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Having been persuaded, for the first time, to go to a ballet my sister has reported her surprise at the amount of inelegant clonking that emanates from ballet shoes. Maybe she went to the cheap version.
However, this inspires me to suggest that someone should come up with a form of ballet
wherein the dancers wear hobnail boots. If a supposedly elegant and precise dance form is going to be accompanied by an irritating stomping noise then at least the dancers should wear some challenging footwear to justify it.
I saw the show a couple of years ago.....great fun.
http://www.tapdogs.co.uk/
[normzone, May 23 2005]
clog dancing
http://fp.millennas.f9.co.uk/wclogdan.htm
[po, May 24 2005]
I think mine wore soft shoes with pink ribbons
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[po, May 24 2005]
Entrechat or 'leg twiddling'.
http://dictionary.r.../search?q=entrechat
[DrBob, May 24 2005]
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No, no, no. Tap dancing is something entirely different. What I'm after is standard ballet but with big boots on. |
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What are those jumps called, where they twiddle the legs? |
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What colour would the boots be? |
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So many questions, sorry. |
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Entrechat is possibly Ling's "twiddle" |
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//What colour would the boots be? //
Standard 'workman' brown boots. Possibly somewhat muddy. |
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Hob nailing on hob nobs, perhaps. |
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This reminds me of po's posting of a
fusion of rugby and ballet. Ah... she's
linked it. Good. |
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I misread this as 'Hobnail Bullet' and my
first
thought was... 'ouch'. |
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I think that they're banned under the Geneva Convention. |
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I read the title of this idea, and I knew it was a [DrBob] idea. +. |
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PS: [po] you really do seem to know an awful lot about ballet for someone with such a dirty laugh. |
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Isn't there a clog dance in "Copelia"? |
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The floor boards of the theater are usually wood. Hobs will chew them up. Frowning theater owners. : ( |
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Teflon coated aluminum planks would protect the boards. And put half the dance company in the hospital. |
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Perhaps the dancers could wear body armor. |
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Ballet shoes, or slippers, shouldn't generally clunk,
although they will of course slap after a leap. Pointe
shoes, on the other hand, have a rigid toe box to
spread the impact, and that will clunk. |
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I'll admit though I'm not sure I see a difference
between this and tap or clog dancing. If the point is
to make noise with your shoes, we have dances for
that, the point of ballet is other, but some is
inevitable. |
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//Ballet shoes, or slippers, shouldn't generally clunk//
I can only go with the information I was provided!
The difference between hobnail ballet &, say, tap dancing is that in the latter, the clever tippy tapping of the shoes provides a pleasing accompaniment to the dance & the music. In hobnail ballet it is a counterpoint. Or something.
I take popbottle's point about damaging the stage. Perhaps a nice covering of 1970's pattern linoleum over the stage would suffice?
Afterword grumble: Eight years I'd managed to get away without a fishbone on this idea. 8 years! |
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have a + to make up for it. |
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