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Re: UN BAISER AND SWAN LAKE

SwanLakeSambaGirl — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:51:26 -0000

I agree, JT -- his ballets often do have that same theme. I actually find it kind of boring after a while, which is probably why I got so annoyed at his Swan Lake!

Thanks for the info, Laurel. I'd heard of this but I thought it was just one complainant, not several! Now, I just saw on Huffington Post that there are four women total -- three from previous years, whose cases the DAs had decided to drop. Now that this fourth woman's story is the same, they're re-opening those earlier cases. The women seem to be unrelated to each other. This is really disturbing. Of course I'm one for always affording the defendant that presumption of innocence. I guess we'll have to wait and see where the charges lead and what all the evidence is. I hope he didn't do it.

Of course commentors on Huffington Post are making all kinds of racist assumptions about Latin men, which really disturbs me. I can't even think of Alex DaSilva on SYTYCD -- I really can't picture who he was, but no one on the show ever struck me as creepy. I mean, at least from viewing it on TV.

Funny, but at first the Alex I was thinking of was the one who's sometimes on DWTS -- Edyta's husband and the one who won the first season with Kelly Monaco! I was so upset. Very glad it's not him!

Re: UN BAISER AND SWAN LAKE

JT — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:34:45 -0000

Well, from the little I've read about Balanchine, he WAS a man caught up in a world of beauties. Maybe that's why his ballets all have that same theme. He had quite the string of leading ladies at his beck and call.

Re: UN BAISER AND SWAN LAKE

laurel — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:24:32 -0000

This has nothing to do with the topic, sorry, didn't know where else to post and I no longer use Myspace. Alex Da Silva (sp?), the choreographer, was arrested for raping several students. It was reported that over a fairly long time period, he lured several students to his home where he sexually assaulted them. They just announced it on the news so I only know a few details.

Very sad