Tonight I attended the opening of American Ballet Theater's Swan Lake at the Kennedy Center, starrring Gillian Murphy as Odette and Angel Corella as Prince Siegfried. It was magical. I nearly cried at the end. PBS was there tonight to film the performance for Dance in America, which will be broadcast later this year.
Meanwhile, you would not believe the eye candy in that company! One of the nice things about being one of the top two or three dance companies in the country is that you have money to hire the best male dancers, and a lot of them, too. Of course, the premier danseur, Angel, is a big star in the international ballet world—this choreography was designed for him back in 2000—and he makes the perfect huggable divo. He's too short for me, but adorable nonetheless, and I absolutely loved his costume tonight, the way his tights "lifted and separated" his more than ample gluteal muscles. In addition, there was a tall, handsome black dancer in the corps who danced well enough in his ensembles that I was able to watch his dancing and not his overstuffed dance belt.
But, most notably, and the thing which I kept having to use my binoculars to confirm and to stare at in near-disbelief, the character of von Rothhart the evil sorceror was played by a tall, dark, handsome, hunky dancer, but he had a double for those scenes where he was in his demonic mode and costume along the banks of the lake. His "devil" was clad in ram's horns, a cloak of leaves and seaweed, and patches of green algae body on portions of his heavily muscled, hirsute body suit, but I could hardly believe my eyes when I noticed that he was supposed to be nude with "hair" of seaweed and algae, and that he was anatomically correct! Yes, indeed, the demon had a mossy, hairy, uncut penis!
Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore!
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