After seeing la Compañía Nacional de Danza (from Spain) perform Arenal and Herrumbre at the Lucent Dance Theater of The Hague and meeting some of its dancers.
Breaking as the orchestra plays,
stamping, tiptoeing, smoothly floating,
with solid muscles, on music carpets
the dancers dance,
the dancers dance.
Bodies turning and twirling,
one piece less and then another,
the dancers dance until they climax
and disappear
behind black curtains.
And as we raise in effusive awe
to a forte farewell, to a bold applause
one more time, and then another,
the dancers bow, the dancers bow
with tearful eyes.
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