You know what's even more difficult than that? Purposely singing or playing an instrument out of tune! (I have perfect pitch, and sour notes are almost physically painful to hear.)

[thewayne]

I can imagine!