This. Is. Not. Art.

This is most definitely not art.  This is trash.  It infuriates me that a person can arrange pieces of bent and broken metal and call it art.  Art is deliberate.  You mean to make something.  It doesn't have to be completely planned, but it does have intentional.  You can't haphazardly pile up broken metal and say that it's art.  Art can be trash, but only if it used to create something new.  If we say this is art, we could look inside a Dumpster or go to a landfill and claim that is art, too.  We need to draw the line somewhere.  Piling up trash is not art.

What is art?

This video is from Pointe DVD, and it's the Snow Pas de Deux and the Dance of the Snowflakes.  Ballet is one of the most true art forms to me.  I've never been so passionate about anything as I am about ballet.  I can't count the times I've seen the Nutcracker, and I can hum the musi< Nothing can replace the way I feel when I watch the beautiful dancer make her way across the stage, looking ethereal and weightless.  And when I'm out there on the stage and all eyes are on me, I'm no longer Mara.  I'm as ethereal and beautiful and weightless as all the other dancers, the audience can't even guess the grueling hours I've spent in rehearsal or that my big toe is bleeding or that I can already feel a blister coming on.

Ballet is so amazing because it's one of the most accurate ways to portray emotion.  The love I see in a pas de deux is stronger than I can see in some real life couples.  It also always evokes emotion.  I admit, I've cried at a ballet or two.  Either because the storyline is so heartbreaking, or the dance is so lovely.

Point(e) is, ballet is art.  Plain and simple.  And make sure to watch the video...it's awesome!

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