The White Shorts’ Dancing Bug
May 19th 2009 03:00
So, my whole team had used (and probably abused) the angel’s costume. I hadn’t performed with them the first few times because of an injury. So I was the only one using the Angel thing for the first time. It is a very, very, very (very, very) short, short, short dress. We bought it ready-made and I am pretty sure it was one of those costume things suppose do be sold in adult shops.
Don’t get me wrong, it is a nice, pretty costume. White and sexy, with a holly halo and sleeves that remind you of wings, the only “but” is that it is shorter at the back. If you ally that to a Brazilian Bum (mine) you think: Huston we have a problem.
This situation reminded me of the time I was a skinny ballet dancer in Brazil. I was dieting to get skinnier and was going to be dancing in a white TUTU, those plate skirts ballerinas use. So the dress maker brought it to be tried on. She was an international dress maker used to make tutus to people from different countries and so she used her normal mould to make ours. She only overlooked one detail: Brazilian Bums. I think we were about ten young girls and we all got the dress tipped up on the back. We started dancing and most of the dresses got funny on our behinds. It’s like a hat that doesn’t sit right, a hat that shows your bum! We laughed and laughed because we could be as thin as a stick and it didn’t make a difference, the bum is the last to diminish. The woman was not happy to have to add a few inches at the back part of our dresses to compensate our uncooperative behinds.
Ballet Tutu
So back to the Angel’s dress, I already knew about my “rear” problem so I sewed the dress to my shorts. I only realised it wasn’t enough when someone I was talking to at the festival said:
- Oh! I’ve seen you; you’ve danced that choreo with the white shorts.
Errr, it was supposed to be a white dress, not the under shorts but well, when I saw the video I understood that my dancer friends had found a few tricks to keep the skirt a bit more civilized. I didn’t!
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