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author: Eric Wagoner
date: '2002-03-25T04:31:51'
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title: Ballet dancing
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Despite my self-imposed exile from theater, I begin rehearsal tonight fot [Giselle](http://www.balletmet.org/Notes/Giselle.html), my first ever ballet. I'll be playing [the Prince of Courland](http://www.metopera.org/season/production/synopses/giselle.html), doing a bit of pantomime and luckily no dancing. I used to be in an acrobatics class at the YWCA, but that was twenty-four years ago. All I remember from that is the arabesque, and I can't even spell that.