Ballet- the beauty of expression by Rob Busey
- Utako Tanigawa
- Apr 28, 2020
- 1 min read
Some things are indescribable expressions of beauty in our troubled world.
I made another discovery of the beauty of expression in our culture a couple of years ago: ballet:
I was a class accompanist for the Atlanta Ballet and its subsidiary school The Atlanta School of Ballet for about 6 years. I studied dance as a young girl, so I had some knowledge prior to this, but I learned on the job especially the French terms for movements. I worked with some incredibly talented teachers and dancers as well as children, many of whom went on to become international names in the dance world.
One of my favorite stories is about how I influenced Tom Pazik to choreograph Prokofiev's "Romeo and Juliet". I happened to see it performed on PBS, and fell in love with the music. I asked Tom about it, recalling how the tv version (San Francisc…