THE HARD AND SOMETIMES HEART BREAKING SIDE OF BALLET…. FROM THE “DOCUMENTARY “CAPTIVES OF TERPSICHORE”……….THIS UNUSUAL AND LITTLE REMEMBERED NAME IS FROM ANCIENT GREEK MYTHOLOGY.SHE WAS ”DANCE” AND ONE OF THE NINE MUSES AND WAS CALLED “THE MOTHER OF SIRENS”………HERE SHE TAKES THE FORM OF THE BALLET TEACHER, LUDMILA PAVLOVA SAKHAVORA, HEAD DANCE MISTRESS OF THE “PERM OPERA AND BALLET THEATER” WHICH HAS BEEN IN CONTINUOUS OPERATION, IN PERM RUSSIA, SENCE 1870……..TO ME…..THIS REMINDS ME OF THE SONG “GOD BLESS THE CHILD” THE CHILD WHO PAYED TO MUCH FOR WHAT SHE GOT…THERE IS AN UNSPEAKABLY STEEP PRICE ON DISPLAY HERE….TAKING WHAT IS NATURAL AND TURNING IT INTO THE SUPERNATURAL……LIKE MANY THINGS….I WONDER IF IT’S RIGHT OR WRONG…..MAYBE THE STUDENT GOES TO HEAVEN AND THE TEACHER GOES TO HELL….I’LL LET YOU VOTE YOUR CONSCIOUS ON THIS….RIGHT OR WRONG, THIS IS A MASTERCLASS…..