![]() I came across canine freestyle while browsing through “dancing dog” viral videos on YouTube very late one night, and please don’t pretend you haven’t done it yourself, I know that you have and that I am not alone. I know what you’re thinking- holy shit … this dog seems to be genius-level at spinning. It took maybe two minutes before he could spin on command. I led him into a spin with a piece of carrot, and then said, “SPIN,” and gave him the carrot. Leaning into his natural abilities, I taught him “spin” as a trick one day in our apartment. He’s a natural spinner, and will do it over and over, like a cartoon, whenever he’s excited about anything-a walk, a drive, playtime, dinnertime, the sound of a bag crinkling, the sense that someone, somewhere is picking up a fork. ![]() His main dance-related talent is spinning. Yes, he’ll sometimes take a stumble if the floor is too clean and he is too excited about the fact that it’s dinnertime, but who among us does not sometimes fall out of sheer exuberance. A perfect ballerino a dog Mikhail Baryshnikov. It is a pleasure to watch him lift his leg to urinate-so poised, with such control. Peter, on the other hand, is breathtakingly graceful. Plus I have a suspicion that mine just don’t bend the right sort of way, or that I maybe have an excess of bones. ![]() Taking a leap to the left while raising them in a moon over your head. Holding them out in a pizza in front of you while moving your toe around. But the addition of the arms I can’t handle. ![]() Pointing the toe and putting it behind you. Things like pointing the toe and sliding it on the floor in front of you. The feet, moving them around … I can pretty much do that, at least in terms of what is required of a person enrolled in Adult Beginner Ballet I. There was no test, but I know I couldn’t pass it if there were, and I saw no point in putting myself through the humiliation of failing to blend in with a slightly more advanced group of adult beginners. Although I’d taken a total of three six-week courses of Adult Beginner Ballet I at a local dance studio, I had yet to graduate into Adult Beginner Ballet II.Īdmittedly the only thing required to move onto Adult Beginner Ballet II is having taken Adult Beginner Ballet I, but I never thought I’d learned the basics well enough to make the changement (a ballet term). Yes, being vaguely interested in something for a handful of years sounds like an indisputable recipe for relatively late-in-life success, but the truth is that I was not very good. I’d been vaguely interested in ballet for a handful of years when I decided to transfer any hope I had for my dance career onto my dog Peter. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images
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