Yesterday afternoon, in an attempt to leave the world behind from cookie baking and decorating woes and weight loss and running, I took the girls to the spring performance at their ballet dance school. Performing were mostly older students. My girls are just completing their first year in what is called "pre-ballet."
So I'm sitting there completely enjoying their interpretation of The Nightingale, fabulous costumes, fabulous dancing, girls actually paying attention...and then it happened.
For one scene, a group of four came out onto the stage, three girls and a guy. The moment had arrived...from weeks of practice, it all finally coming down to this. Performance #1 of just two shows.
One of the girls was noticeably bigger, and not what you might call having a "dancer's body." She wasn't as toned as the other two girls, and maybe there was a slight hint of a little extra flesh. Not fat by real-world standards, but definitely a little more than what is "allowed" by traditional ballet standards. You know, the anorexia, bulimia, inducing standards.
So they're dancing wonderfully, each dancer with their own "feature" moment of the dance, after which they run to their respective corner of the stage. This is when it happened. Her back facing the audience in the far right corner of the stage, legs and arms spread wide...her tight dancer style shorts showing underneath her costume, riding up her butt, into her crack. Half of her @$$ was hanging out. Literally. HALF. I zero'ed in on it immediately. Did anyone else see, I wondered? I KNOW she knows, there is NO WAY she doesn't know, because it looks extremely uncomfortable.
Dance dance dance...prance prance prance...NOM NOM NOM, her booty eats her shorts a little more. (OH MY GAWSH, this poor girl, I am soooooooooooo feeling her pain!!!!) And it's a performance. She can't just reach around and pull it out. SOMEBODY HELP THIS CHILD!!! Because if she's like any normal teenage girl, she already knows she slightly bigger than the muscle tone girl, or the other stick thin girl. And her shorts-eating booty is an awful reminder.
There was a moment of relief when her routine called for her to run off stage...she came back on an instant later and they had been pulled down.
Sigh. Oh, the pain and sorrow of being a big booty girl in a small booty girl's world. Awkward, Awkward AWKWARD.
1 comment:
LOL! That's why I won't wear those running skirt thingys with the built in booty shorts! My big booty would eat them up and I wouldn't be too embarassed to DIG them out! Call it old age :-)
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