What we can learn about ballet courtesies

'Moments frequently forgotten that hold time in suspense'. Presskomikov (7/3/04)

These film clips (taken on 22/02/04 in mpg format) are of rarely broadcast elements of a ballet event.
The rituals accompany the audience's communication of its assessment of the performance and may themselves echo back the level of appreciation — or depreciation — as assessed by the performers.
Hence they might be described as statements at one and the same time both dynamic and at rest.

BOWING to each other and the audience. Mpg format, 5mbyte./ Wmv format, 610kb
APPLAUDING your co-ballet star. Mpg format, 6mbyte. / Wmv format, 300kb
EXIT skip and wave by the leading man. Mpg format, 9mbyte. / Wmv format, 500kb
Lastly, all three clips and Presskomikov's light-hearted attempt to win any film-editing awards going
whilst the dancer is still alive . . . . Wmv format, 1348kb