BILLY ELLIOT AND THE ULTIMATE MIKEL

at 6, i began dance classes with Hazel Robinson.......not many boys my age had the interest or the coordination for dance.....nevertheless, shamelessly, i undertook the
way of Gene Kelly, practicing in the gym and auditorium of West Clinton Elementary School, assiduously avoiding the playground of neanderthal children who would tease me for this sissy stuff, during their breaks from arguing, wrestling and boxing with one another.......i continued dance class through high school, and took some classes as an adult in modern and classical. I had no discipline for the pain and torture of dance, however.....and, in my twenties, danced alone and with friends to Balinese temple music and free-form expressive dance......when BILLY ELLIOT came out, old emotions came to the surface.......yea.....Billy.....go for it! Dance your heart out! Then there's the grown-up version......with technique.....Mikhail Baryshnikov!