A rat costume.
I'm at the beginning of my last four weeks of this year-long blog and recently looked back on some past posts and blog stats. I might've laughed out loud when I saw that one of my most viewed posts was the one labelled "What I wear in my dreams". The post was all about how I covet the entire (custom-tailored) wardrobe worn by the cast of the movie Inception and the title a reference to the fact that the movie is mostly set within a dream world (within a dream world, within a dream world...) I wonder how much of the web traffic was due to the links to images included in the post and how much of it was due to the accidentally misleading title. For the record, I rarely remember what I wear in my dreams because it's usually of no consequence to the plot.
Except that in a recent dream I was in a production of the classic Christmas ballet The Nutcracker, and I was playing the part of one of the mice. Hence, the rat/mouse costume.
I've seen several productions of this ballet (and been in one production several times), and my favorite just might be Matthew Bourne's production. It's more tragic and sinister, but more fun and bright. To me, Matthew Bourne is to dance what Tim Burton is to film-- in terms of the tone of the production. Here's one of my favorite scenes from his Nutcracker:
I desperately want to know what it was the young ladies in pink were apparently reading whilst dancing. Blarg.
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