Maurice the Ballet Dancer
This is a photograph of the famous ballet dancer Maurice LeGalt, training on a ballet bar. Typically bars like this are used for leg stretches and the like, but Maurice has never been one to abide by conventional rules. Here we see Maurice doing a variation of a push up (note that his body does not leave the floor though, so it’s really more of a squat).
The surrounding humans are his posse, a group of people that ride with him from location to location on his solar powered dance-bus (a bus with a disco ball inside). They are the first people to be in the audience when he has a performance, with the hope that their presence creates an atmosphere of intense anticipation so as to attract more attendees.
Maurice spends 4-5 minutes per week training for his performances. Some have criticized this exercise regimen as hampering his physique, but even the most strident critics are silenced when they see him perform.
His performances typically take place outside in parks from 9am to noon on Tuesdays, which everyone knows are the optimal ballet performance hours. Aside from his posse, he typically attracts from 3 to 5 audience members. He has been trying to branch out into other dances (he has been focusing on kung-fu breakdancing, as the red shirted gentleman is performing in the photo) to improve the attendance rate, but one of the primary problems is the fact that after every performance, his posse surrounds the non-posse members of the audience and beats them mercilessly with crowbars.
- Kent Wicklander
Solar powered disco bus? such a thing was once thought to be impossible!
Very interesting.
I’ve been a ballet dancer myself and I’ve known more male dancers boasting they could do with little exercise.
Fun thing always was that they made long hours practicing at their homes.
Well, it’s nice to see the non-traditional peforming.
happy easter!
Maurice the Ballet Dancer | Psycho No Deal Zone great article thank you.