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Sparkly

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13. I was starring as Odette/Odile in ABT's Swan Lake.

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Fri Feb 3, 2017, 01:46 PM

Feb 2017

Right in the middle of my 32 fouetté turns, Prince Siegfried chasséed over to me and told me the news. I nearly fell over and only made it through 31 of the fouettés, which is the only reason I'm not the ABT Prima Ballerina today.

Damn that massacre!!

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