Saturday Kissing Rituals
There are many different rituals dancers
employ to (hopefully) ensure a good performance, and often some form of kissing
is involved. Here are a few I’ve seen over the years:
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Kissing the
fingers and putting the lipstick mark on center stage
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Kissing
particular fingers, in a particular order
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Air kissing one’s
partner
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Kissing the floor
backstage
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Kissing the floor
onstage
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Air kissing to no
one in particular
And of course there is the familiar kiss
seen during a curtain call when the ballerina is presented with a bouquet:
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Kissing a single
rose and presenting it to one’s partner (usually a single rose is separated
from the others to make it easier to do this)
But why and how kissing as a good luck
ritual originated is a mystery. This article in the New York Times provides and
interesting look at kissing in general.
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Ritual #135:
“There are many theatrical kissing rituals.”
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