This One Got to Me...

For starters, let me say that I am not really a fan of ballet.  Sure, there's some of Tchaikovsky's brilliance that I enjoy like Swan Lake or the Nutcracker, but beyond that it's pretty much nil for me.

That said, I will say that every now and then someone will make a work of art so fabulous and timely that I enjoy it, even if I don't like the medium (Lecrae even has a rap album I enjoy!).  This little piece was done by the New York City Ballet.  It is an advertisement, but it's more like the advertisement was an excuse to make a great work of art.

This is a video two dancers on top of the new 4 World Trade Center.  They are performing a dance at sunrise called After the Rain to signify new beginnings for their city.  It's brilliant.  It's almost as if they are proclaiming that dancing, romance, beauty and life are being restored to their city while you see it in the background.  Then the ballerina "takes flight" if you will, in front of the new 1 World Trade Center as if to say "out of the place of our greatest pain, we will rise."

I'm sure I'm interpreting it with my own thoughts.  I'm not an art and certainly not a ballet critic or interpreter.  Even so, this is good art, there is tons of symbolism here, and I get it.  

And one final thought: I don't know if they did it on purpose, but the fact that they filmed this on top of 4 World Trade Center seems like it had to be intentional.  This video is definitely "For [the] World Trade Center."

Well done NYC Ballet.